Jeremy A Greene
Biographic Data
| ID | 81914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy A Greene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy A |
| FAMILY NAME | Greene |
| SIGNATURE | GREENE J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8013-0694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Which History and Social Science Concepts Should Inform Health Professions Education
Teaching and learning patient advocacy in academic health centers requires critical engagement with social, political, and cultural conceptions of racial difference. This article considers understandings of race and racism typically drawn upon in health care and suggests which historical and social science-based approaches should be used in health professions teaching and learning
A Tribute to Caroline Catherine Hannaway (1943–2024)
Book Forum
The Amulets from the Carthaginian tophet
Amulets found in burial urns of the Carthaginian tophet are discussed in terms of frequency of occurrence, and the nature and chronology of their material composition. Amulets were added in only 31 % of the urns studied, exclusively to urns containing human remains, with glass, faience, gold and silver the most common materials used. Chemical analysis of a selection of glass and silver amulets identified the primary origin of raw materials used i…
Uniformity in Tophet Ceramics
Burial urns and lids found in the Carthage tophet precinct play a pivotal role in our understanding of material trajectories. Significant differences in macroscopic features present problems as to where and how these vessels were made. In general, issues in sourcing north African ceramic materials stem from their compositional homogeneity, having mostly sand and calcareous fractions varying to a greater or lesser degree. In this paper we present …
In Memory of Lawrence E. Stager and “Archaeology and History”
This article is a tribute to the life of Professor Lawrence E. Stager, prominent biblical scholar and archaeologist from Harvard University who conducted important excavations and research at the tophet of Carthage. Following this tribute is an unpublished article by the late Professor Stager with a preface to the article by the author
Introduction to the Special Issue
This general introduction serves as a preface to each author’s contribution, outlining certain common standards and methods. These include the range of meanings we use for specific terms and the answers to basic yet often contested interrogatives relating to the precinct (the who, what, when, and where) and the history of polemical debates within the discipline (the why and how). By providing this background context here, oft repeated at the begi…
Health in the Highlands
Populated by curanderos , midwives, bonesetters, witches, doctors, nurses, and the indigenous people they served, this nuanced history demonstrates how cultural and political history, misogyny, racism, and racialization influence public health. In the first half of the twentieth century, the governments of Ecuador and Guatemala sought to spread scientific medicine to their populaces, working to prevent and treat malaria, typhus, and typhoid; to b…
Institutional Reckonings in the History of Medicine
Institutional Reckonings in the History of Medicine Jeremy Greene, Alisha Rankin, and Gabriela Soto Laveaga This issue of the Bulletin includes three independently proposed articles that converge on the topic of institutional racism—and student activism against it—in the context of academic medicine in the United States. Two of the essays focus on the recent role of student activists in decrying the racist and eugenicist ideologies of vaunted phy…
The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease
As an international network of historians and social scientists who study approaches to the management of drugs across time and place, we have noticed the effort to redefine addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease (CRBD). The CRBD model is promoted as a route to destigmatize addiction and to empower individuals to access treatment that works within that model’s terms.1 CRBD usefully recognizes that brain-based neural adaptations place ind…
Introduction to Special Issue
Stuck in Traffic
Since the late twentieth century, two United Nations organizations have monitored the global trade in drugs from their respective perches in Geneva: the Essential Drugs Program of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). In 1988, the Essential Drugs Program published the first edition of the World Drug Situation, which narrates the many barriers preventing “essential” drugs (antibiotics, anti-e…
Introduction
Over the past year, historians of medicine have found our discipline invested with a new sense of relevance. In trying to make sense of epidemics past and present, many of us have been substantially influenced by Charles Rosenberg’s 1989 Daedalus essay, “What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective.” Writing in the middle of another unfolding global pandemic, Rosenberg suggested that all epidemics possessed similar forms of social choreogr…
A Tribute to Gert Brieger (1932–2021)
A Tribute to Gert Brieger (1932–2021) Jeremy A. Greene, Daniel Todes, Susan Reverby, and Jackie Wehmueller Click for larger view View full resolution Gert Brieger, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine [End Page vi] It is with great sadness that the Bulletin of the History of Medicine shares news of the passing of its former Editor in Chief, Gert Brieger, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., a towering figure in our field who played a key part in bu…
The Pandemic and the Supply Chain
A medical student scholarly concentrations program
Our findings suggest that a Scholarly Concentrations program is associated with an increased self-efficacy for research, and these changes in self-efficacy are associated with higher satisfaction in the scholarly experience and increased likelihood of pursuing scholarly work. Other medical schools could use such a tool of self-efficacy to both investigate the overall Scholarly Concentrations experience and understand factors that may increase int…
Introduction
Over the past year, historians of medicine have found our discipline invested with a new sense of relevance. In trying to make sense of epidemics past and present, many of us have been substantially influenced by Charles Rosenberg's 1989 Daedalus essay, "What Is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective." Writing in the middle of another unfolding global pandemic, Rosenberg suggested that all epidemics possessed similar forms of social choreogr…
Critical Drugs for Critical Care
Critical Drugs for Critical Care: Protecting the US Pharmaceutical Supply in a Time of Crisis Mariana P. Socal MD, PhD, Joshua M. Sharfstein MD, and Jeremy A. Greene MD, PhD Affiliation Mariana P. Socal and Joshua M. Sharfstein are with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. Jeremy A. Greene is with the Department of History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities …
Knowledge in Medias Res
Media history offers an essential but easily overlooked set of tools for understanding scientific facts as historical processes. This essay argues that the "when" of the specific media through which scientific knowledge is created, disseminated, and taken up as authoritative has played a central part in the "how," "what," and "why" of scientific fact-making as well as our iterative attempts to historicize science, medicine, and technology. Attend…
Innovation on the Reservation
In May 1973 a new collaboration between NASA, the Indian Health Service, and the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company promised to transform the way members of the Papago (now Tohono O'odham) Tribe of southern Arizona accessed modern medicine. Through a system of state-of-the-art microwave relays, slow-scan television links, and Mobile Health Units, the residents of the third-largest American Indian reservation began to access physicians remotely v…
Therapeutic Proofs and Medical Truths
Therapeutic Proofs and Medical Truths:The Enduring Legacy of Early Modern Drug Trials Jeremy A. Greene (bio) "It would be a fruitless enterprise," Owsei Temkin wrote in 1964, "to enter upon speculations on the origins of drug therapy. Suffice to say that it is very old."1 All the same, modernists like to think of the practice of clinical trials for drug therapy as a relatively new thing in the world. Many of my clinical colleagues consider the ra…
A Complicated Legacy
For museums, legacy collections of archaeological materials purchased from the antiquities market in the past are problematic in multiple respects. By any modern definition, they are loot: objects removed from their original contexts without regard to their find-spots (provenience), conveyed through a black market with no record of a chain of title (provenance), offered openly by sellers with no rightful claim of ownership to buyers with no scrup…
Are the Medical Humanities for Sale? Lessons from a Historical Debate
Isotopic investigation into the raw materials of Late Bronze Age glass making
Making the Case for History in Medical Education
Historians of medicine have struggled for centuries to make the case for history in medical education. They have developed many arguments about the value of historical perspective, but their efforts have faced persistent obstacles, from limited resources to curricular time constraints and skepticism about whether history actually is essential for physicians. Recent proposals have suggested that history should ally itself with the other medical hu…
Attention to ‘Details’
This paper provides a sketch of the emerging role of the pharmaceutical salesman, or 'detail man', in the growth years of the American post-World War II pharmaceutical industry. Using training manuals, trade literature, in-house company newsletters, memoirs, and a variety of other published sources, the paper follows the delicate tactics employed by salesmen and their managers in their attempts to recast drug salesmanship as a 'professional servi…
Isotopic investigation into the raw materials of Late Bronze Age glass making
Roy Porter Memorial Prize Essay Therapeutic Infidelities
Although a concern with patients who do not follow their prescribed therapies can be found in Hippocratic writings, the description of a patient as specifically 'noncompliant' did not rise to prominence in the Anglo-American medical literature until the late twentieth century. This article surveys the nascent noncompliance literature in the post-Second World War era to ask how and why the noncompliant patient became a resonant category and resear…
Aging cremated infants
The Greeks and Romans reproached the Phoenicians for the sacrifice of infants, and the excavation of cremated infants at 'Tophets' (named after the sacrificial site in Jerusalem mentioned in the Bible) seems to bear this out. However, the argument for infant sacrifice depends largely on a skewed age profile, and age is not easy to determine. The authors approach this problem with a battery of new techniques, showing that in the Tophet of Carthage…
Hidden in PLAIN SIGHT Marketing Prescription Drugs to Consumers in the Twentieth Century
Although the public health impact of direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising remains a subject of great controversy, such promotion is typically understood as a recent phenomenon permitted only by changes in federal regulation of print and broadcast advertising over the past two decades. But today's omnipresent ads are only the most recent chapter in a longer history of DTC pharmaceutical promotion (including the ghostwriting of popul…
Prescribing by Numbers
The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease
As an international network of historians and social scientists who study approaches to the management of drugs across time and place, we have noticed the effort to redefine addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease (CRBD). The CRBD model is promoted as a route to destigmatize addiction and to empower individuals to access treatment that works within that model’s terms.1 CRBD usefully recognizes that brain-based neural adaptations place ind…
The Decline and Rise of Coronary Heart Disease
The decline of coronary heart disease mortality in the United States and Western Europe is one of the great accomplishments of modern public health and medicine. Cardiologists and cardiovascular epidemiologists have devoted significant effort to disease surveillance and epidemiological modeling to understand its causes. One unanticipated outcome of these efforts has been the detection of early warnings that the decline had slowed, plateaued, or e…
Pestle use and modification by tufted capuchins (Cebus apella)
Cemetery or sacrifice? Infant burials at the Carthage Tophet
The recent article on the Carthage Tophet infants by Schwartzet al.(2012) takes issue with our paper (Smithet al.2011) that claims the Carthaginians practiced infant sacrifice. Both studies were carried out on the same sample of cremated infant remains excavated by the ASOR Punic project between 1975 and 1980 (Stager 1982). We examined the contents of 334 urns while Schwartzet al.(2012) examined the same sample plus an additional fourteen urns (N…
Knowledge in Medias Res
Media history offers an essential but easily overlooked set of tools for understanding scientific facts as historical processes. This essay argues that the "when" of the specific media through which scientific knowledge is created, disseminated, and taken up as authoritative has played a central part in the "how," "what," and "why" of scientific fact-making as well as our iterative attempts to historicize science, medicine, and technology. Attend…
Innovation on the Reservation
In May 1973 a new collaboration between NASA, the Indian Health Service, and the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company promised to transform the way members of the Papago (now Tohono O'odham) Tribe of southern Arizona accessed modern medicine. Through a system of state-of-the-art microwave relays, slow-scan television links, and Mobile Health Units, the residents of the third-largest American Indian reservation began to access physicians remotely v…
Making the Case for History in Medical Education
Historians of medicine have struggled for centuries to make the case for history in medical education. They have developed many arguments about the value of historical perspective, but their efforts have faced persistent obstacles, from limited resources to curricular time constraints and skepticism about whether history actually is essential for physicians. Recent proposals have suggested that history should ally itself with the other medical hu…
What's in a Name? Generics and the Persistence of the Pharmaceutical Brand in American Medicine
This paper explores the complex role that brand names have played in the maintenance of therapeutic standards within twentieth-century American medicine. What made a generic drug generic in the second half of the twentieth century--and by extension, what made a nonproprietary drug not proprietary in the first half--was dependent on changing drug branding practices and evolving standards of evidence attached to claims of therapeutic efficacy and s…
Critical Drugs for Critical Care
Critical Drugs for Critical Care: Protecting the US Pharmaceutical Supply in a Time of Crisis Mariana P. Socal MD, PhD, Joshua M. Sharfstein MD, and Jeremy A. Greene MD, PhD Affiliation Mariana P. Socal and Joshua M. Sharfstein are with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. Jeremy A. Greene is with the Department of History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities …
Pills, Power, and Policy
In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has been in close competition with the tobacco industry for the title of least-trusted industry in the world. There is a paradox here: after all, one industry markets poisons, while the other markets cures. Yet the political histories of the two industries show striking congruences. As Dominique A. Tobbell argues in Pills, Power, and Policy, by the mid-1960s the pharmaceutical industry had developed su…
Search for Apollo . 1981. 16mm, color, 25 minutes. Produced and directed by David S. McAllister . Written by David Soren and narrated by Steve Twitchell
The Excavations at Tall Darūk (Usnu?) and ʿArab al-Mulk (Paltos) . Evelyn Oldenburg , Jørgen Rohweder
Sarepta I, the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Strata of Area II, Y
Pestle use and modification by tufted capuchins (Cebus apella)
The use of naturally-occurring copper and iron tools by monkeys
Nuzi and the Hurrians
Preserving which past for whose future? The dilemma of cultural resource management in case studies from Tunisia, Cyprus and Jordan
(1999). Preserving which past for whose future? The dilemma of cultural resource management in case studies from Tunisia, Cyprus and Jordan. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites: Vol. 3, No. 1-2, pp. 43-60
Dialogue on Dialogue
The text you are about to read is a dialogical text on dialogue and evaluation. It is a conversation between a group of scholars who have studied and published on the concept of dialogue and the value of dialogue for the practice of evaluation. The text is based on the field notes of a panel meeting held during a gathering of the European Evaluation Society to discuss this topic. It also contains an analysis of essays written in preparation for t…
Evaluation extrapolations
The Archaeology of Jordan and beyond
Commentary
An Ethnography of Nonadherence
Roy Porter Memorial Prize Essay Therapeutic Infidelities
Although a concern with patients who do not follow their prescribed therapies can be found in Hippocratic writings, the description of a patient as specifically 'noncompliant' did not rise to prominence in the Anglo-American medical literature until the late twentieth century. This article surveys the nascent noncompliance literature in the post-Second World War era to ask how and why the noncompliant patient became a resonant category and resear…
Attention to ‘Details’
This paper provides a sketch of the emerging role of the pharmaceutical salesman, or 'detail man', in the growth years of the American post-World War II pharmaceutical industry. Using training manuals, trade literature, in-house company newsletters, memoirs, and a variety of other published sources, the paper follows the delicate tactics employed by salesmen and their managers in their attempts to recast drug salesmanship as a 'professional servi…
Releasing the Flood Waters
This article narrates the development and promotion in the 1950s and 1960s of Merck, Sharp & Dohme's Diuril (chlorothiazide), an antihypertensive drug, which played a significant role in the redefinition of high blood pressure as a widespread target for chronic pharmaceutical consumption. The joined careers of Diuril and hypertension in the late twentieth century demonstrate the connections between the clinical research, clinical practice, and ma…
Prescribing by Numbers
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…
For Me There Is No Substitute”—Authenticity, Uniqueness, and the Lessons of Lipitor
The phrase “I take Lipitor instead of a generic” was embedded in the public consciousness through an advertising campaign that featured Robert Jarvik, credited with the invention of the artificial heart
On Speed
Reviewed by: On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine Jeremy Greene Nicolas Rasmussen. On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine. New York: New York University Press, 2008. ix + 352 pp. Ill. $30.00 (ISBN-10: 0-8147-7601-9, ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-7601-8). In recent years, an interdisciplinary field of scholarship has begun to interrogate the history, sociology, and anthropology of specific pharmaceuticals in order to unravel the complex networks that co…
Hidden in PLAIN SIGHT Marketing Prescription Drugs to Consumers in the Twentieth Century
Although the public health impact of direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising remains a subject of great controversy, such promotion is typically understood as a recent phenomenon permitted only by changes in federal regulation of print and broadcast advertising over the past two decades. But today's omnipresent ads are only the most recent chapter in a longer history of DTC pharmaceutical promotion (including the ghostwriting of popul…
Online Social Networking by Patients with Diabetes
Making medicines essential
What's in a Name? Generics and the Persistence of the Pharmaceutical Brand in American Medicine
This paper explores the complex role that brand names have played in the maintenance of therapeutic standards within twentieth-century American medicine. What made a generic drug generic in the second half of the twentieth century--and by extension, what made a nonproprietary drug not proprietary in the first half--was dependent on changing drug branding practices and evolving standards of evidence attached to claims of therapeutic efficacy and s…
Aging cremated infants
The Greeks and Romans reproached the Phoenicians for the sacrifice of infants, and the excavation of cremated infants at 'Tophets' (named after the sacrificial site in Jerusalem mentioned in the Bible) seems to bear this out. However, the argument for infant sacrifice depends largely on a skewed age profile, and age is not easy to determine. The authors approach this problem with a battery of new techniques, showing that in the Tophet of Carthage…
The materiality of the brand
This article narrates a late twentieth century controversy in American medicine over the clinical, public health, and financial value of ‘look-alike drugs’ a set of generic pharmaceuticals that imitated their brand-name counterparts down to exact parameters of size, shape, and color. At stake in these conflicts was the emerging landscape of market exclusivity for formerly innovative pharmaceuticals once their patent rights expired. After the pate…
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