Topic & Reading List
Topic 1: Demography
Week 1: excerpts from Klein, A Population History of the United States
Week 2: excerpts from Klein, A Population History of the United States
Topic 2: Medical School
Week 3: “Chapter 1: Creating the System,” and “Chapter 4: The Rise of Graduate Medical Education,” from Ludmerer, Kenneth M. 1999. Time to Heal: American Medical Education From the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Week 4: “Chapter 14: Medical Education in an Era of Cost Containment and Managed Care,” from Ludmerer, Kenneth M. 1999. Time to Heal: American Medical Education From the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Emanuel, Ezekiel J. “Reforming American Medical Education.” The Milbank Quarterly: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Population Health and Health Policy, vol. 95(4), December 2017, pp. 692-697; Jena, Anupam B., et al. "Long-term effects of the 2003 ACGME resident duty hour reform on hospital mortality." Mayo Clinic Proceedings, vol. 89, no. 7, 2014, p. 1023+; Charles E. Rosenberg, “Community and Communities: The Evolution of the American Hospital,” The American General Hospital: Communities and Social Contexts, Diana E. Long and Janet Golden, ed. (Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 1989), p.3-17.
Topic 3: The Hospital
Week 5: “Chapter 7: ‘Alone Among Strangers,’” from Leavitt, Judith W. Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950. Cary, NC, USA: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1988; Temkin, Elizabeth. "Rooming-In: Redesigning Hospitals and Motherhood in Cold War America." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 76.2 (2002): 271-98.
Week 6: Hoffman, Beatrix. “Emergency Rooms: The Reluctant Safety Net.” History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In. Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns, ed. New Brunswick; London: Rutgers University Press, 2006. p.250-272; Kliff, Sarah. “Car crash hospitals vs. plane crash hospitals,” The Impact (podcast). 23 October 2017, https://www.vox.com/2017/10/23/16387300/hospital-policy-saved-thousands-lives-central-line-infection; Kliff, Sarah. “How California saves moms from dying in childbirth,” The Impact (podcast). 4 December 2017, https://www.vox.com/2017/12/4/16705164/us-maternal-death-rate-high-california-doctors-the-impact.
Topic 4: Technology in Medicine
Week 7: Ch. 4, “Clinical Use of the X-ray Machine,” from Howell, Technology in the Hospital; Ch. 6 from Womack, The Radiation Evangelists.
Week 8: Ch. 3, “Lifesaving but Unaffordable: The Improbable Journey of the Artificial Kidney,” from Reiser, Technological Medicine: The Changing World of Doctors and Patients.
Week 9: Ch. 4, “Promising Rescue, Preventing Release: The Double Edge of the Artificial Respirator,” from Reiser, Technological Medicine: The Changing World of Doctors and Patients; Vanstone, Meredith, Cernat, Alexandra, Nisker, Jeff, and Schwartz, Lisa. “Women’s Perspectives on the Ethical Implications of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing: A Qualitative Analysis to Inform Health Policy Decisions.” BMC medical ethics. 19, no. 1 (April 16, 2018).
Topic 5: Pharma
Week 10: Greene, Jeremy A. Greene and Scott H. Podolsky, “Keeping Modern in Medicine: Pharmaceutical Promotion and Physician Education in Postwar America,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 83.2 (2009): 331-377.
Week 11: Greene, Jeremy A. "Releasing the Flood Waters: Diuril and the Reshaping of Hypertension." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 79.4 (2005): 749-94; Heather Hartley, “The ‘Pinking’ of Viagra Culture: Drug Industry Efforts to Create and Repackage Sex Drugs for Women,” The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, 8th ed., Peter Conrad, ed. (Worth Publishers, 2009), 287-296.
Topic 6: The Patient Experience
Week 12: Peter Conrad, “The Shifting Engines of Medicalization,” Conrad, Peter. The Medicalization of Society : On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Week 13: Insurance lectures; “The Rise and Decline of the HMO: A Chapter in U.S. Health-Policy History,” from History and Health Care Policy: Putting the Past Back In. Ed. Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Week 14: Julia Belluz, “The evidence is clear: people with Medicaid are better off than those without,” Vox; Kliff & Scott, “We read Democrats’ 9 plans for expanding health care. Here’s how they work,” Vox (20 March 2019).
Week 15: “The sentence that helped set off the opioid crisis,” from The Uncertain Hour (podcast); “How America Became Addicted to Opioids,” The Weeds (podcast); Tomes, Nancy. “Patients or Health-Care Consumers? Why the History of a Contested Term Matters.” History and Health Care Policy: Putting the Past Back In. Ed. Rosemary A. Stevens, Charles E. Rosenberg, and Lawton R. Burns. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. 83-110.