Cartographies of disease : maps, mapping and medicine / Tom Koch.
Pubblicazione:
Redlands : ESRI press, 2005.
Descrizione fisica:
XVII, 388 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures. Foreword. Acknowledgments. 1. Mapping and mapmaking 2. Medical mapping: early histories 3. Mapping and statistics (1830-1849) 4. John Snow, the London epidemics 5. The cholera debate 6. Map as intent: variations on John Snow 7. Mapping legacy 8. Public health: the divorce 9. Disease ecologies: disease atlases 10. Complex processes: diffusion and structure 11. GIS and medical mapping 12. Map thinking: an afterword. References. Index
