Provides 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.

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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

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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.