3: Jeremy Greene - on the limits of telehealth

For the Medical Record

Join us in our conversation with Jeremy Greene, MD PhD. Jeremy is the William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, as well as the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine (which sponsors this podcast) and the Johns Hopkins Department of the History of Medicine. In this episode, we talk with Jeremy about the symbiotic role of medicine and the humanities from his perspective as an MD PhD; about how history can “reshape the limits of the possible” and push back against the “inertia of entrenched power”; about his most recent book, The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth; and about how and why the medical humanities must be a “critical” field.
SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED
Jeremy Greene, Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease (2007)
Jeremy Greene, Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine (2014)
Jeremy Greene, The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth (2022)
David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan, We’ll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity (2022)
Mary Fissell’s episode of “For the Medical Record”
The Flexner Report
Keith Wailoo, “Patients are Humans Too: The Emergence of the Medical Humanities” (2022)
Charles Rosenberg
Paul Farmer, Partners in Health
Allan Brandt
Center of Africana Studies Event with Sadiya Hartman
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, Discard Studies (2022)