Cartographies of disease
Subtitle: maps, mapping, and medicine
By: Tom Koch.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: ESRI Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Redlands, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Medical mapping -- History.; Medical geography -- Maps -- Data processing.; Public health -- Geographic information systems.; Epidemiology -- Statistical methods.; Medical geography -- Methodology.
Description: "From cholera to AIDS, Dr. Koch introduces you to the people who have created maps of disease - and what motivated them to map these phenomena. He carefully distinguishes the differences between mapmaking and map thinking, making clear through his examination of maps of disease what mapmakers and map readers everywhere should consider: maps shape the way you see the world. Reading Cartographies of Disease will make you think, and make you think more carefully about how you read maps."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of maps; title: Forward; title: Acknowledgments; title: Mapping and mapmaping; title: Medical mapping: early histories; title: Mapping and statistics: 1830-1849; title: John Snow: the london epidemics; title: The cholera debate; title: Map as intent; title: Mapping legacy; title: Public health: the divorce; title: Disease ecologies: disease atlases; title: Complex processes: diffusion and structure; title: Gis and medical mapping; title: Map thinking: an afterward; title: Bibliography; title: Index.