Theodore M. Brown
Professor
368 Rush Rhees Library
Rochester, New York 14627-0070
Theodore_Brown@URMC.rochester.edu
phone: 585.275.2051
fax: 585.756.4425
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1968
Courses Offered
(subject to change)
Spring 2009
HIS 208: Health, Medicine, and Social Reform (7PM 479)
HIS 287: History of International and Global Health
Fall 2009
HIS 305W/405: American Health Policy and Politics (7PM 420)
Spring 2010
HIS 209: Changing Concepts of Health and Illness (7PM 480)
HIS 287: History of International and Global Health
Fields of Interest
Intellectual, institutional, and political history of medicine.
My research falls into several areas: the history of American psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine; the influence of organized philanthropy on medical research, health policy, and medical education; the American health left and its role in both domestic and international health policy; and the history of American and global public health. I am currently working on two books, a collection of essays (co-edited with Anne-Emanuelle Birn), U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home, and a synthetic and analytical history of the World Health Organization (co-authored with Marcos Cueto and Elizabeth Fee), A History of the World Health Organization in the Context of Global Health.
Representative Publications:
- "Jonathan Mann: Founder of the Health and Human Rights Movement" [with Daniel Tarantola, Sofia Gruskin and Elizabeth Fee], American Journal of Public Health (2006).
- "Andrija Stampar: Charismatic Leader of Social Medicine and International Health" [with Elizabeth Fee], American Journal of Public Health (2006).
- "The World Health Organization and the Transition from 'International' to 'Global' Public Health" [with Marcos Cueto and Elizabeth Fee], American Journal of Public Health (2006).
- "The Public Health Act of 1848" [with Elizabeth Fee], Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2005).
- "Using Medical History to Shape a Profession: The Ideals of William Osler and Henry E. Sigerist" [with Elizabeth Fee], in Locating Medical History: The Stories and their Meanings, eds. Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner (2004).
- "A Role for Public Health History" [with Elizabeth Fee], American Journal of Public Health (2004).
- "George Engel and Rochester's Biopsychosocial Tradition: Historical and Developmental Perspectives" in The Biopsychosocial Approach: Past, Present, Future, eds. Richard Frankel, Timothy Quill, and Susan McDaniel (2003).
- "Struggles for National Health Reform in the United States" [with Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Elizabeth Fee, and Walter Lear], American Journal of Public Health (2003).
- "The Unfulfilled Promise of Public Health: Deja vu All Over Again" [with Elizabeth Fee], Health Affairs (2002).
- "Preemptive Biopreparedness: Can We Learn Anything from History?" [with Elizabeth Fee], American Journal of Public Health (2001).
- "A Century of Progress in Public Health?" [with Elizabeth Fee], American Journal of Public Health (1999).
- "Isaac Max Rubinow and the American Zionist Medical Unit's Mission to Palestine, 1918-1923" [with Shifra Shvarts], Bulletin of the History of Medicine (1998).
- "George Canby Robinson and 'The Patient as a Person,'" in Greater Than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine Between the Wars, eds. Christopher Lawrence and George Weisz (1998).
- "Emotions and Disease in Historical Perspective", in Emotions and Disease (1997).
- Making Medical History: The Life and Times of Henry E. Sigerist [co-edited with Elizabeth Fee] (1997).
- "Mental Diseases," in Companion Encyclopaedia of the History of Medicine (1993).
- "Alan Gregg and the Rockefeller Foundation's Support of Franz Alexander's Psychosomatic Research," Bulletin of the History of Medicine (1987).
