Mapping illness
16Nov08
I was very interested in Snow’s cholera map that Professor Cohen showed us in class this past week. It just so happened that this article came out discussing the Google mapping of illnesses. Heres’ the Google announcement.
More specifically, Google awarded 14 million to “…support partners working in Southeast Asia and Africa to help prevent the next pandemic. ” It is a part of the Google’s philanthropic efforts called Predict and Prevent. It seems very interesting to see how we’ve gone from Snow’s mapping of cholera, to this geo-mapping of illness. Any it is very exciting!
Check out the HealthMap.
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If you haven’t read it, there’s a very good short book on the cholera map: The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World, by Steven Johnson. And of course there’s always Great Influenza by John Barry, about the flu epidemic during WWI, which is longer but an amazing read on a related subject.
Tracy-
Thanks a ton!
I made a note to read that during the break.