Tom Koch Author, Lecturer, Researcher

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Ethics/Bioethics

Bioethics, Disability and Difference

*"False Truths": Ethics and Mapping as a Profession. Cartographic Perspectives 54, 4-1. July 2006.

*Weaponizing Medicine at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay: "Tutti Fratelli," no more. (Editorial) J. of Medical Ethics 32: 249-255, May 2006

*Disability and ideology: A reply to Peter Singer. J. Disability Policy Studies 18. Winter 2005.

*Bioethics as ideology. J. of Medicine & Philosophy In Press, 2005.

*The ideology of normalcy. The ethics of difference. J. Disability Policy Studies 16:2, 123-129. Fall 2005.

*The challenge of Terri Schiavo: Lessons for Bioethics. J. of Medical Ethics 31, 376-378. Spring 2005.

*The difference that difference makes: Bioethics and the challenge of 'disability'. J. Medicine and Philosophy. 29:6, 697-716. Winter, 2004.

*The ideology of Normalcy: The ethics of difference. J. Disability Policy Studies 15 Oct. 2004.

*The difference that difference makes: Bioethics and the challenge of 'disability'. J. Medicine and Philosophy 29:6 Fall, 2004.

*Review: Hunting the 1918 Flu. Science and Public Policy Aug. 2004.

*First: A Right to Be Born . . . J. Medical Ethics Online, http://jme.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/28/2/65#72 10 Dec 2003. Commentary on, J Savulescu, Is there a "right not to be born"? Reproductive decision making, options and the right to information. J. Medical Ethics 28: 65-67. 2002.

*(with Joe Kaufert) Disability or End-of-Life? Competing Narratives in Bioethics. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 24, 459-469 2003.

*Absent Virtues: The Poacher as Gamekeeper. Journal of Medical Ethics 29, 337-342. 2004.

*What the clinician taught the ethicist: clinical contributions to ethical concerns. Medical Science Monitor 9, ET21-27.. 22 Sept. 2003.

*Remarks on 'Health disparities': reframing the problem' by Kathleen E.Fuller. Medical Science Monitor 9:5; http://www.medscimonit.com/medscimonit/#10 June 2003.

*Genetics, eugenics, and discrimination. At the beginning of the end of the Dark Ages of Social medicine. Gemmological Review, 45-55. May, 2003.

*Response to Wrongful Birth Suit, Canadian Down Syndrome Society Quarterly 16:1, 1:10 Spring, 2003.

*Physician-Assisted Death (letter) Hastings Center Report, 5-6, Feb. 2003.

*The problem with presumed consent: A reply to Rackoff Am. Soc. Bioethics and the Humanities Exchange 5:3, 2003.

*One principle and three fallacies of disability studies Journal of Medical Ethics 28:3, June 2002.

*Health Care and the Fragile, submission to the Commission on the Future of Canadian Health Care (Ray Romanow, chair) 12 Mar. 2002.

*Listening to the critics: a response to 'Clinical Ethics revisited,' BMC Medical Ethics 2:2. http://www.biomedcentral.com Jan. 2002.

*A Brief Clarification: Disability and Difference (Letter). Journal of Medical Ethics Online 12 Feb. 2002.

*Disability and difference: Balancing Social and Physical Constructions. J. Medical Ethics 27, 370-376. 2001.

*Difference is beautiful, Canadian Down Syndrome Society Newsletter, Summer and fall issues, 2001. Text of CDSS Plenary presentation spring, Edmonton, April 2001.

*Disabled are not dogs (commentary on the Robert Latimer case) Vancouver Sun A-15, 7 Feb. 2001. http://www.chninternational.com/tomkoch.htm

*Future States: Testing the axioms underlying prospective, future-oriented, health planning instruments. Social Science & Medicine 52:3, 453-466, Feb. 2001.

*Life quality vs. the 'quality of life'" assumptions underlying prospective quality of life instruments in health care planning. Social Science & Medicine 51:3, 419-428, May, 2000.

*The illusion of paradox: commentary on Albrecht, G.L. and Develiger, P.J The disability paradox: high quality against all odds. Social Science & Medicine 50:6, 757-59, March, 2000.

*Euthanasia: The Disability Perspective, In, Eds. K Braun, P. Blanchette and J. Pietsch, Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making, Newbury, CA: Sage Publications, 563-576, 1999.

*(with Kathryn Braun and Jim Pietsch) Social necessity, individual rights, and the needs of the fragile: Euthanasia in the context of end-of-life decision making. Journal of Ethics, Law, and Aging, 5:1, 557-560, Spring, 1999.

*The Canadian Question: What's so great about intelligence? Cambridge Quarterly on Healthcare Ethics. 5:2, 307-210, 1996.

Organ Transplantation

*Human Organs and Markets. J. Medical Ethics Online, http://jme.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/29/3/137#70 Commentary on,A . Erin and John Harris An ethical market in human organ, J. Med Ethics 2003; 29: 137-138. 10 Dec. 2003.

*Organ transplants without borders. National Post, A 13, 30 April, 2001.

*(With Ken Denike) Equality versus Efficiency: The equality of solid organ distribution in the USA. Ethics, Place, and Environment 4:1 45-56, 2001.

*They might as well be in Bolivia: Race, ethnicity and the problem of solid organ donation. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 20:6, 563-474, Dec. 1999.

*The Organ Transplant Dilemma: What is Fair? What is Equitable? OR/MS Today, 26:1, 22-28, Feb. 1999.

*Organ debate 'transplanted' to pages of OR/MS Today: Different Scales, Modes, and Methodologies. ORMS Today, 26:3, 17-18, June, 1999.

*The transplant dilemma. ORMS Today 26:1, 22-28, Feb. 1999.

*Transplantation: Fairness vs. efficiency (letter to the editor). OR/MS Today 25:3, 8, Oct. 1998.

*A pilot study on transplant eligibility criteria: Valuing the stories in numbers. Pediatric Nursing 23:2, 160-2, Spring, 1997.

*Normative and Prescriptive Criteria: The Efficacy of Organ Transplantation Allocation Protocols. Theoretical Medicine 17:1, 75-93, Spring, 1996.

Euthanasia/Humanness

*Physician-assisted death for the terminally ill, Hastings Center Report 31:3 (letter) 4, 2001.

*(with Kathryn Braun and Jim Pietsch) A Response to: 'Difference and the Delivery of Healthcare' (Special Section: CQ 7:1), Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 9:1, 124-128, Winter, 2000.

*Does the "Sanctity of Human Life" Doctrine sanctify humanness, or life? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 8:4, 557-560, Fall, 1999.

*The Myth of loving murder. Reader's Digest. (Canadian Edition). Aug. 1996.

*(With Mary Rowell) Response to "Cloning, technology, policy and ethics": Humanness, personhood, and a lamb named dolly. Quarterly of Cambridge Healthcare Ethics 8:2, Spring, 1999.

*On the subject(s) of Jack Kevorkian, MD: A Retrospective analysis Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 7:4, 436-441, Fall 1998.

*Living VS Dying 'with Dignity' A new perspective on the euthanasia Debate. Cambridge Quarterly on Healthcare Ethics. 5, 50-60, Winter, 1996.

*The Myth of Loving Murder. The ase of Jean and Cecil Brush. Toronto Life Magazine. Dec. 1996.

Consensus/Decision Making

*Listening to the critics A response to ‘Clinical Ethics revisited’, BMC News and Views 23, (6 July) 2001, accessed 12 July 2001.

*(with Mark Ridgley) The Condorcet Jury Theorem in a bioethical context: The dynamics of group decision making. Group Decision and Negotiation 9:5, 379-392, 2000.

*(with Mark Ridgley) Consensus in medical decision making: analyzing the environment of discourse ethics. Ethics, Place and Environment 2:2, 201-217, Fall, 1999.

*(with Mary Rowell) The Dream of Consensus: Finding common ground in a bioethical context. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 20:3, 261-273, Fall, 1999.

*Stillborn Bioethics: 1890-2001, Ethics Law, and Aging Review 6, Ed. Marshall Kapp (NY: Springer), 223-238, 2000.

*We live in the city, not in a study. OR/MS Today 27:2, 16-17, April, 2000.

*The ethics of the possible in impossible situations. Calyx: Ethical Issues in Pediatrics, 9:1, 3-4. Toronto: Hospital for Sick Children, Spring, 1999.

*(with Mark Ridgley) Distanced Perspectives: Aids, Anencephaly, and AHP. Theoretical Medicine. 19:1, 47-58, Winter, 1998.

*(with Mark Ridgley) Aids, Anencephaly and AHP: The effect of multicriterion modeling as a catalyst in bioethical decisionmaking. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada, July, 1996.

*Notes on "Prison Infirmary Nurses: Professionalism and Principles." Making the Rounds in Health, Faith & Ethics 1:21, 3, Park Ridge Center, Chicago. June, 1996.

*Disclosure vs. Confidentiality: When Disaster Strikes, Making the Rounds in Health, Faith & Ethics. 1:16;3 Park Ridge Center Chicago, April, 1996.

Internet/Online Ethics

*The Net bridges the gap: "official medicine" and family caregivers. Medicine on the Net. 12-15, May, 1998.

*Review of Kenneth W. Goodman, Ethics, Computing, and Medicine. Doody's Review Service (on-line), June, 1998.

*The Gulf Between: A Surrogate Faces Decision Making in the Context of Critical Care. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Vol. 4:2, Spring, 1995.

*Principles and Purpose: The Patient Surrogate's Perspective and Role. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6:3, Fall, 1997.

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