Gerald M Oppenheimer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5826162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald M Oppenheimer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald M |
| FAMILY NAME | Oppenheimer |
| SIGNATURE | OPPENHEIMER G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Joseph Sonnabend and the Aids Epidemic
Joseph Sonnabend and the AIDS Epidemic: Pioneering and Its Discontents Ronald Bayer PhD, and Gerald M. Oppenheimer PhD, MPH Affiliation Ronald Bayer and Gerald M. Oppenheimer are with the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Gerald M. Oppenheimer, PhD, MPH, Department of Sociomedical Sci…
Response of Clinicians to the Current Covid-19 Pandemic
Response of Clinicians to the Current COVID-19 Pandemic:A View from the Past Gerald M. Oppenheimer (bio) and Ronald Bayer (bio) health care workers have been portrayed as responding heroically to the COVID-19 pandemic, as warriors holding out at the front lines against a horrific contagious disease to which they and those they love remain vulnerable. Strikingly, that characterization has been democratically applied to all tiers of health care wor…
Patient Zero and the Making of the Aids Epidemic by Richard A. McKay
Reviewed by: Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay Gerald M. Oppenheimer Richard A. McKay. Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. xiv + 432 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-226-06395-9). Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On (1987), the first history of the AIDS epidemic, introduced the American public to Gaëtan Dugas, the infamous Patient Zero, who supposedly seeded the …
The Catholic Church, Aids, and Sexuality in Ireland
"The Catholic Church, AIDS, and Sexuality in Ireland: Uncovering Part of the Story." , 108(7), pp. 850–851
McGovern's Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Versus the
For decades, public health advocates have confronted industry over dietary policy, their debates focusing on how to address evidentiary uncertainty. In 1977, enough consensus existed among epidemiologists that the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Need used the diet–heart association to perform an extraordinary act: advocate dietary goals for a healthier diet. During its hearings, the meat industry tested that consensus. In one year,…
The Rise and Fall of Aids Exceptionalism
Shattered Dreams
This book is an oral history of how committed doctors and nurses in South Africa struggled to ride the tiger of the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. Based on more than 250 hours of interviews with almost 90 physicians and nurses—black, Indian, and white, gay and heterosexual—it seeks to capture the understandings of these health care providers as they confronted indifference, opposition, resistance, and material scarcity that was both a l…
Body Counts
Reviewed by Gerald M. Oppenheimer Brooklyn College, City University of New York Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel, and George Weisz, eds. Body Counts: Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. x + 417 pp. Tables. $80.00 (cloth, 0-7735-2925-X); $34.95 (paperbound, 0-7735-2829-6). This volume of essays, twelve in English and five in French, had its origin in a conference sponsor…
Becoming the Framingham Study 1947–1950
In the epidemiological imagination, the Framingham Heart Study has attained iconic status, both as the prototype of the cohort study and as a result of its scientific success. When the Public Health Service launched the study in 1947, epidemiological knowledge of coronary heart disease was poor, and epidemiology primarily involved the study of infectious disease. In constructing their investigation, Framingham’s initiators had to invent new appro…
A Plague on Your Houses
Until recently, the South Bronx was a Potemkin village of empty hulks with windows framing trompe l'oeil tableaux of resting cats and potted plants. Distinguished once as a borough of middle-class apartments and stable working-class enclaves, the Bronx became a byword for poverty and squalor. What happened? Using an epidemiologic and ecological approach and years of data collection and careful analysis, the authors of this intriguing book track t…
Public health nihilism vs pragmatism
Tuberculosis (TB) began to decline in the Western world in the mid- to late 1800s. In the United States, the disease receded until the mid-1980s, when that trend was reversed. Although the TB epidemic in the United States subsided in response to public health interventions, it sparked a controversy regarding the relative value of targeted public health measures vs broad social reform. That controversy, which echoed earlier debates calling for str…
Prematurity as a public health problem
During the 1920s and 1930s, a number of physicians created model premature infant stations in select hospitals, arguing that medicine could successfully treat premature infants, most of whom could be expected to live normal lives. Most hospitals and doctors, however, remained indifferent to the special medical needs of premature infants. Subsequently, public health officials, beginning in Chicago, took up the cause of the medical management of ne…
History of Aids
Aids
The AIDS crisis poses a special challenge for American health care, which depends heavily on private insurance to pay medical bills. Can we provide adequate health care to all who need it and still meet the financial requirements of the private health insurance industry? More insurance carriers are turning to antibody testing in order to eliminate poor risks from non-group, direct-pay pools. Some cost-conscious employers have attempted to fire AI…
Seizures in public places in New York City
The frequency of police aid to persons experiencing seizures in public in New York City in 1977 was examined as an index of uncontrolled seizure disorders, and as a pointer to variations in seizure frequencies by age, sex, and ethnicity. The overall rate of assistance to persons with public seizures was 5.4 per 10,000 person years. For Blacks the rate was more than double that for Whites and "Hispanics" (10, 4.7, and 4 per 10,000 person years, re…
The Philosophes and the People . Harry C. Payne
Becoming the Framingham Study 1947–1950
In the epidemiological imagination, the Framingham Heart Study has attained iconic status, both as the prototype of the cohort study and as a result of its scientific success. When the Public Health Service launched the study in 1947, epidemiological knowledge of coronary heart disease was poor, and epidemiology primarily involved the study of infectious disease. In constructing their investigation, Framingham’s initiators had to invent new appro…
Public health nihilism vs pragmatism
Tuberculosis (TB) began to decline in the Western world in the mid- to late 1800s. In the United States, the disease receded until the mid-1980s, when that trend was reversed. Although the TB epidemic in the United States subsided in response to public health interventions, it sparked a controversy regarding the relative value of targeted public health measures vs broad social reform. That controversy, which echoed earlier debates calling for str…
McGovern's Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Versus the
For decades, public health advocates have confronted industry over dietary policy, their debates focusing on how to address evidentiary uncertainty. In 1977, enough consensus existed among epidemiologists that the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Need used the diet–heart association to perform an extraordinary act: advocate dietary goals for a healthier diet. During its hearings, the meat industry tested that consensus. In one year,…
The Philosophes and the People . Harry C. Payne
Aids
The AIDS crisis poses a special challenge for American health care, which depends heavily on private insurance to pay medical bills. Can we provide adequate health care to all who need it and still meet the financial requirements of the private health insurance industry? More insurance carriers are turning to antibody testing in order to eliminate poor risks from non-group, direct-pay pools. Some cost-conscious employers have attempted to fire AI…
Seizures in public places in New York City
The frequency of police aid to persons experiencing seizures in public in New York City in 1977 was examined as an index of uncontrolled seizure disorders, and as a pointer to variations in seizure frequencies by age, sex, and ethnicity. The overall rate of assistance to persons with public seizures was 5.4 per 10,000 person years. For Blacks the rate was more than double that for Whites and "Hispanics" (10, 4.7, and 4 per 10,000 person years, re…
History of Aids
Prematurity as a public health problem
During the 1920s and 1930s, a number of physicians created model premature infant stations in select hospitals, arguing that medicine could successfully treat premature infants, most of whom could be expected to live normal lives. Most hospitals and doctors, however, remained indifferent to the special medical needs of premature infants. Subsequently, public health officials, beginning in Chicago, took up the cause of the medical management of ne…
Public health nihilism vs pragmatism
Tuberculosis (TB) began to decline in the Western world in the mid- to late 1800s. In the United States, the disease receded until the mid-1980s, when that trend was reversed. Although the TB epidemic in the United States subsided in response to public health interventions, it sparked a controversy regarding the relative value of targeted public health measures vs broad social reform. That controversy, which echoed earlier debates calling for str…
A Plague on Your Houses
Until recently, the South Bronx was a Potemkin village of empty hulks with windows framing trompe l'oeil tableaux of resting cats and potted plants. Distinguished once as a borough of middle-class apartments and stable working-class enclaves, the Bronx became a byword for poverty and squalor. What happened? Using an epidemiologic and ecological approach and years of data collection and careful analysis, the authors of this intriguing book track t…
Becoming the Framingham Study 1947–1950
In the epidemiological imagination, the Framingham Heart Study has attained iconic status, both as the prototype of the cohort study and as a result of its scientific success. When the Public Health Service launched the study in 1947, epidemiological knowledge of coronary heart disease was poor, and epidemiology primarily involved the study of infectious disease. In constructing their investigation, Framingham’s initiators had to invent new appro…
Shattered Dreams
This book is an oral history of how committed doctors and nurses in South Africa struggled to ride the tiger of the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. Based on more than 250 hours of interviews with almost 90 physicians and nurses—black, Indian, and white, gay and heterosexual—it seeks to capture the understandings of these health care providers as they confronted indifference, opposition, resistance, and material scarcity that was both a l…
Body Counts
Reviewed by Gerald M. Oppenheimer Brooklyn College, City University of New York Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel, and George Weisz, eds. Body Counts: Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. x + 417 pp. Tables. $80.00 (cloth, 0-7735-2925-X); $34.95 (paperbound, 0-7735-2829-6). This volume of essays, twelve in English and five in French, had its origin in a conference sponsor…
The Rise and Fall of Aids Exceptionalism
McGovern's Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Versus the
For decades, public health advocates have confronted industry over dietary policy, their debates focusing on how to address evidentiary uncertainty. In 1977, enough consensus existed among epidemiologists that the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Need used the diet–heart association to perform an extraordinary act: advocate dietary goals for a healthier diet. During its hearings, the meat industry tested that consensus. In one year,…
The Catholic Church, Aids, and Sexuality in Ireland
"The Catholic Church, AIDS, and Sexuality in Ireland: Uncovering Part of the Story." , 108(7), pp. 850–851
Patient Zero and the Making of the Aids Epidemic by Richard A. McKay
Reviewed by: Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay Gerald M. Oppenheimer Richard A. McKay. Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. xiv + 432 pp. Ill. $35.00 (978-0-226-06395-9). Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On (1987), the first history of the AIDS epidemic, introduced the American public to Gaëtan Dugas, the infamous Patient Zero, who supposedly seeded the …
Response of Clinicians to the Current Covid-19 Pandemic
Response of Clinicians to the Current COVID-19 Pandemic:A View from the Past Gerald M. Oppenheimer (bio) and Ronald Bayer (bio) health care workers have been portrayed as responding heroically to the COVID-19 pandemic, as warriors holding out at the front lines against a horrific contagious disease to which they and those they love remain vulnerable. Strikingly, that characterization has been democratically applied to all tiers of health care wor…
Joseph Sonnabend and the Aids Epidemic
Joseph Sonnabend and the AIDS Epidemic: Pioneering and Its Discontents Ronald Bayer PhD, and Gerald M. Oppenheimer PhD, MPH Affiliation Ronald Bayer and Gerald M. Oppenheimer are with the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Gerald M. Oppenheimer, PhD, MPH, Department of Sociomedical Sci…
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