John Snow's Behaviorsphere

• Published in: The Psychological record Vol. 65; no. 1; pp. 209 - 213
• Main Author: Jardim, João Bosco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01-03-2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Behavior; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Cholera; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Narratives; Psychology; Scientists; Sketch; Snow, John (1813-58); British Isles, England, Greater London, London; John Snow; Behavior; Interbehavioral psychology; Individual history; Interdisciplinary science cooperation
• ISSN: 0033-2933; 2163-3452
• DOI: 10.1007/s40732-014-0082-3

The near-legendary narratives of the scientific achievements of John Snow, a pioneer English epidemiologist who famously identified the source of the London's Broad Street pump cholera epidemic in 1854, has a behavioral facet which has not been duly explored by historians of public health. In this article, the story of Snow's investigations into the case of the infamous water pump is used as a backdrop to highlight the disciplinary continuum of psychological and biological events, according to the perspective of J.R. Kantor’s philosophy of interbehaviorism.