George Weisz

Datos Biográficos

ID238934
NOMBREGeorge Weisz
NOMBRESGeorge
APELLIDOWeisz
FIRMAWEISZ G
AFILIACIONESMcGill University
ORCID0000-0002-4158-4685
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS64
TOTAL DE CITAS266
TOTAL COMO AUTOR63
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1975
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H7

  • What Is HPSR? A Mixed Methods Approach to Analyzing an Emergent Field With Fluid Boundaries

    Open AccessGeorge Weisz, Alberto Cambrosio et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2026

    Background Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) is closely tied to the World Health Organization. However, it overlaps with several other disciplines and research domains seeking to influence health policy. Because it is not recognized as a distinct field in bibliographical databases, it is difficult to isolate its work from that of other domains covering similar issues. Methods We utilize bibliometric and scientometric approaches that cover…

  • The World Health Organization and the Struggle to Coordinate Global Health Research

    Open AccessGeorge WeiszARTICLEMinerva2025Referencias: 6

    As part of its mandate as the normative authority over Global Health, the World Health Organization is responsible for research to improves health worldwide. Since the 1970s, the organization has sought to find ways to promote scientific collaboration and coordination among actors who fund and do research. It has been hampered in this task by its own institutional weaknesses, fragmentation of the huge medical research field and, since the 1990s, …

  • Chronic disease, social medicine, and the Lalonde Report

    Open AccessGeorge WeiszARTICLECanadian Journal of Public Health2025Referencias: 25

  • The World Health Organization and the global standardization of medical training, a history

    Open AccessGeorge Weisz, Beata NannestadARTICLEGlobalization and Health2021

    BACKGROUND: This article presents a history of efforts by the World Health Organization and its most important ally, the World Federation for Medical Education, to strengthen and standardize international medical education. This aspect of WHO activity has been largely ignored in recent historical and sociological work on that organization and on global health generally. METHODS: Historical textual analysis is applied to the digitalized archives a…

  • Creating an Applied, Multi-disciplinary Research Field

    Open AccessGeorge WeiszARTICLESocial History of Medicine2021Citada por: 1

    From the 1960s, the World Health Organization (WHO) sought to reconcile ambitious international goals with scarce resources and the socio-economic realities of low- and middle-income countries by developing a field called Health Systems Research (HSR). This field remained small, marginal and largely confined to WHO during the second half of the twentieth century. The WHO worked to promote HSR, apply it to concrete problems and define its scope an…

  • What Happened to the Global Forum for Health Research

    Open AccessGeorge WeiszARTICLEGlobal Public Health2020

    The Global Forum for Health Research (GFHR) was founded in 1998. It was the culmination of an advocacy movement started in 1987 to campaign for the expansion and coordination of health research benefitting low- and middle-income countries. It was largely funded by the World Bank and embraced that institution's emphasis on cost effectiveness. But its small budget prevented it from assuming the central role in global health research that its suppor…

  • International Health Research and the Emergence of Global Health in the Late Twentieth Century

    George Weisz, Noémi TousignantARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2019

    An influential policy network emerged from two overlapping developments of the 1970s and 1980s: new research programs focusing on tropical diseases and debates about how to implement the concept of primary health care at the World Health Organization. Participating actors came together in an informal network that, by the late 1980s, expanded advocacy to include the promotion and reorganization of all forms of research that might improve health in…

  • Kenneth Warren and the Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Programme

    George WeiszARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2018

    Reviewed by: Kenneth Warren and the Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Programme: The Transformation of Geographical Medicine in the US and Beyond by Conrad Keating George Weisz Conrad Keating. Kenneth Warren and the Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Programme: The Transformation of Geographical Medicine in the US and Beyond. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International, 2017. xx + 150 pp. Ill. $29.00 (978-3-319-50145-1). Kenneth Warren is a larg…

  • Leprosy

    George WeiszARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2018Referencias: 4

    "Leprosy: An Early Exemplar of the Transformation of 20th Century American Medicine." , 108(2), pp. 160–161

  • Mapping Global Health

    Open AccessGeorge Weisz, Alberto Cambrosio et al.ARTICLEBioSocieties2017

  • The World Health Organization and the Globalization of Chronic Noncommunicable Disease

    Open AccessGeorge Weisz, Etienne Vignola‐gagnéARTICLEPopulation and Development Review2015Citada por: 1Referencias: 55

    Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries have recently provoked a surge of public interest. This article examines the policy literature-notably the archives and publications of the World Health Organization (WHO), which has dominated this field-to analyze the emergence and consolidation of this new agenda. Starting with programs to control cardiovascular disease in the 1970s, experts from Eastern and Western Eur…

  • Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics

    George WeiszBOOKSocial Science Perspectives on…2012

  • News and Events

    George WeiszARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2011

    News and Events George Weisz Call for Papers, 2012 Annual Meeting The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 85th annual meeting, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, April 26-29, 2012. The Association welcomes submissions on the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Submissions f…

  • Epidemiology and Health Care Reform

    George WeiszARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2011Citada por: 4

    The National Health Survey undertaken in 1935 and 1936 was the largest morbidity survey until that time. It was also the first national survey to focus on chronic disease and disability. The decision to conduct a survey of this magnitude was part of the larger strategy to reform health care in the United States. The focus on morbidity allowed reformers to argue that the health status of Americans was poor, despite falling mortality rates that sug…

  • Historical reflections on medical travel

    George WeiszARTICLEAnthropology and Medicine2011Citada por: 5Referencias: 13

    Keywords: spasmineral watershealth tourismthermalism Notes 1. Le Tourisme thermale, http://www.cdt-jura.fr/upload/paragraphes/1084183199.PDF (accessed June 9 2010). 2. Aspects économiques du thermalisme français, Slide 5.1. http://portaildoc.oieau.fr/entrepotsOAI/OIEAU/44/223202/223202_doc.pdf (uploaded June 9 2010). 3. http://www.afreth.org/docprojet/suivi.htm (uploaded June 10 2010)

  • Dr Fleck Fighting Fleck Typhus

    Open AccessGeorge Weisz, George M WeiszARTICLESocial Studies of Science2010

    These comments contribute to the debate on Dr Ludwik Fleck, published in this journal in 2008, regarding his identification of typhus antigen in urine and its use in the preparation of a vaccine (Amsterdamska et al., 2008; Hedfors, 2008). As I understand it, Dr Fleck was on one side dismissed with various epithets and his research considered as poorly done, meaningless and with doubtful ethical value (Hedfors, 2007, 2008). It was alleged that Fle…

  • The Theory of Epidemiologic Transition

    George Weisz, Jesse Olszynko-GrynARTICLEJournal of the History of…2010Citada por: 6

    In 1971 Abdel R. Omran published his classic paper on the theory of epidemiologic transition. By the mid-1990s, it had become something of a citation classic and was understood as a theoretical statement about the shift from infectious to chronic diseases that supposedly accompanies modernization. However, Omran himself was not directly concerned with the rise of chronic disease; his theory was in fact closely tied to efforts to accelerate fertil…

  • Medical Research Undertaken in Captivity

    Ann Westmore, George Weisz et al.ARTICLEWar & Society2009Citada por: 2Referencias: 1

    (2009). Medical Research Undertaken in Captivity: A Form of Resistance to Imprisonment and Attempted Extermination. War & Society: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 89-112

  • Biomedical Conventions and Regulatory Objectivity

    Open AccessAlberto Cambrosio, P Keating et al.ARTICLESocial Studies of Science2009Citada por: 33Referencias: 14

    This special issue of Social Studies of Science centers on the topic of regulation in medicine and, in particular, on the notion of regulatory objectivity, defined as a new form of objectivity in biomedicine that generates conventions and norms through concerted programs of action based on the use of a variety of systems for the collective production of evidence. The papers in the special issue suggest ways in which the notion of regulatory objec…

  • Longevity and Causes of Death of Adult Males in the Medici Di Bicci Family

    Open AccessDonatella Lippi, Marco Matucci Cerinic et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family History2009Referencias: 2

    The Medici family was prominent in Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Their contributions to political, economic, and artistic life have remained persistent preoccupations for historians. The medical history of this family, however, was relatively neglected prior to the middle of the twentieth century, probably due to the scarcity of relevant information. Retrospective study of the diseases of the Medici has developed more int…

  • Diagnosing and treating premenstrual syndrome in five western nations

    Open AccessGeorge Weisz, Loes KnaapenARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2009Citada por: 1Referencias: 52

  • The biomedical standardization of premenstrual syndrome

    Open AccessLoes Knaapen, George WeiszARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2008Citada por: 5Referencias: 16

  • Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives/ La quantification medicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques

    Open AccessB Curtis, Gérard Jorland et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology2007

  • Making Medical History

    George WeiszARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2006

    Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner, eds. Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. x + 507 pp. Ill. $45.00 (0-8018-7861-6). Reviewing volumes of collected essays is notoriously difficult, and this book is no exception: its twenty-one essays are uneven in quality and represent a considerable diversity of topics and approaches. The editors emphasize that one of the unifying threads …

  • Regulatory objectivity and the generation and management of evidence in medicine

    Open AccessAlberto Cambrosio, P Keating et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2006Citada por: 113Referencias: 49