Cartographies of disease : maps, mapping, and medicine

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Cartographies of disease : maps, mapping, and medicine

Tom Koch

ESRI Press, 2005

1st ed

  • : pbk

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Description based on 2010 printing; pagination of first printing: xvii, 389 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-355) and index

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Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine 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 nineteeth century during an era of trade and immigration to its renaissance in the 1990s during a new era of globalization.

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