David Shumway Jones
Secondary Faculty

David Shumway Jones

Professor in the Department of Epidemiology

Epidemiology

Other Positions

A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine

Global Health and Social Medicine

Harvard Medical School

A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine

History of Science -Sr. Faculty

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Affiliate of the Department of History

History -Other Academic

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Harvard College Professor

History of Science -Other Academic

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences


Overview

Trained in psychiatry and history of science, David Jones is the Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University. His research has focused on the causes and meanings of health inequalities (Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600) and the history of decision making in cardiac therapeutics (Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care). He is currently at work on four other histories, of the evolution of coronary artery surgery, of heart disease and cardiac therapeutics in India, of the threat of air pollution to health in India, and of the history of air pollution research in the United States. His teaching at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School explores the history of medicine, medical ethics, and social medicine.

Donald O’Hara Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching2010
Harvard Medical School

MacVicar Faculty Fellowship2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Investigator Award in Health Policy Research2007
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation


Bibliography


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