GIS and Health


Books using GIS

Visualizing Disease: Understanding Epidemics Through Maps.
ArcUser, 64-67. http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0311/files/diseasemap.pdf
Spring 2011

When Cancer Became Public.
The NAACCR Narrative, 11-13. http://www.naaccr.org/aboutnaaccr/newsletter.aspx
Winter 2011

Rethinking John Snow: The Interplay of Bayesian and Frequent Approaches.
Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings (With Ken Denike).
23 July, 2010

Essential, Illustrative, or... Just Propaganda?
Rethinking John Snow’s Broad Street Map Cartographica (volume 45, issue 1), 19–31.
2010

Disease Mapping.
In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Vol. 3, pp. 234-241. Oxford: Elsevier.
2009

Crediting His Critics' Concerns:
Remaking John Snow's map of Broad Street cholera, 1854 (With Ken Denike). Social Science & Medicine 69:8, 1246-1251.
Aug. 2009

The History of Disease Mapping.
Encyclopedia of Human Geography. R. Kitchen and N. Thrift, Editors. Oxford, UK: Elselvier.
July 2009

Social Epidemiology as Medical Geography: Back to the Future.
Koch, T. 2009 GeoJournal 74:2, 99-106.
April 2009

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

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, gt. http://www.dsq-sds.org/DPubS?service=Repository&version=1.0&verb=Disseminate&view=body&content-type=html_1&handle=osul.dsq/1210686217#
2008

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

Aaron's Solution, Instructor's Problem:
Teaching Surface Analysis Using GIS (with Ken Denike). Journal of Geography 106:2, 69-77.
August 2007

Certainty, Uncertainty, and the Spatiality of Disease
A West Nile Virus example (With Ken Denike). Stochastic Environment Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA) 231:5, 523-531.
June 2007

Rethinking John Snow's South London Study:
A Bayesian evaluation and recalculation (with Ken Denike). 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

Aaron's Solution, Instructor's Problem:
Teaching Surface Analysis Using GIS (With Ken Denike). Journal of Geography106:2, 69-77.
August 2007

Certainty, Uncertainty, and the Spatiality of Disease a West Nile Virus Example.
Stochastic Environment Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA) (With Ken Denike).
June 2007

Rethinking John Snow's South London Study:
A Bayesian evaluation and recalculation Social Science & Medicine 63(1), 271-83 (With Ken Denike).
July 2006

“False Truths”: Ethics and Mapping as a Profession.
Cartographic Perspectives 54, 4-15.
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

Medical Mapping:
The Revolution in teaching and using—maps for the analysis of medical issues (With Ken Denike). 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

Geography, Justice, and Inequality:
The New York City school funding controversy (With Ken Denike). Journal of Geography 102:5, 193-201.
Oct. 2003

Geography, the Problem of Scale, and Processes of Allocation:
The U.S. National Organ Transplant Act of 1986, amended 1990 (With Ken Denike). IN: Law and Geography. London: Oxford University Press, 109-137.
2003

Organ Transplants Without Borders.
National Post, A 13.
April, 2001

GIS Approaches to the Problem of Disease Clusters:
A Brief Commentary (With Ken Denike) . Social Science and Medicine 51, 151-54.
2001

Equality Versus Efficiency:
The Equality of solid organ distribution in the USA (With Ken Denike). 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

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