Barron H. Lerner
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Barron H. Lerner's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine Columbia University
- PhD History Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barron H. Lerner is an American member of the faculty at the New York University Langone School of Medicine. He received his M.D. from Columbia in 1986 and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington in 1996. In addition to his research, Lerner practices internal medicine and teaches medical ethics and the history of medicine.
Barron H. Lerner's Published Works
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Published Works
- Nonadherence in tuberculosis treatment: predictors and consequences in New York City. (1997) (255)
- Rethinking Nonadherence: Historical Perspectives on Triple-Drug Therapy for HIV Disease (1998) (156)
- From careless consumptives to recalcitrant patients: the historical construction of noncompliance. (1997) (110)
- The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth Century America (2001) (105)
- New York City's tuberculosis control efforts: the historical limitations of the "war on consumption". (1993) (56)
- Euthanasia in Belgium and the Netherlands: On a Slippery Slope? (2015) (52)
- Can Stress Cause Disease? Revisiting the Tuberculosis Research of Thomas Holmes, 1949-1961 (1996) (51)
- Sins of omission--cancer research without informed consent. (2004) (46)
- The Breast Cancer Wars (2002) (34)
- One for the Road: Drunk Driving since 1900 (2011) (32)
- Lessons from the 1800s: tuberculosis control in the new millennium (2000) (32)
- Subjects or objects? Prisoners and human experimentation. (2007) (31)
- Catching patients: tuberculosis and detention in the 1990s. (1999) (28)
- Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Road (1998) (25)
- Medicine and the Holocaust: Learning More of the Lessons (1995) (25)
- Drunk driving, distracted driving, moralism, and public health. (2011) (24)
- Scientific evidence versus therapeutic demand: the introduction of the sulfonamides revisited. (1991) (24)
- Breast cancer activism: past lessons, future directions (2002) (23)
- "To see today with the eyes of tomorrow": A history of screening mammography. (2003) (22)
- Last-ditch medical therapy - revisiting lobotomy. (2005) (21)
- No shrinking violet: Rose Kushner and the rise of American breast cancer activism. (2001) (21)
- When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine (2006) (21)
- The Perils of "X-ray Vision": How Radiographic Images Have Historically Influenced Perception (2015) (21)
- Temporarily detained: tuberculous alcoholics in Seattle, 1949 through 1960. (1996) (20)
- Fighting the War on Breast Cancer: Debates over Early Detection, 1945 to the Present (1998) (20)
- Moving Past Individual and "Pure" Autonomy: The Rise of Family-Centered Patient Care. (2016) (18)
- Inventing a Curable Disease: Historical Perspectives on Breast Cancer (2000) (18)
- Great expectations: historical perspectives on genetic breast cancer testing. (1999) (17)
- Beyond Informed Consent: Did Cancer Patients Challenge Their Physicians in the Post-World War II Era? (2004) (14)
- Constructing medical indications: the sterilization of women with heart disease or tuberculosis, 1905-1935. (1994) (14)
- The illness and death of Eva Perón: cancer, politics, and secrecy (2000) (13)
- When statistics provide unsatisfying answers: revisiting the breast self-examination controversy. (2002) (13)
- Scholars argue over legacy of surgeon who was lionized, then vilified. A healer of women, or a doctor who used them as guinea pigs? (2003) (12)
- Revisiting the death of Eleanor Roosevelt: was the diagnosis of tuberculosis missed? (2001) (11)
- In the patient's best interest? Revisiting sexual autonomy and sterilization of the developmentally disabled. (2001) (11)
- When diseases disappear--the case of familial dysautonomia. (2009) (11)
- Judging the Past: How History Should Inform Bioethics (2016) (10)
- No One Was Turned Away: The Role of Public Hospitals in New York City Since 1900 (2000) (10)
- Complicated lessons: Lorenzo Odone and medical miracles (2009) (10)
- Opportunities not taken: successes and shortcomings in the Institute of Medicine's report on organ donation. (2007) (9)
- Pros and Cons of Physician Aid in Dying (2019) (8)
- Searching for Semmelweis (2014) (8)
- When Illness Goes Public (2006) (7)
- Crafting Medical History: Revisiting the "Definitive" Account of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Terminal Illness (2007) (7)
- Ill Patient, Public Activist: Rose Kushner's Attack on Breast Cancer Chemotherapy (2007) (7)
- Policing online professionalism: are we too alarmist? (2013) (6)
- From Laennec to lobotomy: teaching medical history at academic medical centers. (2000) (5)
- Reviews and Notes: History of Medicine: Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era (1996) (5)
- Drunk driving across the globe: let's learn from one another (2012) (4)
- Medicine and the Holocaust (1995) (4)
- Knowing when to say goodbye: Final Exit and suicide in the elderly. (1995) (4)
- Tuberculosis in Seattle, 1949-1973: balancing public health and civil liberties. (1999) (3)
- Remembering Berton Roueché--master of medical mysteries. (2005) (3)
- Abdominal paracentesis: a casualty of reductionist medical therapeutics. (1993) (3)
- One for the road (2007) (3)
- If biology is destiny, when shouldn't it be? (2003) (2)
- Days of the giants: remembering Robert F Loeb (2012) (2)
- Choosing a "God Squad," when the mind has faded. (2006) (2)
- Homo Sapiens 1900 (2001) (2)
- What Do You Know? Cancer, History, and Medical Practice (2004) (2)
- Power, Gender, and Pizzazz: The Early Years of Breast Cancer Activism (2006) (2)
- History of Public Health Ethics in the United States (2008) (1)
- Why Was the US Preventive Services Task Force's 2009 Breast Cancer Screening Recommendation So Objectionable? A Historical Analysis. (2022) (1)
- Kissing can be dangerous: The public health campaigns to prevent and control tuberculosis in Western Australia, 1900–1960 (2009) (1)
- A calculated departure: for someone in good health, can suicide ever be a rational choice? (2004) (1)
- Legal action to ensure treatment of tuberculosis. (1999) (1)
- Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History (review) (2003) (1)
- Curing formerly fatal childhood cancers Gretchen Krueger (2008) (1)
- Book Review Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American culture since 1870 By Katherine Ott. 242 pp. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1996. $27.95. 0-674-29910-8 (1997) (1)
- “I was the first”: revisiting a paediatric heart transplantation (2008) (1)
- Preventing prescription fraud. (1991) (1)
- False Hope: Bone Marrow Transplantation for Breast Cancer (review) (2009) (1)
- What Constitutes Evidence? Colorectal Cancer Screening and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (2022) (1)
- US intern plus dictionary becomes Russian doctor. (1993) (1)
- The Fielding H. Garrison Lecture: Great Doctor History: (2018) (1)
- Remembering Medicine's Past (1998) (1)
- Book Review From Chaos to Coercion: Detention and the control of tuberculosis By Richard J. Coker. 261 pp. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2000. $27.95. 0-312-22250-5 (2000) (1)
- Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition (review) (2012) (1)
- The medical problems of underwater diving. (1992) (0)
- A System Overwhelmed by a Pandemic: The New York Response (2022) (0)
- The White House Physician: A History from Washington to George W. Bush (review) (2008) (0)
- Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London, with the Complete Text of John Monro's 1766 Case Book (review) (2004) (0)
- Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness (review) (2004) (0)
- When a doctor stumbles on a family secret. (2003) (0)
- Judging Medicine's Past: A Lesson in Professionalism (2021) (0)
- Judging the Past: How History Should Inform Bioethics. (2016) (0)
- The patient who tried to cure his own cancer. Revisiting the story of Morris Abram's leukemia. (2007) (0)
- Evidence over Politics - The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. (2022) (0)
- War without End (2001) (0)
- A History of Haematology: From Herodotus to HIV by John C. Burnham (review) (2017) (0)
- Playing God with birth defects in the nursery. (2005) (0)
- From Libby Zion to Jesica Santillan (2006) (0)
- Book review (1998) (0)
- Book Review The Black Stork: Eugenics and the death of “defective” babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915 By Martin S. Pernick. 295 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. $29.95. 0-19-507731-8 (1996) (0)
- Dr. Golem: How to Think about Medicine (review) (2007) (0)
- Learning to Live with edical Uncertainty (2002) (0)
- A Darker Ribbon: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Century (review) (2000) (0)
- Negotiating Disease: Power and Cancer Care, 1900-1950 (review) (2002) (0)
- Fighting the War on Breast Cancer (1999) (0)
- History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction (review) (2001) (0)
- Review: Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health (1996) (0)
- Revisiting a “Great” Doctor’s Life (2015) (0)
- Editorial: Introducing Students to Medicine by an Expanded Gross Anatomy Course (2015) (0)
- First, you cry, 25 years later. (2003) (0)
- Climate Change?: The Environment, Physicians, and Historians (2018) (0)
- Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine by Kenneth M. Ludmerer (review) (2016) (0)
- FIGHTING THE WAR ON BREAST CANCER. AUTHOR'S REPLY (1999) (0)
- Book reviews (2007) (0)
- MEDICINE AND THE HOLOCAUST. AUTHORS' REPLY (1995) (0)
- Evidence over Politics - U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Reply. (2023) (0)
- First, you cry, 25 years later. (2001) (0)
- Culture and Medicine Tuberculosis in Seattle, 1949-1973: balancing public health and civil liberties (2005) (0)
- Patients leaving emergency departments without being seen by a physician. (1992) (0)
- When Public Health Becomes Politicized. (2017) (0)
- Abdominal paracentesis a casualty of curative medical therapeutics (1992) (0)
- Doing Good: The Life of Toronto's General Hospital (review) (2002) (0)
- Chris Feudtner. Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness (2004) (0)
- Doctors and Patients: An Interactive Partnership (2007) (0)
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