| Description |
1 online resource (193 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
1. Epidemics as Diffusion Waves -- 2. Epidemics in Small Communities -- 3. Global Origins and Dispersals -- 4. Pandemics, I: Pandemics in History -- 5. Pandemics, II: COVID-19 -- 6. Infectious Disease Control |
| Summary |
"A Geography of Infection explores the distinctive spatial patterns and processes by which infectious diseases spread from place to place and can grow from local and regional epidemics into global pandemics. The book focuses initially on the local scale of doctors' practices and small islands where epidemic outbreaks are slight in the numbers infected and in geographical extent. Such local area studies raise two questions. First, how and where do epidemic diseases emerge and second, why do more diseases appear to be emerging now? To approach such questions implies a shift in spatial gear from painting epidemics with a fine-tipped local brush to an expanded palette on which doctors' practices and small islands are replaced by regional and global populations. Simultaneously, time bands are extended backwards to the origins of civilization and forwards into the twenty-first century. It eventually leads to a consideration of global pandemics--both historical (e.g. plague, cholera, and influenza) and contemporary (HIV/AIDS and COVID-19)--and examines the ways the spread of infection can be prevented"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-168) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on February 23, 2023) |
| Subject |
Epidemics.
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Medical geography.
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Topography, Medical
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Epidemics
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epidemics.
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Epidemics
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Medical geography
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cliff, A. D. (Andrew David), author.
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Ord, J. K., author.
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Haggett, Peter, author.
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| ISBN |
9780192664518 |
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0192664514 |
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9780191943744 |
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0191943746 |
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9780192664525 |
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0192664522 |
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