Ethics in Everyday Places: Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury

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Tom Koch (Adjunct Professor of Medical Geography, University of British Columbia)

Ethics in Everyday Places

Mapping Moral Stress, Distress, and Injury

Tom Koch (Adjunct Professor of Medical Geography, University of British Columbia)

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MIT Press
01 November 2022

Social work; Medical ethics & professional conduct; Cartography, map-making & projections

Series: Basic Bioethics

"An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds.

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 know you've done something wrong."" The resulting moral stress and injury, he argues, are pervasive in modern Western society. Koch makes his argument ""from the ground up,"" from the perspective of average persons, and through a revealing series of maps in which issues of ethics and morality are embedded.

The book begins with a general grounding in both moral stress and mapping as a means of investigation. The author then examines the ethical dilemmas of mapmakers and others in the popular media and the sciences, including graphic artists, journalists, researchers, and social scientists. Koch expands from the particular to the general, from mapmaker and journalist to the readers of maps and news. He explores the moral stress and injury in educational funding, poverty, and income inequality (""Why aren't we angry that one in eight fellow citizens lives in federally certified poverty?""), transportation modeling (seen in the iconic map of the London transit system and the hidden realities of exclusion), and U.S. graft organ transplantation.

This uniquely interdisciplinary work rewrites our understanding of the nature of moral stress, distress and injury, and ethics in modern life. Written accessibly and engagingly, it transforms how we think of ethics-personal and professional-amid the often conflicting moral injunctions across modern society.

Copublished with Esri Press"

By: Tom Koch (Adjunct Professor of Medical Geography University of British Columbia)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262546621
ISBN 10: 0262546620
Series: Basic Bioethics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 November 2022
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tom Koch is Adjunct Professor of Medical Geography at the University of British Columbia, a consultant in ethics and gerontology at Alton Medical Centre, Toronto, and Director of Information Outreach, Ltd. He is the author of fourteen previous books, including Thieves of Virtue- When Bioethics Stole Medicine (MIT Press).