Blue Death Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink

Name: Blue Death Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
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ISBN: 9780060730895

ISBN-10: 0060730897

ISBN-13: 9780060730895

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert D. Morris

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With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert Morris chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening story of our drinking water. His gripping narrative vividly recounts the epidemics that have shaken cities and nations, the scientists who reached into the invisible and emerged with controversial truths that would save millions of lives, and the economic and political forces that opposed these researchers in a ferocious war of ideas. In the gritty world of nineteenth-century England, amid the ravages of cholera, Morris introduces John Snow, the physician who proved that the deadly disease could be hidden in a drop of water. Decades later in…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/31/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.38" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Prologue



Waterborne Killers



The Blue Death



Snow on Cholera



All Smell Is Disease



The Experimentum Crucis



The Doctor, the Priest, and the Outbreak at Golden Square



The Great Stink



Thirsty Cities and Dirty Water



The Race to Cholera



The Scramble for Pure Water



The Two-Edged Sword



Spring in Milwaukee



The Hidden Seed



At War with the Invisible



Drinking the Mississippi



Death in Ontario



Surviving the Storm



The Worst Place on Earth



The Future of Water: From E. Coli to al Qaeda


Epilogue: Strategies for Safe Water: A Modest Proposal


Bibliography and Notes


Acknowledgments