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Cartographies of Disease
Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition
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Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine is a comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to the battle against disease. This look at medical mapping advances the argument that maps are not merely representations of spatial realities but a way of thinking about relationships between viral and bacterial communities, human hosts, and the environments in which diseases flourish. Cartographies of Disease traces the history of medical mapping from its growth in the 19th century during an era of trade and immigration to its renaissance in the 1990s during a new era of globalization. Referencing maps older than John Snow's famous cholera maps of London in the mid-19th century, this survey pulls from the plague maps of the 1600s, while addressing current issues concerning the ability of GIS technology to track diseases worldwide.


Contents:

List of figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction to the second edition

Chapter 1 Mapping and map making

Chapter 2 Medical mapping: Early histories

Chapter 3 Mapping and statistics: 1830-1849

Chapter 4 John Snow: The London epidemics

Chapter 5 The cholera debate

Chapter 6 Map as intent: Variations on John Snow

Chapter 7 Mapping legacy

Chapter 8 Public health: The divorce

Chapter 9 Disease ecologies: Disease atlases

Chapter 10 Complex processes: Diffusion and structure

Chapter 11 GIS and medical mapping

Chapter 12 Map thinking redux

Chapter 13 Entr'acte

Chapter 14 Ebola in West Africa: When outbreaks threaten epidemic status

References

Index


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ISBN-13: 9781589484672
Publisher: ESRI Press
Publication date: January, 2017
Pages: 412
Weight: 652g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Diseases and Disorders, Epidemiology, General Issues

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