{"id":405,"date":"2009-04-29T11:53:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=405"},"modified":"2010-08-30T09:40:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T13:40:26","slug":"the-ghost-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2009\/04\/29\/the-ghost-map\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-406\" src=\"\/dos\/files\/2009\/04\/ghostmap.jpg\" alt=\"ghostmap\" width=\"139\" height=\"177\" \/>Just started reading Steven Johnson\u2019s <a title=\"The Ghost Map Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theghostmap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Ghost Map<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 A timely read about the story of a of a cholera outbreak in 1854, within London 1854.\u00a0 It\u2019s also about ideas for treating disease \u2014 ideas that we take for granted.\u00a0 Many people highly recommend this book. With discussion about <a title=\"Swine Flu CDC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/swineflu\/\" target=\"_blank\">swine flu <\/a>and renewed concern about <a title=\"BU Today - Pandemic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2009\/04\/28\/discussing-scary-word-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\">pandemic<\/a> disease, I figured it was time to read it.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a cool introduction to <em>The Ghost Map<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=314807&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=314807&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Hope you read the book.\u00a0 If so, maybe we can start a discussion group.\u00a0 (After a quick read, you might be cautious about public water supplies, but I think we\u2019re okay.) Wash your hands often and stay well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just started reading Steven Johnson\u2019s The Ghost Map.\u00a0 A timely read about the story of a of a cholera outbreak in 1854, within London 1854.\u00a0 It\u2019s also about ideas for treating disease \u2014 ideas that we take for granted.\u00a0 Many people highly recommend this book. With discussion about swine flu and renewed concern about pandemic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}