Disease maps
Subtitle: epidemics on the ground
By: Tom Koch.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780226449357
Subjects: Medical mapping -- History; Medical geography -- Maps; Medical geography -- Methodology; Epidemics -- History; Cholera -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The idea that is disease; title: Moving forward: cartographies of disease; title: Mapping symptoms, making disease; title: Body and world: the sixteenth century; title: Diseases in cities: the neighborhoods of plague; title: The yellow fever thing; title: Cholera: the exemplar; title: "Asiatic cholera": India and then the world; title: Bureaucratic cholera; title: John Snow's cholera; title: South London choleras: William Farr, John Snow, and John Simon; title: Choleric broad street: the neighborhood disease; title: Cholera, the exemplar; title: The legacy and its future; title: Cancer as cholera.