Spring 2023 Bioethics Webinar Series: Bioethics, Biopsychosocialism, and Social Ethics

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 12:00 PMEastern Daylight Time

A Lewis School of Health Sciences, Bioethics Department Event

Sponsored by a National Endowment for the Humanities Connections Grant

Speaker: Theodore M. Brown, PhD

Theodore M. Brown is Professor Emeritus of History in the School of Arts and Sciences and of Public Health Sciences in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester. His research includes the history of U.S., international, and global medicine and public health; the history of U.S. health policy and politics; the health left and its role in both domestic and international health policy; the influence of organized philanthropy on medicine and public health; and the history of psychosomatic medicine, “stress” research, and biopsychosocial approaches to clinical practice. In 2013 (with Anne-Emanuelle Birn) he published a coedited and coauthored book on American health internationalists in the 20th century. Along with Marcos Cueto and Elizabeth Fee, he completed a history of The World Health Organization: A History, which was published by Cambridge University Press in April 2019.

This November, the American Public Health Association will publish Public Health Then and Now: Landmark Papers from the American Journal of Public Health, an anthology of historical papers which he has selected and introduces. With Marcos Cueto and Niels Brimnes, he is currently working on a biography of Halfdan Mahler, Director General of WHO from 1973 to 1988. During the past year he has overseen the publication in AJPH of several historical essays putting the Covid-19 into historical perspective.

Date:  Wednesday April 19, 2023
Time:  12:00 PM EDT
Venue:  Cora and Bayard Clarkson Science Center and Zoom