Allan M Brandt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1042246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan M Brandt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Brandt |
| SIGNATURE | BRANDT A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reflecting on the Work and Career of Charles Rosenberg
Reflecting on the Work and Career of Charles Rosenberg:Allan Brandt Interviews Charles Rosenberg Allan M. Brandt (bio) and Charles Rosenberg (bio) On February 10, the Harvard History of Medicine Working Group hosted a discussion, "Reflecting on the Work and Career of Charles Rosenberg: Allan Brandt Interviews Charles Rosenberg." We are grateful to the Harvard History of Medicine Working Group, and Profs. Charles Rosenberg and Allan Brandt for all…
The History of Contact Tracing and the Future of Public Health
Pandemics and Public Health History
Pandemics and Public Health History Allan M. Brandt PhD Affiliation Allan M. Brandt is with the Department of the History of Science and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University, Cambridge and Boston, MA.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Allan M. Brandt, PhD, Department of the History of Science, One Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.o…
A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States
Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have become a widely embraced policy to address the US opioid crisis. Despite mixed scientific evidence on their effectiveness at improving health and reducing overdose deaths, 49 states and Washington, DC have adopted PDMPs, and they have received strong bipartisan legislative support. This article explores the history of PDMPs, tracking their evolution from paper-based administrative databases in th…
Aids and Metaphor
AIDS and Metaphor:Toward the Social Meaning of Epidemic Disease* Allan M. Brandt (bio) no one today need be reminded of the seriousness of the aids epidemic. Although much about AIDS remains unclear, it goes without saying that AIDS is a terribly complex and tragic problem; in these early years of the epidemic, AIDS has already generated untold suffering and an enormous social crisis. Even if we could immediately end all further transmission of t…
Inventing Conflicts of Interest
Confronted by compelling peer-reviewed scientific evidence of the harms of smoking, the tobacco industry, beginning in the 1950s, used sophisticated public relations approaches to undermine and distort the emerging science. The industry campaign worked to create a scientific controversy through a program that depended on the creation of industry–academic conflicts of interest. This strategy of producing scientific uncertainty undercut public heal…
The Doctors’ Choice Is America’s Choice”
In the 1930s and 1940s, smoking became the norm for both men and women in the United States, and a majority of physicians smoked. At the same time, there was rising public anxiety about the health risks of cigarette smoking. One strategic response of tobacco companies was to devise advertising referring directly to physicians. As ad campaigns featuring physicians developed through the early 1950s, tobacco executives used the doctor image to assur…
HIV testing, counselling and prophylaxis following sexual assault
The impact of possible infection with HIV in survivors of sexual assault has received little attention in the first decade of the AIDS epidemic. This maybe due, in part, to society’s conflicting attitudes and beliefs concerning STDs, AIDS, and rape. This paper (reprinted from JAMA) presents the proposals of the Working Group on HIV Testing, Counseling and Prophylaxis after Sexual Assault (USA) for the development of policies and principles of cli…
Pharmacy education about HIV and condoms
Pharmacy education about HIV and condoms. P D Cleary, A M Brandt, L O Gostin, K Mayer, T Ronna, and M CostanzoCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.80.11.1395 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Exploring the Dangerous Trades
In 1943, noted industrial health expert, Dr
Desperate Disease Mobilizing against Aids
The Cholera Years
Aids in historical perspective
Four lessons from the social history of sexually transmitted disease\nin the U.S. are assessed for their relevance to the current AIDS epidemic:\nfear of disease will powerfully influence medical approaches and public health\npolicy, education will not control the AIDS epidemic, compulsory public health\nmeasures will not control the epidemic, and the development of effective\ntreatment and vaccines will not immediately or easily end the AIDS epi…
No Magic Bullet
Journal Article No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880. By Allan M. Brandt. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. ix + 245 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, note on sources, manuscript sources, and index. $19.95.) Get access James Reed James Reed Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, Jun…
Medical Nemesis
A once charitable enterprise
Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940
Compulsory Health Insurance
The Ways and Means of American Medicine
he history," medical logic holds, is the key to successful diagnosis.Buried in the past is the information that will make it possible for the doctor to treat the patient effectively.Sociologist Paul Starr takes this axiom to heart in a bold attempt to diagnose the current symptomatology of American medicine.Ambitious in scope, The Social Transformation of American Medicine traces the political economy of health care delivery in the United States …
Racism and Research
History of Science
Aids and Metaphor
AIDS and Metaphor:Toward the Social Meaning of Epidemic Disease* Allan M. Brandt (bio) no one today need be reminded of the seriousness of the aids epidemic. Although much about AIDS remains unclear, it goes without saying that AIDS is a terribly complex and tragic problem; in these early years of the epidemic, AIDS has already generated untold suffering and an enormous social crisis. Even if we could immediately end all further transmission of t…
Inventing Conflicts of Interest
Confronted by compelling peer-reviewed scientific evidence of the harms of smoking, the tobacco industry, beginning in the 1950s, used sophisticated public relations approaches to undermine and distort the emerging science. The industry campaign worked to create a scientific controversy through a program that depended on the creation of industry–academic conflicts of interest. This strategy of producing scientific uncertainty undercut public heal…
Aids in historical perspective
Four lessons from the social history of sexually transmitted disease\nin the U.S. are assessed for their relevance to the current AIDS epidemic:\nfear of disease will powerfully influence medical approaches and public health\npolicy, education will not control the AIDS epidemic, compulsory public health\nmeasures will not control the epidemic, and the development of effective\ntreatment and vaccines will not immediately or easily end the AIDS epi…
The Doctors’ Choice Is America’s Choice”
In the 1930s and 1940s, smoking became the norm for both men and women in the United States, and a majority of physicians smoked. At the same time, there was rising public anxiety about the health risks of cigarette smoking. One strategic response of tobacco companies was to devise advertising referring directly to physicians. As ad campaigns featuring physicians developed through the early 1950s, tobacco executives used the doctor image to assur…
Exploring the Dangerous Trades
In 1943, noted industrial health expert, Dr
A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States
Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have become a widely embraced policy to address the US opioid crisis. Despite mixed scientific evidence on their effectiveness at improving health and reducing overdose deaths, 49 states and Washington, DC have adopted PDMPs, and they have received strong bipartisan legislative support. This article explores the history of PDMPs, tracking their evolution from paper-based administrative databases in th…
Pharmacy education about HIV and condoms
Pharmacy education about HIV and condoms. P D Cleary, A M Brandt, L O Gostin, K Mayer, T Ronna, and M CostanzoCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.80.11.1395 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Pandemics and Public Health History
Pandemics and Public Health History Allan M. Brandt PhD Affiliation Allan M. Brandt is with the Department of the History of Science and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University, Cambridge and Boston, MA.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Allan M. Brandt, PhD, Department of the History of Science, One Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.o…
Racism and Research
History of Science
The Ways and Means of American Medicine
he history," medical logic holds, is the key to successful diagnosis.Buried in the past is the information that will make it possible for the doctor to treat the patient effectively.Sociologist Paul Starr takes this axiom to heart in a bold attempt to diagnose the current symptomatology of American medicine.Ambitious in scope, The Social Transformation of American Medicine traces the political economy of health care delivery in the United States …
Compulsory Health Insurance
Medical Nemesis
A once charitable enterprise
Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940
No Magic Bullet
Journal Article No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880. By Allan M. Brandt. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. ix + 245 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, notes, note on sources, manuscript sources, and index. $19.95.) Get access James Reed James Reed Rutgers University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, Jun…
Aids in historical perspective
Four lessons from the social history of sexually transmitted disease\nin the U.S. are assessed for their relevance to the current AIDS epidemic:\nfear of disease will powerfully influence medical approaches and public health\npolicy, education will not control the AIDS epidemic, compulsory public health\nmeasures will not control the epidemic, and the development of effective\ntreatment and vaccines will not immediately or easily end the AIDS epi…
Exploring the Dangerous Trades
In 1943, noted industrial health expert, Dr
Desperate Disease Mobilizing against Aids
The Cholera Years
Pharmacy education about HIV and condoms
Pharmacy education about HIV and condoms. P D Cleary, A M Brandt, L O Gostin, K Mayer, T Ronna, and M CostanzoCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.80.11.1395 Published Online: October 07, 2011
HIV testing, counselling and prophylaxis following sexual assault
The impact of possible infection with HIV in survivors of sexual assault has received little attention in the first decade of the AIDS epidemic. This maybe due, in part, to society’s conflicting attitudes and beliefs concerning STDs, AIDS, and rape. This paper (reprinted from JAMA) presents the proposals of the Working Group on HIV Testing, Counseling and Prophylaxis after Sexual Assault (USA) for the development of policies and principles of cli…
The Doctors’ Choice Is America’s Choice”
In the 1930s and 1940s, smoking became the norm for both men and women in the United States, and a majority of physicians smoked. At the same time, there was rising public anxiety about the health risks of cigarette smoking. One strategic response of tobacco companies was to devise advertising referring directly to physicians. As ad campaigns featuring physicians developed through the early 1950s, tobacco executives used the doctor image to assur…
Inventing Conflicts of Interest
Confronted by compelling peer-reviewed scientific evidence of the harms of smoking, the tobacco industry, beginning in the 1950s, used sophisticated public relations approaches to undermine and distort the emerging science. The industry campaign worked to create a scientific controversy through a program that depended on the creation of industry–academic conflicts of interest. This strategy of producing scientific uncertainty undercut public heal…
A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States
Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have become a widely embraced policy to address the US opioid crisis. Despite mixed scientific evidence on their effectiveness at improving health and reducing overdose deaths, 49 states and Washington, DC have adopted PDMPs, and they have received strong bipartisan legislative support. This article explores the history of PDMPs, tracking their evolution from paper-based administrative databases in th…
Aids and Metaphor
AIDS and Metaphor:Toward the Social Meaning of Epidemic Disease* Allan M. Brandt (bio) no one today need be reminded of the seriousness of the aids epidemic. Although much about AIDS remains unclear, it goes without saying that AIDS is a terribly complex and tragic problem; in these early years of the epidemic, AIDS has already generated untold suffering and an enormous social crisis. Even if we could immediately end all further transmission of t…
Pandemics and Public Health History
Pandemics and Public Health History Allan M. Brandt PhD Affiliation Allan M. Brandt is with the Department of the History of Science and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University, Cambridge and Boston, MA.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Allan M. Brandt, PhD, Department of the History of Science, One Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.o…
The History of Contact Tracing and the Future of Public Health
Reflecting on the Work and Career of Charles Rosenberg
Reflecting on the Work and Career of Charles Rosenberg:Allan Brandt Interviews Charles Rosenberg Allan M. Brandt (bio) and Charles Rosenberg (bio) On February 10, the Harvard History of Medicine Working Group hosted a discussion, "Reflecting on the Work and Career of Charles Rosenberg: Allan Brandt Interviews Charles Rosenberg." We are grateful to the Harvard History of Medicine Working Group, and Profs. Charles Rosenberg and Allan Brandt for all…
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