Cartographies Of Disease
Maps, Mapping, And Medicine
Koch, Tom
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
A comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to the battle against disease, this look at medical mapping advances a radical argument that maps are not merely representations of spatial realities but a way of thinking about relations between viral and bacterial communities, human hosts, and the environments in which diseases flourish. The history of medical mapping is traced--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.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1589481208
ISBN(13-digit): 9781589481206
Copyright: 2004
Dewey Decimal: 614.4/2
Library of Congress: 2005005993
Book Publisher: Esri Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 389
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