Reviews of Cholera, Chloroform,
and the Science of Medicine

"Far and away the best thing ever written about John Snow."
--David Morens
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
National Institutes of Health
Washington, DC.

"The tale of how John Snow removed the handle from the Broad Street pump has made him the central iconic figure for the history of public health. In this meticulously documented collaborative book, the authors use extensive archival research to revise the previous mythology surrounding Snow's life and work and to reveal a far more complex and nuanced historical figure than has previously been recognized."
--Joel D. Howell
Victor Vaughan Professor of the History of Medicine
University of Michigan

"A fascinating new look at an iconic figure in the history of two very different fields, epidemiology and anaesthesiology. This ingeniously argued and carefully researched study makes a powerful case for Snow as an original thinker committed not only to medicine as an enterprise linking the clinic and the laboratory, but to the idea that it was necessarily integrative and multidisciplinary -- from the molecular to the societal. It is a vision that remains illuminating --cutting edge--  a century and a half after Snow's influential work. The authors have made an important contribution not only to the history of biomedicine but to English social history as well."
--Charles E. Rosenberg
Ernst Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences
Department of the History of Science
Harvard University

"This is an outstanding biography. The authors have demonstrated how it is possible to reconstruct a nuanced account of someone who left few private papers behind. They also triumphantly show that John Snow was one of the most creative individuals within Victorian medicine. Snow is no longer a prophet without honour."
--W. F. Bynum
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
University College London