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Title
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Mapping disease
Description
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My final project investigates the different ways of mapping disease throughout history and how this can be seen as a product of attitudes towards disease and understanding of the underlying mechanisms at a particular time. While now producing maps of disease is a basic tool in epidemiology and public health, this way of visualizing disease patterns did not develop until around the turn of the 19th century. Prompted in part by serious epidemics of cholera and yellow fever, maps became an important tool in the mission to understand the mode of transmission of disease. In particular, maps were key in the debate over and development of germ theory. Later, maps were also used to disseminate awareness to the general public, and no longer remained the preserve of scientists and public health officials in academic contexts. For this initial map collection I aimed to display three maps that show significantly different ways of thinking about infectious disease. In particular, they show three key stages in the understanding of disease: initial mapping to attempt to discern a mode of transmission, knowledge of a vector and its range, and an attempt to communicate the urgency and danger of disease to the public.
Creator
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Isabella C
Historical Map
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Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Individual sheet map, included with a magazine
URL or Unique Identifier
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~290431~90061990:World-Map-of-the-Major-Tropical-Dis?sort=pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date&qvq=q:disease;sort:pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=21&trs=22
Digital Repository
David Rumsey Map Collection
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Title
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World Map of the Major Tropical Diseases
Creator
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Boris Artzybasheff
Publisher
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Time, Inc. (New York)
Date
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1944
Description
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This map, produced in 1944, shows major “tropical diseases” and where they occur in the world. A stylized image of the vector or symptoms of the disease is drawn over each afflicted region. Along the bottom of the map is a key describing which image refers to which disease, with a short block of text giving more background about each disease below the corresponding image. Interestingly, malaria is the only disease not identified by an image, and instead malarial zones are just colored pink. The map overall creates an almost gruesome image in which the world is covered in insects, pests, and deformed humans. It is a very unconventional way of depicting disease since the area that each image marks and the ranges of diseases are very vague. It would not be very useful for an epidemiologist, but is a striking way of conveying to the viewer the number of diseases that afflict the world and to what extent we possess the ability to treat them. The decision to depict malaria so differently raises an interesting question about perception of that disease in particular.
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World
Source
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Life Magazine
Format
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36 x 53 cm (sheet)
artzybasheff
cholera
dengue
disease
fly
helminthic disease
IC
images
Japanese river fever
leishmaniasis
leprosy
magazine
malaria
mosquito
pests
plague
rat
relapsing fever
Rocky Mountain fever
sleeping sickness
text
tick
tularemia
typhus
world map
worm
yaws
yellow fever