The Tempest Anderson Lecture

The Tempest Anderson Lecture

John Snow (1813-1858): bicentenary of York’s pioneer of epidemiology and anaesthetics

Dr Steven Oliver, Senior Lecturer in Population Health, University of York and the Hull York Medical School

Born two hundred years ago, the son of a labourer on the banks of the River Ouse, John Snow went on to become a respected academic physician in Victorian London. He has become an iconic figure in the history of two medical disciplines, anaesthesia and Public Health. He sedated a monarch (and two grizzly bears) and his studies of cholera outbreaks are still used to teach the ‘first principles’ of studying disease in populations.

Dr Oliver will explore Snow’s life story, how his scientific work was viewed in his own time and how his posthumous reputation has developed. In addition, Dr Oliver will try to justify why he spent time researching this lecture drinking beer in a pub in Soho.

John Snow (1813-1858): bicentenary of York’s pioneer of epidemiology and anaesthetics.

Visit http://www.ypsyork.org/events/john-snow for further information.