Research Catalog
The atlas of disease : mapping deadly epidemics and contagion from the plague to the zika virus
- Title
- The atlas of disease : mapping deadly epidemics and contagion from the plague to the zika virus / Sandra Hempel.
- Author
- Hempel, Sandra
- Publication
- London : White Lion Publishing, 2018.
- ©2018
Details
- Description
- 224 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour); 24 cm
- Summary
- Behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from the natural history of the disease, to the tale of its discovery and its place in history. But what is vital in all of this is how the disease spreads and develops. In The Atlas of Disease, Sandra Hempel reveals how maps have uncovered insightful information about the history of disease, from the seventeenth century plague maps that revealed the radical idea that diseases might be carried and spread by humans, to cholera maps in the 1800s showing the disease was carried by water, right up to the AIDs epidemic in the 1980s and the recent Ebola outbreak. Crucially, The Atlas of Disease will also explore how cartographic techniques have been used to combat epidemics by revealing previously hidden patterns. These discoveries have changed the course of history, affected human evolution, stimulated advances in medicine and shaped countless lives.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Atlassen (vorm)
- Atlases.
- History.
- Maps.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Airbone -- Waterborne -- Insects and animals -- Human to human -- Index -- Credits.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1351
- ISBN
- 9781781317907
- 1781317909
- LCCN
- 2018411466
- OCLC
- 1066195396
- Author
- Hempel, Sandra, author.
- Title
- The atlas of disease : mapping deadly epidemics and contagion from the plague to the zika virus / Sandra Hempel.
- Publisher
- London : White Lion Publishing, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1351