David S Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 238522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David S Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | David S |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0039-7784 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Critical Reading of Solastalgia Through Indigenous and Care Ethics Lenses
Shanghai and the Smoke Fiend
As Shanghai industrialised, its Chinese and European residents suffered the scourge of coal-powered cities: smoke. Air pollution became a multi-sensory reality. Residents could see, smell, feel and taste the smoke that shrouded the city. Inspired by anthropologists and historians of the senses, we mined Chinese- and English-language sources to document the emergence of experiences of air pollution in Shanghai. Concerns began earlier than other hi…
The historical sociology of medicine in India
This introduction to a special section brings together three papers first presented at a panel, 'Medical Professions in South Asia: Historical and Contemporary Analyses', at the 26th European Conference on South Asian Studies, held in Vienna, Austria and online, in July 2021. All three papers deal with aspects of the professionalisation of biomedical doctors in India since its independence in 1947. The authors bring together historical and sociol…
Changes of heart
In 1950, the leaders of independent India celebrated the contributions that surgeons could make to modernising India. Surgeons, however, faced a difficult choice. Some wanted to invest in generalist surgeons to make basic surgical care available to all Indians. Others wanted to invest in specialists to ensure that India participated in cutting-edge surgical research and care. These debates shaped the emergence of cardiac surgery at two centres: t…
Climate and Social Justice
Slavery and the Journal — Reckoning with History and Complicity
Snuff burnout and reignite passion in medical students
Crafting and Transforming Colonial Empires and Landscapes
The Under-representation and Stagnation of Female, Black, and Hispanic Authorship in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine
The Debauched Commons
‘The Debauched Commons: A Dark Parable’ summarizes issues regarding intellectual property rights and immaterial culture through a nuanced reading of how First Nations Peoples worldwide have been forced by forms of neoliberal-capitalist exploitation of the knowledge commons to ring-fence and/or commodify their lived traditions, in many cases dating back 100,000 years and clearly predating any and all Western (First World) concepts of ownership. Th…
The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in The Asia-Pacific
"The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific revisits the use, growth, and potential of the cultural landscape methodology in the conservation and management of culture-nature heritage in the Asia-Pacific region. Taking both a retrospective and prospective view of the management of cultural heritage in the region, this volume argues that the plurality and complexity of heritage in the region cannot be comprehensively…
The Metaverse as a Virtual Form of Smart Cities
Data infrastructures, economic processes, and governance models of digital platforms are increasingly pervading urban sectors and spheres of urban life. This phenomenon is known as platformization, which has in turn given rise to the phenomena of platform society, where platforms have permeated the core of urban societies. A recent manifestation of platformization is the Metaverse, a global platform project launched by Meta (formerly Facebook) as…
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific
Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Heritage in the Asia-Pacific
Introducing a global planetary ecosystem accounting in the wake of the Amazon Forest fires
Since the 19th century, rapid urbanisation coupled with a demographic boom has increased pressures on the global exploitation of natural resources leading to an array of issues at planetary scale. Even though there have been significant ecologically driven human policy efforts, with frameworks addressing ecosystem accounting and management, such are principally constricted at sub-global levels; being regionally focussed, and hence lacking both co…
Future (post-Covid) digital, smart and sustainable cities in the wake of 6G
Mischievous Immunity
Mischievous Immunity: How Intellectual History Can Be Relevant for Current Public Health Practice David S. JonesMD, PhD Affiliation David S. Jones is the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to David S. Jones, Science Center 371, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking th…
Of Life and Limb
Reviewed by: Of Life and Limb: Surgical Repair of the Arteries in War and Peace, 1880–1960 by Justin Barr David S. Jones Justin Barr. Of Life and Limb: Surgical Repair of the Arteries in War and Peace, 1880–1960. Rochester Studies in Medical History. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2019. 302 pp. Ill. $85.00 (978-1-58046-966-1). Justin Barr has written a valuable history of medical innovation. His case study—operations to repair injured …
Pandemic stricken cities on lockdown. Where are our planning and design professionals [now, then and into the future]
Richard Jones
The 1840s in New South Wales, in Australia, was a time of unsettled citizen unrest about the governance of their colony articulated in debates between liberalist and conservative newspapers whilst the Governor looked on. The tone of these debates included reforms to the electoral system, trade tariff, land settlement, and increasing antipathy to the governance administration of the colony. Caught in the middle, the Governor took instructions from…
Wurundjeri-al Narrm-u (Wurundjeri’s Melbourne)
This chapter discusses, from a Wurundjeri perspective, the definition of and how our connection to Country has changed (if at all) through time, with a focus on the urban heritage and landscape of Narrm, the area of metropolitan Melbourne. Throughout this chapter, reference to Narrm and Melbourne is done as two separate entities in time and context. Past Ngurungaeta (Leader) William Barak (c.1824–1903) is also referred to by his traditional name …
Attracting investment by introducing the city as a special economic zone
Increasing urbanisation require proportionate capital injections in infrastructural projects to respond to local challenges. However, local public investments, especially in low-income economies and nations, are scare due to their low budgetary capacity, resulting in a downgrade of quality in primary public infrastructure; hence, impacting on liveability levels of socio-economic dimensions of these cities. This article proposes a policy tool to a…
Challenging the Use of Race in the Vaginal Birth after Cesarean Section Calculator
The Potential of Blockchain within Air Rights Development as a Prevention Measure against Urban Sprawl
The rapid rise in urbanization internationally is both driving and stressing our consumption patterns, including that of land use. Urban sprawl is arguably one of the most important threats to human and nature biodiversity given its reliance upon fossil fuel exploitation and consumption. The need for increasing the density of cities is required to contain urban expansion in land size. However, while the footprint density of cities is increasing, …
Charting Participatory Action and Interventionist Research Processes for Community-Based Stakeholders in Peri-Urban Contexts
Participatory action combined interventionist research approaches can offer possibilities for community-based facilities and institutions attempting to re-engage with their communities and assert their presence. St. Cuthbert’s Church is a heritage-listed property, located on a major landholding, right in the heart of the summer tourist town of Lorne, on Melbourne’s peri-urban ‘sea change’ fringe. Its sloping hillside vantage offers spectacular vi…
The Persistence of American Indian Health Disparities
Disparities in health status between American Indians and other groups in the United States have persisted throughout the 500 years since Europeans arrived in the Americas. Colonists, traders, missionaries, soldiers, physicians, and government officials have struggled to explain these disparities, invoking a wide range of possible causes. American Indians joined these debates, often suggesting different explanations. Europeans and Americans also …
Virgin Soils Revisited
European arrival in the Americas was one of the most shocking demographic events of the last millennium. Indian populations declined by as much as 95 percent in the first century after the arrival of Christopher Columbus, prompting one historian to conclude that early America was a catastrophe-a horror story, not an epic.' This collapse established the foundation for the subsequent social and political developments of American history. Since the …
Pandemic stricken cities on lockdown. Where are our planning and design professionals [now, then and into the future]
Visions of a Cure
In the early 1970s physicians engaged in fierce debates over the most appropriate method of evaluating the efficacy of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). With millions of patients and billions of dollars at stake, CABG sparked fierce controversy. Skeptics demanded that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) be performed, while enthusiasts argued that they already had visual proof of CABG's efficacy. When RCTs appeared, they did not settle the c…
The City of the Dead
Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland is more than a place of rest and reflection. It is a place of environmental and cultural sustainability and an expression of an attitude toward nature and environment unique to African-American culture. Through the more than hundred-year cultivation of an African-American cultural overlay, the Cemetery has been transformed from graveyard to a unique burial ground. Founded in 1872, Mount Auburn Cemetery…
Future (post-Covid) digital, smart and sustainable cities in the wake of 6G
Coronary artery disease and the contours of pharmaceuticalization
The Decline and Rise of Coronary Heart Disease
The decline of coronary heart disease mortality in the United States and Western Europe is one of the great accomplishments of modern public health and medicine. Cardiologists and cardiovascular epidemiologists have devoted significant effort to disease surveillance and epidemiological modeling to understand its causes. One unanticipated outcome of these efforts has been the detection of early warnings that the decline had slowed, plateaued, or e…
Making heart-lung machines work in India
In 1962, surgeons at two hospitals in Bombay used heart-lung machines to perform open-heart surgery. The devices that made this work possible had been developed in Minneapolis in 1955 and commercialized by 1957. However, restrictions on currency exchange and foreign imports made it difficult for surgeons in India to acquire this new technology. The two surgeons, Kersi Dastur and PK Sen, pursued different strategies to acquire the ideas, equipment…
How Personalized Medicine Became Genetic, and Racial
Physicians have long puzzled over a well-known phenomenon: different patients respond differently to the same treatment. Although many explanations exist, pharmacogenetics has now captured the medical imagination. While this might seem part of the broader interest in all things genetic, the early history of pharmacogenetics reveals the specific factors that contributed to the emergence of genetics within pharmacology. This paper examines the work…
Curbing Corruption in Government Procurement in Southeast Asia
Corruption in the government procurement of goods, services and public works has been commonplace in Southeast Asian states (with the exception of Singapore) over many years. It has affected the provision of vital services and infrastructure and has been a key factor in undermining standards of governance. In recent years, reforms have been introduced in the region to combat corruption in the procurement process. However, to date their impact in …
The Nature of Political Conventions in a Written Constitutional Order
A Journal of Two Visits Made to Some Nations of Indians on the West Side of the River Ohio, in the Years 1772 and 1773
MAY 4, Anno Domini 1772, having prepared for my journey, and committed all to the difpofal of Divine Providence, went to Philadelphia, and converfed with meflrs.Wharton, Baynton and Morgan concerning fettling on the river Ohio ; acquainted them alfo with my defigns of vifiting the Indians.They all were pleafed, and gave me what encouragement was then in their power.Mr. Wharton was fo kind as to recom- mend me to the notice of col.Croghan at Fort …
Transplant Buccaneers
On 17 February 1968, Bombay surgeon Prafulla Kumar Sen transplanted a human heart, becoming the fourth surgeon in the world to attempt the feat. Even though the patient survived just three hours, the feat won Sen worldwide acclaim. The ability of Sen's team to join the ranks of the world's surgical pioneers raises interesting questions. How was Sen able to transplant so quickly? He had to train a team of collaborators, import or reverse engineer …
Making the Case for History in Medical Education
Historians of medicine have struggled for centuries to make the case for history in medical education. They have developed many arguments about the value of historical perspective, but their efforts have faced persistent obstacles, from limited resources to curricular time constraints and skepticism about whether history actually is essential for physicians. Recent proposals have suggested that history should ally itself with the other medical hu…
Uses and limitations of performance measurement in the civil service
Departments in the civil service in Singapore and the public service in New Zealand have developed a range of performance indicators for the key areas of performance measurement and have, in many cases, set yearly targets based on those indicators. The first part of this chapter considers, in light of the reforms in New Zealand and Singapore, the main types of performance measurement used, the arrangements under which performance measurement has …
A Critical Reading of Solastalgia Through Indigenous and Care Ethics Lenses
Sharks upon the Land
The population of Hawaii suffered terribly following European contact in 1778. The dynamics of its decline are distinct and important. Substantial losses occurred before 1820, even in the absence of military conquest, foreign settlement, or exploitation of native land and labor. Seth Archer's analysis offers important lessons for how we think about colonial epidemics and depopulation. Syphilis and gonorrhea arrived with James Cook and caused wide…
Towards a Circular Economy
Cotonou is the largest city and main economic centre of the nation of Benin, Africa. Following independence, the city has experienced major population growth resulting in the extensive development of slums on flood plains and marshes causing the loss of biodiversity of these fragile ecosystems. Infrastructural development, unable to keep pace with informal settlement development, and a cumbersome municipal service system, have led to the illegal …
Changes in surveillance of regulatory enforcement progragrammes in Singapore
A Journal of Two Visits Made to Some Nations of Indians on the West Side of the River Ohio, in the Years 1772 and 1773
MAY 4, Anno Domini 1772, having prepared for my journey, and committed all to the difpofal of Divine Providence, went to Philadelphia, and converfed with meflrs.Wharton, Baynton and Morgan concerning fettling on the river Ohio ; acquainted them alfo with my defigns of vifiting the Indians.They all were pleafed, and gave me what encouragement was then in their power.Mr. Wharton was fo kind as to recom- mend me to the notice of col.Croghan at Fort …
Traditional Authority and State Administration in Botswana
A central feature of the Bechuanaland Protectorate was the wide jurisdiction accorded to the tribal chief or kgosi by the Administration. These traditional leaders were allowed by the colonial authorities to retain a considerable measure of autonomy and were able to regulate nearly all aspects of tribal life
The Nature of Political Conventions in a Written Constitutional Order
Changes in surveillance of regulatory enforcement progragrammes in Singapore
King of Hearts
Uses and limitations of performance measurement in the civil service
Departments in the civil service in Singapore and the public service in New Zealand have developed a range of performance indicators for the key areas of performance measurement and have, in many cases, set yearly targets based on those indicators. The first part of this chapter considers, in light of the reforms in New Zealand and Singapore, the main types of performance measurement used, the arrangements under which performance measurement has …
Visions of a Cure
In the early 1970s physicians engaged in fierce debates over the most appropriate method of evaluating the efficacy of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). With millions of patients and billions of dollars at stake, CABG sparked fierce controversy. Skeptics demanded that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) be performed, while enthusiasts argued that they already had visual proof of CABG's efficacy. When RCTs appeared, they did not settle the c…
The White Death
Many histories have been written about tuberculosis, which pathologist Thomas Dormandy describes as "one of the most historical as well as historically important diseases" (p. 1). He distinguishes The White Death from existing work in two ways. First, he provides "a less than triumphalist look" (p. xiv) at a history that too often has emphasized the success of human efforts against disease. Second, he focuses on the impact of tuberculosis on the …
Technologies of compliance
The development of antibiotics for tuberculosis in the 1950s liberated patients from prolonged hospitalization and enabled physicians to bring treatment to underserved populations. However, outpatient treatment programs could only be as effective as the reliability with which patients self‐administered medications. This anxiety with non‐compliance quickly became ubiquitous in medicine. Several physicians, treating tuberculosis among the Navajo, a…
Tobacco Use by Native North Americans
Traditional studies of the Columbian exchange focus on the European diseases that devastated American Indians, and the New World crops that enriched Old World diets. Syphilis appears as the only cost to Europeans of this lopsided exchange. These analyses have neglected one of the most enduring products of the exchange: tobacco. If it is not the case already, the morbidity and mortality produced by tobacco will soon exceed the toll of the infectio…
The Health Care Experiments at Many Farms
In January 1952 a team of medical researchers from Cornell Medical College learned that tuberculosis raged untreated on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. These researchers, led by Walsh McDermott, recognized a valuable opportunity for medical research, and they began a ten-year project to evaluate the efficacy of new antibiotics and test the power of modern medicine to improve the health conditions of an impoverished rural society. The history o…
Virgin Soils Revisited
European arrival in the Americas was one of the most shocking demographic events of the last millennium. Indian populations declined by as much as 95 percent in the first century after the arrival of Christopher Columbus, prompting one historian to conclude that early America was a catastrophe-a horror story, not an epic.' This collapse established the foundation for the subsequent social and political developments of American history. Since the …
Revenge of the Windigo
Reviewed by: Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples David S. Jones James B. Waldram . Revenge of the Windigo: The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples. Anthropological Horizons. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xii + 414 pp. $70.00, £28.00 (cloth, 0-0820-8826-0), $29.95, £15.00 (paperbound, 0-8020-8600-4). The cryptic title o…
Can Science Save the Day
The Persistence of American Indian Health Disparities
Disparities in health status between American Indians and other groups in the United States have persisted throughout the 500 years since Europeans arrived in the Americas. Colonists, traders, missionaries, soldiers, physicians, and government officials have struggled to explain these disparities, invoking a wide range of possible causes. American Indians joined these debates, often suggesting different explanations. Europeans and Americans also …
Lovers and Livers
Reviewed by: Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History David S. Jones Jacalyn Duffin . Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History. The 2002 Joanne Goodman Lectures. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xvii + 229 pp. Ill. $55.00, £35.00 (cloth, 0-8020-3869-9); $28.95, £20.00 (paperbound, 0-8020-3805-0). With Lovers and Livers Jacalyn Duffin has provided a concise and useful model for understanding disease. She offers an unusual de…
Jones Responds
The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine
Reviewed by: The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine: Writing Recent Science David S. Jones Ronald E. Doel and Thomas Söderqvist, eds. The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine: Writing Recent Science. Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, no. 23. London: Routledge, 2006. xv + 313 pp. Ill. £80.00 (cloth, ISBN-13: 9780415272940, ISBN-10: 0415272947), £25.99 (IS…
Common or Genteel? Relationships Between Vernacular and Pattern Book Furniture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Exploration of the boundaries between 'polite' and 'vernacular', now topical among architectural historians, engages other disciplines too. This paper indicates that the majority of Scotland's common furniture in the eighteenth century was not completely distinguishable from its fashionable counterparts and suggests that both should be considered as part of a cultural continuum rather than seen in binary terms as fundamental opposites
Leprosy and Empire
Curbing Corruption in Government Procurement in Southeast Asia
Corruption in the government procurement of goods, services and public works has been commonplace in Southeast Asian states (with the exception of Singapore) over many years. It has affected the provision of vital services and infrastructure and has been a key factor in undermining standards of governance. In recent years, reforms have been introduced in the region to combat corruption in the procurement process. However, to date their impact in …
The City of the Dead
Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland is more than a place of rest and reflection. It is a place of environmental and cultural sustainability and an expression of an attitude toward nature and environment unique to African-American culture. Through the more than hundred-year cultivation of an African-American cultural overlay, the Cemetery has been transformed from graveyard to a unique burial ground. Founded in 1872, Mount Auburn Cemetery…
The Decline and Rise of Coronary Heart Disease
The decline of coronary heart disease mortality in the United States and Western Europe is one of the great accomplishments of modern public health and medicine. Cardiologists and cardiovascular epidemiologists have devoted significant effort to disease surveillance and epidemiological modeling to understand its causes. One unanticipated outcome of these efforts has been the detection of early warnings that the decline had slowed, plateaued, or e…
How Personalized Medicine Became Genetic, and Racial
Physicians have long puzzled over a well-known phenomenon: different patients respond differently to the same treatment. Although many explanations exist, pharmacogenetics has now captured the medical imagination. While this might seem part of the broader interest in all things genetic, the early history of pharmacogenetics reveals the specific factors that contributed to the emergence of genetics within pharmacology. This paper examines the work…
A Complete Medical Education Includes the Arts and Humanities
Of the many crises in health care today, one of the most troubling is the perceived loss of empathy among medical students and residents. Medicine, at its core, is about caregiving Empathy and compassion are essential. When the empathic connections between patients and doctors are broken, both patients and doctors suffer: patients receive worse care, and physicians burn out. The causes of the problem have been described well: students learn medic…
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