Tom Koch
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 281705 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tom Koch |
| PRENOMES | Tom |
| SOBRENOME | Koch |
| ASSINATURA | KOCH T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8444-3700 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Back to the future
Since the 1980s, a large literature has developed on the social determinants of health, primarily non-communicable diseases for which mortality and morbidity can be shown to change across a socioeconomic gradient. Primarily regional or national in focus, they are joined, today, with an increasing focus on international health and the effect of inequalities between nations effect disease generation and spread. Similar and earlier literatures first…
Viral geographies
Epidemiologists, medical geographers, and public health experts have long focused on city‐centred data in the description of epidemic occurrences. While incidence is collected locally, it is typically aggregated to first a city and from there to a regional resolution. Urban researchers have long noted that interurban travel flow directly affects urban populations and thus models based on a stable urban entity. Some have proposed that a “megaregio…
Maid’s slippery slope
Canadian ethicists Jocelyn Downie and Udo Schuklenk seek to assess the effect of Canada’s decriminalisation of ‘medical assistance in dying’ (MAID) ‘to inform Canada’s ongoing discussions and because other countries will confront the same questions if they contemplate changing their assisted dying law.’1 Their assessment focuses on two arguments earlier levied against expansion of these procedures. The first is that of a ‘slippery slope’ and the …
Populations, megapopulations, and the areal unit problem
Fighting disease, like fighting fires
Key Messages Rural disease surveillance is similar to rural surveillance in forestry. GPS and GIS technologies may serve for data collection and management. The failure of timely origin/destination maps was a critical factor in the Ebola epidemic
Essential, Illustrative, or … Just Propaganda? Rethinking John Snow's Broad Street Map
For more than a century John Snow's iconic map of an 1854 cholera outbreak in the Broad Street area of Soho, London, has been the very definition of how to discover the source of a disease. Some now argue, however, that the map was merely an illustrative and not very imaginative graphic. Here we argue that this position is incorrect. Snow's mapping of the Broad Street outbreak produced a spatial argument that was a critical evidentiary statement.…
Towards Enabling Geographies
Chouinard, V. Hall, E. and R. Wilton . 2010 . Towards Enabling Geographies: ‘Disabled’ Bodies and Minds in Society and Space . Surrey, UK : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd . 2010 ? pp. £60 (hbk ) IBSN 978-0-7546-0-7561-7 This book presents a “second wave” of geographical studies of “disability”, its preface proclaims, and thus a “shift toward studying and promoting the means of creating more enabling and empowering social spaces for disabled women, men, …
Social epidemiology as medical geography
Crediting his critics' concerns
A Response to Peter Singer
Quality of Life and the Problem with Qaly Researchers
Menzel P, Dolan P, Richardson J, Olsen JA. The role of adaptation to disability and disease in health state valuation: A preliminary normative analysis. Soc Sci Med. 2002;55(12):2149-2158. Ubel PA, Loewenstein G, Jepson C. Whose quality of life? A commentary exploring discrepancies between health state evaluations of patients and the general public. Qual Life Res. 2003;12(6):599-607
The Author's Reply
The Author's Reply." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 40(3), pp. 109–110
The Ideology of Normalcy
Calypso Meets the Professions
Mapping the Miasma
Medical mapping is broadly assumed to have been a nineteenth century reaction both to the appearance of cholera and the social consciousness of principally British reformers. It is however older, more embedded in the scientific enterprise than the social critique, and in the end, more central to both than researchers typically recognize. This paper argues that medical mapping was from its start in the late 1600s principally a tool for the self-co…
Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine
The Map as Intent
Critical geographers" concerned with cartography insist maps are first and foremost social artefacts that must be "read" as authorial documents rather than perceived as data statements. Their argument is typically dismissed as trivial because the relation between intent and output has rarely been demonstrated in a critical way. This article seeks to demonstrate the degree to which authorial intent defines map content and appearance through an ana…
Physician-Assisted Death
Cholera, chloroform, and the science of medicine
Beating up Bioethics
Physician-Assisted Death for the Terminally Ill
To the Editor: Martin Gunderson and David Mayo's argument for physicianassisted euthanasia for the terminally ill is disturbing (Restricting Physician-Assisted Death to the Terminally Ill, HCR, November-December 2000). In arguing the potential benefit of physician-induced death for the terminally ill, a wealth of data that contradicts their thesis is cavalierly ignored. The authors' argument focuses on the use of physician-assisted euthanasia for…
GIS approaches to the problem of disease clusters
Equality vs. Efficiency
There is at present a divide in the geographical literature between those interested in distributive justice as a social value and those who seek to implement distributive plans on the basis of efficiency of resource use. The former are 'social geographers' interested in equity as a social value, and the latter are 'practical' economic and locational geographers. This divide mirrors one existing elsewhere in social science between Rawlsian libera…
Future states
The illusion of paradox
Life quality vs the 'quality of life
Journalism for the 21st Century
Lack of opportunity for minorities in newsrooms and on the pages of our newspapers produces a ripple effect as we “learn” what we can – and cannot – expect of ourselves and others. Psychological theory offers some indication of the effects of media images of members of society and on the society at large
Social epidemiology as medical geography
Crediting his critics' concerns
Populations, megapopulations, and the areal unit problem
Mapping the Miasma
Medical mapping is broadly assumed to have been a nineteenth century reaction both to the appearance of cholera and the social consciousness of principally British reformers. It is however older, more embedded in the scientific enterprise than the social critique, and in the end, more central to both than researchers typically recognize. This paper argues that medical mapping was from its start in the late 1600s principally a tool for the self-co…
Future states
Journalism for the 21st Century
Lack of opportunity for minorities in newsrooms and on the pages of our newspapers produces a ripple effect as we “learn” what we can – and cannot – expect of ourselves and others. Psychological theory offers some indication of the effects of media images of members of society and on the society at large
Consensus in Medical Decision Making
In recent years geographic interest has focused increasingly on the moral and ethical dimensions of social constructions. Much of this work has followed the direction taken by moral philosophers whose principled approach has been applied to a range of ethically or morally problematic contexts. The challenge has been to apply a geographic perspective to an ethical dilemma that seems intractable at the level of ethical principle. This paper uses a …
Consensus in medical decision making
In recent years geographic interest has focused increasingly on the moral and ethical dimensions of social constructions. Much of this work has followed the direction taken by moral philosophers whose principled approach has been applied to a range of ethically or morally problematic contexts. The challenge has been to apply a geographic perspective to an ethical dilemma that seems intractable at the level of ethical principle. This paper uses a …
The illusion of paradox
Life quality vs the 'quality of life
Physician-Assisted Death for the Terminally Ill
To the Editor: Martin Gunderson and David Mayo's argument for physicianassisted euthanasia for the terminally ill is disturbing (Restricting Physician-Assisted Death to the Terminally Ill, HCR, November-December 2000). In arguing the potential benefit of physician-induced death for the terminally ill, a wealth of data that contradicts their thesis is cavalierly ignored. The authors' argument focuses on the use of physician-assisted euthanasia for…
GIS approaches to the problem of disease clusters
Equality vs. Efficiency
There is at present a divide in the geographical literature between those interested in distributive justice as a social value and those who seek to implement distributive plans on the basis of efficiency of resource use. The former are 'social geographers' interested in equity as a social value, and the latter are 'practical' economic and locational geographers. This divide mirrors one existing elsewhere in social science between Rawlsian libera…
Future states
Beating up Bioethics
Physician-Assisted Death
Cholera, chloroform, and the science of medicine
The Map as Intent
Critical geographers" concerned with cartography insist maps are first and foremost social artefacts that must be "read" as authorial documents rather than perceived as data statements. Their argument is typically dismissed as trivial because the relation between intent and output has rarely been demonstrated in a critical way. This article seeks to demonstrate the degree to which authorial intent defines map content and appearance through an ana…
Quality of Life and the Problem with Qaly Researchers
Menzel P, Dolan P, Richardson J, Olsen JA. The role of adaptation to disability and disease in health state valuation: A preliminary normative analysis. Soc Sci Med. 2002;55(12):2149-2158. Ubel PA, Loewenstein G, Jepson C. Whose quality of life? A commentary exploring discrepancies between health state evaluations of patients and the general public. Qual Life Res. 2003;12(6):599-607
The Author's Reply
The Author's Reply." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 40(3), pp. 109–110
The Ideology of Normalcy
Calypso Meets the Professions
Mapping the Miasma
Medical mapping is broadly assumed to have been a nineteenth century reaction both to the appearance of cholera and the social consciousness of principally British reformers. It is however older, more embedded in the scientific enterprise than the social critique, and in the end, more central to both than researchers typically recognize. This paper argues that medical mapping was from its start in the late 1600s principally a tool for the self-co…
Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine
A Response to Peter Singer
Social epidemiology as medical geography
Crediting his critics' concerns
Essential, Illustrative, or … Just Propaganda? Rethinking John Snow's Broad Street Map
For more than a century John Snow's iconic map of an 1854 cholera outbreak in the Broad Street area of Soho, London, has been the very definition of how to discover the source of a disease. Some now argue, however, that the map was merely an illustrative and not very imaginative graphic. Here we argue that this position is incorrect. Snow's mapping of the Broad Street outbreak produced a spatial argument that was a critical evidentiary statement.…
Towards Enabling Geographies
Chouinard, V. Hall, E. and R. Wilton . 2010 . Towards Enabling Geographies: ‘Disabled’ Bodies and Minds in Society and Space . Surrey, UK : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd . 2010 ? pp. £60 (hbk ) IBSN 978-0-7546-0-7561-7 This book presents a “second wave” of geographical studies of “disability”, its preface proclaims, and thus a “shift toward studying and promoting the means of creating more enabling and empowering social spaces for disabled women, men, …
Fighting disease, like fighting fires
Key Messages Rural disease surveillance is similar to rural surveillance in forestry. GPS and GIS technologies may serve for data collection and management. The failure of timely origin/destination maps was a critical factor in the Ebola epidemic
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