Interpretive Studies

No scholarly work is definitive since scholarship is an on-going process, ideally conducted in a spirit of collaboration and the free exchange of ideas. This portion of the John Snow Archive and Research Companion features interpretive studies of Snow and his contemporaries that supplement the argument and material presented in Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine. We will consider, and post, any scholarly study, including those that challenge arguments in our biography.

John Snow

• Howard Brody, "Cholera in 1849 and the Biopsychosocial Model: Historical Analysis or Anachronism?"
• Peter Vinten-Johansen and David Zuck, "1847 — John Snow's annus mirabilis, year of consilience," a lecture prepared for the 12th Annual Spring Meeting of the Anesthesia History Association, 6–7 April 2005, Birmingham, Alabama.
  
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John Snow's Contemporaries

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