Scott H Podolsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 234330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott H Podolsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott H |
| FAMILY NAME | Podolsky |
| SIGNATURE | PODOLSKY S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9317-1145 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social Medicine for Social Justice
Social medicine is the application of social science research to address health, inequities in access to health care, and structural violence. Foundational to this work is to bring about social justice for marginalized and underserved populations. Drawing on several case studies from developed and developing countries, we apply ideas and practices from social medicine to explore how the advancement of social justice can help prevent interpersonal…
Slavery and the Journal — Reckoning with History and Complicity
The Under-representation and Stagnation of Female, Black, and Hispanic Authorship in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine
Attending to Emotions, as both Caregivers and Historians
Journal Article Attending to Emotions, as both Caregivers and Historians Get access Scott H Podolsky Scott H Podolsky Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, jrad026, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad026 Published: 20 May 2023
William A. Hinton (1883–1959)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Racism, and Remembrance
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. has long been a celebrated figure at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and in the history of medicine more generally. And yet in part on account of Holmes's putative link to eugenics, but especially on account of his role as dean in the dismissal of the first three African American students at HMS in 1850, his name has recently become associated with systemic racism as well. In October 2020, the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society …
Waves of attention
This article uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to review 75 years of international policy reports on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Our review of 248 policy reports and expert consultation revealed waves of political attention and repeated reframings of AMR as a policy object. AMR emerged as an object of international policy-making during the 1990s. Until then, AMR was primarily defined as a challenge of human and agricultural domains…
Puncturing Hubris … and Insularity
Puncturing Hubris ... and Insularity: The 1942 Yellow Fever Vaccine Disaster and COVID-19 Scott H. PodolskyMD Affiliation Scott H. Podolsky is with the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Medical Library, Boston. CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Scott H. Podolsky, 641 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: [email protected]…
Setting the standard
There is increasing concern globally about the enormity of the threats posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to human, animal, plant and environmental health. A proliferation of international, national and institutional reports on the problems posed by AMR and the need for antibiotic stewardship have galvanised attention on the global stage. However, the AMR community increasingly laments a lack of action, often identified as an ‘implementation…
Are the Medical Humanities for Sale? Lessons from a Historical Debate
John C. Burnham, Health Care in America
Most historians of medicine write focused analyses of a particular issue, using such accounts as windows onto larger questions concerning the relationship between medical knowledge, medical practice, conceptions of the body and the public, and the societies and cultures in which they are embedded. John Burnham has taken a still more ambitious approach, writing a synthetic history of health care in America from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to…
The Lock and Key of Medicine
Journal Article The Lock and Key of Medicine: Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare Get access Lara V. Marks. The Lock and Key of Medicine: Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2015. xxv, 316 pp., illus., $40.00. Scott H. Podolsky Scott H. Podolsky Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 [email protected] Search for other …
Generic, yet not generic
Pills, Power, and Policy
Reviewed by: Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences Scott H. Podolsky Dominique A. Tobbell. Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences. California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public. Berkeley: University of California Press/New York: Milbank Memorial Fund, 2012. xv + 294 pp. $26.95 (978-0-520-27114-2). Today, concerns regarding the in…
Antibiotics and the Social History of the Controlled Clinical Trial, 1950-1970
The histories of antibiotics, controlled clinical trials, and attempts by academics to inculcate an explicitly rational therapeutics among clinicians in the United States were linked during a formative period from 1950 to 1970. Maxwell Finland and Harry Dowling would serve at the epicenter of such efforts in the context of first the broad-spectrum antibiotics, and then, and still more critically, the since-forgotten influx of "fixed-dose combinat…
Keeping Modern in Medicine
Recent critiques of the role of pharmaceutical promotion in medical practice invoke a nostalgic version of 1950s and 1960s medicine as representing an uncomplicated relationship between an innovative pharmaceutical industry and an idealistic and sovereign medical profession—a relationship that was later corrupted by regulatory or business practice changes in the 1980s or 1990s. However, the escalation of innovation and promotion in the pharmaceut…
The Changing Fate of Pneumonia as a Public Health Concern in 20th-Century America and Beyond
For a brief period from the 1930s through the early 1940s, public health advocates made pneumonia a leading public health concern. Predicated on the need for antipneumococcal antiserum, but also incorporating physician reeducation, state “pneumonia control programs” were established nationwide. However, with the advent of penicillin and the sulfonamides, the pneumonia control programs soon collapsed. Pneumonia reverted to the domain of the privat…
Heredity and Infection
This collection of essays is the product of a conference organized by INSERM and the Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine in May 1996. Exploring changing notions over the past century and a half of the necessary and sufficient causes for the spread of disease both contemporaneously and across generations, the participants take on the task of problematizing the roles of the two specific explanatory entities—discrete infectious agent…
Cultural Divergence
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 1, Spring 1998
Social Medicine for Social Justice
Social medicine is the application of social science research to address health, inequities in access to health care, and structural violence. Foundational to this work is to bring about social justice for marginalized and underserved populations. Drawing on several case studies from developed and developing countries, we apply ideas and practices from social medicine to explore how the advancement of social justice can help prevent interpersonal…
Cultural Divergence
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 1, Spring 1998
Heredity and Infection
This collection of essays is the product of a conference organized by INSERM and the Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine in May 1996. Exploring changing notions over the past century and a half of the necessary and sufficient causes for the spread of disease both contemporaneously and across generations, the participants take on the task of problematizing the roles of the two specific explanatory entities—discrete infectious agent…
The Changing Fate of Pneumonia as a Public Health Concern in 20th-Century America and Beyond
For a brief period from the 1930s through the early 1940s, public health advocates made pneumonia a leading public health concern. Predicated on the need for antipneumococcal antiserum, but also incorporating physician reeducation, state “pneumonia control programs” were established nationwide. However, with the advent of penicillin and the sulfonamides, the pneumonia control programs soon collapsed. Pneumonia reverted to the domain of the privat…
Keeping Modern in Medicine
Recent critiques of the role of pharmaceutical promotion in medical practice invoke a nostalgic version of 1950s and 1960s medicine as representing an uncomplicated relationship between an innovative pharmaceutical industry and an idealistic and sovereign medical profession—a relationship that was later corrupted by regulatory or business practice changes in the 1980s or 1990s. However, the escalation of innovation and promotion in the pharmaceut…
Antibiotics and the Social History of the Controlled Clinical Trial, 1950-1970
The histories of antibiotics, controlled clinical trials, and attempts by academics to inculcate an explicitly rational therapeutics among clinicians in the United States were linked during a formative period from 1950 to 1970. Maxwell Finland and Harry Dowling would serve at the epicenter of such efforts in the context of first the broad-spectrum antibiotics, and then, and still more critically, the since-forgotten influx of "fixed-dose combinat…
Pills, Power, and Policy
Reviewed by: Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences Scott H. Podolsky Dominique A. Tobbell. Pills, Power, and Policy: The Struggle for Drug Reform in Cold War America and Its Consequences. California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public. Berkeley: University of California Press/New York: Milbank Memorial Fund, 2012. xv + 294 pp. $26.95 (978-0-520-27114-2). Today, concerns regarding the in…
Generic, yet not generic
Are the Medical Humanities for Sale? Lessons from a Historical Debate
John C. Burnham, Health Care in America
Most historians of medicine write focused analyses of a particular issue, using such accounts as windows onto larger questions concerning the relationship between medical knowledge, medical practice, conceptions of the body and the public, and the societies and cultures in which they are embedded. John Burnham has taken a still more ambitious approach, writing a synthetic history of health care in America from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to…
The Lock and Key of Medicine
Journal Article The Lock and Key of Medicine: Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare Get access Lara V. Marks. The Lock and Key of Medicine: Monoclonal Antibodies and the Transformation of Healthcare. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2015. xxv, 316 pp., illus., $40.00. Scott H. Podolsky Scott H. Podolsky Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 [email protected] Search for other …
Setting the standard
There is increasing concern globally about the enormity of the threats posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to human, animal, plant and environmental health. A proliferation of international, national and institutional reports on the problems posed by AMR and the need for antibiotic stewardship have galvanised attention on the global stage. However, the AMR community increasingly laments a lack of action, often identified as an ‘implementation…
Waves of attention
This article uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to review 75 years of international policy reports on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Our review of 248 policy reports and expert consultation revealed waves of political attention and repeated reframings of AMR as a policy object. AMR emerged as an object of international policy-making during the 1990s. Until then, AMR was primarily defined as a challenge of human and agricultural domains…
Puncturing Hubris … and Insularity
Puncturing Hubris ... and Insularity: The 1942 Yellow Fever Vaccine Disaster and COVID-19 Scott H. PodolskyMD Affiliation Scott H. Podolsky is with the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, and the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Medical Library, Boston. CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Scott H. Podolsky, 641 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: [email protected]…
William A. Hinton (1883–1959)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Racism, and Remembrance
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. has long been a celebrated figure at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and in the history of medicine more generally. And yet in part on account of Holmes's putative link to eugenics, but especially on account of his role as dean in the dismissal of the first three African American students at HMS in 1850, his name has recently become associated with systemic racism as well. In October 2020, the Oliver Wendell Holmes Society …
Slavery and the Journal — Reckoning with History and Complicity
The Under-representation and Stagnation of Female, Black, and Hispanic Authorship in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine
Attending to Emotions, as both Caregivers and Historians
Journal Article Attending to Emotions, as both Caregivers and Historians Get access Scott H Podolsky Scott H Podolsky Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, jrad026, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrad026 Published: 20 May 2023
Social Medicine for Social Justice
Social medicine is the application of social science research to address health, inequities in access to health care, and structural violence. Foundational to this work is to bring about social justice for marginalized and underserved populations. Drawing on several case studies from developed and developing countries, we apply ideas and practices from social medicine to explore how the advancement of social justice can help prevent interpersonal…
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