Amy L Fairchild
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1125841 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amy L Fairchild |
| NOMBRES | Amy L |
| APELLIDO | Fairchild |
| FIRMA | FAIRCHILD A L |
| AFILIACIONES | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1292-7212 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Black emergency department visits for schizophrenia/psychosis following the police killing of George Floyd
In the United States, there exists a large disparity in the diagnosis of schizophrenia between Black and White individuals. Some of the symptoms associated with schizophrenia, such as agitation, delusions, and non-compliance, were previously linked to a now-discontinued condition known as “Protest Psychosis.” This proposed subtype of schizophrenia diagnosis emerged during the 1950s and 1960s in response to racial tensions during the Civil Rights …
Education for public health 2030
Education for public health is at a critical inflection point, and either transforms for success or fails to remain relevant. In 2020, the Association for Schools and Programs of Public Health launched an initiative, Framing the Future 2030: Education for Public Health (FTF 2030) to develop a resilient educational system for public health that promotes scientific inquiry, connects research, education, and practice, eliminates inequities, incorpor…
Is Good Enough Good Enough? E-Cigarettes, Evidence, and Policy
The E-Cigarette Debate
Two major public health evaluations of e-cigarettes—one from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), the other from Public Health England (PHE)—were issued back to back in the winter of 2018. While some have read these analyses as broadly consistent, providing support for the view that e-cigarettes could play a role in smoking harm reduction, in every major respect, they come to very different conclusions about what …
Fairchild and Bayer Respond
AffiliationsAmy Lauren Fairchild is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M School of Public Health, College Station. Ronald Bayer is with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
Fairchild and Bayer Respond
Fairchild and Bayer Respond Amy Lauren Fairchild PhD, MPH, and Ronald Bayer PhD Affiliation Amy Lauren Fairchild is with the College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus. Ronald Bayer is with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Amy Lauren Fairchild, PhD, MPH, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, 250 Cun…
The Two Faces of Fear
Fear is now commonly used in public health campaigns, yet for years ethical and efficacy-centered concerns provided a challenge to using fear in such efforts. From the 1950s through the 1970s, the field of public health believed that using fear to influence individual behavior would virtually always backfire. Yet faced with the limited effectiveness of informational approaches to cessation, antitobacco campaigns featured fear in the 1960s. These …
US Immigration
AffiliationsThe author is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M University School of Public Health, College Station
The World Health Organization, Public Health Ethics, and Surveillance
The World Health Organization, Public Health Ethics, and Surveillance: Essential Architecture for Social Well-Being Affiliation Amy L. Fairchild PhD, MPH, Angus Dawson PhD, Ronald Bayer PhD, and Michael J. Selgelid PhDAmy L. Fairchild is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, and is co-director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Bioethics, Columbia University, New York, NY. Angus Dawson is dir…
Stigma
Beyond Bioethics
In the wake of scandal over troubling research abuses, the 1970s witnessed the birth of a new system of ethical oversight. The bioethics framework, with its emphasis on autonomy, assumed a commanding role in debates regarding how to weigh the needs of society against the rights of individuals. Yet the history of resistance to oversight underscores that some domains of science hewed to a different paradigm of accountability—one that elevated the c…
Fatal misconception
Fatal misconception: The struggle to control world population, by Matthew Connelly, Cambridge, MA and London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008, xiv+521 pp., US$35.00 (hardcover)
The Exodus of Public Health What History Can Tell Us About the Future
We trace the shifting definitions of the American public health profession's mission as a social reform and science-based endeavor. Its authority coalesced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as public health identified itself with housing, sanitation, and labor reform efforts. The field ceded that authority to medicine and other professions as it jettisoned its social mission in favor of a science-based identity. Understanding t…
When Worlds Collide
Surveillance serves as the eyes of public health. It has provided the foundation for planning, intervention, and disease prevention and has been critical for epidemiology research into patterns of morbidity and mortality for a wide variety of disease and conditions. Registries have been essential for tracking individuals and their conditions over time. Surveillance has also served to trigger the imposition of public health control measures, such …
Colonizing Leprosy
Reviewed by: Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States Amy L. Fairchild Michelle T. Moran. Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiii + 280 pp. Ill. $59.95 (cloth, 978-0-8078-3145-8), $21.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8078-5839-4). Historians typically regard the patients’ rights…
Medical Examination of Immigrants at Ellis Island
SARS, avian flu, bioterrorism: such threats to national security at the dawn of the 21st century have renewed anxieties about controlling disease at the nation's borders.Control of infectious agents also provided the impetus for immigrant medical inspections along the U.S. coasts in the late 19th century, but, in practice, it was the weeding out of chronic disease and disability that actually motivated public health officers on "the line" at Elli…
Privacy and Public Health Surveillance
The discovery that cases of paralytic polio in 1955 were caused by a single manufacturer of Salk vaccine, the linkage of toxic shock syndrome to tampons in 1979, the identification of the sentinel cases of AIDS on the East and West coasts in the early 1980s, the recognition of West Nile, SARS, and avian flu at the turn of the twenty-first century-were all the result of surveillance systems, through which alert and troubled physicians could commun…
Twentieth-Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research
Reviewed by: Twentieth-Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research: Historical Perspectives on Values, Practices, and Regulations Amy L. Fairchild Volker Roelcke and Giovanni Maio , eds. Twentieth-Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research: Historical Perspectives on Values, Practices, and Regulations. Medical History. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2004. 361 pp. €64.00 (paperbound, 3-515-08455-X). The essays in this edited volume were originally present…
Eugenic Nation
Book Review| July 01 2006 Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding, Alexandra Minna Stern. Amy Fairchild Amy Fairchild Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 25 (4): 186–187. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501757 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Fairchi…
Leprosy, Domesticity, and Patient Protest
Historians strongly associate the 1960s as marking the beginnings of radical changes in patients' orientation toward their rights. Yet the social and political context of the decades prior to the Second World War distinctly shaped the patient experience in much the same fashion that it gave form to the Civil Rights Movement. The patient struggle for autonomy at the US Public Health Service Hospital in Carville, Louisiana, in particular, must be l…
The Rise and Fall of the Medical Gaze
ArgumentIn this paper I examine the mass medical inspections of immigrants to the United States from the 1890s through the 1920s. I show how, framed as it was not only by nativism and eugenics but also by national industrial imperatives and priorities, scientific medicine served dual purposes. On the one hand, the medical exam was a tool for managing cultural and biological threats to the nation. There were regional variations in medical inspecti…
Society for Medical Anthropology
Policies of Inclusion
The racial politics of immigration have punctuated national discussions about immigration at different periods in US history, particularly when concerns about losing an American way of life or American population have coincided with concerns about infectious diseases. Nevertheless, the main theme running through American immigration policy is one of inclusion. The United States has historically been a nation reliant on immigrant labor and, accord…
Fairchild and Colgrove Respond
We appreciate the thoughtful comments and concerns of Giovino, who was intimately involved in the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) assessment of the scientific basis for tobacco harm reduction. We did not state, nor did we intend to imply, that the IOM report was primarily about less hazardous cigarettes. Further, we took care to describe the report as “endorsing harm reduction only ‘as a component of a comprehensive national tobacco control progr…
Out of the Ashes
From 1964 through the early 1980s, both federal and voluntary agencies endorsed the concept of “safer” cigarettes. Beginning in the mid-1980s, several factors, including revelations of tobacco industry malfeasance, the development of nicotine replacement therapy, and the reconceptualization of smoking as a chronic disease, led to “safer” cigarettes being discredited. In the past few years, some public health professionals have begun to reconsider…
The Exodus of Public Health What History Can Tell Us About the Future
We trace the shifting definitions of the American public health profession's mission as a social reform and science-based endeavor. Its authority coalesced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as public health identified itself with housing, sanitation, and labor reform efforts. The field ceded that authority to medicine and other professions as it jettisoned its social mission in favor of a science-based identity. Understanding t…
Public health nihilism vs pragmatism
Tuberculosis (TB) began to decline in the Western world in the mid- to late 1800s. In the United States, the disease receded until the mid-1980s, when that trend was reversed. Although the TB epidemic in the United States subsided in response to public health interventions, it sparked a controversy regarding the relative value of targeted public health measures vs broad social reform. That controversy, which echoed earlier debates calling for str…
Policies of Inclusion
The racial politics of immigration have punctuated national discussions about immigration at different periods in US history, particularly when concerns about losing an American way of life or American population have coincided with concerns about infectious diseases. Nevertheless, the main theme running through American immigration policy is one of inclusion. The United States has historically been a nation reliant on immigrant labor and, accord…
Out of the Ashes
From 1964 through the early 1980s, both federal and voluntary agencies endorsed the concept of “safer” cigarettes. Beginning in the mid-1980s, several factors, including revelations of tobacco industry malfeasance, the development of nicotine replacement therapy, and the reconceptualization of smoking as a chronic disease, led to “safer” cigarettes being discredited. In the past few years, some public health professionals have begun to reconsider…
The E-Cigarette Debate
Two major public health evaluations of e-cigarettes—one from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), the other from Public Health England (PHE)—were issued back to back in the winter of 2018. While some have read these analyses as broadly consistent, providing support for the view that e-cigarettes could play a role in smoking harm reduction, in every major respect, they come to very different conclusions about what …
Policies of containment
The US Public Health Service began the medical examination of immigrants at US ports in 1891. By 1924, national origin had become a means to justify broad-based exclusion of immigrants after Congress passed legislation restricting immigration from southern and eastern European countries. This legislation was passed based on the alleged genetic inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans. Since 1987, the United States has prohibited the entrance…
Aids and the limits of control
We undertook a survey to document the extent to which public health powers have been used to warn or restrict individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) whose behavior poses a risk of transmission to others. In the period from 1981 through 1990, 24 state health departments either had no mechanism for receiving reports about individuals whose behavior posed a risk of HIV transmission or took no action if they had received such re…
The Two Faces of Fear
Fear is now commonly used in public health campaigns, yet for years ethical and efficacy-centered concerns provided a challenge to using fear in such efforts. From the 1950s through the 1970s, the field of public health believed that using fear to influence individual behavior would virtually always backfire. Yet faced with the limited effectiveness of informational approaches to cessation, antitobacco campaigns featured fear in the 1960s. These …
Beyond Bioethics
In the wake of scandal over troubling research abuses, the 1970s witnessed the birth of a new system of ethical oversight. The bioethics framework, with its emphasis on autonomy, assumed a commanding role in debates regarding how to weigh the needs of society against the rights of individuals. Yet the history of resistance to oversight underscores that some domains of science hewed to a different paradigm of accountability—one that elevated the c…
The Rise and Fall of the Medical Gaze
ArgumentIn this paper I examine the mass medical inspections of immigrants to the United States from the 1890s through the 1920s. I show how, framed as it was not only by nativism and eugenics but also by national industrial imperatives and priorities, scientific medicine served dual purposes. On the one hand, the medical exam was a tool for managing cultural and biological threats to the nation. There were regional variations in medical inspecti…
Keeping Track of our Treasures
This article reports on one system for using relational databases to manage a large historical data collection project. It endorses the use of relational database systems for large linked databases. This system incorporates a number of files some of them containing data and others containing cross-references between files. Data concerning the residents of Gillespie County Texas from the censuses of 1850 1860 1870 1800 1900 and 1910 are linked and…
Is Good Enough Good Enough? E-Cigarettes, Evidence, and Policy
The World Health Organization, Public Health Ethics, and Surveillance
The World Health Organization, Public Health Ethics, and Surveillance: Essential Architecture for Social Well-Being Affiliation Amy L. Fairchild PhD, MPH, Angus Dawson PhD, Ronald Bayer PhD, and Michael J. Selgelid PhDAmy L. Fairchild is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, and is co-director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Bioethics, Columbia University, New York, NY. Angus Dawson is dir…
Leprosy, Domesticity, and Patient Protest
Historians strongly associate the 1960s as marking the beginnings of radical changes in patients' orientation toward their rights. Yet the social and political context of the decades prior to the Second World War distinctly shaped the patient experience in much the same fashion that it gave form to the Civil Rights Movement. The patient struggle for autonomy at the US Public Health Service Hospital in Carville, Louisiana, in particular, must be l…
Keeping Track of our Treasures
This article reports on one system for using relational databases to manage a large historical data collection project. It endorses the use of relational database systems for large linked databases. This system incorporates a number of files some of them containing data and others containing cross-references between files. Data concerning the residents of Gillespie County Texas from the censuses of 1850 1860 1870 1800 1900 and 1910 are linked and…
Aids and the limits of control
We undertook a survey to document the extent to which public health powers have been used to warn or restrict individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) whose behavior poses a risk of transmission to others. In the period from 1981 through 1990, 24 state health departments either had no mechanism for receiving reports about individuals whose behavior posed a risk of HIV transmission or took no action if they had received such re…
Policies of containment
The US Public Health Service began the medical examination of immigrants at US ports in 1891. By 1924, national origin had become a means to justify broad-based exclusion of immigrants after Congress passed legislation restricting immigration from southern and eastern European countries. This legislation was passed based on the alleged genetic inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans. Since 1987, the United States has prohibited the entrance…
Public health nihilism vs pragmatism
Tuberculosis (TB) began to decline in the Western world in the mid- to late 1800s. In the United States, the disease receded until the mid-1980s, when that trend was reversed. Although the TB epidemic in the United States subsided in response to public health interventions, it sparked a controversy regarding the relative value of targeted public health measures vs broad social reform. That controversy, which echoed earlier debates calling for str…
The Living City
The Living City: Engineering Social and Urban Change in New York City, 1865 to 1920 * Amy Fairchild (bio) and David Rosner (bio) Memory plays an immense trick on most of us who write about the history of New York. We often depend on memoirs that shroud its past in [End Page 124] a glorious aura that contrasts dramatically with our view of today’s city. In the writings of politicians, authors, and even some historians, the city of the last generat…
The Polio Narratives
As a group of accounts that span the decades from the mid-1940s to the present, the published polio narratives enable us to align their shifting perceptions of disability with social, cultural, and technological change. This paper identifies two distinct groups of narratives. Authors of the first group, writing between the mid-1930s and mid-1950s—a period of relative prosperity, conformity, and homogeneity—were uncomfortable with radical movement…
City of Plagues
Susan Craddock's provocative work offers an invaluable perspective on public health and the construction of race that speaks not only to the past but also to the present. She begins with the important and refreshing recognition of both the ethnic and the spatial distribution of disease, which makes this a historical study that speaks to contemporary concerns in a way that many do not: "a discussion of the body," she writes, "is inadequate without…
Policies of Inclusion
The racial politics of immigration have punctuated national discussions about immigration at different periods in US history, particularly when concerns about losing an American way of life or American population have coincided with concerns about infectious diseases. Nevertheless, the main theme running through American immigration policy is one of inclusion. The United States has historically been a nation reliant on immigrant labor and, accord…
Fairchild and Colgrove Respond
We appreciate the thoughtful comments and concerns of Giovino, who was intimately involved in the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) assessment of the scientific basis for tobacco harm reduction. We did not state, nor did we intend to imply, that the IOM report was primarily about less hazardous cigarettes. Further, we took care to describe the report as “endorsing harm reduction only ‘as a component of a comprehensive national tobacco control progr…
Out of the Ashes
From 1964 through the early 1980s, both federal and voluntary agencies endorsed the concept of “safer” cigarettes. Beginning in the mid-1980s, several factors, including revelations of tobacco industry malfeasance, the development of nicotine replacement therapy, and the reconceptualization of smoking as a chronic disease, led to “safer” cigarettes being discredited. In the past few years, some public health professionals have begun to reconsider…
History
Society for Medical Anthropology
Twentieth-Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research
Reviewed by: Twentieth-Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research: Historical Perspectives on Values, Practices, and Regulations Amy L. Fairchild Volker Roelcke and Giovanni Maio , eds. Twentieth-Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research: Historical Perspectives on Values, Practices, and Regulations. Medical History. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2004. 361 pp. €64.00 (paperbound, 3-515-08455-X). The essays in this edited volume were originally present…
Eugenic Nation
Book Review| July 01 2006 Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding, Alexandra Minna Stern. Amy Fairchild Amy Fairchild Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 25 (4): 186–187. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501757 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Amy Fairchi…
Leprosy, Domesticity, and Patient Protest
Historians strongly associate the 1960s as marking the beginnings of radical changes in patients' orientation toward their rights. Yet the social and political context of the decades prior to the Second World War distinctly shaped the patient experience in much the same fashion that it gave form to the Civil Rights Movement. The patient struggle for autonomy at the US Public Health Service Hospital in Carville, Louisiana, in particular, must be l…
The Rise and Fall of the Medical Gaze
ArgumentIn this paper I examine the mass medical inspections of immigrants to the United States from the 1890s through the 1920s. I show how, framed as it was not only by nativism and eugenics but also by national industrial imperatives and priorities, scientific medicine served dual purposes. On the one hand, the medical exam was a tool for managing cultural and biological threats to the nation. There were regional variations in medical inspecti…
Privacy and Public Health Surveillance
The discovery that cases of paralytic polio in 1955 were caused by a single manufacturer of Salk vaccine, the linkage of toxic shock syndrome to tampons in 1979, the identification of the sentinel cases of AIDS on the East and West coasts in the early 1980s, the recognition of West Nile, SARS, and avian flu at the turn of the twenty-first century-were all the result of surveillance systems, through which alert and troubled physicians could commun…
Medical Examination of Immigrants at Ellis Island
SARS, avian flu, bioterrorism: such threats to national security at the dawn of the 21st century have renewed anxieties about controlling disease at the nation's borders.Control of infectious agents also provided the impetus for immigrant medical inspections along the U.S. coasts in the late 19th century, but, in practice, it was the weeding out of chronic disease and disability that actually motivated public health officers on "the line" at Elli…
Colonizing Leprosy
Reviewed by: Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States Amy L. Fairchild Michelle T. Moran. Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism and the Politics of Public Health in the United States. Studies in Social Medicine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiii + 280 pp. Ill. $59.95 (cloth, 978-0-8078-3145-8), $21.95 (paperbound, 978-0-8078-5839-4). Historians typically regard the patients’ rights…
Fatal misconception
Fatal misconception: The struggle to control world population, by Matthew Connelly, Cambridge, MA and London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008, xiv+521 pp., US$35.00 (hardcover)
The Exodus of Public Health What History Can Tell Us About the Future
We trace the shifting definitions of the American public health profession's mission as a social reform and science-based endeavor. Its authority coalesced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as public health identified itself with housing, sanitation, and labor reform efforts. The field ceded that authority to medicine and other professions as it jettisoned its social mission in favor of a science-based identity. Understanding t…
When Worlds Collide
Surveillance serves as the eyes of public health. It has provided the foundation for planning, intervention, and disease prevention and has been critical for epidemiology research into patterns of morbidity and mortality for a wide variety of disease and conditions. Registries have been essential for tracking individuals and their conditions over time. Surveillance has also served to trigger the imposition of public health control measures, such …
Beyond Bioethics
In the wake of scandal over troubling research abuses, the 1970s witnessed the birth of a new system of ethical oversight. The bioethics framework, with its emphasis on autonomy, assumed a commanding role in debates regarding how to weigh the needs of society against the rights of individuals. Yet the history of resistance to oversight underscores that some domains of science hewed to a different paradigm of accountability—one that elevated the c…
Stigma
The World Health Organization, Public Health Ethics, and Surveillance
The World Health Organization, Public Health Ethics, and Surveillance: Essential Architecture for Social Well-Being Affiliation Amy L. Fairchild PhD, MPH, Angus Dawson PhD, Ronald Bayer PhD, and Michael J. Selgelid PhDAmy L. Fairchild is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, and is co-director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Bioethics, Columbia University, New York, NY. Angus Dawson is dir…
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