Gerald M. Oppenheimer
RFCUNY - Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY 11210-2850)
FA-53395-07
Fellowships for University Teachers
Research Programs
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Totals:
$24,000 (approved)
$24,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
1/1/2007 – 6/30/2007
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A History of the Origins, Evolution, and Impact of Heart Disease Epidemiology in the U.S. (1945-1990)
My objective is to write the first half of a social and intellectual history of the origins, development and eventual diffusion of epidemiological thinking within the U.S. It will focus on heart disease, critical to the evolution of modern, post-war epidemiology, particularly its success in conceptualizing non-infectious chronic disease as the consequence of multiple “risks” within living societies, its creation of logical techniques and a mathematics to study such disorders, and its formulation, in the face of recurrent skepticism about risk factors and causality, of clinical and public health interventions.
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