{"id":1788446,"date":"2020-02-20T08:53:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788446"},"modified":"2020-02-20T08:53:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T13:53:14","slug":"history-of-epidemic-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/02\/history-of-epidemic-mapping\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Epidemic Mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

CityLab<\/em>\u2019s Marie Patino looks at<\/a> some of the maps tracking the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus and from there pivots to some of the ways we\u2019ve tracked disease outbreaks and epidemics in the past. Examples can be found as far back as the 17th century\u2014long before John Snow\u2019s cholera map, in other words.<\/p>\n

Related reading:<\/strong> Tom Koch\u2019s Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground<\/em><\/a> (University of Chicago Press<\/a>, 2011) and Cartographies of Disease<\/em><\/a> (Esri Press<\/a>, 2nd ed 2016), Sandra Hempel\u2019s Atlas of Disease<\/em><\/a> (White Lion<\/a>, 2018) and, of course, The Ghost Map<\/em><\/a> by Steven Johnson (2006).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CityLab\u2019s Marie Patino looks at some of the maps tracking the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus and from there pivots to some of the ways we\u2019ve tracked disease outbreaks and epidemics in the past. Examples… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[1413,1426,228],"class_list":["post-1788446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-health","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-disease","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788783,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/04\/library-of-congress-livestream-on-the-history-of-pandemic-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788446,"position":0},"title":"Library of Congress Livestream on the History of Pandemic Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 April 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Tomorrow (23 April 2020), the Library of Congress will be livestreaming No One Was Immune: Mapping the Great Pandemics from Columbus to COVID-19, in which John Hessler and Marie Arana will \u201cdiscuss the sweep of history from the 1500s smallpox pandemic that decimated the indigenous population of the Americas to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Health"","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/health\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3832,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/02\/cartographies-of-disease\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788446,"position":1},"title":"Cartographies of Disease","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 February 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The revised edition of Tom Koch\u2019s\u00a0Cartographies of Disease:\u00a0Maps, Mapping, and Medicine\u2014\u201ca comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to the battle against disease\u201d\u2014is now out from\u00a0Esri Press. 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They\u2019ll be updating the map, and this won\u2019t be the only map tracking the disease, so this isn\u2019t the final word on the subject.","rel":"","context":"In "Health"","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/health\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Washington Post map of China showing number of cases of coronavirus","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wapost-coronavirus-china-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wapost-coronavirus-china-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wapost-coronavirus-china-1024x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/wapost-coronavirus-china-1024x1024.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1788540,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/03\/some-more-coronavirus-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788446,"position":3},"title":"Some More Coronavirus Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"16 March 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"The Washington Post maps COVID-19 cases by U.S. state and country (above). 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