KEYNOTE II – RUDOLF VIRCHOW LECTURE: JEREMY GREENE
BIO
Jeremy A. Greene, MD, PhD, is the William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Director of the Department of the History of Medicine, co-Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also practices internal medicine at a community health center in East Baltimore. In addition to scholarly publications, he is a regular contributor to clinical and public health journals including The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The American Journal of Public Health, and his work has appeared in popular publications including Slate, Forbes, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. In his several books, Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Greene’s research explores how the complex social, cultural, and economic histories of medical technologies impact present day medical knowledge and clinical practice. Greene’s work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health / National Library of Medicine, the Norwegian Research Council, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and the Greenwall Foundation. His current research project, Syringe Tides: Disposable Technology and the Making of Medical Waste is supported by a 2023 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.