Fields of Interest:
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.
Graduate Fields:
I offer the following fields for the PhD qualifying examination. For explanations of fields, see the "Graduate Overview" page in the Graduate Handbook.
Teaching Fields:
History of Domestic and Global Health (Transnational)
History of Medicine (Transnational)
Public Health and Health Policy (Transnational)
Research Fields:
History of Domestic and Global Health (Transnational)
History of Medicine (Transnational)
Public Health and Health Policy (Transnational)
I will be accepting students for admission in Fall 2013.
Courses Offered:
- HLS 116: Introduction to the U.S. Health System
- HIS 208: Health, Medicine, and Social Reform
- HIS 209: Changing Concepts of Health and Illness
- HIS 287: History of International and Global Health
- HIS 305W/405: Politics and Policies in the U.S. Health Care System
Representative Publications:
