Disease Maps

Author: Tom Koch
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0226449351

Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground

In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea-that the disease was carried and spread by humans.
Categories: Communicable diseases->Epidemiology, Geographic information systems, Communicable diseases->Epidemiology. Contributors: Tom Koch - Author. Format: Paperback
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.AA

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,

Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine

Categories: Communicable diseases->Epidemiology, Geographic information systems, Communicable diseases->Epidemiology. Contributors: Tom Koch - Author. Format: Paperback

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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.AA

Disease Maps begins with a brief review of epidemic mapping today and a detailed example of its power
n 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.AA

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,