Norbert Hirschhorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1730237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norbert Hirschhorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirschhorn |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCHHORN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yahoo (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aleppo Diary
Translated from Arabic by the author and Norbert Hirschhorn1.Writing hurts.The blood dripping down the tv screenpoisons the air,stains the couch with what looks likedried coffee. We touch, trembling,afraid of infection.Our backs bent as if descending to hell,red and brown rust spotsreflect on our faces.We rub our heads, turn away,and lick the salt from tears.They who crawl from street to screenleave green traces on the tarmac,which burst into bus…
Best of The Lighter Side (1992–2009)
Best of The Lighter Side (1992e2009) Tobacco control is not a particularly cheery endeavour.Public health advocates are lambasted as Nanny Staters and Health Nazis.And we are, after all, discussing an epidemic that kills 5 million people a year now and will take a billion lives prematurely in this century if we don't rein in the tobacco industry sometime soon.Still, there is wry humour to be found amid the grimness and some cartoonists have artfu…
Globalizing Tobacco Control
By Roddey Reid, Indiana: Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2005, $24.95; pp 310, ISBN 0-253-21809-8. What do California, France, and Japan have in common? Answer: tobacco control programmes. How do the programmes differ? Answer: while thinking globally, each acts locally. That seems to be the main message of this sprawling and sometimes informative work. The author is professor of literature at the University of San Diego, California, “an interdiscip…
Cancer
Edited by Daniel Feist with Stan Shatenstein. Published by CanWest Books, Inc (a subsidiary of CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc), price C$19.95, ISBN 1-897229-08-9. A personal account of a smoker’s life with, and death from, cancer You probably never knew Daniel Feist. Now he’s just another statistic, one of five million-plus who die each year from smoking. No, let’s say that plainly: who are killed each year by tobacco, dead as anyone in the …
The Philip Morris External Research Program
PMERP appears to exist less as a conduit for critical scientific inquiry than to fit into a corporate strategy intended to burnish PM's public image
Corporate social responsibility and the tobacco industry
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerged from a realisation among transnational corporations of the need to account for and redress their adverse impact on society: specifically, on human rights, labour practices, and the environment. Two transnational tobacco companies have recently adopted CSR: Philip Morris, and British American Tobacco. This report explains the origins and theory behind CSR; examines internal company documents from Phili…
Philip Morris' new scientific initiative
In the fall of 2000, Philip Morris re-initiated an external research grants programme ("Philip Morris External Research Program", or PMERP), the first since the dissolution of the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) and the Center for Indoor Air Research (CIAR). The ostensible purpose of the programme is to help develop cigarette designs "that might reduce the health risk of smoking". Internal company documents also indicate that Philip Morris urg…
Second hand smoke and risk assessment
The tobacco industry developed a well coordinated, multi-pronged strategy to create doubt about research on exposure to SHS by trying to link it to the broader discussion of risk assessment of low doses of a number of toxins whose disease burden may still be a matter of scientific debate, thus trying to make SHS their equivalent; and by attempting, through third party organisations and persons, to impugn the agencies using risk assessment to esta…
Why Do They Keep Coming to Get Their Hearts
Shameful science
The following presents the “best of the best” of annotations of over 600 tobacco industry documents that tell a nearly 40 year story of the smoking and health research programme sponsored by the members of the Association of Cigarette Industries of Germany (the “Verband”). Its members include the German and Austrian cigarette manufacturers as well as the transnational firms of Philip Morris (PM), RJ Reynolds (RJR), and British American Tobacco (B…
Was It Tuberculosis? Another Glimpse of Emily Dickinson's Health
Mary Lincoln's Final Illness
NORBERT HIRSCHHORN, ROBERT G. FELDMAN; Mary Lincoln's Final Illness: A Medical and Historical Reappraisal, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sc
"Medicine Posthumous"
The effect of a national control of diarrheal diseases program on mortality
Effect of Diarrheal Disease Control on Infant and Childhood Mortality in Egypt
Appropriate Health Technology in Egypt
Are we ignoring different levels of mortality in the primary health care debate
Journal Article Are we ignoring different levels of mortality in the primary health care debate? Get access Norbert Hirschhorn, Norbert Hirschhorn 1John Snow Inc (Resources for Child Health Project) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Mark Grabowsky, Mark Grabowsky 2EPI/WHO Geneva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Robin Houston, Robin Houston 3John Snow Inc …
Deranged distribution, perverse prescription, unprotected use
The use of chemical pharmaceuticals as therapy is based on a rational–scientific model, but in practice drugs are distributed, prescribed and used in highly irrational ways. Vignettes are used to illustrate how cultural norms and the profit motive interact to drastically lessen the benefits the developing world receives from modern drugs. Trying to ameliorate the situation by relying on government regulation of drug producers, sellers, prescriber…
A focused approach to quality of care assessment in family planning
An approach to quality of care assessment for family planning based on management-by-objectives has been tested in 18 clinics. Key indicator standards were developed by the family planning agencies themselves and objective survey instruments designed to measure performance against the standards. Results were made available quickly to each clinic and led to operational changes in the majority, with evidence of improved performance and willingness …
Reply to letter by Walker-Smith et al
Deranged distribution, perverse prescription, unprotected use
The use of chemical pharmaceuticals as therapy is based on a rational–scientific model, but in practice drugs are distributed, prescribed and used in highly irrational ways. Vignettes are used to illustrate how cultural norms and the profit motive interact to drastically lessen the benefits the developing world receives from modern drugs. Trying to ameliorate the situation by relying on government regulation of drug producers, sellers, prescriber…
The effect of a national control of diarrheal diseases program on mortality
Are we ignoring different levels of mortality in the primary health care debate
Journal Article Are we ignoring different levels of mortality in the primary health care debate? Get access Norbert Hirschhorn, Norbert Hirschhorn 1John Snow Inc (Resources for Child Health Project) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Mark Grabowsky, Mark Grabowsky 2EPI/WHO Geneva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Robin Houston, Robin Houston 3John Snow Inc …
Reply to letter by Walker-Smith et al
A focused approach to quality of care assessment in family planning
An approach to quality of care assessment for family planning based on management-by-objectives has been tested in 18 clinics. Key indicator standards were developed by the family planning agencies themselves and objective survey instruments designed to measure performance against the standards. Results were made available quickly to each clinic and led to operational changes in the majority, with evidence of improved performance and willingness …
Deranged distribution, perverse prescription, unprotected use
The use of chemical pharmaceuticals as therapy is based on a rational–scientific model, but in practice drugs are distributed, prescribed and used in highly irrational ways. Vignettes are used to illustrate how cultural norms and the profit motive interact to drastically lessen the benefits the developing world receives from modern drugs. Trying to ameliorate the situation by relying on government regulation of drug producers, sellers, prescriber…
Appropriate Health Technology in Egypt
Are we ignoring different levels of mortality in the primary health care debate
Journal Article Are we ignoring different levels of mortality in the primary health care debate? Get access Norbert Hirschhorn, Norbert Hirschhorn 1John Snow Inc (Resources for Child Health Project) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Mark Grabowsky, Mark Grabowsky 2EPI/WHO Geneva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Robin Houston, Robin Houston 3John Snow Inc …
Effect of Diarrheal Disease Control on Infant and Childhood Mortality in Egypt
The effect of a national control of diarrheal diseases program on mortality
"Medicine Posthumous"
Was It Tuberculosis? Another Glimpse of Emily Dickinson's Health
Mary Lincoln's Final Illness
NORBERT HIRSCHHORN, ROBERT G. FELDMAN; Mary Lincoln's Final Illness: A Medical and Historical Reappraisal, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sc
Shameful science
The following presents the “best of the best” of annotations of over 600 tobacco industry documents that tell a nearly 40 year story of the smoking and health research programme sponsored by the members of the Association of Cigarette Industries of Germany (the “Verband”). Its members include the German and Austrian cigarette manufacturers as well as the transnational firms of Philip Morris (PM), RJ Reynolds (RJR), and British American Tobacco (B…
Philip Morris' new scientific initiative
In the fall of 2000, Philip Morris re-initiated an external research grants programme ("Philip Morris External Research Program", or PMERP), the first since the dissolution of the Council for Tobacco Research (CTR) and the Center for Indoor Air Research (CIAR). The ostensible purpose of the programme is to help develop cigarette designs "that might reduce the health risk of smoking". Internal company documents also indicate that Philip Morris urg…
Second hand smoke and risk assessment
The tobacco industry developed a well coordinated, multi-pronged strategy to create doubt about research on exposure to SHS by trying to link it to the broader discussion of risk assessment of low doses of a number of toxins whose disease burden may still be a matter of scientific debate, thus trying to make SHS their equivalent; and by attempting, through third party organisations and persons, to impugn the agencies using risk assessment to esta…
Why Do They Keep Coming to Get Their Hearts
Corporate social responsibility and the tobacco industry
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) emerged from a realisation among transnational corporations of the need to account for and redress their adverse impact on society: specifically, on human rights, labour practices, and the environment. Two transnational tobacco companies have recently adopted CSR: Philip Morris, and British American Tobacco. This report explains the origins and theory behind CSR; examines internal company documents from Phili…
Cancer
Edited by Daniel Feist with Stan Shatenstein. Published by CanWest Books, Inc (a subsidiary of CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc), price C$19.95, ISBN 1-897229-08-9. A personal account of a smoker’s life with, and death from, cancer You probably never knew Daniel Feist. Now he’s just another statistic, one of five million-plus who die each year from smoking. No, let’s say that plainly: who are killed each year by tobacco, dead as anyone in the …
The Philip Morris External Research Program
PMERP appears to exist less as a conduit for critical scientific inquiry than to fit into a corporate strategy intended to burnish PM's public image
Globalizing Tobacco Control
By Roddey Reid, Indiana: Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2005, $24.95; pp 310, ISBN 0-253-21809-8. What do California, France, and Japan have in common? Answer: tobacco control programmes. How do the programmes differ? Answer: while thinking globally, each acts locally. That seems to be the main message of this sprawling and sometimes informative work. The author is professor of literature at the University of San Diego, California, “an interdiscip…
Best of The Lighter Side (1992–2009)
Best of The Lighter Side (1992e2009) Tobacco control is not a particularly cheery endeavour.Public health advocates are lambasted as Nanny Staters and Health Nazis.And we are, after all, discussing an epidemic that kills 5 million people a year now and will take a billion lives prematurely in this century if we don't rein in the tobacco industry sometime soon.Still, there is wry humour to be found amid the grimness and some cartoonists have artfu…
Aleppo Diary
Translated from Arabic by the author and Norbert Hirschhorn1.Writing hurts.The blood dripping down the tv screenpoisons the air,stains the couch with what looks likedried coffee. We touch, trembling,afraid of infection.Our backs bent as if descending to hell,red and brown rust spotsreflect on our faces.We rub our heads, turn away,and lick the salt from tears.They who crawl from street to screenleave green traces on the tarmac,which burst into bus…
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