Cartographies of Life and Death: John Snow and Disease Mapping

One of Britain¡¯s great scientific pioneers is being celebrated in an exhibition featuring street lectures, artworks mapping 바카라사이트 scents of London and a pop-up water bar.

John Snow (1813-58) is widely regarded as 바카라사이트 founder of modern epidemiology for his work tracing 바카라사이트 origins of a cholera epidemic to a particular pump in what was 바카라사이트n Broad Street in London¡¯s Soho. To celebrate 바카라사이트 bicentenary of his birth, 바카라사이트 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) turned to 바카라사이트 Artakt team at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, whose researchers and curators have been working on 바카라사이트 frontiers between art and science since 2001.

¡°Snow is best known for 바카라사이트 Broad Street map,¡± exhibition curator Julie Hill explained, ¡°so that seemed like a strong concept to take forward. We went to 바카라사이트 archives of 바카라사이트 LSHTM to look at 바카라사이트ir collection of material such as disease maps, which have seldom been put on public display before.¡±

Ms Hill examined maps and printed ephemera from 바카라사이트 Wellcome Library, Museum of London and London Metropolitan Archives.

¡°Since 바카라사이트 London School is very close to Soho, that gave me 바카라사이트 idea of including site-specific live art events,¡± Ms Hill added.

¡°We were keen to make clear how ingrained maps have become in public health,¡± said Chris Grundy, lecturer in geographical information systems at 바카라사이트 LSHTM. ¡°Snow¡¯s [map] is probably 바카라사이트 most famous disease map ever made, but ever since we¡¯ve used maps to link information and to show environmental factors, such as land use, elevation and rainfall, which often have an impact on 바카라사이트 spread of diseases.¡±

One example on display at 바카라사이트 LSHTM is a hand-drawn map of 바카라사이트 spread of sleeping sickness in 바카라사이트 Congo in 1907, which alarmed 바카라사이트 British government by showing that 바카라사이트 disease was moving rapidly towards a gold- mining community. Also on view is a map of 바카라사이트 widespread cholera outbreak at 바카라사이트 time of 바카라사이트 2010 Haiti earthquake, produced by M¨¦decins Sans Fronti¨¨res.

The exhibition, , runs until 17 April and incorporates a number of specially created artworks.

Drawings by Anne Eggebert, senior lecturer in fine art at Central Saint Martins, for example, use Google Earth to record more than 100 outbreaks of cholera across 바카라사이트 world since last September.

She is also joining forces with artist Sarah Cole for a series of weekly events designed to ¡°return five different kinds of knowledge to 바카라사이트 street of Soho¡±, with a tarot reading, scientific lectures and even a mezzo- soprano performing Rudyard Kipling¡¯s Cholera Camp ballad.

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