Table of Contents

Introduction
1: York and Newcastle, 1813-1833
2: Senior apprentice and assistant, 1830-1836
3: London medical and surgical training, 1836-1838
4: Forging a London career, 1838-1846
5: Ether
6: Chloroform
7: Cholera theories: controversy and confusion
8: Snow's cholera theory
9: Professional success
10: Cholera and metropolitan water supply
11: Broad street
12: Snow and the mapping of cholera epidemics
13: Snow and the Sanitarians
14: Further developments in anaesthesia
15: Common ground: continuous molecular changes
16: Snow's multiple legacies

Reviews

This biography is the most comprehensive and best-referenced work about John Snow published to date ... it is likely to remain an essential resource for decades to come. American Journal of Epidemiology ... a masterly study written in a very readable way. It will no doubt become a classic in medical history and can be highly recommended. JNMD This exemplary interdisciplinary biography of one of the greatest doctors is long overdue, but well worth the wait. It replaces the caricature of the socially inept loner with an authoritative portrayal of Snow as a conscientious and confident medical scientist and practitioner. This substantial publication... will undoubtedly become the standard reference for Snow... Snow himself would have appreciated the flexibility and lucidity in this work that so characterised his own. The Lancet A masterly study written in a very readable way. It will no doubt become a classic in medical history and can be highly recommended. Neuromuscular Disorders