Description
Book SynopsisCartographies 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 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.
Trade Review" ... this is a superb book with wonderful map illustrations and is recommended to public health professionals who value maps as a presentational and educational medium; it provides insights into both disease occurrence and pathways to control, elimination, or both." Ralph R. Frerichs, DVM, DrPH in American Journal of Public Health
* Ralph R. Frerichs, DVM, DrPH in American Journal of Public Health *
"... a powerful approach that will appeal to a wide audience and which should be a part of not just cartography lessons and collections, but medical history holdings as well.” Midwest Book Review
* Midwest Book Review *
"Those new to the field of medical geography, or interested in the potential of GIS as a tool in spatial epidemiology, will find this monograph a useful introduction. Attractively produced, with extensive notes and references, written in easily readable prose, the book is reasonably priced and should be of interest to many GIS professionals."
--Russell S. Kirby, The GIS Professional, May/June 2020
* The GIS Professional *
Table of ContentsList of figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the second edition
Chapter 1 Mapping and map making
Chapter 2 Medical mapping: Early histories
Chapter 3 Mapping and statistics: 1830–1849
Chapter 4 John Snow: The London epidemics
Chapter 5 The cholera debate
Chapter 6 Map as intent: Variations on John Snow
Chapter 7 Mapping legacy
Chapter 8 Public health: The divorce
Chapter 9 Disease ecologies: Disease atlases
Chapter 10 Complex processes: Diffusion and structure
Chapter 11 GIS and medical mapping
Chapter 12 Map thinking redux
Chapter 13 Entr’acte
Chapter 14 Ebola in West Africa: When outbreaks threaten epidemic status
References
Index
