James Le Fanu
The Topography of Infection
Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground
By Tom Koch
University of Chicago Press 368pp £29 order from our bookshop
By themselves solitary statistics may be dreary things but when aggregated together they can reveal, with unarguable precision, phenomena or patterns of events that would otherwise be concealed from view. Tom Koch’s Disease Maps examines the particularly persuasive instance of the value of the statistical method when used to condense a mass of data into a single arresting ‘portrait’ of a disease.
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