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GEORGE WEISZ: CURRICULUM VITAE

August 2017

Mailing Address: Department of Social Studies of Medicine

McGill University

3647 Peel St.

Montréal, Québec, H3A 1X1

Telephone: 514-398-6274

FAX: 514-398-1498

E-mail: george.weisz@mcgill.ca

Web site https://www.mcgill.ca/ssom/staff/weisz

EDUCATION:______________________________________________

Doctorat 3è cycle: Sociologie, Université de Paris –Descartes 1979

Ph.D.: History, Stony Brook University

1976

M.A: History, Stony Brook University

1971

B. A.: Yeshiva University

1969

EMPLOYMENT

Cotton-Hannah Chair for the History of Medicine, McGill University 2002-present

Professor, Department of Social Professor, Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University 1989-present

Department Chair, Department of Social Studies of Medicine -McGill University 1993-98

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities 1982-89

and Social Studies in Medicine, McGill University

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities 1978-82

and Social Studies in Medicine, McGill University

Visiting Researcher, Centre Nationale de la 1976-77

Recherche Scientifique, Paris

Research Associate, Centre d'Etudes Comparatives 1974-75

des Systèmes d'Enseignement Supérieur des PaysAnglo-Saxons, Université de Paris VII

Teaching Assistant, Stony Brook University 1969-72

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PUBLICATIONS:____________________________________________

Books:

Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Editor (with Cynthia Comacchio and Janet Golden), Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary

Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century, McGill-Queens Press, 2008

Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Editor (with Gérard Jorland and Annick Opinel), Body Counts: Medical Quantification in Historical and

Sociological Perspectives // La Quantification médicale, perspectives historiques et sociologiques,

McGill-Queens Press, 2005.

Editor (with Chris Lawrence), Greater than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine 1920-1950, Oxford

University Press, 1998.

The Medical Mandarins: The French Academy of Medicine in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries,

Oxford University Press, 1995.

Editor, Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990; paperback

edition, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

The Emergence of Modern Universities in France 1863-1914, Princeton University Press, 1983,

Paperback edition 1986. Reissued in Princeton Legacy Series 2014.

Editor (with Robert Fox), The Organization of Science and Technology in France, 1808-1914,

Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Other

Guest editors with Alberto Cambrosio, Peter Keating, Thomas Schlich SPECIAL ISSUE ON

BIOMEDICAL CONVENTIONS AND REGULATORY OBJECTIVITY, Social Studies of Science,

October 2009, Volume 39, No. 5

Articles and Review Essays:

“Medical Authority,” in A Cultural History of Medicine in the Modern Age, Ed. Todd Meyers, London: Bloomsbury Academic 2020 forthcoming.

(With Robert Fox), “Science in France,” in Modern Science in National and International Context, Ed.

Hugh Slotten, Cambridge History of Sciences, vol. 8. Cambridge University Press, 2020 forthcoming.

“Segregating or Integrating Chronic Patients in Twentieth-century American Hospitals,” in Tracing Hospital

Boundaries: Integration and Segregation in Southeastern Europe and Beyond, 1050-1970, Ed. Jane Stevens

Crawshaw, Brill, 2020 forthcoming.

(With Noemi Tousignant), “International Health Research and the Emergence of Global Health in the

late 20th Century,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 93, No. 3, 2019: 365-400.

George Weisz, “Leprosy: An Early Exemplar of the Transformation of 20th Century American Medicine”,

American Journal of Public Health 108, no. 2 (February 1, 2018): pp. 160-161.

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(With Alberto Cambrosio and Jean-Philippe Cointet), “Mapping Global Health: A network analysis of a

heterogeneous publication domain,” BioSocieties12(4), 2017: 520-542.

Globalizing the Fight Against Non-Communicable Disease, Project Syndicate Dec. 2 2016. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/non-communicable-diseases-in-developing-countries-by-

george-weisz-2016-12

“Weisz, George. "The intractable problem of chronic disease." CMAJ Canadian Medical Association

Journal 188.14 (2016): 1037-1038.

(With Etienne Vignola-Gagné), “The World Health Organization and the Globalization of Chronic

Noncommunicable Disease” Population and Development Revue 41(2015), 507-532.

“Les Richets: une dynastie familiale,” IN Charles Richet (1850-1935), ed. Jérôme van Wijland, Presses

universitaires de Rennes 2015, 131-135.

“How should we treat chronic diseases?” Agenda - World Economic Forum, Mar 12, 2015

https://agenda.weforum.org/people/george-weisz/ originally published by Project Syndicate

“The Ongoing Tension:: Clinical Practice and Clinical Research,” in The Institution of Science and the Science of Institutions: The Legacy of Joseph Ben-David, ed. Marcel Herbst, Springer 2014. Boston

Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science Volume 302: 61-78.

(With Christopher Canning, Andrea Tone, and Alberto Cambrosio), “Medical Genetics at McGill: The

History of a Pioneering Research Group,” Canadian Bulletin for the History of Medicine, 30(2013), 31-

54.

“Historical Reflections on Medical Travel ,” Anthropology and Medicine, 2011: 18(1), 137 -144.

“Epidemiology and Health-Care Reform: The National Health Survey of 1935-1936 ,” American Journal

of Public Health, 2011; 101(3): 438-447.

(With J. Olszynko-Gryn), "The Theory of Epidemiologic Transition: The Origins of a Citation Classic "

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 65 (2010): 287-326.

"Don Bates: The Medical Historian as Educator, Activist, and Historian of Science." Canadian Bulletin of

Medical History/Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine 26 (2010): 11-16.

(With Loes Knaapen), “Standardizing Premenstrual Syndrome,” in Drug standards? Standard Drugs eds,. Christian Bonah, Christophe Masutti, Anne Rasmussen, Paris: Glyphe, Social History of Medicine

Series, 2009, 305-324.

(With Alberto Cambrosio, Peter Keating, Thomas Schlich) “Biomedical Conventions and Regulatory

Objectivity: A Few Introductory Remarks,” SPECIAL ISSUE ON BIOMEDICAL CONVENTIONS

AND REGULATORY OBJECTIVITY, Social Studies of Science, October 2009, Volume 39, No. 5,

651-664.

(With Loes Knaapen), “Diagnosing and Treating Premenstrual Syndrome in Five Western Nations ,”

Social Science & Medicine 68 (2009), 1498–1505.

(With Loes Knaapen), “The Biomedical Standardization of Premenstrual Syndrome,” Studies in

History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 39 (2008), 120–134

(With Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, “Introduction: Healing the World's Children,” in Healing

the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health in the Twentieth Century, McGill-

Queens Press, 2008, 3-15

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(With A. Cambrosio, P. Keating, T. Schlich and L. Knaapen, V. Tournay), “The Emergence of Clinical

Guidelines” The Milbank Quarterly, 75(2007), 691–727.

“Making Medical History,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 80(2006), 153–159.

(With Alberto Cambrosio, Peter Keating, Thomas Schlich), “Regulatory Objectivity and the Generation

and Management of Evidence in Medicine,” Social Science & Medicine, 63(2006), 189-199.

(With N. Kreiger, et al.) “Hormone replacement therapy, cancer, controversies & women’s health:

historical, epidemiological, biological, clinical, and advocacy perspectives,” Journal of Epidemiology

and Community Health, 59(2005), 740–748.

“Naissance de la Spécialisation médicale dans le monde germanophone,” Actes de la Recherches en

Science Sociales, 156-157(2005), 37-51.

(With Ilana Löwy) “French Hormones: Progestins and Therapeutic Variation in France” Social Science

and Medicine, 60 (2005), 2609-2622.

(With Gérard Jorland), “Introduction: Who Counts?,” i n Body Counts: Medical Quantification in

Historical and Sociological Perspectives // Perspectives historiques et sociologiques sur la

quantification médicale, McGill-Queens Press, 2005, 3-15.

“From Clinical Counting to Evidence-Based Medicine,” in Body Counts: Medical Quantification

in Historical and Sociological Perspectives // La Quantification médicale, perspectives

historiques et sociologiques, McGill-Queens Press, 2005, 377-393.

“The Emergence of Medical Specialization in the Nineteenth Century,” Bulletin of the History of

Medicine, 77(2003), 536-575

“Specialist Regulation in France during the First Half of the Twentieth-Century,” Social History of

Medicine, 15(2002), 457-480

“Le Thermalisme en France au XXe siècle,” M/S: Médecine/sciences, 18(2002, No. 1), 101-108.

“Spas, Mineral Waters and Hydrological Science in Twentieth-Century France ,” Isis, 92(2001),

451-483.

“Hippocrates, Holism and Humanism in Interwar France,@ in, Reinventing Hippocrates, ed., David Cantor,

Ashgate, 2001, pp. 257-279.

“Reconstructing Paris Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 75(2001), 105-119.

“Stations thermales et eaux minérales dans la France du XXe siècle,” in Olivier Faure, éd.,

Les Thérapeutiques: Savoirs et Usages,Collections Fondation Mérieux, 1999, pp.285-301.

“Un Temps Fort: la crise des années trente,” La Recherche, 310(1998), pp. 70-74.

“Medical Holism - the Context”, in C. Lawrence and G. Weisz, eds., Greater than the Parts: Holism in

Biomedicine 1920-1950, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 3-24.

" A Moment of Synthesis: Holism in Inter-war France" in C. Lawrence and G. Weisz, eds., Greater

than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine 1920-1950, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 68-93.

"Medical Holism - the Context”, in C. Lawrence and G. Weisz, eds., Greater than the Parts: Holism in

Biomedicine 1920-1950, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 3-24.

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"The Development of Medical Specialization in Nineteenth-Century Paris," in Ann F. La Berge and

Mordechai Feingold, eds., French Medical Culture in the 19th Century, Amsterdam and Atlanta:

Rodopi, 1994, pp. 149-188.

"Mapping Medical Specialization in Paris in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,"Social History of

Medicine, Vol. 7, (1994), pp. 177-211.

“Academic Debate and Therapeutic Reasoning in Mid-19th Century France," in I. Lowy, ed., Medicine

and Change: Historical and Sociological Studies of Medical Innovation, Colloque INSERM, Vol. 220

(1993), pp. 287-315.

"Water Cures and Science: The French Academy of Medicine and Mineral Waters in the 19th Century,"

Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 64 (1990), pp. 393-416.

"Introductory Essay," ibid., in G. Weisz, ed., Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics, Kluwer

Academic Publications, 1990, pp. 145-162.

"The Origin of Medical Ethics in France; the Congrès International de Morale Medicale of 1955," in

G. Weisz, ed., Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics, Kluwer Academic Publications,

1990, pp.145-162.

"Les Transformations de l'élite médicale aux 19e et au 20e siècles," Actes de la Recherche en Sciences

Sociales, 74, (septembre 1988), pp. 33-47.

"The Self-Made Mandarin: The Eloges of the French Academy of Medicine, 1824-1847," History of

Science, 70 (1987), pp. 13-40.

"The Posthumous Laennec: Creating a Modern Medical Hero, 1826-1870," Bulletin of the History of

Medicine, 4 (1987), pp. 541-562.

"Origines géographiques et lieux de pratique des diplomé en médecine au Québec de 1834 a 1939", in

M.Fournier, et al. eds., Sciences et médecine au Québec: Perspectives sociohistoriques, IQRC, 1987, pp.

129-170.

"The Medical Elite in France in the Early 19th Century," in Minerva, 25 (1987), special issue, The

Scientific Role: Essays in Honor of Joseph Ben-David, pp. 150-170.

"The Geographical Origins and Destinations of Medical Graduates in Quebec, 1834-1939," Histoire

Sociale/Social History, 19 (1986), pp.93-120.

"Constructing the Medical Elite in France: The Creation of the French Academy of Medicine 1814-

1820," Medical History, 30 (1986), pp. 419-443.

"Les professeurs parisiens et l'Académie de Médecine en 1820," in Le personnel de

l'enseignement supérieur en France aux XIXè et XXè siècles, ed. C. Charle, C.N.R.S., 1985,

pp. 47-63.

"The Republican Ideology and the Social Sciences," in Philippe Besnard, ed., The Sociological

Domain, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 90-119.

"Associations et manifestations: les étudiants français de la Belle Epoque," Le mouvement social, 120

(1982), pp. 31-44.

"The Anatomy of University Reform in France, 1863-1914," in Donald Baker and Patrick Harrigan, eds., The Making of Frenchman, Current Directions in the History of Education in France 1679-1979,

Historical Reflections Press, 1980.

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"Reform and Conflict in French Medical Education, 1870-1914," in Fox and Weisz, eds., The

Organization of Science and Technology in France 1808-1914, Cambridge University Press, 1980, pp.

61-94.

"The Institutional Basis of French Science," Ibid., with Robert Fox, pp. 1-28.

"The French Universities and Education for the New Professions, 1885-1914: An Episode in French

University Reform," Minerva, 17 (1979), pp. 98-128.

"The Politics of Medical Professionalization in France, 1845-1848," Journal of Social History, 12

(1978), pp. 1-30.

"Les sciences sociales et l'idéologie républicaine sous la Troisième République," Revue Française de

Sociologie, 19 (1978), pp. 83-112.

"Le corps professoral d'enseignement supérieur et l'idéologie de la réforme universitaire en France,

1860-85," Revue Française de Sociologie, 18 (1977), pp. 201-232.

"Durkheim on French Higher Education," Minerva, 14 (1976), pp. 379-388.

"Scientists and Sectarians: The Case of Psychoanalysis," Journal of the History of the Behavioral

Sciences, 11 (1975), pp. 350-364.

Articles in Encyclopedias and Dictionaries:

“Medical Specialization,” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Scientific, Medical, and Technological

History. Oxford University Press, 2013.

"Paris Faculty of Medicine" in Historical Dictionary of France from the 1815 Restoration to the Second

Empire, Greenwood Press, 1987.

"Universities," AND "Medical Schools" in Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic 1870-

1940, Greenwood Press, 1986.

"L.T. Hobhouse,” AND “P. J. Proudhon," in The Encyclopedia of World Biography, McGraw-Hill, New

York, 1973.

Book Reviews

Conrad Keating, Kenneth Warren and Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Programme. (Springer: New

York, 2017) IN Bulletin of the History of Medicine forthcoming 2018.

Alexander Mercer, Infections, Chronic Disease, and the Epidemiological Transition: A New Perspective

(Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2014), In Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 90(2016),

183-184

John Carson, The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 (Princeton University Press, IN Journal of Modern History 81(2009), 386-387

Paul V. Dutton, Origins of the French Welfare State: The Struggle for Social Reform in France 1914-

1947 (Cambridge University Press: 2002), IN H-France Review Vol. 9 (January 2009), No. 2.

http://www.h-france.net/vol9reviews/vol9no2weisz.pdf

Eric Jennings, Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas, IN

Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 82 (2008), 459-460

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Peter Baldwin, Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (Berkeley: University of

California Press; New York: Milbank Memorial Fund, 2005), IN Journal of Modern History, 79(2007),

902-903

Charles Coulston Gillispie, Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004) IN Annals of Science, 63(2006), 132-133

Christopher E. Forth. The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood: The Johns Hopkins

University Studies in Historical and Political Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,2004)

IN Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 79(2005) 592-594

Eileen Magnello and Anne Hardy, eds., The Road to Medical Statistics, vol. 67 of Clio Medica

(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002) IN Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 78(2004), 232-34

Christian Bonah, Instruire, guérir, servir: Formation, recherché et pratique médicale en Franche et

en Allemagne pendant la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle (Strasbourg : Presses Universitaires de

Strasbourg, 2000) IN Isis, 94(2003), 753-54

Deborah Kuhn McGregor, From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology, New

Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1998, IN Medical History, 44(2000), 280-81.

John Harley Warner, Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998) IN JAMA, 281(1999), 289-290,

Elizabeth Williams, The Physical and the Moral: Anthropology and Philosophical Medicine in

France, 1750-1850, in Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, Vol. 34, No. 3

(1996), pp. 317-318.

Olivier Faure and Dominique Dessertine, La maladie entre libéralisme et solidarités (1850-1940), in

Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 70, (1996), p. 530.

Christophe Charle, La République des universitaires, 1870-1940. in American Historical Review, April

1996, p. 508-509.

Gerald L. Geison, The Private Science of Louis Pasteur in Journal of the History of Medicine, Vol. 51,

January (1996), pp. 96-99.

W.F. Bynum, Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century in JAMA, Vol. 274, No. 2

(1995), p. 183.

Alisa Klaus, Every Child a Lion: The Origins of Maternal and Infant Health Policy in the United States and France, 1890-1920, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 69, (1995), pp. 314-315.

Ann F. La Berge, Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century Public Health Movement, in Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 11, No. 2 (1994), pp. 430-432.

Fritz Ringer, Fields of Knowledge: French Academic Culture in Comparation Perspective, in Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, Vol. 32, No. 4 (1994), pp. 476-479.

Maurice Crosland, Science Under Control: The French Academy of Sciences, 1795-1914, in Centaurus, Vol.

36, No. 2 (1993), pp. 183-184.

Roger Cooter, Surgery and Society in Peace and War: Orthopaedics and the Organization of Modern

Medicine, 1880-1948, in Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1993), pp. 302-303.

Evelyn Bernette Ackerman, Health Care in the Parisian Countryside, 1800-1914, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 66 (1992), pp. 154-155.

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Colin Jones, The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France,

in Journal of the History of Medicine, 46 (1991), pp. 529-530.

Roy Porter, ed., The Medical History of Waters and Spas, in Medical History, 36 (1990), pp. 223-224. M.

Hildreth, "Doctors, Bureaucrats and Public Health in France 1888-1902" in Bulletin of the History ofMedicine, 64 (1990), pp. 325-326.

M. Ramsay, Professional & Popular Medicine in France, 1770-1830, in Minerva, 28 (1990), pp. 3-6. C.

David Naylor, Private Practice, Public Payment: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of HealthInsurance, 1911-1966, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 62 (1988), pp. 335-336.

J.P. Briand, et. al. L'Histoire de l'enseignement, XIXe - XXe siècles in Isis 78 (1987), pp. 443-444. M.J. Nye,

Science in the Provinces, in Journal of the History of Medicine, 42 (1987), pp. 230-232.

R. Hamowy, Canadian Medicine: A Study in Restricted Entry, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 60

(1986), pp. 280-281.

Gerald Geison, Professions and the French State, in European History Quarterly, 16 (1986), pp. 112-116.

S. Horvath-Peterson, Victor Duruy and French Education, in The American Historical Revue, 90

(1985), p. 946.

John Craig, Scholarship and Nation-Building, in Minerva, 23 (1985), pp. 309-314.

Robert Nye, Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France: The Medical Concept of National Decline, in

Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 59 (1985), pp. 431-432.

Konrad Jarausch, ed., The Transformation of Higher Learning 1860-1930, in ISIS, 75 (1984), pp. 575-577.

J. Weiss, The Making of Technological Man, in Journal of Economic History, 43 (1983), pp. 324-325.

J. & J.L. Poirier, eds., Médecine et philosophie à la fin du XIXè siècle, in Bulletin of the History of Medicine,

56 (1982), p. 298.

Emile Durkheim, The Evolution of Educational Thought, in Minerva, 16 (1978), pp. 452-460.

Terry N. Clark, Prophets & Patrons, in British Journal for the History of Science, 10 (1977), pp. 151-155.

GRANTS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2015-17 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant

#430-2015-00988, (G. Weisz and T. Rees), PI.

2013 American Journal Of Public Health's 2012 Paper Of The Year Award Winner

2012-2016 Le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture, Grant SE-164195

(Team Grant) Co-PI.

2012 Professeur invité, Université de Paris 1, Sorbonne (May-June)

2010-2014 Canadian Institute of Health Research, Grant FRN 105425 PI

2008-2011 Social Studies and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Grant # 105425 PI

2008-2012 Le Fonds Québécois De La Recherche Sur La Société Et La Culture

Grant SE-124896 (Team Grant) Co-PI.

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2005-2006 Visiting Researcher INSERM, Paris (CIHR-INSERM International Cooperation

Award)

2003-2007 Canadian Institute of Health, Research, Gran t MOP-64372 (PI)

2004-2008 Le Fonds Québécois De La Recherche Sur La Société Et La Culture Grant SE-

95786 (Team Grant) Co-PI.

2002-2005 Social Studies and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Research Grant

2000-2002 Associated Medical Services, Research Grant

2000 Directeur d'Etudes Associés, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences

Sociales, (Paris, November-December )

1999 Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftgeschichte (Berlin: November)

1999-2000 Burroughs Wellcome Travel Grant

1999-2000 Wood Fellow, Philadelphia College of Physicians

1998 Burroughs Wellcome Travel Grant

1998-2000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund 40th Anniversary Awards in the History of Medicine and

Science

1995-98 SSHRC, Research Grant (3 years)

1995, 1996 Hannah Institute Grant-in-Aid

1994-95 Hannah Institute, Grant for International Conference

1994-95 SSHRC, Grant for International Conference

1992 Directeur d'Etudes Associés, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris (Feb.-

March)

1991-94 SSHRC, Research Grant (3 years)

1990-92 Hannah Institute Grant-in-Aid

1988 McConnell Foundation - Grant to organize International Conference

1988 SSHRC, Grant to organize International Conference

1987-89 SSHRC, Research Grant

1985 SSHRC, International Relations Award

1985 Fellow, Camargo Foundation, France

1984-85 SSHRC, Leave Fellowship Grant

1983-85 SSHRC, Research Grant

1982-84 F.C.A.C. (Quebec) Research Grant

1981 Archives Nationales du Québec Subvention

1981 Hannah Institute Grant-in-Aid

1979-81 SSHRC Research Grant

1977-78 Government of Quebec, Post-doctoral Fellowship

1974-76 Government of Quebec, Dissertation Fellowship

1972-74 Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member Editorial Board, History of Medicine Series,

University of Rochester Press 2003-

Chair, Associated Medical Services Research Review Committee 2003-2007

Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, AHAM annual meeting 2007

Member, Editorial Board, Bulletin for the History of Medicine 2001-2003

Organized meetings:

Co-organizer: Measuring Global Health: An International Workshop on the Political, Social and

Ethical Aspects of Metrics & Quantification Practices in Global Health, King’s College London

January 26-27, 2017

Workshop on “Between the medical and the social: Institutions of Chronic Disease and Disability in

the Twentieth Century / Entre le médical et le social: les institutions des maladies chroniques et du

handicap au 20e

siècle” Paris, 8-10 December 2011.

McGill - University of Paris 5: Workshop 2: “Mind, Brain and Society”, McGill University, 12-13

September 2008.

McGill - University of Paris 5: Workshop 1 – “Judgment and Action in Medicine /

Raisonner et Agir en Médecine”, Paris, June 11-12, 2007. Workshop on “The institutions of

objectivity in medicine: Informal and formal modalities of regulation,” McGill University,

April 19-22, 2007.

Conference on “Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Child Health in the 20th

Century,” McCord Museum, Montreal, October 28-30, 2004.

Conference on “La Quantification dans les sciences médicales et de la santé: perspective historique

et sociologique,” Musée Claude Bernard, Saint-Julien-en Beaujolais, October 24-26 2002

Conference on the Holistic Turn in Western Biomedicine, 1920-50, McGill University, May 4-6, 1995

Conference on Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics, McGill University, June 12-14, 1988.

Conference on Science, Medicine and Technology in the French Restoration, at the Maison des

Sciences de l'Homme (Paris) August 30 - September 1, 1983

Invited lectures:

Workshop “Global Governance and Accountability In Post-World War Ii Health Care,” University of

Leuven, 21-22 July 2019.

Workshop “Prevention (of Dementia): Past, Present, Expectations” Université de Montréal, 28 and 29

September, 2018.

Keynote Address, Addiction and the chronic illness paradigm: Promises/perils of Medication Assisted

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Treatment (MAT), Symposium University of Buffalo, 21-22 September 2018.

Keynote Address, Healthcare before Welfare States: 2nd International Workshop Charles University,

Prague, 8-9 March 2018.

Grand Rounds, McMaster School of Medicine, January 24, 2018.

Institute for the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, October 19, 2017.

Institut de recherche en santé publique de l’Université de Montréal, May 31, 2017.

Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, April 23, 2017.

Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University, April 20, 2017.

The Iago Galdston Lecture New York Academy of Medicine, March 23, 2017

Institut universitaire d’histoire de la médecine et de la santé publique, Lausanne, June 1 2016; with second

presentation June, 2 2016.

Keynote address, Savoirs, pratiques, politiques. Les sciences sociales et les transformations

contemporaines des mondes de la santé. Colloque international organisé par le Centre de Recherche

Médecine, Sciences, Santé, Santé Mentale et Société (CERMES3), Paris May 25-28 2016.

The Impact of Technological Change on the Surgical Profession 2016: Evidence Based Practices, Jewish

General Hospital, Montreal, March 23-24 2016.

Grand Rounds, McGill Pain Center, Montreal, January 27 2016.

Plenary Lecture: International Workshop on The Politics of Non-Communicable Diseases in the Global

South, King’s College London, 2-3 October 2015.

The Northern Ontario History of Health and Medicine Group, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay

September 21 2015.

John Augustine Lecture in the history of medicine, Thunder Bay Medical Society Summer School,

Northern Ontario Faculty of Medicine, September 19 2015.

Keynote Address: XI Pharmaceutical Industry Conference "Chronic Disease: Different Perspectives,”

18 June 2015, Ritz Four Seasons Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal.

International Health Organizations (IHOs): The history for the future network conference, Shanghai

University 23-26 April 2015

Segregation and Integration in the History of the Hospital, International Network for the History of

Hospitals, 10–11 April 2015, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Dec. 3, 2014

Equipe MÉOS (Médicament comme Objet Social), Université de Montréal, Oct. 27, 2014

Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, Oxford UK, July 10-13, 2014

Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Jerusalem March 11, 2014

Colloque international : « Charles Richet et son temps », Académie Nationale de Médecine (Paris), Nov.

14, 2013

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Dept. History of Science, University of Sydney (Australia), May 27, 2013

Presented 10th annual John Burnham Lecture, Ohio State University, October 26, 2012

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, University of Michigan Medical

School, October 25, 2012

Dept. de Philosophie, Université de Paris 1, Sorbonne-Panthéon, June 10 2012

Institut universitaire d'histoire de la médecine et de la santé publique, University of Lausanne, June 9

2011

Stony Brook University: Faculty of Medicine, March 28, 2011; Department of History, March 29

2011,

Keynote address, History of Medicine Days, University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, March 11-12,

2011

Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Tokyo, August 26-28 2010

Keynote address, 30.º Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, Valencia

Spain, June 16-18 2010

What might be a history of psychiatric epidemiology? CNRS, Paris 3-5 June 2010

Drugs, Standards and Chronic Illness, University of Manchester, 27-28 November 2009

Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, 15 October 2009

The Role of the University in Our Time: Proceedings of the Conference at the Centro Stefano Franscini

of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Monte Verità (Switzerland), July 21–26,

2009

Workshop on Cancer (CNRS-INSERM), Paris, April 3-5 2009

Catalonian Society for the History of Science, Barcelona, March 27 2009

Workshop on Standard Drugs and Drug Standards: A Comparative Historical Study Of Pharmaceuticals

in the 20th Century, University of Strasbourg, December 4-5 2008

Dorothy Bernstein Lecture, University of Minnesota, October 20 2008

Ciencias, Medecina, Ciencias Y Medecina: Seminario International, CLAEH Faculty of Medicine, Punta

del Este, Uruguay, August 14-15 2008

Centre Koyré, Paris, March 25, 2008

Bar Hillel Colloquium Lecture, Tel Aviv University, March 17, 2008

Halbert Centre, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 19, 2008

Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Physicians, Winnipeg, Sept. 28, 2007.

AMS annual lecture, University of Alberta, March 17 2007

Equipe Meos (Médicament objet social), Université de Montréal (Nov. 21, 2006)

Dept. of History, University of Glasgow (May 16, 2006).

Department of Philosophy, University of Durham May10, 2006).

Centre for the History of Medicine Science and Technology, University of Manchester May 9, 2006

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Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Strasbourg (April 4, 2006).

Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Jan.16 and Feb. 28, 2006).

Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Freiburg (Jan 29, 2006).

Department of History, University of Haifa (Dec. 7, 2005).

Program in the History of Science, Hebrew University Jerusalem (Dec. 5, 2005)

Maison des Sciences de l’Homme- Nantes (Oct. 23, 2005).

Workshop on the History of Mineral Waters, University of Lisbon (July 27, 2006)

Colloque Ludwick Fleck organized by the Ecole des Mines Paris, (February 2, 2006).

Workshop On Chronic Disease (Wellcome Institute London (December 9-10 2005).

Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Paris, France, June 17-20, 2004

75th

Annual Meeting, American Association for the History of Medicine, Kansas City, Mo. April 26-28,

2002

Institute for the History of Medicine, Free University of Berlin, March, 9, 2002

Department of History of Medicine, Queens University, Nov. 21, 2001

Department of the History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Sept. 10, 2001

Department of the History of Medicine, Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Jan. 10,

2001

Wellcome Unit, Oxford University, Nov.30, 2000

73rd Annual Meeting, American Association for the History of Medicine, Bethesda, DC,

May 18-21, 2000.

72nd Annual Meeting, American Association for the History of Medicine, New Brunswick, N.J. May 6-

9, 1999

Meeting on «Machines à guérir: Physique et médecine au tournant du siècle> Paris, Institut Curie, Feb.

12, 1999

Centre de Sociologie de l=Innovation, École des Mines, Paris, Feb. 17, 1999

Wellcome Unit, University of Manchester, June 9, 1998

Wellcome Institute, University of London, June 16, 1998

111th Annual Meeting, American Historical Association, New York City, Jan. 2-5, 1997

42nd Annual Meeting, Society for French Historical Studies, Boston University, March 21-23, 1996.

Annual Meeting, American Association for the History of Medicine, Pittsburgh, May 11-14, 1995.

Conference on the Holistic Turn in Western Biomedicine, 1920-50, McGill University, May 4-6, 1995

Department of the History of Medicine, University of Ottawa, February 10, 1995.

Conference on Science as a special profession: Joseph Ben-David and the Sociology of Science 1960-

1994, The Bar-Hillel Colloquium, Jerusalem, February 23-24, 1994.

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Annual Meeting, History of Science Society, Santa Fe, NM, November 11-14, 1993. Meeting of the

Society for French Historical Studies, Vancouver, March 17-20, 1991. Wellcome Unit, University of

Oxford, May 17, 1990.

Researchers and Practitioners: Aspects of French Medical Culture in the 18th and 19th Centuries,

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, April 20-22, 1990.

Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Irvine, California, November 16-19, 1989.

Wellcome Institute, London, November 9, 1988.

Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, New Orleans, May 4-7, 1988.

Le Canada et la Révolution Française, Montréal, October 29-31, 1987.

Institute for the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, December 4, 1986.

Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, December 1, 1986.

Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, May 1-3, 1986.

Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Quebec City, March 20-22, 1986.

The Scientific Role, Workshop in Honor of Joseph Ben-David, Jerusalem, December 5-6, 1985.

Colloque Helene Metzger, Paris, May 20-23, 1985.

Congress of the Association de l'Histoire de l'Amérique Française, Quebec City, October 20-21, 1984.

Workshop: Le personnel de l'enseignement supérieur en France, Paris, June 25-26, 1984.

Meeting of the History of Education Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2-4, 1981.

Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Bloomington, Indiana, March 13, 1981.

Session Chairman, Canadian Association for the History of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, June 1980.

Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1980.

Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 1979.

Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Madison, Wisconsin, May 11-14, 1977.

Conference on Higher Education, University of Paris VII, January 12, 1976.

Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Madison, Wisconsin, April 11-12, 1975.

Meeting of PAREX (Paris-Sussex group for the Social studies of science), Paris, May 13, 1975.