Cartographies of Disease

Cartographies of Disease

Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition

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Publication Date: 23rd January 2017

Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, is a comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to the battle against disease.

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Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, is a comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to the battle against disease.

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Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, 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. The original chapters have some minor updating, and two new chapters have been added. Chapter 13 attempts to understand how the hundreds of maps of Ebola revealed not simply disease incidence but the way in which the epidemic itself was perceived. Chapter 14 is about the spatiality of the disease and the means by which different cartographic approaches may affect how infectious outbreaks like ebola can be confronted and contained.

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  • Price: $23.99
  • Carton Quantity: 12
  • Publisher: Esri Press
  • Imprint: Esri Press
  • Publication Date: 23rd January 2017
  • Illustration Note: Color and black and white illustrations, photographs, charts, and maps.
  • ISBN: 9781589484764
  • Format: eBook
  • BISACs:
    MEDICAL / Atlases
    MEDICAL / Public Health
    TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography
    MEDICAL / Epidemiology
Reviews

" ... 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
Author Bio
Dr. Tom Koch is a clinical ethicist and gerontologist based in Canada. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a series of teaching labs for medical geography. In 2005, he and coauthor, Kenneth Denike, were honored with an award for their paper on teaching medical geography through an analysis of John Snow's 1855 map of cholera in the Broad Street area of London.
Table of Contents

List 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

Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, 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. The original chapters have some minor updating, and two new chapters have been added. Chapter 13 attempts to understand how the hundreds of maps of Ebola revealed not simply disease incidence but the way in which the epidemic itself was perceived. Chapter 14 is about the spatiality of the disease and the means by which different cartographic approaches may affect how infectious outbreaks like ebola can be confronted and contained.

  • Price: $23.99
  • Carton Quantity: 12
  • Publisher: Esri Press
  • Imprint: Esri Press
  • Publication Date: 23rd January 2017
  • Illustrations Note: Color and black and white illustrations, photographs, charts, and maps.
  • ISBN: 9781589484764
  • Format: eBook
  • BISACs:
    MEDICAL / Atlases
    MEDICAL / Public Health
    TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography
    MEDICAL / Epidemiology

" ... 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
Dr. Tom Koch is a clinical ethicist and gerontologist based in Canada. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia, where he developed a series of teaching labs for medical geography. In 2005, he and coauthor, Kenneth Denike, were honored with an award for their paper on teaching medical geography through an analysis of John Snow's 1855 map of cholera in the Broad Street area of London.

List 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