Theodore M Brown
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3769322 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Theodore M Brown |
| PRENOMES | Theodore M |
| SOBRENOME | Brown |
| ASSINATURA | BROWN T M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 122 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 180 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 122 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1965 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
AJPH Project Examines the Journal ’s Past Representation of Historically Marginalized Populations
An American Health Dilemma 25 Years Later
Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a Towering Public Health Leader
The Covid-19 Pandemic in Historical Perspective
Covid-19, China, the World Health Organization, and the Limits of International Health Diplomacy
The World Health Organization
According to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health' without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic status, or social condition. But how consistently and how well has the WHO pursued this mission since 1946? This comprehensive and engaging new history explores these questions by looking at its origins and i…
Four Hundred Years Since Jamestown
Elizabeth Fee (1946–2018)
Elizabeth Fee was a remarkable and influential public health historian, whose personal and professional trajectories led her to speak truth to and about power in public health, past and present. Born in Northern Ireland in 1946 to Irish–Methodist missionary parents, Liz’s childhood brought her into contact with peoples and struggles across the globe. At just five weeks of age, she was whisked away by her parents to civil war–era China, where she …
Political parties and mortality
Introduction to a Reprint of Emilia Lombardi’s “Enhancing Transgender Health Care”
"Introduction to a Reprint of Emilia Lombardi’s “Enhancing Transgender Health Care”." , 107(2), pp. 232–233
Quentin Young (1923-2016)
Quentin Young (1923-2016): Advocate, Activist, and “Rebel Without a Pause” Affiliation Theodore M. Brown PhD, Elizabeth Fee PhD, and Michael N. Healey Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD. Michael N. Healey is an undergraduate student at…
At the Roots of The World Health Organization’s Challenges
The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) leadership challenges can be traced to its first decades of existence. Central to its governance and practice is regionalization: the division of its member countries into regions, each representing 1 geographical or cultural area. The particular composition of each region has varied over time—reflecting political divisions and especially decolonization. Currently, the 194 member countries belong to 6 regio…
Halfdan Mahler
The article discusses the life of Danish Dr. Halfdan Mahler who also served as the Secretary-General of the World Organization (WHO), and it mentions Mahler's work involving the Declaration of Alma-Ata in September 1978 in which the WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund, and 134 signatory nations declared the Health for All by 2000 goal. Social justice and global public health history are examined, along with health care accessibility and the a…
Brown Responds
Brown Responds: Why Hillary Clinton Is Wrong and Bernie Sanders Is Right Affiliation Theodore M. Brown PhDTheodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, and Associate Editor, AJPH.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Theodore M. Brown, History Department, University of Rochester, NY 14627 (e-mail: [email protected]rochester.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.a…
Working With the Panthers to Transform Health Care for Poor Black Communities
An introduction is presented in which the author discusses an excerpt from the book Everybody In, Nobody Out: Memoirs of a Rebel Without a Pause by Quentin Young, MD which appears in the journal and addresses the Black Panther Party's establishment of a medical care center in the 20th century
Mervyn Susser (1921–2014)
The article discusses the life and work of epidemiologist Mervyn Susser. Topics include Susser's work campaigning against the apartheid system of racial segregation, his focus, with his wife Zena Stein, on health and social injustice while running a clinic for non-Whites in South Africa, and Susser and Stein's work fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic that broke out in the 1980s
A Return to the Social Justice Spirit of Alma-Ata
AffiliationsElizabeth Fee is with the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Theodore M. Brown is with the Department of History, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Cognitive Dissonance in the Early Thirties
"Cognitive Dissonance in the Early Thirties: The League of Nations Health Organization Confronts the Worldwide Economic Depression." , 105(1), p. 65
Is Science Public Health’s BFF
The article discusses various reports within the issue, including one by Perera on the relationship between scientific research and policy on child labor reform in the U.S., one by Clapp et al. on the use of agent orange in Viet Nam and one by Gollust et al. on research and child obesity prevention in Minnesota
Ludwik Rajchman (1881–1965)
"Ludwik Rajchman (1881–1965): World Leader in Social Medicine and Director of the League of Nations Health Organization." , 104(9), pp. 1638–1639
Putting Roe v Wade in Perspective
The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one by Yanow on removing barriers to abortion services, one by Paltro on the prevention of the recriminalization of abortion in the U.S. and one by Askel et al. on abortion training opportunities for U.S. students and residents
Yogi Berra, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, and Millennium Development Goal 7
In this article the author offers his opinions on several points which are raised in the article Foreign Aid is Not a Rathole by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, which was published in the November 30, 2011 issue of the New York Times. A discussion of articles by Carolini and Greenberg which are published in the issue is also presented
Ludwig Teleky (1872–1957)
LUDWIG TELEKY WAS A MAJOR international figure in early twentieth century social and occupational medicine, admired for his scientific accomplishments, legislative and regulatory achievements, and progressive political views.1 He published some 350 papers, monographs, and books and cofounded an important journal, Archiv fur Gewerbepathologie und Gewerbehygiene (Archive of Industrial Pathology and Hygiene), yet at the same time held notable admini…
C. Arden Miller
IN THE 1980S, C. ARDEN MILLER was recognized as a national leader and expert on child health. Passionate, dedicated, and articulate, Miller was often cited in the press. In 1994, for example, he was interviewed in the New York Times about his comparative studies of maternal and child health services in 10 European countries. He declared that the French concept of prevention was “much more global” and “more valid and effective” than the concept of…
Stephen Smith (1823–1922)
to his lessons of longevity. And justifiably so, since considering that life expectancy at birth was then 41 years, he had already lived two normal lifetimes for his days! He credited his longevity to a lifetime of hard work, beginning as a child on his family farm. Born February 19, 1823, in New York State, the son of a cavalry officer in the Revolutionary War, Smith began his life in the year President James Monroe declared the Monroe Doctrine …
The World Health Organization and the Transition From “International” to “Global” Public Health
The term “global health” is rapidly replacing the older terminology of “international health.” We describe the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in both international and global health and in the transition from one to the other. We suggest that the term “global health” emerged as part of larger political and historical processes, in which WHO found its dominant role challenged and began to reposition itself within a shifting set of pow…
A transição de saúde pública 'internacional' para 'global' e a Organização Mundial da Saúde
No contexto da saúde pública internacional, 'saúde global' parece estar emergindo como um termo de reconhecida preferência. Este artigo apresenta uma análise crítica do significado e importância de 'saúde global', e situa sua crescente popularidade no contexto histórico. Um foco específico deste estudo é o papel da Organização Mundial da Saúde - OMS, tanto na saúde 'internacional' quanto na 'global', e como um agente na transição de uma para outr…
Rudolf Carl Virchow
GENERALLY REGARDED AS one of the most brilliant and influential biomedical scientists of the 19th century, Rudolf Carl Virchow was, remarkably, also one of the most courageous and inspiring proponents of social medicine.1 He was born on October 13, 1821, in Schivelbein, Pomerania, then in eastern Prussia, but since 1945, part of northwestern Poland. Rebellious and intellectually gifted, in 1839 Virchow won a scholarship in 1839 to the Friedrich-W…
WHO at 60
WHEN WE THINK OF THE WORLD Health Organization (WHO), a number of dramatic moments and milestones leap to mind: the launching of the new international health organization in 1948 with the stirring preamble to its constitution; the visionary Alma Ata Declaration of 1978; the announcement in 1980 of the eradication of smallpox, the first disease to be eliminated in human history1; Jonathan Mann’s effective leadership of WHO’s international campaign…
The Bandoeng Conference of 1937
INCREASINGLY REGARDED as a milestone event, the Bandoeng (also Bandung) Conference on Rural Hygiene, held in August 1937 in what is now the third-largest city in Indonesia, capped a surge of interwar interest in “rural hygiene” and in several ways foreshadowed the World Health Organization’s famous Alma Ata Conference and Declaration of September 1978.1,2 By the 1930s and largely under the leadership of the League of Nations Health Organization (…
Political parties and mortality
Years of the Pan American Health Organization
This year we celebrate the Centennial of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).1 Born in 1902 as the International Sanitary Bureau, PAHO has gone through great transformations in its hundred-year history. From a small organization dominated by the United States Public Health Service, charged with rationalizing a complex set of quarantine regulations, it has become a genuinely international body. It now serves as the regional office of the W…
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels was born on November 28, 1820, in Barmen, Germany, into a wealthy family with deep roots in the yarn and cloth industry. His father owned a textile factory in Barmen and was a partner in a cottonspinning factory in Manchester, England. At the age of 17, under pressure from his father, Friedrich began to acquire business experience. But as a spirited and precocious young man, he also published poetry, learned languages fluently, e…
At the Roots of The World Health Organization’s Challenges
The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) leadership challenges can be traced to its first decades of existence. Central to its governance and practice is regionalization: the division of its member countries into regions, each representing 1 geographical or cultural area. The particular composition of each region has varied over time—reflecting political divisions and especially decolonization. Currently, the 194 member countries belong to 6 regio…
Birth of the American Journal of Public Health
The article discusses the history of the publication of Health. The American Health Association (APHA) was founded in 1872 and began publishing meeting transactions in its annual publication Public Health Reports and Papers, which later was titled Public Health Papers and Reports. In 1907 the of Hygiene, originally published as the Journal of the Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health, became the laboratory section of the APHA. The article…
Milton I. Roemer Advocate of Social Medicine, International Health, and National Health Insurance
MILTON ROEMER WAS BORN in 1916 in Paterson, New Jersey, where his father practiced medicine. At the age of 16, he entered Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, as a premedical student. At Cornell, he met Ruth Rosenbaum, who was soon to become Ruth Roemer, his lifelong partner in public health and health activism. Henry Sigerist, then professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins, was an important influence on Roemer during his medical s…
Andrija Stampar
ANDRIJA STAMPAR, ONE OF the most charismatic and beloved figures in 20th century public health, was born in the village of Drenovac, Croatia, on September 1, 1888. His father was a schoolteacher who, because of his liberal views, had to move frequently to escape the consequences of his political convictions.1 Young Andrija absorbed his father’s values and, though a brilliant student, sometimes came into conflict with his teachers when he asserted…
Jonathan Mann
The article looks at the life and death of Jonathan Mann, founder of the health and human rights movement. During the 1980s Mann and his family moved to what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo where he helped gather epidemiological, clinical, and biomedical evidence on HIV and AIDS in an African context. Later Mann jointed the World Health Organization and spearheaded the development of the first global strategy on HIV/AIDS, mobilized in…
Popularizing the Toothbrush
TOOTH DECAY IN EUROPE and America is believed to have increased dramatically during the 19th century as a result of the growing general availability of refined flour and sugar in industrially processed foods. By the end of the century, surveys showed that between 90% and 95% of all children had untreated decaying teeth.1 Most children saw a dentist—if at all—only for emergency extractions. In 1910, local dentists examined 447 schoolchildren in El…
Factory Injuries and Progressive Reform
In 1907,the popular author Arthur B.Reeve wrote, “To unprecedentedprosperity . . . there is a seamyside of which little is said. Thou-sands of wage earners, men,women, and children, [are]caught in the machinery of ourrecord breaking production andturned out cripples. . . . Otherthousands [are] killed outright. . . .How many there [are] none cansay exactly for we [are] too busymaking our record breaking pro-duction to count the dead.”
Struggles for National Health Reform in the United States
One Size Does Not Fit All in the Transgender Community
RICHARD RASKIND HAD BEEN captain of Yale’s tennis team and enjoyed some success on the American amateur circuit. He went to medical school, became an ophthalmologist, served in the United States Navy, married, gained a pilot’s license, and competed in the US Open. Then, at age 41, after 10 years of psychoanalysis and a divorce, he underwent a sex change operation and emerged as Dr Renee Richards.1 Renee Richards moved to California and joined a n…
Sidney Kark and John Cassel
WIDELY RECOGNIZED AS ONE of the 20th century’s most original, inspirational, and influential leaders in social medicine, Sidney Kark was born in 1911 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to which his family had emigrated from Lithuania in the 1880s.1 After graduating from high school, Kark entered the medical school at Witwatersrand University in 1929 but was forced to abandon his studies in the early 1930s because of the economic depression. He later …
Medicine in the Shadow of the Principia
In the past two decades scholars have considerably deepened our understanding of Isaac Newton and his work. In large part by exploring previously unknown or incompletely mined manuscript sources, they have uncovered significant new features of the man himself and have further unravelled the complex fabric of his mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Derek T. Whiteside, for example, has completed a masterly edition of Newton's mathematical papers,…
Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a Towering Public Health Leader
The Covid-19 Pandemic in Historical Perspective
Covid-19, China, the World Health Organization, and the Limits of International Health Diplomacy
Four Hundred Years Since Jamestown
Quentin Young (1923-2016)
Quentin Young (1923-2016): Advocate, Activist, and “Rebel Without a Pause” Affiliation Theodore M. Brown PhD, Elizabeth Fee PhD, and Michael N. Healey Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD. Michael N. Healey is an undergraduate student at…
Halfdan Mahler
The article discusses the life of Danish Dr. Halfdan Mahler who also served as the Secretary-General of the World Organization (WHO), and it mentions Mahler's work involving the Declaration of Alma-Ata in September 1978 in which the WHO, the United Nations Children's Fund, and 134 signatory nations declared the Health for All by 2000 goal. Social justice and global public health history are examined, along with health care accessibility and the a…
Thoreau's Prophetic Architectural Program
S S for a shelter, I will not deny that this is now a necessary of A life, though there are instances of men having done without it for long periods in colder countries than this.... However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house, [he must] Consider first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary.' Thus Thoreau reluctantly conceded the inevitability of building. But as he urged That government is best which governs least,2 he demanded s…
In the Wake of Pasteurella pestis A History of the Bubonic Plague in the British Isles . J. F. D. Shrewsbury
Interview
Science and Education in the Seventeenth Century
Margaret Bourke-White, Photojournalist
Tenements of Clay
Public Health and the Medical Profession in the Renaissance . Carlo M. Cipolla
A New Wave of Iatrogenic Suspicion
The Philosophy of Medicine
A System of Scientific Medicine
Disease and Discovery
Medicine in the Shadow of the Principia
In the past two decades scholars have considerably deepened our understanding of Isaac Newton and his work. In large part by exploring previously unknown or incompletely mined manuscript sources, they have uncovered significant new features of the man himself and have further unravelled the complex fabric of his mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Derek T. Whiteside, for example, has completed a masterly edition of Newton's mathematical papers,…
For the Welfare of Mankind
James Peter Warbasse
James Peter Warbasse Theodore M. Brown CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.86.1.109 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Kupat Holim, Dr. Isaac Max Rubinow, and the American Zionist Medical Unit's Experiment to Establish Health Care Services in Palestine, 1918-1923
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 1, Spring 1998
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
CHILDHOOD LEAD POISONING PREVENTION The Editors Comment Theodore M. Brown, and Elizabeth Fee CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.89.7.1131 Published Online: October 07, 2011
"The Battle for Health"
The Common Lot
Twenty years ago, in a symposium organized to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine, Charles Webster called for a new social history of medicine. Urging his colleagues to heed the advice offered some four decades earlier by Henry Sigerist, Institute director from 1932 to 1947, he challenged historians of medicine to widen the scope of their studies to include all forms and contexts of medical…
Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton (1869–1970), best known as America's pioneering industrial toxicologist, was one of an impressive group of young women who lived in Hull House, in Chicago, Ill, at the turn of the 20th century under the charismatic leadership of Jane Addams.1 She received her MD degree from the University of Michigan in 1893, studied in Germany and at Johns Hopkins University, then came to Hull House in 1897 when she accepted a teaching position at…
Immigrant Mother and Child
THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS published in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Chicago Lying-In Hospital and Dispensary for 1910. Through 1910, more than 12 000 women had delivered babies at home, attended by dispensary physicians. This image was used as part of a fund-raising effort by the Women's Board of the dispensary to help build 3 small hospitals for women who could not safely be attended in their homes. The mother and child in the photograph are id…
Fee and Brown Respond
Clearly, our perspective is considerably different from Dr Henderson's. We do not see eye to eye on many things, and as a result, we have divergent views not only of the past but of our current circumstances as well. Since we don't occupy common ground, it is not surprising that we do not share the same eerie feeling of deja vu. What you see depends, to a large degree, on where you stand. On one point, we feel the need to respond specifically to …
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
committee of the American Public Health Association stated that any type of gathering of people involving mixing of bodies and sharing of breath in crowded rooms was dangerous. It advised that saloons, dance halls, and cinemas should be closed and public funerals prohibited as unnecessary assemblies. The influenza pandemic spread worldwide through 1918‐1919, during the later phases of the war. Military populations were particularly at risk, with …
Psychologists on the March
Years of the Pan American Health Organization
This year we celebrate the Centennial of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).1 Born in 1902 as the International Sanitary Bureau, PAHO has gone through great transformations in its hundred-year history. From a small organization dominated by the United States Public Health Service, charged with rationalizing a complex set of quarantine regulations, it has become a genuinely international body. It now serves as the regional office of the W…
The Tooth Puller [L'arracheur de dents]
FROM THE MIDDLE AGES through the early 19th century, tooth pulling was often performance art. Barber-surgeons cut hair, set bones, let blood, and pulled teeth. Toothache could be treated with leeches, blistering, cupping, and laxatives, as well as with prescriptions of lizard liver, green frogs, and a urine gargle.1 Opium mixtures were popular painkillers. When refined sugar became widely available in the 17th century, dental caries became common…
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