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GIS and Mapping

Books using GIS

*Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press. Paperback, 2005. For review click here.\ 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: Published Papers

*The • Finding or making a place in the world? Review: Ackerman and Karrow, Eds. Maps: Finding our place in the WorldUniversity 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 PandemicsWestport, 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

Conference presentations/GIS

*Cholera in 1850s London: John Snow, His Contemporaries, and the Broad Street Map Revisited. 17th Annual Maps and Society lectures. Warburg Institute, University of London.     8 May 2008.

*Cholera mapping from 1819-1854: Before John Snow and the Broad Street outbreak. Cambridge Seminars in the history of cartography, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University.                                                               6 May 2008.

*Session chairperson: Historical cartography. American Association of Geographers. Annual meeting. Paper: That Damn Broad Street Map. April 18 2008.

*Discussant. Science and cartography papers. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston. April 13, 2008.

*The Statistics in the Map: Rewriting John Snow's South study. University of British Columbia, Dept. Biostatistics. 31 Jan. 2008.

*Distinguished lecturer in Medicine, “Mapping Science Making Medicine: Maps as tools of disease studies.Texas A&M University. College Park, TX.  15-18 November 2007.           

*Hayes lecturer in Geography. “John Snow and his contemporaries, the Broad Street experience. Texas A&M University, Department of Geography. College Park, TX. 17 November 2007.

*Plenary lecture, Cartographies of Cancer: The history of cancer in its mapping. Conference on GIS and Public Health sponsored by the CDC and Texas A&M University. College Park, TX. 18 Nov. 2007.

*Cartographies of Disease: Climates of Concern. Chicago Humanities Festival, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL. 4 Nov. 2007.

*Mapping in a Time of Cholera: John Snow and his contemporaries. Center for Health Excellence and Outcomes Research (CHEOS). St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC. 26 Sept. 2007.

*Maps, mapping, and medicine: The history and the present. ESRI Canada TechTreck week. Barrie, ON. 25 Aug. 2006.

*The Meaning in the Map: Examples from Medical Cartography, Keynote, Geo-Tec conference keynote, Ottawa, ON. 21 June 2006.

*Cartographies of Disease: Public Safety, Pubic Health. URISABC. Burnaby BC. 5 June 2006.

*Cartographies of Disease: Epidemics in Cities. University of Hawaii Dept. of Geography Colloquium. Honolulu, HI. 9 Feb. 2006

*Medical Mapping: Here and there, this and that. The logic of the map. ESRI Health Users Group Meetings. Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, Ill. Oct. 2005.

*300 years of medical mapping. National Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) annual meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah. Oct. 2005.

*Mapping Medicine: John Snow and the Broad Street battle.

*B.C. Historical Map Society, Vancouver, B.C. 7 March 2005.

*Health, place, and air: Mapping the miasma of illness. In, The spatial analysis and discourse of disease. Am. Assoc. of Geography Ann. Meeting. 6 Denver.

*(with Ken Denike) GIS: Spatial Analyst and the problem of  cholera. . . A simple teaching example. Annual meeting:  Am. Assoc. of Geographers, NYC. 12-14 March, 2001.

*(With Ken Denike) Geography, the problem of scale, and  processes of allocation: The US National Organ Transplant Act. Conference on Law and Geography, University College, London, UK, July 2-3, 2001.

*(with Ken Denike) Mapping Justice: The problem of scale in the distribution of human organs. Annual meeting of the Am. Assoc. of Geographers, New York City. Feb. 2001

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