{"id":1638,"date":"2016-11-05T23:44:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T06:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2016-11-05T23:46:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T06:46:35","slug":"blog-post-6-caribbean-cholera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/11\/05\/blog-post-6-caribbean-cholera\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 6: Caribbean Cholera"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this blog post, I decided to work with the Caribbean Cholera Map<\/a>. This particular digital humanities project illustrates the outbreaks of the cholera disease around the Caribbean area. While simultaneously utilizing both a timeline and a set of points within a google map, it tells a very compelling argument of how these outbreaks are tied to naturals disasters, such as tropical storms and hurricanes. By depicting that these outbreaks occur subsequently after the storm on the timeline, the project logically proves that the origins of cholera were due to natural causes. The project managers were able to supply news journals and articles as evidence to further prove this. However, this project only reinforces David Turnbull\u2019s argument<\/a> of how maps have the ability to manipulate the narrative without meaning to.<\/p>\n

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The fact that it only provides information about the natural disasters implies that these storms are the only causes of the cholera outbreak. It assumes that there aren\u2019t any other types of causes of cholera because it omits these possibilities on the timeline. According to my outside research, the first cholera outbreak originated in Russia through trade routes. Who is to say that human contact from the slave trade and poor conditions on the boat didn\u2019t contribute to further development of cholera, yet it isn\u2019t evident in the timeline.<\/p>\n

Since this current map is very vague and generalizes the causes of the outbreak, an alternate, yet ideal map for this particular project would specify what other factors may have played into the causes of the outbreak. In the timeline, there are other storms that occur around the Caribbean area especially in 1937 to the early 1940s without an outbreak to cholera following it. This goes to show that there may have been another factor played into this, otherwise there would be multiple cholera outbreaks throughout that listed time period. Or could it possibly be because of the intensity of the storm? The map only provides us information of the duration and coordinates of the storm, but there could be very light storms that can go on for days as opposed to a heavy one. The map should provide some sort of measurement of the storms if possible. Also another question the map could answer is, what determines an outbreak of a disease? It\u2019s very subjective in the sense that one definition of an outbreak can be very different to another. This goes to show how subjective maps are because it’s all about perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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