John Harley Warner PhD
Avalon Professor in the History of Medicine and Professor of American Studies and of History; Chair, History of Medicine
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Biomedical EthicsHistory of Medicine
Biography
John Harley Warner, an historian who focuses on the transnational history of medicine and science, received his Ph.D. in 1984 from Harvard University (History of Science), and from 1984-1986 was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. In 1986 he joined the Yale faculty with a primary appointment in the School of Medicine, where he is now Avalon Professor and Chair of the Section of the History of Medicine with a fully split faculty appointment in the Department of History. His research interests include the cultural and social history of medicine in the 19th and 20th century, comparative history (particularly North American, British, and French medicine), and medical cultures since the late 18th century. He is especially interested in clinical practice, orthodox and alternative healing, the multiple meanings of scientific medicine, travel and cross-cultural exchange, tensions between the physician's identity as scientist and as healer, and the interactions among identity, narrative, and aesthetics in the grounding of modern medicine. He is a professor and core faculty member in the Yale University Program in the History of Medicine and Science.
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Education
- M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison , 1977
- Ph.D., Harvard University , 1984
Selected Publication
- “The Humanizing Power of Medical History: Responses to Biomedicine in the 20th-Century United States,” Medical Humanities, forthcoming; and an earlier version: Journal of Peking University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) [in Chinese], forthcoming.
Latest Honor and Recognition
- Graduate Mentor Award(2010) , Yale University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Articles
Autumn 2009
A questionable tradition
During the five decades from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression, American medical students created a distinctive...
Winter/Spring 1998
When house calls were horse calls
In a box in an office at the Medical Historical Library sit a pair of leather saddlebags, stiff with age, frayed from...
Summer 1998
Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine
by John Harley Warner, Ph.D., professor of history of medicine and American studies, Princeton University Press (N.J.)...
Spring 2005
Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings
edited by Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Section of the History of Medicine...
Summer 1998
The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885
by John Harley Warner, Ph.D., professor of history of medicine and American studies, Princeton University Press (N.J.)...
Autumn 2002
New leaders announced in four disciplines
Dean David A. Kessler, M.D., has announced the appointments of four new departmental and section leaders.Charles J....
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