Book ID: CBB001250403

Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground (2011)

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Koch, Tom (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: ix + 330 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

from the Publisher In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea---that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the swine flu pandemic caused worldwide panic and sent shockwaves through the medical community. In Disease Maps, Tom Koch contends that to understand epidemics and their history we need to think about maps of varying scale, from the individual body to shared symptoms evidenced across cities, nations, and the world. Disease Maps begins with a brief review of epidemic mapping today and a detailed example of its power. Koch then traces the early history of medical cartography, including pandemics such as European plague and yellow fever, and the advancements in anatomy, printing, and world atlases that paved the way for their mapping. Moving on to the scourge of the nineteenth century---cholera---Koch considers the many choleras argued into existence by the maps of the day, including a new perspective on John Snow's science and legacy. Finally, Koch addresses contemporary outbreaks such as AIDS, cancer, and H1N1, and reaches into the future, toward the coming epidemics. Ultimately,Disease Maps redefines conventional medical history with new surgical precision, revealing that only in maps do patterns emerge that allow disease theories to be proposed, hypotheses tested, and treatments advanced.

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Description On the history of medical cartography.


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Authors & Contributors
Timothy Stainton
Jaynes, Jeffrey
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
Maria Paola Zanoboni
Storms, Martijn
Ormelinge, Ferjan
Concepts
Disease and diseases
Medicine and society
Epidemics
Public health
Medicine
Pandemics
Time Periods
Early modern
Modern
Medieval
Renaissance
Ancient
21st century
Places
Europe
Italy
China
India
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sicily
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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