Professor
Allan M. Brandt
Harvard University
Historian (medicine); Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
History
Elected
2001
He is among the nation's most influential historians of medicine. His scholarship has focused on the complex relationship of social forces, behavior, and disease. In a period of biomedical reductionism, Brandt's work has emphasized the social, economic, and political forces that shape patterns of disease and approaches to treatment.
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