GIS and Health
Books using GIS
Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press. Paperback, 2005.
Wreck of the William Brown. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre; U.S. Edition: McGraw Hill. Includes 5 maps in a recreation and construction of the events leading to the court case: US versus Holmes. Aug. 2003.
Scarce Goods: Justice, Fairness, and Organ Transplantation. Westport and London: Praeger Books. 2001. Includes 14 maps in its consideration of US policies of graft organ distribution. Dec. 2001.
Six Islands on Two Wheels: A Cycling Guide to Hawaii. Honolulu: Bess Press, Includes 18 maps in a cycling guide that considered the "scale of the bicycle" in transportation. June, 1990.
GIS/Health Papers
Koch, T. 2009.Social Epidemiology as Medical Geography: Back to the Future. GeoJournal In Press. Fall 2009.
Maps of Nature/The Nature of Maps: Review, D. Wood and J. Fels. The Nature of Maps. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Cartographic Perspectives 59, 48-50 . Winter 2008.
Spaced Out in the City: The wrinkled world of transit for those with limited mobility. Disability Studies Quarterly 28:2, 2008. http://www.dsq-sds.org/DPubS?service=Repository&version=1.0&verb=Disseminate&view=body&content-type=html_1&handle=osul.dsq/1210686217#
History of Demographic Data Collection and Analysis. Byrne, J. Editor. Encyclopedia of Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 141-151. 2008.
Biographic entries: William Farr, John Snow, Rudolph Virchow. Byrne, J., Editor, Encyclopedia of Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2008.
Finding or making a place in the world? Review: Ackerman and Karrow, Eds. Maps: Finding our place in the World. University of Chicago Press. Cartographic Perspectives 60, 72-75. 2008.
Medical Mapping: There be monsters …There. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. R. Kitchen and N. Thrift, Editors. Oxford, UK: Elselvier. In Press, 2008.
Spaced Out in the City: The wrinkled world of transit for those with limited mobility. Disability Studies Quarterly 28:2. June 2008.
Maps of Nature/The Nature of Maps: Review, D. Wood and J. Fels. The Nature of Maps. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Cartographic Perspectives 49,48-51. Winter 2008.
The difference a verb can make. Review: C. Brewer, Designing Better Maps. ESRI Press (2005) and Krygier, J and D. Wood. Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS. Guilford Press (2005). Cartographic Perspectives 57, 58-60. 2007.
(with Ken Denike) Aaron's Solution, Instructor's Problem: Teaching Surface Analysis Using GIS. Journal of Geography 106:2, 69-77. August 2007.
(With Ken Denike) Certainty, uncertainty, and the spatiality of disease a West Nile Virus example. Stochastic Environment Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA) 231:5, 523-531. June 2007.
(with Ken Denike) Rethinking John Snow's South London study: A Bayesian evaluation and recalculation. Social Science & Medicine 63(1), 271-83. July 2006.
The Finding or making a place in the world? Review: Ackerman and Karrow, Eds. Maps: Finding our place in the World. University of Chicago Press. Cartographic Perspectives. In Press 2008.
History of Demographic Data Collection and Analysis. Byrne, J. Editor. Encyclopedia of Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. In Press 2008.
Biographic entries: William Farr, John Snow, Rudolph Virchow. Byrne, J., Editor, Encyclopedia of Plagues, Pestilence and Pandemics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. In Press 2008.
Medical Mapping: There be monsters …There. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. R. Kitchen and N. Thrift,Editors. Oxford, UK: Elselvier. In Press, 2008.
Spaced Out in the City: The wrinkled world of transit for those with limited mobility. Disability Studies Quarterly 28:2. June 2008.
Maps of Nature/The Nature of Maps: Review, D. Wood and J. Fels. The Nature of Maps. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Cartographic Perspectives 49,48-51. Winter 2008.
The difference a verb can make. Review: C. Brewer, Designing Better Maps. ESRI Press (2005) and Krygier, J and D. Wood. Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS. Guilford Press (2005). Cartographic Perspectives 57, 58-60. 2007.
(With Ken Denike) Aaron's Solution, Instructor's Problem: Teaching Surface Analysis Using GIS. Journal of Geography106:2, 69-77. August 2007.
(With Ken Denike) Certainty, uncertainty, and the spatiality of disease a West Nile Virus example. Stochastic Environment Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA). June 2007.
(With Ken Denike) Rethinking John Snow's South London study: A Bayesian evaluation and recalculation Social Science & Medicine 63(1), 271-83. July 2006.
“False Truths”: Ethics and Mapping as a Profession. Cartographic Perspectives 54, 4-15. July 2006
(With Ken Denike) Rethinking John Snow's South London study: A Bayesian evaluation and recalculation False Truths” Social Science & Medicine 63 (1), 271-83. July 2006
Response to Mark Monmonier. Cartographica 40:3. Winter, 2005
Mapping the Miasma: Air, Health, and Place in Early Medical Mapping. Cartographic Perspectives 52, 4-27. Fall 2005.
Review: World Atlas of Epidemic Diseases. Cartographic Perspectives 52, 82-84. Winter 2005.
Review: Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine. P. Vinten-Johansen, H. Broody, N. Paneth, and S. Rachman, 2003. Social Science and Medicine 60:5, 1163. March, 2005.
The Map as intent: Variations on the theme of John Snow Cartographica 39:4, 1-13. Dec. 2004.
Mapping John Snow. A review of Vinten-Johansen et al “Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine.”Cartographic Perspectives 48, 62-64. Spring, 2004.
What do we call it now? Commentary on, “Cartography is Dead (Thank God!).” Cartographic Perspectives 48, 4-5. Spring 2004.
(with Ken Denike) Medical Mapping: The Revolution in — teaching and using—maps for the analysis of medical issues. Journal of Geography 103:2, 76-85. Winner: NCGE Award, best article. March 2004.
Review: Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine. A Life of John Snow. Health and Place 9:2, 115-116. Jan. 2004.
(with Ken Denike) Geography, justice, and inequality: The New York City school funding controversy. Journal of Geography 102:5, 193-201. Oct. 2003.
(With Ken Denike) Geography, the problem of scale, and processes of allocation: The U.S. National Organ Transplant Act of 1986, amended 1990. IN: Law and Geography. London: Oxford University Press,109-137. 2003.
Organ transplants without borders. National Post, A 13. April, 2001
(With Ken Denike) GIS approaches to the problem of disease clusters: a Brief Commentary. Social Science and Medicine 51, 151-54. 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.
The Art of the science: National transplant system: What’s fair and what’s possible? ORMS Today 28:5, 28-32. Oct. 2001.
Mapping the ORMS World. ORMS Today 26:4, 26-30. http://www.lionhrtpub.com/orms/orms-8-99/koch.html Aug, 1999.
The Organ transplant dilemma: What is fair? What is equitable? OR/MS Today, 26:1, 22-28. Feb. 1999