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Name: Allan M. Brandt
CURRICULUM VITAE
Office Address: Department of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 432-4365 FAX: (617) 432-3721
e-mail: brandt@fas.harvard.edu
Home Address: 49 Buswell Park
Newton, MA 02158
(617) 965-9522
Place of Birth: Washington, DC
Education:
Internships:
1983 Ph.D. Columbia University (American History)
1978 M.Phil. Columbia University (American History)
1975 M.A. Columbia University (American History)
1974 B.A. Brandeis University (Magna cum laude, honors in history)
1977 Hastings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
Academic Appointments:
2000- present Chair, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
1996- present Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
1992- present Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine
Department of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Program in the History of Medicine
Professor of the History of Science
Department of the History of Science
Harvard University
1990-1992 Associate Professor
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Department of Social Medicine and Department of History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1987-1990 Associate Professor of the History of Medicine and Science
Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy
Harvard Medical School
Department of the History of Science
Harvard University
1983-1987 Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine and Science
Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy
Harvard Medical School
Department of the History of Science
Harvard University
1982 Instructor
Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy
Harvard Medical School
Department of the History of Science
Harvard University
1982 Instructor
Department of History
Smith College
1979-1982 Teaching Fellow in the Humanities
Faculty of Medicine
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
1977-1982 Research Associate
Project on Value and Ethics in Health Care
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University
Fellowships and Awards:
2003- Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor Award, FAMRI
1996-1999 Burroughs Wellcome Fund History of Medicine Award
1992-1995 Charles E. Culpeper Scholar in the Medical Humanities
1989-1990 President's Fellow, Harvard University
1985-1986 Visiting Scholar, Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1985-1986 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in the Humanities
1985 Los Angeles Times Book Critic Award (Finalist)
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1985 Pulitzer Prize Nominee
1985 Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (Declined)
1983 Clark Fund Grant, Harvard University
1978 Rockefeller Archives Grant-in-Aid
1977-1978 Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellow
1975-1979 President's Fellow, Columbia University
Professional Service:
1985-1987 Hastings Center Study Group on AIDS and Civil Liberties
National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine
1989-1992 Committee on Monitoring the Social Impact of AIDS
1993-1995 Committee on HIV and the Blood Supply
1989-1991 National Institute of Health, National Library of Medicine Study
Section on History of Medicine
1990-1992 History of Science Society, Speakers Bureau
1990 World Health Organization (Pan American Health Organization),
AIDS/HIV Program, Consultant
1993 Fellow, Hastings Center
1994 The Orphans Project, New York, Consultant
1993-1996 Sexually Transmitted Disease Roundtable
University Committees:
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Health Policy Interfaculty Initiative
Special Concentrations
Library Committee
Faculty Council (elected 1996-1999)
Historical Studies Core
Harvard Medical School
Conflict of Interest
Rare Books and Archives
Joint Library Committee
Subcommittee of Professors (Senior Appointments), 1992-95
Academic Promotions
Memberships:
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
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American Association for the History of Medicine (Council Member, elected 1990-1992)
History of Science Society
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
Massachusetts Historical Society, (elected 1994)
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, (elected 1997)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2001)
Major Research Interests:
Social history of American medicine, science, and public health
Ethics and values in health care
History of human subject research
American social and political history
Current Projects:
A social and cultural history of cigarette smoking in American life
Social and ethical issues relating to AIDS policy
Historical and social aspects of addictions: drug policy
Patient-Doctor relationships in historical context
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Books:
BIBLIOGRAPHY
No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880, (New
York: Oxford University Press, 1985; enlarged paperback ed., 1987).
Morality and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Allan M. Brandt and Paul Rozin, eds. (New
York and London: Routledge, 1997).
Staying Together, Living Apart: The AIDS Epidemic and New Perspectives on Group Living for
Youth and Families, Carol Levine, Allan M. Brandt, and James K. Whittaker. (New York: The
Orphan Project, 1998).
Bioethics and Beyond. Daedalus. Fall 1999. (Co-edited with Arthur Kleinman and Renee Fox).
Editor, with Larry R. Churchill, of the “Studies in Social Medicine” book series, University of
North Carolina Press, 1994-present.
Articles:
Brandt, AM. "Polio, Politics, Publicity, and Duplicity," International Journal of Health Services
8 (May 1978), pp. 257-70. Reprinted in Connecticut Medicine 43 (September 1979), pp. 581-90.
Brandt, AM. "Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study," Hastings
Center Report 8 (December 1978), pp. 21-29. Reprinted in Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald
Numbers eds., Sickness and Health in America (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, second
ed., 1985), pp. 331-46.
Brandt, AM. Contributor, Notable American Women, Supplement I, Barbara Sicherman ed.,
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980).
Brandt, AM. Contributor, Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement VII, John A. Garraty
ed., (New York: Scribner's, 1982).
Brandt, AM. "Infernal Medicine," The New Republic 186 (January 27, 1982), pp. 36-38.
Brandt, AM. "The Ways and Means of American Medicine," Hastings Center Report, 13 (June
1983), pp. 41- 43.
Brandt, AM. "Medical Nemesis?" Reviews in American History, 13 (March 1985), pp. 90-93.
Brandt, AM. "AIDS: What is to be Done?" Harper's, 271 (October 1985), pp. 39-54.
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Brandt, AM. "Historical Analogies to the AIDS Epidemic," in Michael Witt, ed., AIDS and
Patient Management: Legal, Ethical and Social Issues, (Owings Mill, MD: National Health
Publications, 1986), pp. 159-64.
Brandt, AM. "AIDS: From Social History to Social Policy," Law, Medicine and Health Care, 14
(December 1986), pp. 231-42. Reprinted in AIDS: The Burden of History, Fee and Fox, eds.,
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
Brandt, AM. "AIDS in Historical Perspective," AIDS and the Law (New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1987), pp. 27-43. Reprinted in AIDS: Ethics and Public Policy, D.
VanDeVeer, ed., (New York: Wadsworth, 1987).
Cleary, P., Barry, M., Mayer, K., Brandt, A., Gostin, L., Fineberg, H. "Compulsory Premarital
Screening for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Technical and Public Health
Considerations," Journal of the American Medical Association, 258 (October 2, 1987), pp. 1757-
1762.
Brandt, AM. "The Syphilis Epidemic and Its Relation to AIDS," Science, 239 (January 22,
1988), pp. 375-80.
Brandt, AM. "AIDS in Historical Perspective: Four Lessons from the History of Sexually
Transmitted Disease," American Journal of Public Health, 78 (April 1988), pp. 367-71.
Reprinted The Nation's Health 3rd ed., in Lee and Estes, eds., (Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1990).
Also reprinted in William G. Rothstein (ed.). Readings in American Health Care. (Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1995).
Brandt, AM. “AIDS: The Approaching Epidemic," Journal of Social Work and Human
Sexuality, 6 (1988), pp. 151-54.
Brandt, AM. "Exploring the Dangerous Trades," Reviews in American History, (March 17,
1989), pp. 101-107.
Brandt, AM. "Sexually Transmitted Disease: Shadow on the Land Revisited," Annals of Internal
Medicine, 112 (April 1990), pp. 481-83.
Brandt, AM., Cleary, PD., Gostin, LO., "Routine Hospital Testing for HIV: Health Policy
Considerations," in AIDS and the Health Care System, Larry O. Gostin, ed., (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1990), pp. 125-42.
Gostin, LO., Cleary, PD., Mayer, KH., Brandt, AM., Chittenden, EH., "Screening Immigrants
and International Travelers for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus," New England Journal of
Medicine, 322 (June 14, 1990), pp. 1743-46.
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Brandt, AM. "The Cigarette, Risk, and American Culture," Daedalus, 119 (Fall 1990), pp. 155-
76. Reprinted in Risk, Edward J. Burger, Jr. ed., (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1990). Also reprinted in Readings in American Health Care, William G. Rothstein ed.,
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995).
Gostin, LO., Brandt, AM., Cleary, PD. "Tobacco Liability and Public Health Policy," Journal
of the American Medical Association, 266 (December 11, 1991), pp. 3178-82.
Brandt, AM. "AIDS," Cambridge History and Geography of Human Disease Project, Kenneth
F. Kiple ed., (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Brandt, AM. "Emerging Themes in the History of Medicine," Milbank Quarterly, 69 (November
2, 1991), pp. 199-214.
Brandt, AM. "The Rise and Fall of the Cigarette: A Brief History of the Anti-Smoking
Movement in the U.S.," in Advancing Health in Developing Countries: The Role of Social
Research, Lincoln Chen, Arthur Kleinman, and Norma Ware eds., (Westport, CT: Auburn
House, 1992).
Brandt, AM. Contributor, The Social Impact of AIDS in the United States, Albert R. Jonsen and
Jeff Stryker eds., (Washington: National Academy Press, 1993).
Gostin, LO., Brandt AM. "Criteria for Evaluating a Ban on the Advertisement of Cigarettes:
Balancing Public Health Benefits with Constitutional Burdens," Journal of the American
Medical Association, 269 (February 17, 1993), pp. 904-909.
Brandt, AM. "Sexually Transmitted Diseases," Companion Encyclopedia of the History of
Medicine, Vol. I, W. F. Bynum and Roy Porter, eds. (New York: Routledge, 1993) pp. 562-584.
Gostin, LO., Lazzarini, Z., Alexander, D., Brandt, AM., Mayer, KH., and Silverman, DC., "HIV
Testing, Counseling, and Prophylaxis After Sexual Assault," Journal of the American Medical
Association, 271 (May 11, 1994) pp. 1436-1444.
Brandt, AM. "AIDS: From Public History to Public Policy," in AIDS and the Public Debate,
Caroline Hannaway, Victoria Harden, and John Parascandola eds., (Washington DC: IOS Press,
1995), pp. 124-131.
Brandt, AM. Contributor, HIV and the Blood Supply: An Analysis of Crisis Decision Making,
(Washington DC: National Academy of Science Press, 1995).
Brandt, AM. "World Trends in Smoking," in The State of Humanity, Julian L. Simon, ed.,
(Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995), pp. 106-113.
Brandt, AM. Contributor, Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, (New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1995), Donald C. Bacon, Roger H. Davidson and Morton Keller eds., pp.1964-66.
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Brandt, AM. "Recruiting Women Smokers: the Engineering of Consent," Journal of the
American Medical Women's Association, 51 (January/April 1996), pp. 63-66.
Arno, PS., Brandt, AM., Gostin, LO., Morgan, J., "Tobacco Industry Strategies to Oppose
Federal Regulation," Journal of the American Medical Association, 275 (April 24, 1996), pp.
1258-1262.
Brandt, AM., Friedenfelds, L. “Research Ethics after World War II: The Insular Culture of
Biomedicine,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 6 (1996), pp. 239-243.
Gostin, LO., Arno, PS., Brandt, AM. "FDA Regulation of Tobacco Advertising and Youth
Smoking," Journal of the American Medical Association, 277 (February 5, 1997), pp. 410-418.
Brandt, AM., Richmond, JB. “Settling Short on Tobacco; Let the Trials Begin,” Journal of the
American Medical Association, 278 (September 24, 1997), p.1028.
Brandt, AM. "‘Just Say No’: Risk, Behavior, and Disease in Twentieth Century America," in
Science Authority and Twentieth Century America, Ronald G. Walters, ed., (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1997), pp. 82-98.
Brandt, AM. "Behavior, Disease, and Health in the Twentieth-Century United States: The
Moral Valence of Individual Risk," Morality and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Allan
M. Brandt and Paul Rozin eds. (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 53-77.
Brandt, AM. "Of Beds and Benches: Building the Modern American Hospital," in Peter Galison
and Emily Thompson, eds., The Architecture of Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998).
Brandt, AM. “Blow Some My Way: Passive Smoking, Risk and American Culture,” in Ashes to
Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health, Steven Lock, Lois Reynolds and E.M. Tansey, eds.,
(Amsterdam – Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1998), pp. 164-191.
Jones, DS., Brandt, AM. “Tobacco Epidemiology and the Challenge of Multiple Etiologies,”
Journal of the American Medical Association, 279 (March 25, 1998), p. 969.
Mandl, KD., Kohane, IS., Brandt, AM. “Electronic Patient-Physician Communication:
Problems and Promise,” Annals of Internal Medicine, 129 (September 1998), pp. 495-500.
Brandt, AM., Friedenfelds, L. “Context and Community: Assessing the Ethics of Industryfunded
Research” in Beyond Regulations: Ethics in Human Subjects Research, Nancy M. P.
King, Gail E. Henderson and Jane Stein eds., (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
1999) 128-34.
Brandt, AM., Jones DS. “Historical Perspectives on Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Challenges
for Prevention and Control,” Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Third Edition, edited by King K.
Holmes, et al., (New York: McGraw-Hill Health Professions Division, 1999), pp. 15-21.
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Brandt, AM., Gardner, M. “The Golden Age of Medicine,” in Medicine in the Twentieth
Century, Roger Cooter and John Pickstone eds., (Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishing,
2000), pp. 21-37.
Jones, DS., Brandt, AM. “AIDS, Historical,” Encyclopedia of Microbiology, Vol.1, Second
Edition (New York: Academic Press, 2000), pp. 104-115.
Brandt, AM. “Bioethics: Then and Now”, Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Newsletter, Spring 2000.
Brandt, AM., Gardner, M. “Antagonism and Accommodation: Interpreting the Relationship
Between Public Health and Medicine in the United States During the 20 th Century,” American
Journal of Public Health, Vol. 90, No. 5 (May 2000) pp. 707-715.
Belkin, GS., Brandt, AM. “Bioethics: Using Its Historical and Social Context,” International
Anesthesiology Clinics, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Summer 2001) pp. 1-11.
Bayer, R., Gostin, LO., Javitt, GH., and Brandt, AM. “Tobacco Advertising in the United States:
A Proposal for a Constitutionally Acceptable Form of Regulation,” Journal of the American
Medical Association, 287, (June 12, 2002), pp. 2990-2995.
Bayer, R., Gostin, LO., Javitt, GH., and Brandt, AM. “Tobacco Advertising in the United
States: A Proposal for a Constitutionally Acceptable Form of Regulation,” Journal of the
American Medical Association, 287, (June 12, 2002), pp. 2990-2995.
Brandt, AM. “The Culture of Consumer Confidence: Engineering Smoking in the Twentieth
Century,” in Smoke: A Global History of Smoking, Sander L. Gilman and Xhou Zun, eds.
(London: Reaktion Books, 2004).
Brandt, AM. “Difference and Diffusion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Rise of Anti-
Tobacco Policies,” in Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Health, Eric A. Feldman
and Ronald Bayer, eds. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004).
Brandt, AM. “The First Surgeon General’s Report,” in A Safer and Healthier America: Public
Health Achievements in the 20th Century, John W. Ward and Christian Warren, eds. (New York:
Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Brandt, AM. “From Analysis to Advocacy: Crossing Boundaries as a Historian of Health
Policy,” in Locating Medical History: the Stories and Their Meanings, Frank Huisman and John
Harley Warner, eds. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).
Brandt, AM. “From Nicotine to Nicotrol: Addiction, Cigarettes and American Culture,” in
Altering American Consciousness: Essays on the History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United
States, Sarah W. Tracy and Caroline J. Acker, eds. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press,
2004).
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Book Reviews:
Williams, The Horror of Life, (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980), Journal of the
History of Medicine, (1982), pp. 464-465.
Wohl, Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1983), New England Journal of Medicine, 309 (June 16, 1983), p. 1465.
Hopkins, Princes and Peasants: Smallpox in History, (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,
1983), New England Journal of Medicine 310 (June 21, 1984).
Numbers (ed.), Compulsory Health Insurance: The Continuing Debate, (Westport, CT/London:
Greenwood Press, 1982), ISIS, 75:2:277 (1984), pp. 434-5.
Van Heyningen and Seal, Cholera: The American Scientific Experience, 1947-1980, (Boulder,
CO: Westview Press, 1983), Journal of the History of Biology, 17(3), (Fall 1984), pp. 438-439.
Crissy and Parish, The Dermatology and Syphilogy of the Nineteenth Century, (New York:
Praeger, 1981), Journal of the History of Medicine, 40 (January 1985).
Grob, Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1983), Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 16 (2), (Autumn 1985), pp. 357-358.
Leavitt, The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform, (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1982), Reviews in American History, 13, (March 1985), pp. 649-650.
Rosner, A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York,
1885-1915, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982), Reviews in American History, 13,
(March 1985), 90-93. Soc. Sci. Med., 20, No. 6, (1985), pp. 649-650.
Sicherman, Alice Hamilton, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984), Journal of the
History of Behavioral Sciences (1985).
Groce, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard,
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985) New England Journal of Medicine, 315 (4), (July
24, 1986), pp. 267.
Infante, G. Cabrera, Holy Smoke, (New York: Harper and Row, 1986), Philadelphia Inquirer,
May 11, 1986.
Harden, Opiate Addiction, Morality, and Medicine: From Moral Illness to Pathological Disease,
(New York: St. Martin's, 1988), Bulletin of the History of Medicine 63 (1989), pp. 672-3.
Gussow, Leprosy, Racism, and Public Health, (Boulder CO: Westview, 1989) Science 246, 3
November (1989), p. 679.
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National Academy of Sciences, Mobilizing Against AIDS, (Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1986) ISIS, 80 (1989) pp. 84-86.
Rosenberg, The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866, (Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press, 2nd ed., 1962, 1987). ISIS 80 (1989), pp. 329-30.
Smith, Patenting the Sun, (New York: Wm. Morrow, 1990) Los Angeles Times, July 15, 1990.
Crosby, America's Forgotten Epidemic, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990) Times
Literary Supplement, October 26, 1990.
Solinger, Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade, (New York:
Routledge, 1992) American Historical Review, February 1993.
Daniels, Seeking Fair Treatment: From the AIDS Epidemic to National Health Care Reform,
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) New England Journal of Medicine, October 12,
1995.
Kessler, A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry, (New York:
Public Affairs, 2001) Health Affairs, October 2001.
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