Pathogeographies, a review

This is an unedited draft of a review that will be published in the
next ArtUS.

best,

ryan

Pathogeographies
June 15-July7
Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago

In an overcrowded London neighborhood in 1854, the powerful
combination of cartography and medical knowledge defeated a cholera
outbreak that had killed over 600 residents. Dr. John Snow, credited
as single-handedly halting the spread of the disease, mapped the
proximity of the deaths to water wells and determined that a single
well was the source of infection. Subsequently, he managed to have
the use of that well stopped, despite the reluctance of local
officials, by removing the pump