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The Grim Reaper's road map: An atlas of mortality in Britain
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Angie Cope <[log in to unmask]>
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Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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The Grim Reaper's road map: An atlas of mortality in Britain
by Mary Shaw, Bethan Thomas, George Davey Smith and Daniel Dorling.
The Policy Press, 2008

http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/publications/reaper.html

A very interesting atlas of causes of death in Britain (stabbing and heart disease seem to be a "Scottish diseases", while skin cancer rates seem worst along the Channel Coast...)

The geographical representation in the maps is also very interesting, using parliamentary consistuencies drawn as hexagons, broken down into neighbourhoods, so that the map visually represents population densities.





Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Map Curator

Map Section

National Library of Australia

Parkes

ACT 2600

AUSTRALIA
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