Daniel S Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3928909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel S Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel S |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1843-7422 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Music Theory as an Instrument of Nationalism
This article interprets the nationalistic perspective that informs Dobri Hristov's (1875Hristov's ( -1941) ) theory of meter in Bulgarian folk music.Hristov, a composer, educator, and scholar, published the first systematic study of the meters with unequal beats that Bulgarian music has come to be known for, featuring groupings of two and three fast pulses notated with time signatures such as 5/16, 7/16, and 9/16.Focusing on his treatise "The Rhy…
Targeting Addiction Structural Stigma Embodied in Law (“Tassel”)
The Need for Historical Fluency in Pandemic Law and Policy
The primary claim of this essay is that historical fluency is required for effective work in crafting legal and policy interventions as a part of public health emergency preparedness and response (PHEPR). At a broad level, public health law is explicitly recognized as a key systems-level component of PHEPR practice.1 This essay therefore focuses on the extent to which historical fluency is necessary or at least useful to all aspects of PHEPR that…
Allies, not authorities
Toward Fair and Humane Pain Policy
Pain policy is not drug policy. If society wants to improve the lives of people in pain and compress the terrible inequalities in its diagnosis and treatment, we have to tailor policy to the root causes driving our problems in treating pain humanely and equitably. In the United States, we do not. Instead, we have proceeded to conflate drug policy with pain policy, relying on arguably magical thinking for the conclusion that by addressing the drug…
Fighting for a (wide enough) seat at the table
Few jurisdictions provide legal protection against discrimination on the basis of weight despite evidence of pervasive inequalities faced by fat individuals in employment, healthcare, education, and other domains. Yet, in the last two decades, advocacy efforts in several countries aimed to remedy this situation have been largely unsuccessful. We present a cross-national conceptual analysis of three significant anti-discrimination developments reg…
Pain and the human condition
Pain is almost certainly the most common illness experience on the planet. Yet, it is frequently treated poorly and those who experience pain often endure scepticism, doubt and stigma for their condition. In most places around the world, pain closely tracks social power structures, which means that marginalised groups are both more likely to experience pain and are more likely to have it regarded dubiously and treated inadequately. Moreover, whil…
Investigating Trust, Expertise, and Epistemic Injustice in Chronic Pain
Pain, objectivity and history
The primary claim of this paper is that understanding the stigma so commonly endured by chronic pain sufferers today in the USA and the UK is unlikely without proper appreciation of the history of pain. Ameliorating such stigma is an ethical imperative, and yet most approaches eschew even an attempt to trace connections between historical attitudes, practices and beliefs towards pain and the stigmatisation so many pain sufferers currently endure.…
The significance of folklore for vaccine policy
This paper addresses the relevance of medical folklore for vaccine policy intended to increase vaccination uptake. There are two primary claims of this paper: First, that dominant approaches to increasing US vaccination uptake have largely been based on deficient understandings of the root causes of anti-vaccination behavior; and second, that superior approaches to evidence-based policy must enlarge the scope of that evidence base to include cruc…
The Implications of Fundamental Cause Theory for Priority Setting
Application of fundamental cause theory to Powers and Faden’s model of social justice highlights the ethical superiority of upstream public health interventions. In this article, I assess the ramifications of fundamental cause theory specifically in context of public health priority setting. Ethically optimal public health policy simultaneously maximizes overall population health and compresses health inequalities. The fundamental cause theory is…
Obesity Stigma
One of six commentaries on “Obesity: Chasing an Elusive Epidemic,” by Daniel Callahan, from the January‐February 2013 issue
Querying Inter-disciplinary Approaches
The difficulties of enhancing public understanding of the social determinants of health in the United States
Goldberg Responds
Against the Very Idea of the Politicization of Public Health Policy
I criticize the concern over the politicization of public health policy as a justification for preferring a narrow to a broad model of public health. My critique proceeds along 2 lines. First, the fact that administrative structures and actors are primary sources of public health policy demonstrates its inescapably political and politicized nature. Second, historical evidence shows that public health in Great Britain and the United States has fro…
Pain as a global public health priority
The prevalence, incidence, and vast social and health consequences of global pain requires that the public health community give due attention to this issue. Doing so will mean that health care providers and public health professionals will have a more comprehensive understanding of pain and the appropriate public health and social policy responses to this problem
Suffering and Death among Early American Roentgenologists
This manuscript has two aims. First, I extend the historiography on early American roentgenology that demonstrates that dozens of early adopters knowingly suffered intense pain, mutilation, and death for the sake of the X-ray. The objective is to pinpoint as precisely as possible when and to what extent the roentgenologists knew of the life-threatening risks of X-ray exposure. Second, I articulate a partial explanation for their behavior that is …
Disparate Inclusion of Older Adults in Clinical Trials
Older adults are vastly underrepresented in clinical trials in spite of shouldering a disproportionate burden of disease and consumption of prescription drugs and therapies, restricting treatments' generalizability, efficacy, and safety. Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Trials, a national initiative comprising a stakeholder network of researchers, community advocates, policymakers, and federal representatives, undertook a critical analysis of …
Exilic Effects of Illness and Pain in Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward
Religion, the Culture of Biomedicine, and the Tremendum
Against the Very Idea of the Politicization of Public Health Policy
I criticize the concern over the politicization of public health policy as a justification for preferring a narrow to a broad model of public health. My critique proceeds along 2 lines. First, the fact that administrative structures and actors are primary sources of public health policy demonstrates its inescapably political and politicized nature. Second, historical evidence shows that public health in Great Britain and the United States has fro…
Pain, objectivity and history
The primary claim of this paper is that understanding the stigma so commonly endured by chronic pain sufferers today in the USA and the UK is unlikely without proper appreciation of the history of pain. Ameliorating such stigma is an ethical imperative, and yet most approaches eschew even an attempt to trace connections between historical attitudes, practices and beliefs towards pain and the stigmatisation so many pain sufferers currently endure.…
The Implications of Fundamental Cause Theory for Priority Setting
Application of fundamental cause theory to Powers and Faden’s model of social justice highlights the ethical superiority of upstream public health interventions. In this article, I assess the ramifications of fundamental cause theory specifically in context of public health priority setting. Ethically optimal public health policy simultaneously maximizes overall population health and compresses health inequalities. The fundamental cause theory is…
Disparate Inclusion of Older Adults in Clinical Trials
Older adults are vastly underrepresented in clinical trials in spite of shouldering a disproportionate burden of disease and consumption of prescription drugs and therapies, restricting treatments' generalizability, efficacy, and safety. Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Trials, a national initiative comprising a stakeholder network of researchers, community advocates, policymakers, and federal representatives, undertook a critical analysis of …
The Need for Historical Fluency in Pandemic Law and Policy
The primary claim of this essay is that historical fluency is required for effective work in crafting legal and policy interventions as a part of public health emergency preparedness and response (PHEPR). At a broad level, public health law is explicitly recognized as a key systems-level component of PHEPR practice.1 This essay therefore focuses on the extent to which historical fluency is necessary or at least useful to all aspects of PHEPR that…
Religion, the Culture of Biomedicine, and the Tremendum
Exilic Effects of Illness and Pain in Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward
Disparate Inclusion of Older Adults in Clinical Trials
Older adults are vastly underrepresented in clinical trials in spite of shouldering a disproportionate burden of disease and consumption of prescription drugs and therapies, restricting treatments' generalizability, efficacy, and safety. Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Trials, a national initiative comprising a stakeholder network of researchers, community advocates, policymakers, and federal representatives, undertook a critical analysis of …
Pain as a global public health priority
The prevalence, incidence, and vast social and health consequences of global pain requires that the public health community give due attention to this issue. Doing so will mean that health care providers and public health professionals will have a more comprehensive understanding of pain and the appropriate public health and social policy responses to this problem
Suffering and Death among Early American Roentgenologists
This manuscript has two aims. First, I extend the historiography on early American roentgenology that demonstrates that dozens of early adopters knowingly suffered intense pain, mutilation, and death for the sake of the X-ray. The objective is to pinpoint as precisely as possible when and to what extent the roentgenologists knew of the life-threatening risks of X-ray exposure. Second, I articulate a partial explanation for their behavior that is …
The difficulties of enhancing public understanding of the social determinants of health in the United States
Goldberg Responds
Against the Very Idea of the Politicization of Public Health Policy
I criticize the concern over the politicization of public health policy as a justification for preferring a narrow to a broad model of public health. My critique proceeds along 2 lines. First, the fact that administrative structures and actors are primary sources of public health policy demonstrates its inescapably political and politicized nature. Second, historical evidence shows that public health in Great Britain and the United States has fro…
Obesity Stigma
One of six commentaries on “Obesity: Chasing an Elusive Epidemic,” by Daniel Callahan, from the January‐February 2013 issue
Querying Inter-disciplinary Approaches
The Implications of Fundamental Cause Theory for Priority Setting
Application of fundamental cause theory to Powers and Faden’s model of social justice highlights the ethical superiority of upstream public health interventions. In this article, I assess the ramifications of fundamental cause theory specifically in context of public health priority setting. Ethically optimal public health policy simultaneously maximizes overall population health and compresses health inequalities. The fundamental cause theory is…
The significance of folklore for vaccine policy
This paper addresses the relevance of medical folklore for vaccine policy intended to increase vaccination uptake. There are two primary claims of this paper: First, that dominant approaches to increasing US vaccination uptake have largely been based on deficient understandings of the root causes of anti-vaccination behavior; and second, that superior approaches to evidence-based policy must enlarge the scope of that evidence base to include cruc…
Investigating Trust, Expertise, and Epistemic Injustice in Chronic Pain
Pain, objectivity and history
The primary claim of this paper is that understanding the stigma so commonly endured by chronic pain sufferers today in the USA and the UK is unlikely without proper appreciation of the history of pain. Ameliorating such stigma is an ethical imperative, and yet most approaches eschew even an attempt to trace connections between historical attitudes, practices and beliefs towards pain and the stigmatisation so many pain sufferers currently endure.…
Pain and the human condition
Pain is almost certainly the most common illness experience on the planet. Yet, it is frequently treated poorly and those who experience pain often endure scepticism, doubt and stigma for their condition. In most places around the world, pain closely tracks social power structures, which means that marginalised groups are both more likely to experience pain and are more likely to have it regarded dubiously and treated inadequately. Moreover, whil…
Toward Fair and Humane Pain Policy
Pain policy is not drug policy. If society wants to improve the lives of people in pain and compress the terrible inequalities in its diagnosis and treatment, we have to tailor policy to the root causes driving our problems in treating pain humanely and equitably. In the United States, we do not. Instead, we have proceeded to conflate drug policy with pain policy, relying on arguably magical thinking for the conclusion that by addressing the drug…
Fighting for a (wide enough) seat at the table
Few jurisdictions provide legal protection against discrimination on the basis of weight despite evidence of pervasive inequalities faced by fat individuals in employment, healthcare, education, and other domains. Yet, in the last two decades, advocacy efforts in several countries aimed to remedy this situation have been largely unsuccessful. We present a cross-national conceptual analysis of three significant anti-discrimination developments reg…
Allies, not authorities
The Need for Historical Fluency in Pandemic Law and Policy
The primary claim of this essay is that historical fluency is required for effective work in crafting legal and policy interventions as a part of public health emergency preparedness and response (PHEPR). At a broad level, public health law is explicitly recognized as a key systems-level component of PHEPR practice.1 This essay therefore focuses on the extent to which historical fluency is necessary or at least useful to all aspects of PHEPR that…
Music Theory as an Instrument of Nationalism
This article interprets the nationalistic perspective that informs Dobri Hristov's (1875Hristov's ( -1941) ) theory of meter in Bulgarian folk music.Hristov, a composer, educator, and scholar, published the first systematic study of the meters with unequal beats that Bulgarian music has come to be known for, featuring groupings of two and three fast pulses notated with time signatures such as 5/16, 7/16, and 9/16.Focusing on his treatise "The Rhy…
Targeting Addiction Structural Stigma Embodied in Law (“Tassel”)
Medicine (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (4 works) · Health care (4 works)