Disease maps : epidemics on the ground / Tom Koch.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

ix, 330 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The idea that is disease -- Moving forward: cartographies of disease -- Mapping symptoms, making disease -- Body and world: the sixteenth century -- Diseases in cities: the neighborhoods of plague -- The yellow fever thing -- Cholera: the exemplar -- "Asiatic cholera": India and then the world -- Bureaucratic cholera -- John Snow's cholera -- South London choleras: William Farr, John Snow, and John Simon -- Choleric Broad Street: the neighborhood disease -- Cholera, the exemplar -- The legacy and its future -- Cancer as cholera.