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Author:

Koch, Tom, 1949-

Title:

Disease maps : epidemics on the ground / Tom Koch.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

ix, 330p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Medical mapping--History.
Medical geography--Maps.
Medical geography--Methodology.
Epidemics--History.
Cholera--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0226449351 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226449357 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2010008809

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)