Tom Koch: 5 books

Book cover of Thieves of Virtue

Thieves of Virtue

When Bioethics Stole Medicine

by Tom Koch
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012

An argument against the “lifeboat ethic” of contemporary bioethics that views medicine as a commodity rather than a tradition of care and caring. Bioethics emerged in the 1960s from a conviction that physicians and researchers needed the guidance of philosophers in handling the issues raised...
Book cover of Ethics in Everyday Places

Ethics in Everyday Places

Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury

by Tom Koch
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018

An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds. In Ethics in Everyday Places, ethicist and geographer Tom Koch considers what happens when, as he puts it, “you do everything right but...
Book cover of Cartographies of Disease

Cartographies of Disease

Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition

by Tom Koch
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017

Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, is a comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to the battle against disease. This look at medical mapping advances the argument that maps are not merely representations of spatial realities but...
Book cover of DAS MAG - The Best-of

DAS MAG - The Best-of

Junge Literatur aus Flandern und den Niederlanden

by Gerbrand Bakker, Saskia de Coster, Daan Heerma van Voss
Language: German
Release Date: July 15, 2016

Die junge niederländische Literaturszene lebt! Seit ein paar Jahren erfährt Gegenwartsliteratur gerade von jungen, neuen Autoren in den Niederlanden und in Flandern eine wahre Blüte – und DAS MAG, ein Magazin und Verlag aus Amsterdam, steht im Zentrum dieser Bewegung. Mit ihrem Magazin und ihren...
Book cover of Lexikon Raumphilosophie
by Stephan Günzel, Franziska Kümmerling, Kurt Röttgers
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Der Raum und das Verständnis des Raums sind als große neue Themen der Philosophie im Gespräch. Die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen gewinnen derart an Bedeutung, dass von einem ›spatial turn‹ der Wissenschaft gesprochen wird, in Entsprechung zum ›linguistic turn‹, der das Gesicht der Philosophie...
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