James Colgrove
Biographic Data
| ID | 1065922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Colgrove |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Colgrove |
| SIGNATURE | COLGROVE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-6684-0469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Vaccine Hesitancy, Pharmaceutical Marketing, and Mistrusted Messengers
Freedom, Rights, and Vaccine Refusal
We analyzed how activists opposed to vaccination have used arguments related to freedom, liberty, and individual rights in US history. We focused on the period from the 1880s through the 1920s, when the first wave of widespread and sustained antivaccination activism in this country occurred. During this era, activists used the language of liberty and freedom most prominently in opposition to compulsory vaccination laws, which the activists allege…
France's citizen consultation on vaccination and the challenges of participatory democracy in health
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 …
Message framing in the context of the national menu-labelling policy
Objective We conducted a content analysis of public comments to understand the key framing approaches used by private industry v . public health sector, with the goal of informing future public health messaging, framing and advocacy in the context of policy making. Design Comments to the proposed menu-labelling policy were extracted from Regulations.gov and analysed. A framing matrix was used to organize and code key devices and themes. Documents…
Health in the City
Journal Article Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women's Health in New York City, 1915–1930 Get access Tanya Hart. Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women's Health in New York City, 1915–1930. New York, New York University Press, 2015. 327 pp., illus., $55.00. James Colgrove James Colgrove Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, New York 10032 jc988@cu…
Pharmaceutical Companies’ Role in State Vaccination Policymaking
Objectives. We sought to investigate roles that Merck & Co Inc played in state human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization policymaking, to elicit key stakeholders’ perceptions of the appropriateness of these activities, and to explore implications for relationships between health policymakers and industry. Methods. We used a series of state case studies combining data from key informant interviews with analysis of media reports and archival material…
Changes in Tdap and MCV4 Vaccine Coverage Following Enactment of a Statewide Requirement of Tdap Vaccination for Entry Into Sixth Grade
Objectives. We evaluated changes in tetanus toxoid, reduced diptheria toxoid, acellular pertussis (Tdap), and tetravalen meningococcal (MCV4) vaccine coverage following enactment of a New York State mandate requiring Tdap before entering sixth grade. Methods. Using data from a hospital-based immunization registry, we measured Tdap and MCV4 coverage among youths aged 11 to 14 years in New York City at 3 time points: premandate, mandate year 1, and…
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…
ImmunIty for tHe PeoPle
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…
The Cutter Incident
Reviewed by: The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis James Colgrove Paul A. Offit . The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 238 pp. Ill. $27.50 (0-300-10864-8). The conquest of polio is the emblematic narrative in the twentieth-century history of medicine. Here we see the trial-and-error accretion of sci…
Reform and Its Discontents
The health-care system was one of the most visible and contentious battlegrounds on which the social conflicts of the 1960s unfolded. To an unprecedented extent, health status—especially the stark disadvantage in access and outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities and the poor—became an object of public and governmental concern during the Great Society era, as clinicians, community activists, politicians, and policymakers sought to create new mo…
Manifold Restraints
February 2005 marks the centenary of one of the most important pieces of public health jurisprudence, the US Supreme Court case of Jacobson v Massachusetts, which upheld the authority of states to pass compulsory vaccination laws. The Court’s decision articulated the view that the freedom of the individual must sometimes be subordinated to the common welfare. We examined the relationship between the individual and society in 20th-century public h…
Science in a Democracy
In the first decades of the twentieth century, a heterogeneous assortment of groups and individuals articulated scientific, political, and philosophical objections to vaccination. They engaged in an ongoing battle for public opinion with medical and scientific elites, who responded with their own counterpropaganda. These ideological struggles reflected fear that scientific advances were being put to coercive uses and that institutions of the stat…
Between Persuasion and Compulsion
Two major outbreaks of smallpox occurred in Brooklyn and New York around the turn of the twentieth century. Health officials moved aggressively to contain the disease, conducting mass vaccinations from house to house and in workplaces. Although these programs were ostensibly voluntary, the manner in which they were conducted was often coercive, giving many people the impression they had no choice but to submit. Officials portrayed their programs …
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…
Science, Politics, and Ideology in the Campaign Against Environmental Tobacco Smoke
The issue of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and the harms it causes to nonsmoking bystanders has occupied a central place in the rhetoric and strategy of antismoking forces in the United States over the past 3 decades. Beginning in the 1970s, anti-tobacco activists drew on suggestive and incomplete evidence to push for far-reaching prohibitions on smoking in a variety of public settings. Public health professionals and other antismoking activi…
The McKeown Thesis
The historical analyses of Thomas McKeown attributed the modern rise in the world population from the 1700s to the present to broad economic and social changes rather than to targeted public health or medical interventions. His work generated considerable controversy in the 1970s and 1980s, and it continues to stimulate support, criticism, and commentary to the present day, in spite of his conclusions' having been largely discredited by subsequen…
The McKeown Thesis
The historical analyses of Thomas McKeown attributed the modern rise in the world population from the 1700s to the present to broad economic and social changes rather than to targeted public health or medical interventions. His work generated considerable controversy in the 1970s and 1980s, and it continues to stimulate support, criticism, and commentary to the present day, in spite of his conclusions' having been largely discredited by subsequen…
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…
Science in a Democracy
In the first decades of the twentieth century, a heterogeneous assortment of groups and individuals articulated scientific, political, and philosophical objections to vaccination. They engaged in an ongoing battle for public opinion with medical and scientific elites, who responded with their own counterpropaganda. These ideological struggles reflected fear that scientific advances were being put to coercive uses and that institutions of the stat…
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…
Science, Politics, and Ideology in the Campaign Against Environmental Tobacco Smoke
The issue of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and the harms it causes to nonsmoking bystanders has occupied a central place in the rhetoric and strategy of antismoking forces in the United States over the past 3 decades. Beginning in the 1970s, anti-tobacco activists drew on suggestive and incomplete evidence to push for far-reaching prohibitions on smoking in a variety of public settings. Public health professionals and other antismoking activi…
France's citizen consultation on vaccination and the challenges of participatory democracy in health
Pharmaceutical Companies’ Role in State Vaccination Policymaking
Objectives. We sought to investigate roles that Merck & Co Inc played in state human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization policymaking, to elicit key stakeholders’ perceptions of the appropriateness of these activities, and to explore implications for relationships between health policymakers and industry. Methods. We used a series of state case studies combining data from key informant interviews with analysis of media reports and archival material…
Changes in Tdap and MCV4 Vaccine Coverage Following Enactment of a Statewide Requirement of Tdap Vaccination for Entry Into Sixth Grade
Objectives. We evaluated changes in tetanus toxoid, reduced diptheria toxoid, acellular pertussis (Tdap), and tetravalen meningococcal (MCV4) vaccine coverage following enactment of a New York State mandate requiring Tdap before entering sixth grade. Methods. Using data from a hospital-based immunization registry, we measured Tdap and MCV4 coverage among youths aged 11 to 14 years in New York City at 3 time points: premandate, mandate year 1, and…
Manifold Restraints
February 2005 marks the centenary of one of the most important pieces of public health jurisprudence, the US Supreme Court case of Jacobson v Massachusetts, which upheld the authority of states to pass compulsory vaccination laws. The Court’s decision articulated the view that the freedom of the individual must sometimes be subordinated to the common welfare. We examined the relationship between the individual and society in 20th-century public h…
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 …
Freedom, Rights, and Vaccine Refusal
We analyzed how activists opposed to vaccination have used arguments related to freedom, liberty, and individual rights in US history. We focused on the period from the 1880s through the 1920s, when the first wave of widespread and sustained antivaccination activism in this country occurred. During this era, activists used the language of liberty and freedom most prominently in opposition to compulsory vaccination laws, which the activists allege…
Science, Politics, and Ideology in the Campaign Against Environmental Tobacco Smoke
The issue of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and the harms it causes to nonsmoking bystanders has occupied a central place in the rhetoric and strategy of antismoking forces in the United States over the past 3 decades. Beginning in the 1970s, anti-tobacco activists drew on suggestive and incomplete evidence to push for far-reaching prohibitions on smoking in a variety of public settings. Public health professionals and other antismoking activi…
The McKeown Thesis
The historical analyses of Thomas McKeown attributed the modern rise in the world population from the 1700s to the present to broad economic and social changes rather than to targeted public health or medical interventions. His work generated considerable controversy in the 1970s and 1980s, and it continues to stimulate support, criticism, and commentary to the present day, in spite of his conclusions' having been largely discredited by subsequen…
Between Persuasion and Compulsion
Two major outbreaks of smallpox occurred in Brooklyn and New York around the turn of the twentieth century. Health officials moved aggressively to contain the disease, conducting mass vaccinations from house to house and in workplaces. Although these programs were ostensibly voluntary, the manner in which they were conducted was often coercive, giving many people the impression they had no choice but to submit. Officials portrayed their programs …
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…
Manifold Restraints
February 2005 marks the centenary of one of the most important pieces of public health jurisprudence, the US Supreme Court case of Jacobson v Massachusetts, which upheld the authority of states to pass compulsory vaccination laws. The Court’s decision articulated the view that the freedom of the individual must sometimes be subordinated to the common welfare. We examined the relationship between the individual and society in 20th-century public h…
Science in a Democracy
In the first decades of the twentieth century, a heterogeneous assortment of groups and individuals articulated scientific, political, and philosophical objections to vaccination. They engaged in an ongoing battle for public opinion with medical and scientific elites, who responded with their own counterpropaganda. These ideological struggles reflected fear that scientific advances were being put to coercive uses and that institutions of the stat…
ImmunIty for tHe PeoPle
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…
The Cutter Incident
Reviewed by: The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis James Colgrove Paul A. Offit . The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xii + 238 pp. Ill. $27.50 (0-300-10864-8). The conquest of polio is the emblematic narrative in the twentieth-century history of medicine. Here we see the trial-and-error accretion of sci…
Reform and Its Discontents
The health-care system was one of the most visible and contentious battlegrounds on which the social conflicts of the 1960s unfolded. To an unprecedented extent, health status—especially the stark disadvantage in access and outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities and the poor—became an object of public and governmental concern during the Great Society era, as clinicians, community activists, politicians, and policymakers sought to create new mo…
Changes in Tdap and MCV4 Vaccine Coverage Following Enactment of a Statewide Requirement of Tdap Vaccination for Entry Into Sixth Grade
Objectives. We evaluated changes in tetanus toxoid, reduced diptheria toxoid, acellular pertussis (Tdap), and tetravalen meningococcal (MCV4) vaccine coverage following enactment of a New York State mandate requiring Tdap before entering sixth grade. Methods. Using data from a hospital-based immunization registry, we measured Tdap and MCV4 coverage among youths aged 11 to 14 years in New York City at 3 time points: premandate, mandate year 1, and…
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…
Pharmaceutical Companies’ Role in State Vaccination Policymaking
Objectives. We sought to investigate roles that Merck & Co Inc played in state human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization policymaking, to elicit key stakeholders’ perceptions of the appropriateness of these activities, and to explore implications for relationships between health policymakers and industry. Methods. We used a series of state case studies combining data from key informant interviews with analysis of media reports and archival material…
Health in the City
Journal Article Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women's Health in New York City, 1915–1930 Get access Tanya Hart. Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women's Health in New York City, 1915–1930. New York, New York University Press, 2015. 327 pp., illus., $55.00. James Colgrove James Colgrove Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, New York 10032 jc988@cu…
Message framing in the context of the national menu-labelling policy
Objective We conducted a content analysis of public comments to understand the key framing approaches used by private industry v . public health sector, with the goal of informing future public health messaging, framing and advocacy in the context of policy making. Design Comments to the proposed menu-labelling policy were extracted from Regulations.gov and analysed. A framing matrix was used to organize and code key devices and themes. Documents…
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 …
France's citizen consultation on vaccination and the challenges of participatory democracy in health
Freedom, Rights, and Vaccine Refusal
We analyzed how activists opposed to vaccination have used arguments related to freedom, liberty, and individual rights in US history. We focused on the period from the 1880s through the 1920s, when the first wave of widespread and sustained antivaccination activism in this country occurred. During this era, activists used the language of liberty and freedom most prominently in opposition to compulsory vaccination laws, which the activists allege…
Vaccine Hesitancy, Pharmaceutical Marketing, and Mistrusted Messengers
Medicine (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Public health (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Vaccination (5 works) · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy (5 works)