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The last half century has witnessed two landmark events in medical
history. The 1970s saw euphoria about the defeat of one of
humankind's oldest disease scourges with the global eradication of
smallpox. To set against this, the 2020s are experiencing the
pandemic ravages of new viral diseases, of which COVID-19 is
currently the most potent. But it is only the latest of a
succession of threats. A Geography of Infection explores the
distinctive spatial patterns and processes by which such infectious
diseases spread from place to place and can grow from local and
regional epidemics into global pandemics. This resource 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 (for example, plague, cholera
and influenza) and contemporary (HIV/AIDS and COVID-19) and
examines the ways the spread of infection can be prevented. All
chapters are extensively illustrated with full-colour diagrams and
maps - some of which are in colour for the first time. Bringing
together the authors' collective 150 years of experience in
research, mapping, and writing on spatial aspects of medical
history, this is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in
the spread, control, and eradication of epidemic and pandemic
diseases.
Elements of Spatial Structure is a contribution to the literature
on spatial series. Written by a group with varied backgrounds in
engineering, geography and statistics, who collaborated at Bristol
University in the early 1970s, the book analyses certain basic
properties of spatial structure. It shows how spatial elements form
an essential part of the real-world problems of population
distribution, of urban and regional economies, and of diffusion
processes. The book is divided into three parts. Part one is
concerned with a static cross-sectional approach to spatial
structure and explores some aspects of the central geographical
problems of region-building and trend-surface mapping. Part two
moves to a dynamic framework and extends time-series analysis in a
regional framework. It includes two chapters on the application of
the models presented to diffusion and unemployment data in
south-west England. Part three links the first two parts together
through a consideration of spatial autocorrelation and spatial
forecasting. Again, formal models are presented and an attempt is
made to gauge their utility by applying them to test problems in
the south-west.
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