Main entry:

Koch, Tom, 1949-

Title & Author:

Disease maps : epidemics on the ground / Tom Koch.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2011.

Description:

ix, 330 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-322) and index.
The idea that is disease -- Moving forward: cartographies of disease -- Mapping symptoms, making disease -- Body and world: the sixteenth century -- Diseases in cities: the neighborhoods of plague -- The yellow fever thing -- Cholera: the exemplar -- "Asiatic cholera": India and then the world -- Bureaucratic cholera -- John Snow's cholera -- South London choleras: William Farr, John Snow, and John Simon -- Choleric broad street: the neighborhood disease -- Cholera, the exemplar -- The legacy and its future -- Cancer as cholera.

Summary:

"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."--Publisher's information.

ISBN:

9780226449357 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226449351 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Medical mapping History.
Medical geography Maps.
Medical geography Methodology.
Epidemics History.
Cholera History.
Topography, Medical history
Communicable Diseases epidemiology
Communicable Diseases transmission
Cholera history
Epidemics history
Epidemiologic Methods
Cartographie médicale Histoire.
Géographie médicale Méthodologie.
Choléra Histoire.
Health and Fitness.
Cholera.
Epidemics.
Medical geography.
Medical mapping.
Disease.
Disease transmission.
Geomedizin
Epidemie
Karte
Kartographie.
Medicinsk geografi historia.
Epidemier historia.
Kolera historia.

Form/genre:

History.
Maps.
Cartes géographiques.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278981
Call No.: BIB 214776
Status: Available