Howard Markel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Markel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard |
| FAMILY NAME | Markel |
| SIGNATURE | MARKEL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Politics, Pushback, and Pandemics
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, many state governors faced an increasing number of acts of defiance as well as political and legal challenges to their public health emergency orders. Less well studied are the similar acts of protest that occurred during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic, when residents, business owners, clergy, and even local politicians grew increasingly restless by the ongoing public health m…
Literatim
In 1959, shortly before his death and while reflecting over his roller-coaster career as a Hollywood film director, Preston Sturges (who I write about more fully later in this book) remarked, "the only amazing thing about my career...is that I ever had one at all." (1) The same might be said about my career as a physician and historian of medicine. As a young boy, some of my best companions were the characters I met on the pages of novels, storie…
Pox
As a pediatrician, I am often asked by parents about the vaccines I routinely prescribe for their children. These anxious parents, simply trying to do the best they can in rearing and protecting their offspring, worriedly inquire about the many stories they see on television, in newspapers, and on the Internet declaring the so-called dangers of vaccination. Obviously, no medical intervention is 100 percent safe or effective. But when it comes to …
Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Implemented by US Cities During the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic
CONTEXT: A critical question in pandemic influenza planning is the role nonpharmaceutical interventions might play in delaying the temporal effects of a pandemic, reducing the overall and peak attack rate, and reducing the number of cumulative deaths. Such measures could potentially provide valuable time for pandemic-strain vaccine and antiviral medication production and distribution. Optimally, appropriate implementation of nonpharmaceutical int…
Don't Kill Your Baby
Jacqueline H. Wolf begins her social history of breast-feeding in the United States with a stark statement of fact: "For every one hundred babies born in the United [End Page 215] States in the late nineteenth century, close to thirteen of them died before their first birthday. Since many of the dead died of diarrhea, physicians laid much of the blame on an entirely preventable cause: the growing use of cow's milk as an infant food" (p. 1)
The Foreignness of Germs
D uring the 20th century the united states witnessed sweeping social, political, and economic transformations as well as far‐reaching advancements in medical diagnosis and care. Despite the dramatic changes in demography, the meaning of citizenship, and the ability to treat and cure acute and chronic diseases, foreigners were consistently associated with germs and contagion. In this article we explore why, at critical junctures in American histor…
Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892
Howard Markel's book adds to the growing body of insightful historical literature exploring public health and social responses to disease. It focuses on the cholera and typhus epidemics of 1892, which were not particularly important in terms of the number of people affected but were critical to the racial politics of a city experiencing a large influx of immigrants, including Jews from Russia. After the arrival of the SS Massilia carr ying Russia…
"The Eyes Have It"
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 74, Number 3, Fall 2000
Contagion and Confinement
The rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis is frequently reported in our newspapers, popular periodicals, and television broadcasts. For example, a recent issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine (30 May 1999) included a stark essay entitled "A Brutal Cure" by Lisa Belkin, which documented the tuberculosis of one Laotian immigrant-student named Toon Choummanivong that required the surgical removal of his lung. One telling full-page photograph of …
Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain
Journal Article Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain: A Biological, Epidemiological, and Medical History. By Peter C. English. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xxii, 257 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8135-2710-4.) Get access Howard Markel Howard Markel University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 1057…
Raising Baby by the Book
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
Which Face? Whose Nation
This article examines medical inspections of immigrants arriving to U.S. ports and borders from the period 1891 to 1928. Comparing the activities of the U.S. Public Health Service at four immigration stations, the authors emphasize the importance of regional differences in the history of immigration and public heath. In addition, they argue that categories of medical exclusion emerged in conjunction with early-20th-century attitudes toward skin c…
Model Mothers
Reviewed by: Model Mothers: Jewish Mothers and Maternity Provision in East London, 1870–1939 Howard Markel Lara V. Marks. Model Mothers: Jewish Mothers and Maternity Provision in East London, 1870–1939. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. xxi + 320 pp. Tables, maps. $53.00. Lara Marks’s monograph on childbirth and infant care in the Jewish quarter of London between 1870 and 1939 is an elegant cultural historical study. Wi…
Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century by W. F. Bynum
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 351 and Buchhaupt are participating in a larger project that investigates electrification and urbanization in southwest German cities. Two articles provide an orientation somewhat at odds with the others. Ulrich Wengenroth describes the different perspectives from which the concept “industrial revolution” has been evaluated, and Tom Peters investigates the differences among architects and civil engineers (Bauin…
Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Medicine in 1790 2. Medicine in the hospital 3. Medicine in the community 4. Medicine in the laboratory 5. Science, disease, and practice 6. Medical science goes public 7. Doctors and patients 8. Conclusion: did science matter? Bibliographical essay Sources of quotations Index
Genetics and Medicine in the United States, 1800-1922 . Alan R. Rushton
When it rains it pours
"When it rains it pours": endemic goiter, iodized salt, and David Murray Cowie, MD. H MarkelCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.2.219 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Which Face? Whose Nation
This article examines medical inspections of immigrants arriving to U.S. ports and borders from the period 1891 to 1928. Comparing the activities of the U.S. Public Health Service at four immigration stations, the authors emphasize the importance of regional differences in the history of immigration and public heath. In addition, they argue that categories of medical exclusion emerged in conjunction with early-20th-century attitudes toward skin c…
Politics, Pushback, and Pandemics
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, many state governors faced an increasing number of acts of defiance as well as political and legal challenges to their public health emergency orders. Less well studied are the similar acts of protest that occurred during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic, when residents, business owners, clergy, and even local politicians grew increasingly restless by the ongoing public health m…
When it rains it pours
"When it rains it pours": endemic goiter, iodized salt, and David Murray Cowie, MD. H MarkelCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.2.219 Published Online: October 07, 2011
When it rains it pours
"When it rains it pours": endemic goiter, iodized salt, and David Murray Cowie, MD. H MarkelCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.2.219 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Genetics and Medicine in the United States, 1800-1922 . Alan R. Rushton
Model Mothers
Reviewed by: Model Mothers: Jewish Mothers and Maternity Provision in East London, 1870–1939 Howard Markel Lara V. Marks. Model Mothers: Jewish Mothers and Maternity Provision in East London, 1870–1939. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. xxi + 320 pp. Tables, maps. $53.00. Lara Marks’s monograph on childbirth and infant care in the Jewish quarter of London between 1870 and 1939 is an elegant cultural historical study. Wi…
Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century by W. F. Bynum
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 351 and Buchhaupt are participating in a larger project that investigates electrification and urbanization in southwest German cities. Two articles provide an orientation somewhat at odds with the others. Ulrich Wengenroth describes the different perspectives from which the concept “industrial revolution” has been evaluated, and Tom Peters investigates the differences among architects and civil engineers (Bauin…
Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Medicine in 1790 2. Medicine in the hospital 3. Medicine in the community 4. Medicine in the laboratory 5. Science, disease, and practice 6. Medical science goes public 7. Doctors and patients 8. Conclusion: did science matter? Bibliographical essay Sources of quotations Index
Raising Baby by the Book
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 73, Number 3, Fall 1999
Which Face? Whose Nation
This article examines medical inspections of immigrants arriving to U.S. ports and borders from the period 1891 to 1928. Comparing the activities of the U.S. Public Health Service at four immigration stations, the authors emphasize the importance of regional differences in the history of immigration and public heath. In addition, they argue that categories of medical exclusion emerged in conjunction with early-20th-century attitudes toward skin c…
"The Eyes Have It"
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 74, Number 3, Fall 2000
Contagion and Confinement
The rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis is frequently reported in our newspapers, popular periodicals, and television broadcasts. For example, a recent issue of the New York Times Sunday Magazine (30 May 1999) included a stark essay entitled "A Brutal Cure" by Lisa Belkin, which documented the tuberculosis of one Laotian immigrant-student named Toon Choummanivong that required the surgical removal of his lung. One telling full-page photograph of …
Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain
Journal Article Rheumatic Fever in America and Britain: A Biological, Epidemiological, and Medical History. By Peter C. English. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xxii, 257 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8135-2710-4.) Get access Howard Markel Howard Markel University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 1057…
Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892
Howard Markel's book adds to the growing body of insightful historical literature exploring public health and social responses to disease. It focuses on the cholera and typhus epidemics of 1892, which were not particularly important in terms of the number of people affected but were critical to the racial politics of a city experiencing a large influx of immigrants, including Jews from Russia. After the arrival of the SS Massilia carr ying Russia…
The Foreignness of Germs
D uring the 20th century the united states witnessed sweeping social, political, and economic transformations as well as far‐reaching advancements in medical diagnosis and care. Despite the dramatic changes in demography, the meaning of citizenship, and the ability to treat and cure acute and chronic diseases, foreigners were consistently associated with germs and contagion. In this article we explore why, at critical junctures in American histor…
Don't Kill Your Baby
Jacqueline H. Wolf begins her social history of breast-feeding in the United States with a stark statement of fact: "For every one hundred babies born in the United [End Page 215] States in the late nineteenth century, close to thirteen of them died before their first birthday. Since many of the dead died of diarrhea, physicians laid much of the blame on an entirely preventable cause: the growing use of cow's milk as an infant food" (p. 1)
Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Implemented by US Cities During the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic
CONTEXT: A critical question in pandemic influenza planning is the role nonpharmaceutical interventions might play in delaying the temporal effects of a pandemic, reducing the overall and peak attack rate, and reducing the number of cumulative deaths. Such measures could potentially provide valuable time for pandemic-strain vaccine and antiviral medication production and distribution. Optimally, appropriate implementation of nonpharmaceutical int…
Pox
As a pediatrician, I am often asked by parents about the vaccines I routinely prescribe for their children. These anxious parents, simply trying to do the best they can in rearing and protecting their offspring, worriedly inquire about the many stories they see on television, in newspapers, and on the Internet declaring the so-called dangers of vaccination. Obviously, no medical intervention is 100 percent safe or effective. But when it comes to …
Literatim
In 1959, shortly before his death and while reflecting over his roller-coaster career as a Hollywood film director, Preston Sturges (who I write about more fully later in this book) remarked, "the only amazing thing about my career...is that I ever had one at all." (1) The same might be said about my career as a physician and historian of medicine. As a young boy, some of my best companions were the characters I met on the pages of novels, storie…
Politics, Pushback, and Pandemics
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, many state governors faced an increasing number of acts of defiance as well as political and legal challenges to their public health emergency orders. Less well studied are the similar acts of protest that occurred during the 1918–1919 influenza pandemic, when residents, business owners, clergy, and even local politicians grew increasingly restless by the ongoing public health m…
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