Jeremy Greene
· William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of MedicineJohns Hopkins University · Ophthalmology
Active 1931–2025
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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
In the House of Representatives
Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 7 citations
Senior 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 fami…
University of South Carolina Press eBooks · 2021-02-22 · 3 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingLetters On The Present Disturbances In Great Britain And Her American Provinces
Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 3 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingAn Essay on the Government of the Colonies
Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 3 citations
Senior authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 99 shared
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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