Jeremy Greene
· William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of MedicineJohns Hopkins University · Ophthalmology
Active 1931–2025
About
Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, is the William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where he also serves as the Director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine. His research broadly focuses on the history of disease, medical technology, global health, and the relationship between medicine and the marketplace. Greene's work explores how medical technologies influence our understanding of health, sickness, and normality, with particular attention to the history of pharmaceuticals, medical communication technologies, and global health practices. He received his MD and PhD in the history of science from Harvard University in 2005, completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in 2008, and is board certified in Internal Medicine. Greene practices internal medicine at the East Baltimore Medical Center, a community health center affiliated with Johns Hopkins. His notable publications include the book "Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine," which examines the history and epistemological conflicts surrounding generic drugs, and he is working on a project titled "Medicine At a Distance," which investigates how changing communication technologies have transformed medical knowledge and practice. His research is supported by a Faculty Scholars Fellowship from the Greenwall Foundation.
Research topics
- Political Science
- History
- Geography
- Biology
- Law
- Philosophy
- Linguistics
Selected publications
Perpetuating Settler Ascendancy
Journal of Early American History · 2025-06-27
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This essay may be considered as an epilogue to a larger project with the working title of “Settler Ascendancies: Voice and Authority in the Construction, Operation, Extension, and Separation of the British American Empire before 1776.” Building on my earlier books and essays emphasizing the agency of settlers in the construction and rationalizing the many societies and polities founded in the English or, after 1707, British American Empire before 1776, it assesses how the secession of thirteen colonies from the British Empire between 1776 and 1783 affected traditional British practices, patterns, conventions, and objectives of imperial expansion and governance within both the diminished empire and the tenuous national union in North America.
Journal of Instrumentation · 2024-09-01 · 2 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorAbstract One of the primary goals of the Center for Accelerator Target Science (CATS) is to provide targets and foils in support of the ATLAS User Facility and the Low-Energy community at large. While a wide array of target production techniques are available at CATS, new methods that must be explored invariably arise. One such technique, the High-Intensity Vibrational Powder Plating (HIVIPP), was first reported in 1997 by Isao Sugai. It was developed to produce targets and stripper foils that were difficult to make by standard methods. At Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), we have successfully constructed and tested a simple system for this purpose. We have produced targets of carbon and titanium on various metal backings using the HIVIPP method. We are currently in the exciting phase of exploring the production of other elements, including isotopically enriched and radioactive material. This work is in progress and will be further detailed with specific examples.
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024-07-26
preprintOpen accessSenior authorOne of the primary goals of the Center for Accelerator Target Science (CATS) is to provide targets and foils in support of the ATLAS User Facility and the Low-Energy community at large. While a wide array of target production techniques are available at CATS, new methods that must be explored invariably arise. One such technique, the High-Intensity Vibrational Powder Plating (HIVIPP), was first reported in 1997 by Isao Sugai. It was developed to produce targets and stripper foils that were difficult to make by standard methods. At Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), we have successfully constructed and tested a simple system for this purpose. We have produced targets of carbon and titanium on various metal backings using the HIVIPP method. We are currently in the exciting phase of exploring the production of other elements, including isotopically enriched and radioactive material. This work is in progress and will be further detailed with specific examples.
The Impact of the Dissolution on Monasteries in Cheshire: The Case of Norton
2024-10-10
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe purchasers of monastic houses, having invested considerable sums in their acquisition, found that the adaptation of the existing buildings was an economic necessity. However, the desire to express the new lay ownership in material terms was strong. In the case of Cheshire monasteries, use of established elements present in secular timber-framed mansions was one option adopted by the purchasers of St Mary's nunnery, Combermere and Norton. In the case of Norton, Vale Royal and probably Combermere as well, the construction of an imposing external staircase leading to a first-floor hall reinforced the visual reminder to all visitors that a new regime now prevailed.
An Experimental Tile Kiln at Norton Priory, Cheshire
Archaeology Data Service · 2023-01-01 · 2 citations
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingReconstructing British-American Colonial History: An Introduction
2022-01-11 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe major problems had been identified mainly during the three decades between 1890 and 1920, and the main interest had long been, and continued to be, in making slight additions to existing information or modest shifts in points of view. Despite the insistence of Charles M. Andrews, Lawrence Henry Gipson, and other historians of the Imperial school that the proper frame of reference for British-American colonial history included all the British colonies in America and not just the thirteen that revolted in 1776, the prevailing conception of colonial history, even for Andrews and Gipson, was strongly conditioned by the knowledge that the colonial period had been followed by the American Revolution and the foundation of the American nation. Precisely why and how the colonial period came during the next quartercentury to acquire such an integrity and to become one of the most exciting and attractive areas of American historical study is complex and probably not yet very well understood.
2022-01-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingSociety and Economy in the British Caribbean during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
2022-01-11 · 3 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding“The sugar colonies,” the agricultural writer Arthur Young estimated in 1770, “add three millions a year to the wealth of Britain; the rice colonies near a million, and the tobacco ones almost as much.” Young’s estimation doubtless was imprecise, but his remarks vividly underline a conviction widely shared by his contemporaries: the Caribbean sugar islands were both the most valuable of the British colonies in America and a major source of wealth for the mother country. Establishment of the family fortune, as Sheridan suggests was generally the case, was a slow process. Francis Price, founder of the fortune and a veteran of Cromwell’s army, had had a small estate on which he raised indigo, cocoa, and a little sugar for seven years before he acquired by patent in 1670 the original 840 acres of Worthy Park in a lush but remote inland valley.
Interpretive Frameworks: The Quest for Intellectual Order in Early American History
2022-01-11
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingThe extraordinary volume, range, and inventiveness of this scholarship have generated enormous intellectual excitement. Initially, the excitement was channeled into empirical research; the contributors to this literature were mostly content to set their findings within established intellectual frameworks, often the gemeinschaft-gesellschaft model or some related variant of modernization theory. Bernard Bailyn reiterated this point two years later. “The sheer amount of accumulated information,” he remarked, “has overwhelmed the effective organizing principles, the major themes or interpretive structures that have heretofore contained it.” The developmental model is centrally concerned to show the common social processes at work in the regions of colonial British America as well as important underlying unities they shared, including their newness, membership in the emerging transatlantic trading networks, ethnic and racial diversity, exploitative character, colonial condition, and cultural, political, and strategic dependence upon the parent state.
Berghahn Books · 2022-10-29
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Frequent coauthors
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Steven Sarson
- 65 shared
Michael Zuckerman
- 64 shared
Andrew W. Mellon
- 64 shared
Anthony Pagden
University of California, Los Angeles
- 64 shared
John H. Elliott
- 64 shared
Nicholas Canny
- 64 shared
Stuart B. Schwartz
Yale University
- 64 shared
Gilles Paquet
Awards & honors
- Faculty Scholars Fellowship from the Greenwall Foundation
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