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Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground

By Tom Koch

Web edition: October 7, 2011
Print edition: October 22, 2011; Vol.180 #9 (p. 30)

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By Tom Koch

Web edition: October 7, 2011
Print edition: October 22, 2011; Vol.180 #9 (p. 30)

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This unconventional history charts the rise of epidemiology by examining how maps have been used to follow the spread of disease.

Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011, 330 p., $45

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  • it is probable that maps heretofore used to trace the spread of disease may with the advent of computing and tech innovation, be instrumental in unraveling the mysteries and evolution of maladies elusive to science and medicine to date...mapped genomic R&D could facilitate institutional funding of promising projects...the goal being to make the human genome map as useful to a physician as a skeletal chart
    A.M. Fonda A.M. Fonda
    Oct. 11, 2011 at 10:36am
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