Deborah Hopkinson

The incred­i­ble true sto­ry of the doc­tor who traced Lon­don’s cholera out­break to a sin­gle water pump, and went on to save count­less lives through his ground­break­ing research!

Dr. John Snow is one of the most influ­en­tial doc­tors and researchers in West­ern med­i­cine, but before he rose to fame, he was just a sim­ple com­mu­ni­ty doc­tor who want­ed to solve a mystery.

In 19th cen­tu­ry Lon­don, the spread of cholera was as unstop­pable as it was dead­ly. Dr. Snow was deter­mined to stop it, but he had a prob­lem: His best the­o­ry of how the dis­ease was spread flew in the face of pop­u­lar opin­ion. He need­ed evi­dence, and he need­ed to find it fast, before more lives were lost.

Tak­ing on the role of detec­tive as well as doc­tor, Dr. Snow knocked on doors, asked ques­tions and mapped out the data he’d col­lect­ed. What he dis­cov­ered would come to define the way we think about pub­lic health to this day.

This com­pelling non­fic­tion pic­ture book is a time­ly reminder of the pow­er of sci­ence to save lives.