title: Death by the numbers.
abstract: A review of Steven Johnson's The ghost map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic- and how it changed science, cities and the modern world (New York: Riverhead Books, 2006),
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Epstein
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