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Disease maps : epidemics on the ground / Tom Koch.
Van Pelt Library RA792.5 .K633 2011
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Holman Biotech Commons 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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