Journal Articles
Ball, L. (2009). Cholera and the Pump on Broad Street: The Life and Legacy of John Snow. History Teacher, 43(1), 105-119.
The article presents and discusses the winning paper in the Senior Division Individual Paper, National History Day 2008 competition by Laura Bell. The water pump on Broad Street in the Golden Square neighborhood during the year 1854 that supplied water to the residents and contributed to the cholera outbreak in London, England is explored.
Melville, W., & Fazio, X. (2007). The Life and Work of John Snow. Science Teacher, 74(7), 41-45.
The article discusses how the career of eighteenth-century physician John Snow can be used to develop lessons for biology courses. Snow worked to investigate how the disease cholera was spread, establishing connections between polluted water and the spread of cholera. The article suggests that Snow’s investigation serves as a model of the scientific inquiry for students and that students can simulate an experiment on the spread of the disease.
Brody, H., Russell Rip, M., Vinten-Johansen, P., Paneth, N., & Rachman, S. (2000). Map-making and myth-making in Broad Street: the London cholera epidemic, 1854. Lancet, 356(9223), 64.
Focuses on the actions of Dr. John Snow during the outbreak of cholera in London in 1854 and shows that other observers looked at more detailed information that Snow’s and came to different conclusions regarding the cause of the outbreak. How he discovered the drinking water was contaminated; Details of Snow’s investigation; When Snow drew his map.
Vandenbroucke, J. P. (2000). Invited Commentary: The Testimony of Dr. Snow. American Journal Of Epidemiology, 152(1), 10.
The author comments on a testimony given by epidemiologist John Snow in 1855 in relation to a case which linked the cholera outbreak among manufacturing industry workers to toxic factory fumes in Great Britain. The testimony is said to have indicated Snow’s seeming indifference to the situation of the factory workers and the surrounding population exposed to toxic fumes. In a book he published during the same year, Snow discussed his belief regarding the transmission of cholera via contaminated drinking water.