Robert Aronowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1198475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Aronowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Aronowitz |
| SIGNATURE | ARONOWITZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Doctor Who Wasn't There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth
Prostate Cancer: People Transforming A Diagnosis, A Diagnosis Transforming People
Prostatic specific antigen (PSA) screening has been controversial since its inception. Controversy has persisted despite more and higher quality clinical evidence. Attention to lead and length time biases, overdiagnosis, overtreatment, medicalisation, iatrogenesis and financial conflict of interest has had limited impact. I undertook a social history of the prostate cancer diagnosis to reassess the causes of controversy and suggest different clin…
Learning to Live with the Virus
Previous articleNext article FreeInvited ArticleLearning to Live with the VirusRobert AronowitzRobert AronowitzUniversity of Pennsylvania Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIThe Gospel of Germs, Nancy Tomes’s history of how new ideas about germs and disease diffused through late nineteenth- a…
Cultural Reflexivity in Health Research and Practice
Recent public health movements have invoked cultural change to improve health and reduce health disparities. We argue that these cultural discourses have sometimes justified and maintained health inequalities when those with power and authority designated their own social practices as legitimate and healthy while labeling the practices of marginalized groups as illegitimate or unhealthy. This “misrecognition,” which creates seemingly objective kn…
From Skid Row to Main Street: The Bowery Series and the Transformation of Prostate Cancer, 1951–1966
Between 1951 and 1966, more than twelve hundred homeless, alcoholic men from New York’s skid row were subjected to invasive medical procedures, including open perineal biopsy of the prostate gland. If positive for cancer, men typically underwent prostatectomy, surgical castration, and estrogen treatments. The Bowery series was meant to answer important questions about prostate cancer’s diagnosis, natural history, prevention, and treatment. While …
Screening” for Prostate Cancer in New York’s Skid Row: History and Implications
The Bowery series, open perineal biopsies performed on more than 1200 alcoholic men recruited from homeless shelters in New York City’s Bowery section, began in 1951 and persisted for more than a decade. If frozen sections revealed prostate cancer, men typically underwent radical perineal prostatectomy, orchiectomy, and diethylstilbestrol treatment. This poorly informed, vulnerable population was subjected to health risks that investigators knew …
Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions
The Converged Experience of Risk and Disease
Context: One underappreciated consequence of modern clinical and public health practices is that the experience of being at risk for disease has been converging with the experience of disease itself. This is especially true for certain chronic diseases, in which early diagnosis and aggressive treatment have led to symptom‐less and sign‐less disease and in which treatments have largely been aimed at altering the disease's future course. Methods: T…
Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (review)
"Rejoinder to commentaries on "Framing disease: An Underappreciated Mechanism for the Social Patterning of Health
Framing disease: An underappreciated mechanism for the social patterning of health
Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot (review)
Reviewed by: Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot Robert Aronowitz Christopher Crenner . Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xv + 303 pp. Ill. $48.00 (0-8018-8117-X). Most American physicians know about Richard Cabot (1868–1939) from the New England Journal of Medicine, which reminds its readers weekly…
Hormone replacement therapy, cancer, controversies, and women’s health: Historical, epidemiological, biological, clinical, and advocacy perspectives
Routine acceptance of use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was shattered in 2002 when results of the largest HRT randomised clinical trial, the women’s health initiative, indicated that long term use of oestrogen plus progestin HRT not only was associated with increased risk of cancer but, contrary to expectations, did not decrease, and may have increased, risk of cardiovascular disease. In June 2004 a group of historians, epidemiologists, bi…
Framing disease: An underappreciated mechanism for the social patterning of health
Hormone replacement therapy, cancer, controversies, and women’s health: Historical, epidemiological, biological, clinical, and advocacy perspectives
Routine acceptance of use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was shattered in 2002 when results of the largest HRT randomised clinical trial, the women’s health initiative, indicated that long term use of oestrogen plus progestin HRT not only was associated with increased risk of cancer but, contrary to expectations, did not decrease, and may have increased, risk of cardiovascular disease. In June 2004 a group of historians, epidemiologists, bi…
Cultural Reflexivity in Health Research and Practice
Recent public health movements have invoked cultural change to improve health and reduce health disparities. We argue that these cultural discourses have sometimes justified and maintained health inequalities when those with power and authority designated their own social practices as legitimate and healthy while labeling the practices of marginalized groups as illegitimate or unhealthy. This “misrecognition,” which creates seemingly objective kn…
Learning to Live with the Virus
Previous articleNext article FreeInvited ArticleLearning to Live with the VirusRobert AronowitzRobert AronowitzUniversity of Pennsylvania Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIThe Gospel of Germs, Nancy Tomes’s history of how new ideas about germs and disease diffused through late nineteenth- a…
Hormone replacement therapy, cancer, controversies, and women’s health: Historical, epidemiological, biological, clinical, and advocacy perspectives
Routine acceptance of use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was shattered in 2002 when results of the largest HRT randomised clinical trial, the women’s health initiative, indicated that long term use of oestrogen plus progestin HRT not only was associated with increased risk of cancer but, contrary to expectations, did not decrease, and may have increased, risk of cardiovascular disease. In June 2004 a group of historians, epidemiologists, bi…
Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot (review)
Reviewed by: Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot Robert Aronowitz Christopher Crenner . Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xv + 303 pp. Ill. $48.00 (0-8018-8117-X). Most American physicians know about Richard Cabot (1868–1939) from the New England Journal of Medicine, which reminds its readers weekly…
Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (review)
"Rejoinder to commentaries on "Framing disease: An Underappreciated Mechanism for the Social Patterning of Health
Framing disease: An underappreciated mechanism for the social patterning of health
The Converged Experience of Risk and Disease
Context: One underappreciated consequence of modern clinical and public health practices is that the experience of being at risk for disease has been converging with the experience of disease itself. This is especially true for certain chronic diseases, in which early diagnosis and aggressive treatment have led to symptom‐less and sign‐less disease and in which treatments have largely been aimed at altering the disease's future course. Methods: T…
Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions
From Skid Row to Main Street: The Bowery Series and the Transformation of Prostate Cancer, 1951–1966
Between 1951 and 1966, more than twelve hundred homeless, alcoholic men from New York’s skid row were subjected to invasive medical procedures, including open perineal biopsy of the prostate gland. If positive for cancer, men typically underwent prostatectomy, surgical castration, and estrogen treatments. The Bowery series was meant to answer important questions about prostate cancer’s diagnosis, natural history, prevention, and treatment. While …
Screening” for Prostate Cancer in New York’s Skid Row: History and Implications
The Bowery series, open perineal biopsies performed on more than 1200 alcoholic men recruited from homeless shelters in New York City’s Bowery section, began in 1951 and persisted for more than a decade. If frozen sections revealed prostate cancer, men typically underwent radical perineal prostatectomy, orchiectomy, and diethylstilbestrol treatment. This poorly informed, vulnerable population was subjected to health risks that investigators knew …
Cultural Reflexivity in Health Research and Practice
Recent public health movements have invoked cultural change to improve health and reduce health disparities. We argue that these cultural discourses have sometimes justified and maintained health inequalities when those with power and authority designated their own social practices as legitimate and healthy while labeling the practices of marginalized groups as illegitimate or unhealthy. This “misrecognition,” which creates seemingly objective kn…
Learning to Live with the Virus
Previous articleNext article FreeInvited ArticleLearning to Live with the VirusRobert AronowitzRobert AronowitzUniversity of Pennsylvania Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreIThe Gospel of Germs, Nancy Tomes’s history of how new ideas about germs and disease diffused through late nineteenth- a…
Prostate Cancer: People Transforming A Diagnosis, A Diagnosis Transforming People
Prostatic specific antigen (PSA) screening has been controversial since its inception. Controversy has persisted despite more and higher quality clinical evidence. Attention to lead and length time biases, overdiagnosis, overtreatment, medicalisation, iatrogenesis and financial conflict of interest has had limited impact. I undertook a social history of the prostate cancer diagnosis to reassess the causes of controversy and suggest different clin…
The Doctor Who Wasn't There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth
Medicine (9 works) · Cancer (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Disease (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (3 works)