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Disease maps : epidemics on the ground / Tom Koch.

Van Pelt Library RA792.5 .K633 2011
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Koch, Tom, 1949-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medical mapping--History.
Medical mapping.
Medical geography--Maps.
Medical geography.
Medical geography--Methodology.
Epidemics--History.
Epidemics.
History.
Cholera--History.
Cholera.
Physical Description:
ix, 330 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Contents:
The idea that is disease
Moving forward: cartographies of disease
Mapping symptoms, making disease
Body and world: the sixteenth century
Diseases in cities: the neighborhoods of plague
The yellow fever thing
Cholera: the exemplar
"Asiatic cholera": India and then the world
Bureaucratic cholera
John Snow's cholera
South London choleras: William Farr, John Snow, and John Simon
Choleric Broad Street: the neighborhood disease
Cholera, the exemplar
The legacy and its future
Cancer as cholera.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780226449357
0226449351
OCLC:
542321830

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