Centers

Faculty members from the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health have published books, articles, chapters, and reports on a broad spectrum of topics related to the field. To learn more about and to access Center-related publications in each of these subject areas please see the items in the pulldown menu.

Make a Selection... Bioterrorism Cancer Diabetes Environmental Health Ethics of Public Health Genetics HIV/AIDS Health Policy History & Public Policy History of Epidimology History of Medicine HPV Vaccination Human Experimentation Immunization Immagrant Health Occupational Health Pandemics Privacy & Health Care Privacy & Public Health Public Health Surveillance Research Ethics Tuberculosis Tobacco

Bioterrorism

Goldman, J. "Balancing in a Crisis? Bioterrorism, Public Health and Privacy," Journal of Health Law (2005) 38:481-527.

Rosner, D. Emergency Preparedness, Bioterrorism, and the States: The First Two Years After September 11, [with G. Markowitz], (New York: Milbank Memorial Fund Report, 2004), 78 pages.

Goldman, J. "Bioterrorism, Public Health and Privacy," Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom Ed. Cynthia Brown The New Press New York (2003) 161-183.

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Cancer

Lerner, BH. “Great Expectations: Historical Perspectives on Genetic Breast Cancer Testing." Am J Public Health. (1999)89:938-944.

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Diabetes

Fairchild, A., Alkon, A. “Back to the Future? Diabetes, HIV, and the Boundaries of Public Health," Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law 32;4(July 2007): 561-593.

Fairchild, A. “Diabetes and Disease Surveillance," Science 313;5784 (July 14, 2006): 175-176.

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Environmental Health

Rosner, D. “ ‘A Problem of Slum Dwellings and Relatively Ignorant Parents’: A History of Victim Blaming in the Lead Pigment Industry," Environmental Justice, (September 2008) 1:159-168.

Rosner, D. "The Politics of Lead Toxicology and the Devastating Consequences for Children," with Gerald Markowitz], American Journal of Industrial Medicine, (October 2007) 50(10):740-56.

Rosner, D. “Politicizing Science: The Case of Bush Administration’s Influence on the Lead Advisory Panel at the Centers for Disease Control," [with Gerald Markowitz], Journal of Public Health Policy, (Summer ,2003), pp.101-124.

Rosner, D. “Corporate Responsibility for Toxins,"[with Gerald Markowitz], Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, (November, 2002) 584:159-174.

Rosner, D. “Industry Challenges to the Principle of Prevention in Public Health: The Precautionary Principle in Historical Perspective," [With Gerald Markowitz], Public Health Reports, (2003) 117:501-512.

Rosner, D. “Cater to the Children": The Role of the Lead Industry in a Public Health Tragedy, 1900-1955,"[with Gerald Markowitz] American Journal of Public Health, (January 2000), 90:36-46.

Rosner, D. "A `Gift of God'? The Public Health Controversy over Leaded Gasoline During the 1920s." American Journal of Public Health, (with G. Markowitz), (April, 1985) 75:344-352; (reprinted in The Underside of American History, 5th Edition, and Dying for Work).

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Ethics of Public Health

Bayer, R. “Stigma and the Ethics of Public Health: Not Can We But Should We," Social Science & Medicine 67 (3): August 2008, 463–472.

Fairchild, A., Colgrove, J., Moser Jones, M., Redliner, I. “Ethical and Legal Challenges Posed by Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation: Duties and Limits," a white paper from the National Center for Disaster Preparedness. Health Affairs. 2006;25(4):958-967.

Jones, M., Bayer, R. “Paternalism and Its Discontents: Motorcycle Helmet Laws, Libertarian Values, and Public Health," American Journal of Public Health 97 (2): February 2007, 208-217.

Fairchild, A. “Diabetes and Disease Surveillance," Science 313;5784 (July 14, 2006): 175-176.

Colgrove, J., R. Bayer, “Manifold Restraints: Liberty, Public Health, and the Legacy of Jacobson v. Massachusetts," American Journal of Public Health 95 (4): April 2005, 571-576.

Bayer, R., Fairchild, A. “The Genesis of Public Health Ethics," Bioethics, 18;6 (2004):473-492.

Oppenheimer, G., Bayer, R. and Colgrove, J. Public Health and Human Rights: Old Wine in New Bottles? Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2002; 30:522-532.

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Genetics

Hustead, J., Goldman, J. “Genetics and Privacy," American Journal of Law and Medicine (2002) 28:285-307.

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HIV/AIDS

Fairchild, A., Alkon, A. “Back to the Future? Diabetes, HIV, and the Boundaries of Public Health," Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law 32;4(July 2007): 561-593.

Bayer, R., Oppenheimer, G. “Scale Ups, Scarcity and Selection: The Historical Experience of Doctors in South Africa." AIDS. 2007; 21(supplement 5):543-547.

Bayer, R., Fairchild, A. “Changing the Paradigm for HIV Testing – The End of Exceptionalism," New England Journal of Medicine 355 (7): August 2006, 647-649.

Bayer, R., Oppenheimer, G. "The AIDS Pioneers -Reflections on the Epidemic’s Early Years." New England Journal of Medicine. 2006;355:2273-2275.

Bayer, R. “AIDS Prevention: Sexual Ethics and Responsibility," New England Journal of Medicine 334 (23): June 1996, 1540-1542. Reprinted in Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 5th edition, Tom L. Beauchamp and LeRoy Walters, eds., (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1999) 729-732.

Bayer, R. “AIDS Prevention and Cultural Sensitivity: Are They Compatible?," American Journal of Public Health 84 (6): June 1994, 895-898. Reprinted as “AIDS Prevention vs. Cultural Sensitivity," in Responsive Community 6 (1): Winter 1995/1996, 20-27.

Bayer, R. “Public Health Policy and the AIDS Epidemic: An End to HIV Exceptionalism?" New England Journal of Medicine 324 (21): May 1991, 1500-1504. 

Bayer, R., Toomey, K. “HIV Prevention and the Two Faces of Partner Notification," American Journal of Public Health 82 (8): August 1992, 1158-1164. Reprinted as “Prevenzione dell’infezione da HIV: le due facce della notificazione ai partner," in Basis 3: Luglio/Settembre 1993, 51-64.

Bayer, R, Levine, C., Wolf, S. “HIV Antibody Screening: An Ethical Framework for Evaluating Proposed Programs," Journal of the American Medical Association 256 (13): October 1986, 1768-1774. Reprinted in Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 3^rd edition, Tom L. Beauchamp and LeRoy Walters, eds., (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1989) 634-640.

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Health Policy

Colgrove, J. “Reform and Its Discontents: Public Health in New York City During the Great Society Era." Journal of Policy History 19 (2007): 3-28.

Rosner, D. "The Struggle over Employee Benefits: The Role of Labor in Influencing Modern Health Policy," [With Gerald Markowitz] Milbank Quarterly, 81(Mar 2003).

Oppenheimer, G. Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy. American Journal of Public Health 2001; 91: 1049-1055.

Rosner, D. “Race, Foster Care and the Politics of Abandonment in New York City," American Journal of Public Health, (Nov. 1997) 87:1844-1849.

Rosner, D. "Seeking Common Ground: A History of Labor and Blue Cross" Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law,(with G. Markowitz) (Winter, 1991), 16:695-718.

Rosner, D. "Health Care and the `Truly Needy', Nineteenth Century Origins of the Concept," Milbank Quarterly, (Summer, 1982) 60:355 385.

Rosner, D. "Gaining Control: Reform, Regulation and New York's Community Hospitals," American Journal of Public Health, 70(May, 1980), 533 542.

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History & Public Policy

Rosner, D. “Trials and Tribulations: What Happens When Historians Enter the Courtroom," Law and Contemporary Problems, (forthcoming, Winter, 2009).

Rosner, D. “When History Comes to Court," Revue d’histoire Moderne et Contemporaine, [with Gerald Markowitz], (forthcoming, April 2009).

Rosner, D. “The Trials and Tribulations of Two Historians," [with Gerald Markowitz], Medical History, (April 2009) 53(2): 271–292.

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History of Epidimology

Oppenheimer, G. Profiling Risk: The Emergence of Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology in the U.S. 1947-1970. International Journal of Epidemiology 2006:35:515-519.

Oppenheimer, G. Becoming the Framingham Study, 1947-1950. American Journal of Public Health 2005; 95:602-610.

Rosner, D., Oppenheimer, G. “Two Lives, Three Legs, One Journey: A Retrospective Appreciation of Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser," [with Gerald Oppenheimer], International Journal of Epidemiology, (2002) 31:49-53.

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History of Medicine

Lerner, BH. “I Was the First: Revisiting a Paediatric Heart Transplantation." Lancet (2008) 371:1158-1159.

Lerner, BH. “Creating Medical History: Revisiting The ‘Definitive’ Account of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Terminal Illness." Bull Hist Med. (2007) 81:386-406.

Fairchild, A. “Leprosy, Domesticity, and Patient Protest: The Social Context of a Patients’ Rights Movement in Mid-Century America," Journal of Social History 39;4(June 2006): 1011-1043.

Lerner, BH. “Remembering Berton Roueche - Master of Medical Mysteries." N Engl J Med. (2005) 353:2428-2431.

Lerner, BH. “Last-Ditch Medical Therapy - Revisiting Lobotomy." N Engl J Med. (2005) 353:119-121.

Lerner, BH., Gulick, R.M., Dubler, N.N. “Rethinking Nonadherence: Historical Perspectives On Triple-Drug HIV Therapy." Ann Intern Med. (1998) 129:573-578.

Rosner, D. "Doctors in Crisis: The Use of Medical Education Reform", (with G. Markowitz), American Quarterly, (March l973) 25:87 105, reprinted in S. Reverby and D. Rosner, eds. Health Care in America, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979).

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HPV Vaccination

Colgrove, J. “The Ethics and Politics of Compulsory HPV Vaccination." New England Journal of Medicine 355;23 (2006): 2389-2391.

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Human Experimentation

Lerner, BH. “Subjects or Objects? Prisoners and Human Experimentation." N Engl J Med. (2007) 356:1806-1807.

Lerner, BH. “Breast Cancer Activism: Past Lessons, Future Directions. “ Nature Rev Cancer. (2002) 2:225-230.

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Immunization

Colgrove, J, Bayer, R. “Could It Happen Here? Vaccine Risk Controversies and the Specter of Derailment." Health Affairs 24;3 (2005): 729-739.

Colgrove, J. “‘Science in a Democracy’: The Contested Status of Vaccination in the Progressive Era and the 1920s." Isis 96;2 (2005): 167-191.

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Immigrant Health

Fairchild, A. “Policies of Inclusion: Immigrants, Disease, Dependency, and American Immigration Policy at the Dawn and Dusk of the 20th Century," American Journal of Public Health, 94;4(April 2004):528-539.

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Occupational Health

Rosner, D. “Vinyl Chloride Propellant in Hair Spray and Angiosarcoma of the Liver Among Cosmetologists and Barbers: Case Report," [with Infante, Markowitz, et al], International Journal of Occupational Medicine (Jan-Mar 2009) 15(1):36-42.

Bayer, R. “Workers’ Liberty, Workers’ Welfare: The Supreme Court Speaks on the Rights of Disabled Employees," American Journal of Public Health 93 (4): April 2003, 540-544.

Rosner, D. "The Reawakening of National Concern About Silicosis," Public Health Reports, (July/August 1998), 113:302-311.

Rosner, D. "The Limits of Thresholds, Silica and the Politics of Science, 1935 to 1990," (with Gerald Markowitz), American Journal of Public Health, (Feb. 1995) 85:253-262.

Rosner, D. "Consumption, Silicosis and the Social Construction of Industrial Disease," (with G. Markowitz) Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 64(Fall, 1991), 481-498.

Rosner, D. "The Illusion of Medical Certainty, Silicosis and the Politics of Industrial Disease," (With G. Markowitz) Milbank Quarterly, (Supplement 2, 67 (1989) pp. 228-253)revised and reprinted in Framing Disease, ed. by Charles Rosenberg and Janet Golden, (Rutgers University Press, 1991).

Rosner, D. "Street of Walking Death," (with G. Markowitz), Journal of American History, (September, 1990) 77:525-552 ("reprinted" in CD-ROM by McGraw Hill).

Rosner, D. "More than Economism, Safety and Health Policy, 1934-1947," Milbank Quarterly, (with G. Markowitz), (Summer, 1986) 64:331-354.

Rosner, D. "Safety and Health as a Class Issue: The Workers' Health Bureau of America, 1921 1927,"(with G. Markowitz) Science and Society, (Winter, 1984/85) 48:466-482 (reprinted in Dying for Work).

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Pandemics

Gostin, L., Bayer, R., Fairchild, A. “Ethical and Legal Challenges Posed by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Implications for the Control of Severe Infectious Disease Threats," Journal of the American Medical Association 290 (24): December 2003, 3229 - 3237.

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Privacy & Health Care

Goldman, J., Hudson, Z. "Virtually Exposed: Privacy and E-Health," Health Affairs (2000) 19:140-148.

Goldman, J., Hudson, Z., Smith, RM. "Report on the Privacy Policies and Practices of Health Web Sites," California HealthCare Foundation (2000)

Goldman, J. "Privacy and Individual Empowerment in the Interactive Age," Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age Ed. Bennett, CJ., Grant, R. University of Toronto Press Toronto (1999) 97-115.

Goldman, J. "Protecting Privacy to Improve Health Care," Health Affairs (1998) 17:47-60. Berman, J., Goldman, J. "A Federal Right of Information Privacy," Computers, Ethics, and Social Values Ed. Johnson, D., Nissenbaum, H. Prentice Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1995) 374-393.

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Privacy & Public Health

Goldman, J., Brennan, T., Rothman, D., Blank, L., Blumenthal, D., Chimonas, S., Cohen, J., Kassirer, J., Kimball, H., Naughton, J. and Smelser, N., “Health Industry Practices That Create Conflicts of Interest," co-author with, JAMA, 295(4): 429-433.

Goldman, J., “Balancing in a Crisis: Bioterrorism, Public Health and Privacy," Journal of Health Law, (2005) 38(3): 481-529.

Goldman, J. and Hustead, J., “Genetics and Privacy,", American Journal of Law and Medicine, 28: 285-307, 2002.

Goldman, J., “The Podium: The New Federal Health Privacy Regulations: How Will States Take the Lead?," The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 29(3&4): 395-400, 2001.

Goldman, J. and Hudson, Z. “Virtually Exposed: Privacy and E-Health," Health Affairs, 19: 140-148, 2000.

Goldman, J. “Protecting Privacy to Improve Health Care," Health Affairs, 17: 47-60, 1998.

Chapters

Goldman, J. “Balancing in a Crisis? Bioterrorism, Public Health, and Privacy," C. Brown (Ed.), Lost Liberties, 161-183 (The New Press, New York, 2003).

Goldman, J. “Privacy and Individual Empowerment in the Interactive Age," C. Bennett & R. Grant (Eds.), Visions of Privacy, 97-115 (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1999).

Goldman, J. and Berman, J. “A Federal Right of Information Privacy: The Need for Reform," Johnson & H. Nissenbaum (Eds.), Computers, Ethics, and Social Values, 374-393 (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1995).

Reports

Goldman, J., Taylor, K. and Choy, A. “Purchasing Health Insurance Online: Full Report" (California HealthCare Foundation), December 2002

Goldman, J., Choy, A., Hudson, Z., and Pritts, J. “Exposed Online: Why the New Federal Privacy Regulation Doesn’t Offer Much Protection to Internet," (Georgetown University Health Privacy Project), November 2001

Goldman, J., Hudson, Z., and Smith, R. “Privacy: Report on the Privacy Policies and Practices of Health Web Sites," (California HealthCare Foundation), February 2000.

Goldman, J., Hudson, R., Hudson, Z. and Sawires, P. “Health Privacy Principles for Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence" (The Family Violence Prevention Fund), October 2000

Goldman, J., and Hudson, J., “Exposed: a health privacy primer for consumers" (Health Privacy Project), December 1999

Goldman, J., and Hudson, J., “Promoting health, protecting privacy: a primer" (California HealthCare Foundation), 1999

Goldman, J., “Best Principles for Health Privacy" Health Privacy Working Group (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to Health Privacy Project), 1999.

Goldman, J., “The State of Health Privacy: Summaries of State Health Privacy Laws" (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to Health Privacy Project), 1999.

Goldman, J. and Mulligan, D. “Privacy and Health Information Systems: A Guide To Protecting Patient Confidentiality," Foundation for Health Care Quality, Hartford Foundation, 1996.

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Public Health Surveillance

Goldman, J., Kinnear, S., Chung, J., Rothman, D. "New York City’s Initiatives on Diabetes and HIV/AIDS: Implications for Patient Care, Public Health, and Medical Professionalism," American Journal of Public Health (2008) 98:807-813.

Fairchild, A., Bayer, R., and Colgrove, J. “Privacy, Democracy, and the Politics of Disease Surveillance," Journal of Public Health Ethics, (2008) 1(1):30-38.

Fairchild, A., Alkon, A. “Back to the Future? Diabetes, HIV, and the Boundaries of Public Health," Journal of Health Policy, Politics, and Law 32;4 (July 2007): 561-593.

Bayer, R., Fairchild, A.“Surveillance and Privacy," Science 290 (5498): December 2000, 1898-1899.

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Research Ethics

Fairchild, A., Bayer, R. “The Uses and Abuses of Tuskegee," Science 284(May 7, 1999):919-921.

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Tuberculosis

Lerner, BH. “Temporarily Detained: Tuberculous Alcoholics in Seattle, 1949-1960." Am J Public Health (1996) 86:257-265.

Bayer, R., Wilkinson, D. “Directly Observed Therapy f or Tuberculosis: A History of an Idea," Lancet 345 (8964): June 1995, 1545-1548.

Bayer, R. , Dubler, N., Gostin, L. (eds.), “The Dual Epidemics of Tuberculosis and AIDS," Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 21(3-4): Fall-Winter 1993.

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Tobacco

Bayer, R., Stuber, J. “Tobacco Control, Stigma, and Public Health: Rethinking the Relations," American Journal of Public Health 96 (1): January 2006, 47-50.

Fairchild, A., Colgrove J. “Out of the Ashes: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the ‘Safer’ Cigarette in the United States." American Journal of Public Health 94;2 (2004): 192-204.

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