Cartographies of disease : maps, mapping, and medicine / Tom Koch.
Koch, Tom, 1949- author.
2017
RA792.5 .K63 2017eb
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Title Cartographies of disease : maps, mapping, and medicine / Tom Koch.
Author Koch, Tom, 1949- author.
Edition New expanded edition.
ISBN 9781589484764 (electronic book)
1589484762 (electronic book)
1589484673
9781589484672
Published Redlands, California : Esri Press, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 403 pages) : illustrations, maps
Call Number RA792.5 .K63 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 614.4/2
Summary "Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, 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. The original chapters have some minor updating, and two new chapters have been added. Chapter 13 attempts to understand how the hundreds of maps of Ebola revealed not simply disease incidence but the way in which the epidemic itself was perceived. Chapter 14 is about the spatiality of the disease and the means by which different cartographic approaches may affect how infectious outbreaks like ebola can be confronted and contained."--Publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-387) and index.
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