EDUCATION
Ph.D., Department of History, Division of Humanities, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1971.
M.A., Department of History, Division of Humanities, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1966.
M.D., University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1958.
Baccalaureate degree, Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1951.
Dissertations
“The History of John Brown’s Medical System in Germany during the Years 1790–1806.” Ph.D. diss., Department of History, University of Chicago, 1971.
“El Catión Magnesio en Clínica Médica” (“The Cation Magnesium in Clinical Medicine”). University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1960.
PREVIOUS MEDICAL TRAINING
Rotating Internship, Mercy Hospital, Buffalo, New York, 1958–59
Residency in Internal Medicine, 1959–63: Mercy Hospital, Buffalo, New York; Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan; and Assistant Chief Resident, Mount Carmel Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. Board eligible in Internal Medicine.
LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATIONS
Medical licensure in Minnesota and Wisconsin, by reciprocity, 1970 and 1972.
Medical licensure in Michigan and Illinois, by examination, 1963.
Basic Science Certificate of Eligibility, in Michigan, by examination, Feb. 1963.
Permanent certificate from Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates, by examination, Sept. 1959.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for the History of Medicine in April 2005.
Selected the Sir Logan Campbell Distinguished Medical Visitor by the Campbell Medical Trust, University of Auckland School of Medicine, Auckland, New Zealand, August, 1994.
Awarded the William H. Welch Medal for 1988 from the American Association for the History of Medicine, “for particular contributions of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history.”
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1986.
W.H.O. fellowship, Latin American Medical Systems, 1979.
Elected to membership in the International Academy of the History of Medicine, 1977.
Elected to corresponding membership in various foreign societies of medical history.
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Fellowship in the History of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Department of History, University of Chicago, 1967–69.
Graduated magna cum laude, University of Buenos Aires, School of Medicine, 1958.
BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS
American Men and Women of Science—Physical and Biological Sciences, since 1992, 17th ed. 1994.
International Who is Who in Medicine, 2nd ed., 1994
Directory of American Scholars. 8th ed. Edited by Jaques Cattell Press. Vol. 1, (history). New York: R. R. Bowker, 1982.
Who’s Who, 1994.
Who’s Who in America. Since 1980, 65th ed., 2011.
Who is Who in the West. Since 1985, 34th ed., 2007.
Who is Who in California. Since 1989, 25th ed., 1996–97.
Who is Who in American Education, 6th ed., 2004-05
Who is Who in Science and Engineering, 3rd ed., 1996-97
Who is Who in Medicine and Health Care, since 1997, 8th ed., 2011
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Affiliate Professor, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2002-
Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 2001-
Professor, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1999-2001.
Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 1986–2001
Professor and Chair, Department of the History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 1985–99 (before institutional merger)
Professor, Department of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, 1976–85.
Professor, Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1976–85.
Honorary Member, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974–85.
Member, Committee on Ancient Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974–85.
Member, Ibero-American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1976–85.
Associate Professor, Department of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, 1971–76.
Associate Professor, Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1972–76.
Assistant Professor, Department of the History of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 1969–71.
Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago, 1967–69.
Assistant, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago School of Medicine, and Staff Physician, University Health Services, University of Chicago, August 1963–June 1967.
DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIPS
Keynote Lecture, International Network of the History of Hospitals, Montreal, Canada, June 19, 2003.
Keynote Lecture, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona, June 2001.
University Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2000.
Karl Sudhoff Memorial Lecture, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2000.
George Dock Lecture, Dock Society for the History of Medicine, Huntington Library, Pasadena, California, April 2000.
John P.McGovern Lecture, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, March 1998.
Logan Clendening Lecture, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, September 1997.
Keynote Lecture, Symposium Hospital and History, New South Wales Society of the History of Medicine and the Schoool of Science and Technology Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, December 1996.
Humanities Lecture, Buffalo Academy of Medicine, Buffalo, New York, Nov 1994.
Keynote address, International Conference New Countries and Old Medicine, Auckland Medical Historical Society and University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, August 1994.
Keynote address, Conference on the History and Causes of Death, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana, November 1993.
US Public Health Service Lectureship, Bethesda, Maryland, November, 1993.
Faculty Exchange Lecturer, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, and Univ. of California, San Francisco, London, England, March 1993 and June 2000.
Keynote address, First Ibero-American Congress of the History of Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November, 1992.
International Conference on the History of Public Health and Prevention, Stockholm, 1991.
Samuel X. Radbill Lecture, College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1990.
Douglas Guthrie History of Medicine Lecture, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1990.
Presidential address, 63rd Annual Meeting, American Association for the History of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1990.
George Dock Lecture, Friends of the Los Angeles County Medical Association Library and Barlow Society for the History of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, May 1989.
Morris Fishbein Lecture, Chicago Institute of Medicine, and Society for the History of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, May 1989.
Benjamin Rush Memorial Lecture, American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, California, May 1989.
John F. Fulton Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, December 1988.
A. M. S. Paterson Lecture, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada, June 1988.
William F. Norwood Lecture in the History of Health Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, March 1988.
Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Lecture, The Morris Fishbein Center for the Study of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, December 1981.
William A. DeRoin Memorial Lecture, Nebraska Academy of Family Physicians, Omaha, Nebraska, March 1981.
Logan Clendening Lecture, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, April 1977.
D. J. Davis Lecture on Medical History, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 1976.
Clarence E. Gardner, Jr. Lecture in the History of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, January 1976.
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Association for the History of Medicine
History of Science Society
European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
British Society for the Social History of Medicine
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
Ateneo de Historia de la Medicina de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Honorary Member
Asociación Peruana de Etnología Médica e Historia de la Medicina, Lima, Perú
Sociedad Mexicana de Historia y Filosofía de la Medicina, Mexico City, Mexico
Sociedad Venezolana de Historia de la Medicina, Caracas, Venezuela
Bay Area Medical History Club
Grupo Argentino de Historia de la Ciencia, 1988–
International Network for the History of Public Health
International Network for the History of Hospitals
RESEARCH AWARDS
National Library of Medicine, NIH Grant. San Francisco's Plague: The View from Chinatown, 2007-2010.
Organized Research Initiative in the Humanities, Office of the President, University of California, 1987-2000
“The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1770–1795,” American Philosophical Society, 1981–82.
Awarded a W.H.O. fellowship to study the historical background of Latin American medical systems, Summer 1979.
Awarded travel stipend by Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, to participate in the International Symposium of Medical History, organized by the University of Buenos Aires, Aug., 1978.
“The Papers and Manuscripts of William Cullen (1710–1790),” American Philosophical Society, 1977.
“The Relationship Between Theory and Practice in Medicine: Europe and America, 1780–1825,” Research Committee, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1975–77.
“The Background for John Brown’s System of Medicine,” American Philosophical Society, 1972.
“The History of German Medicine, 1805–1825,” National Library of Medicine (N.L.M.) Grant, History of the Life Sciences Section, National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.), 1972.
PUBLIC SERVICE
National:
American Association for the History of Medicine
Member, Welch Medal Committee, 1970–71.
Chairman, Welch Medal Committee, 1973–74; 2002-03
Chairman, Program Committee, 1974–75.
Member, Council, 1975–78.
Member, Meetings Committee, 1975–78; 1983–86.
Chairman, Local Arrangements Committee, 1976–77.
Member, Nominating Committee, 1977–79.
Chair, Osler Medal Committee, 1984–85.
Vice-President, 1986–88.
President, 1988–90.
Reviewer of manuscripts for university presses and specialized journals.
Member, National Advisory Committee, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 1973–81.
Chairman, Membership Committee, Society for Health and Human Values, Philadelphia, 1975–76.
Reviewer, Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1980–
Member, Special Study Section, History of the Life Sciences, National Institutes of Health, D.H.E.W., 1975–76; 1983–85.
Chairman, Dialogue Group, “New Relations Between History and Medicine,” Institute on Human Values in Medicine, Philadelphia, 1975–77.
Project Committee Member, Center for Photographic Images in Medicine and Health Care, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1979–83.
Chair, Special Study Section, History of the Life Sciences, National Institutes of Health, D.H.E.W., Washington, 1984–85.
Referee for historical manuscripts, The Western Journal of Medicine, 1985–95.
Advisor, Radio Programs, KQED, San Francisco, 1986.
Member, Board of Editors, The Cambridge History and Geography of Human Disease Project, 1986–93.
Member and lecturer, Consultant Panel and Advisory Committee, Science and Technology in the Social Sciences-Curriculum Development, 1987–88.
Co-chair, AIDS History Group, 1988–93.
Co-chair, AIDS and the Historian Conference, Washington, DC, 1989.
Consultant, Museum of the City of New York, 1991–93.
Consultant, Science Education Program, The College Board, New York, 1993-95.
Advisor, Science Odyssey Program, WGBH Century of Discovery Series, Boston and Washington DC, 1996-97.
Participant in San Francisco television programs at KRON, 1998-99
Bay Area Medical History Club
Member, Executive Committee, 1985–
Vice-President, 1992–94
President, 1994-96
University Service
University of California, System-wide Committee Membership
President’s Advisory Committee on Research in the Humanities, 1986–99.
Editorial Board, University of California Press, 1986–88.
Chair, Ad hoc Committee for University Professor Nomination, 1988.
Search Committee, Director of the Humanities Research Institute, 1989.
University of California, San Francisco
Committee Membership
Chairman, Department of the History of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, 1985–99.
Chancellor’s Distinguished Lectureship Committee, 1985-88.
Chancellor’s Committee on Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 1985–
Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for the David Wood Chair of Tumor Biology and Cancer Research, University of California, San Francisco, 1986.
Editorial Board, UCSF Magazine, 1985–1993.
Committee on New Library, 1986–88.
Dean’s Advisory Council, University of California, School of Medicine, 1985–
Governing Board of Continuing Medical Education, School of Medicine, 1986–87.
Committee on Curriculum and Educational Policy, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, 1986–89.
Faculty Search Committee, (Ex officio), Dept. of the History of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, 1985–87.
Ad hoc Committee on Future of Program of Medical Anthropology, School of Medicine, 1987–89.
Ad hoc Committee on Future of Department of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, 1987–88.
Curriculum Subcommittee on Multidisciplinary Studies, School of Medicine, 1987–88.
Committee on Biomedical Ethics Programs, School of Medicine, 1987–89.
Steering Committee, 125th Anniversary Celebration, 1988.
University Librarian Search Committee, University of California, 1990.
Social and Behavioral Sciences Fact Finding Committee, School of Medicine, 1990–91.
Library Dedication Committee, 1990.
Committee on Art, Honors, and Recognition, 1990–91.
Board of Directors, AIDS History Project, Library and Center for Knowledge Management, 1993-95.
Steering Committee, Center for Social, Behavioral, and Health Policy Studies, 1996-99.
Academic Senate Library Committee, 1996-99; Vice Chair 1997-98; Chair 1998-99.
Search Committee for University Librarian, 1997-99.
International:
Member, Grants Committee, Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, Toronto, Canada, 1990–91.
Member, Advisory Board, International Network for the History of Public Health, Linköping University, Sweden, 1991-
Member, Review Panel. Research competition “Health Reform in Historical Perspective in Latin America and the Caribbean,” Pan American Health Organization, Washingtion, DC, October- November, 1995.
Co-convener, International Network for the History of Hospitals, London, UK, 1995–
Editorial Board Membership
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, New Haven, Connecticut, 1972–75 and 1990–93.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine, 1980–94.
Medico Interamericano, organ of the Interamerican College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1982–92.
M.D. Publications, New York, 1979–81.
University of California Press, 1986-1988.
Clio Medica, official organ of the International Academy of the History of Medicine, Contributing Editor, 1973-79; Book Review Editor, 1979-1982, Board, 1983–90.
Medical History, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1989–1995
Medizinhistorisches Journal, Mainz, Germany, 1981–
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy, 1993-
NTM, International Journal of History, Ethics, Natural Science, Technology & Medicine Lübeck, Germany, 1992-
Asclepio, Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, Madrid, Spain, 1995-
Health and History, Australian Society for the History of Medicine, Melbourne, Australia, 1998-