Peter Haggett's research over the last thirty years has focused on mapping and modelling the paths by which epidemics spread through human communities. This led to his 1998 inaugural lectures for a new series, the Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies, the result of which is this book. In it, Haggett presents an accessible, concise, and well illustrated account of how environmental and geographical concepts can be used to enhance our knowledge of the origins and progress of epidemics, and sometimes to slow or even halt their spread.
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The presentation is sufficiently general to be accessible to nonspecialists, and the topics covered should interest many biologists as well as geographers ... Recommended reading for upper-division and graduate students and faculty interested in the geographical study of disease. Choice
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Peter Haggett is Chairman of the Wellcome Trust's History of Medicine Panel. He has held posts as visiting professor in a dozen North American and Australasian universities, and as visiting scientist at the World Health Organization and the US Centers of Disease Control.
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In this opening lecture, I wish both to pose and to try to answer three questions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blanket vaccination, epidemic size, epidemic waves, critical community size, medical districts, measles cases, local elimination, global eradication, spatial diffusion, diffusion waves, measles outbreak, measles epidemics, spread process, haemorrhagic fever, reservoir areas, susceptible population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World Health Organization, United Kingdom, New South Wales, The Faeroes, Rift Valley, The Geographical Structure of Epidemics, Carter Center, Monte Carlo, New World, South America, Viti Levu, West Africa, Old World, Oliver Lancaster New!
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blanket vaccination, epidemic size, epidemic waves, critical community size, medical districts, measles cases, local elimination, global eradication, spatial diffusion, diffusion waves, measles outbreak, measles epidemics, spread process, haemorrhagic fever, reservoir areas, susceptible population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World Health Organization, United Kingdom, New South Wales, The Faeroes, Rift Valley, The Geographical Structure of Epidemics, Carter Center, Monte Carlo, New World, South America, Viti Levu, West Africa, Old World, Oliver Lancaster New!
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- Atlas of Disease Distributions by A. D. Cliff on 5 pages
- Mathematical Theory of Infectious Diseases by Norman T. Bailey on page 99, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Control of Communicable Diseases in Man, 14th Edition; by Abram (Editor); Beneson on page 71, and Back Matter
- Communicable Disease: Epidemiology and Control by Norman Noah in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Island Epidemics (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series) by A. D. Cliff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- GIS and Spatial Analysis in Veterinary Science by Peter Durr on page 78
- Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death by George Christakos in Back Matter
- Global Mapping of Infectious Diseases, Volume 62: Methods, Examples and Emerging Applications (Advances in Parasitology) by S.I. Hay on page 336
- Risky Trade: Infectious Disease in the Era of Global Trade by Ann Marie Kimball in Back Matter
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