Tom Koch (2)

Auteur de Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine

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Tom Koch is an adjunct professor of medical geography at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of fifteen books (including Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground, 2011) and over250 academic papers as well as a range of popular articles. Other related works include books on afficher plus gerontology, law, journalism, and medical ethics. afficher moins

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Œuvres de Tom Koch

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Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine (2005) 69 exemplaires

Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground (2011) 39 exemplaires

Thieves of Virtue: When Bioethics Stole Medicine (Basic Bioethics) (2012) 13 exemplaires

The Wreck of the William Brown: A True Tale of Overcrowded Lifeboats and Murder at Sea (2003) 10 exemplaires

Journalism for the 21st Century: Online Information, Electronic Databases, and the News (1991) 7 exemplaires

Six Islands on Two Wheels: A Cycling Guide to Hawaii (1990) 6 exemplaires

Scarce Goods: Justice, Fairness, and Organ Transplantation (2001) 6 exemplaires

The limits of principle : deciding who lives and what dies (1998) 6 exemplaires

Mirrored Lives: Aging Children and Elderly Parents (1990) 4 exemplaires

A place in time : care givers for their elderly (1993) 4 exemplaires

The Message Is the Medium: Online All the Time for Everyone (1996) 2 exemplaires

Second Chances : Crisis And Renewal In Our Everyday Lives (2002) 2 exemplaires

The news as myth : fact and context in journalism (1990) 2 exemplaires

Age speaks for itself : silent voices of the elderly (2000) 1 exemplaire

Watersheds: Stories of Crisis and Renewal in Our Everyday Lives (1994) 1 exemplaire

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Courte biographie: Tom Koch works in and has published popular and technical works in these areas: Elder care and gerontology, medical and general ethics (euthanasia, organ transplantation, life crises, disability, etc.), disease mapping and medical geography, home care of the fragile, cycling and transportation, news and online information.

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Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine par Tom Koch

Exhaustive. And at the same time exhausting.

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ThomasK | Apr 10, 2014 |

Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground par Tom Koch

One would expect a book entitled Disease Maps would be a book full of maps with appropriate commentary. Instead this is a book full of commentary about maps, some of which are illustrated. Many maps are described but not illustrated.
Unfortunately, most of the maps included are far too small to read, even with a magnifying glass. Some enlarged inserts are included, but one insert asking the reader to compare Copenhagen and London with German cities shows only the German cities.
There are also numerous typos such as "1855 to 1805" (should be "1755 to 1805") and one map of India is captioned as being of England.
This book should have been a much larger format, in order to reproduce the maps at a better scale, and should have included all the maps described.
I am a lover of maps, not diseases, and so am very disappointed in this volume.… (plus d'informations)

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wcarter | Jan 3, 2012 |

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