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Directions: Please circle the BEST answer. Remember your academic integrity pledge!
Contagionists believed cholera was caused by:
A) Bad air
B) Contact with animals
C) Spoiled food
D) Contaminated water
E) Personal contact
Miasmatists believed cholera was caused by:
A) Bad air
B) Contact with animals
C) Spoiled food
D) Contaminated water
E) Personal contact
What is a paradigm?
A) Container for waste
B) Sewer technology
C) Twenty cents
D) Shared assumptions
E) Revealed truth
Who was the index case for the cholera outbreak?
A) Queen Victoria
B) J. Lesniewski
C) Baby Lewis
D) Mr. G
E) John James

Where did this specific outbreak of cholera occur in London?

A) The Brewery
B) Broad Street
C) The Thames River
D) Piccadilly Circus
E) Trafalgar Square


What did Snow/Whitehead base their argument on?
A) Multimodal research
B) Experiments on rats
C) Faulty cause and effect
D) Governmental documents
E) Intimidation
What did Chadwick base his argument on?
A) Multimodal research
B) Experiments on rats
C) Faulty cause and effect
D) Governmental documents
E) Intimidation

Who wrote The Ghost Map?
A) James Joyce
B) Sir Ryan Van Cleave
C) William Farr
D) Steven Johnson
E) Sir James Clark

Short Answer:

What obstacles was it necessary for the researchers to overcome in order to prove their case?









Directions: Circle ALL that apply. There may be one or more correct answer for each question.

Whose argument was ultimately the most successful?
A) Watson and Crick
B) Edwin Chadwick
C) John Snow
D) Henry Whitehead
E) Mr. G
What proved key to establishing creditability of the researchers’ argument?
A) Testing of the wells
B) Visual display of the information
C) Identifying the index case
D) Conversations with residents
E) Identifying bacteria
What elements contributed to Snow’s positive ethos?
A) His medical degree
B) His work in anesthesiology
C) His religious belief
D) His personal hygiene
E) His wife



[first day]
Idea of Competing Arguments
•Contagionists v. Miasmatists v. The other
•Paradigm
[second day]
Elements that made Snow/Whitehead successful arguers
•Ethos/Presence
Elements that caused the Miasmatists' argument to fail?
Turning Point