The Atlas of Disease (eBook)

Mapping deadly epidemics and contagion from the plague to the zika virus

Sandra Hempel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
224 Seiten
White Lion Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78131-880-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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. The Atlas of Diseaseis the first book to tellthese stories in a new an innovative way, interweavingnew maps with contemporary illustrations to chart some ofthe worlds most deadly pandemics and epidemics. 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 devastating 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 savedcountless lives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.10.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: 2019 • 2020 • advances in medicine • AIDS • Aids Epidemic • airborne • airborne diseases • Atlas • Black Death • Black Plague • books on disease • bubonic plague • CARTOGRAPHIC • Cartographic Techniques • cartographies of disease • Cartography • China • Chinese • Cholera • cholera maps • combatting disease • combatting epidemics • Contagious • Crisis • cruel interventions • Cure • cure for diseases • Deadly Diseases • deadly epidemics • Death • developments in disease prevention • DIE • diphtheria • Disease • disease prevention • dysentery • Ebola • ebola outbreak • Ebola virus • Epidemic • eradicate • eradicating disease • Fighting diseases • first world diseases • flu-like • future of disease • Global Crisis • History of Disease • history of epidemics • history of vaccination • HIV • HIV and AIDS • Human Evolution • Human to Human:Polio • Ill • Influenza • Injections • inoculate • inoculation • Insects and Animals • Isolation • Italy • JOHN SNOW • Leprosy • lockdown • Malaria • map • mapping • mapping disease • measles • Medical illustration • Medicine • Mosquitos • outbreak • Pandemic • pandemics • Plague • Polio • Poverty • preventing disease • prevention and cure • SARS • scarlet fever • Science • self isolation • sickness • sick rose • Smallpox • South Korea • Spread • spread of disease • stay home save lives • Surgery • symptons • Syphilis • TB • third world diseases • Tuberculosis • Tuberculosis (TB) • typhoid • Typhus • vaccinate • vaccination against • vaccinations • Viral • Virus • waterborne • waterborne diseases • WHO • World Health Organisation • World Health Organization • Yellow fever • Zika • zika virus
• ISBN-10: 1-78131-880-8 / 1781318808
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78131-880-5 / 9781781318805