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• Title:Cartographies of disease : maps, mapping, and medicine / Tom Koch.
  
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• Author/Creator:Koch, Tom, 1949- author.
  
• Published/Created:Redlands, California : Esri Press, 2017.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB700 .K76 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical geography--Maps--Data processing.
  Public health--Geographic information systems.
  
• Medical Subjects: Topography, Medical--history.
  Disease Outbreaks--history.
  Communicable Diseases--epidemiology.
  Geographic Information Systems.
  
• Edition:New expanded edition.
  
• Description:xxi, 403 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1589484673
  9781589484672
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Mapping and mapmaking
  ch. 2 Medical mapping: Early histories
  ch. 3 Mapping and statistics: 1830
  1849
  ch. 4 John Snow: The London epidemics
  ch. 5 The cholera debate
  ch. 6 Map as intent: Variations on John Snow
  ch. 7 Mapping legacy
  ch. 8 Public health: The divorce
  ch. 9 Disease ecologies: Disease atlases
  ch. 10 Complex processes: Diffusion and structure
  ch. 11 GIS and medical mapping
  ch. 12 Map thinking redux
  ch. 13 Plague to Ebola: 1690
  2015
  ch. 14 Ebola in West Africa: When outbreaks threaten epidemic status.