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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

References

Index

Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, is 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. Cartographies of Disease traces the history of medical mapping from its growth in the 19th century during an era of trade and immigration to its renaissance in the 1990s during a new era of globalization. Referencing maps older than John Snow's famous cholera maps of London in the mid-19th century, this survey pulls from the plague maps of the 1600s, while addressing current issues concerning the ability of GIS technology to track diseases worldwide. The original chapters have some minor updating, and two new chapters have been added. Chapter 13 attempts to understand how the hundreds of maps of Ebola revealed not simply disease incidence but the way in which the epidemic itself was perceived. Chapter 14 is about the spatiality of the disease and the means by which different cartographic approaches may affect how infectious outbreaks like ebola can be confronted and contained.