Joel D. Howell, MD, PhD
Joel D. Howell, MD, PhD, is a Professor at the University of Michigan in the Departments of Internal Medicine (Medical School), Health Services Management and Policy (School of Public Health), and History (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts). He received his MD at the University of Chicago, and stayed at that institution for his internship and residency in internal medicine. At the University of Pennsylvania he was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and received his PhD in the History and Sociology of Science. Dr. Howell has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 1984. He is Co-Director of the University of Michigan Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Director of the University of Michigan Program in Society and Medicine.
He has written widely on the use of medical technology, examining the social and contextual factors relevant to its clinical application and diffusion, analyzing why American medicine has become obsessed with the use of medical technology. His current research is an attempt to analyze the implication for health policy of factors that have both contributed to and slowed the diffusion of medical technology into clinical practice, using both a sociology of knowledge and a comparative approach. His most recent book is Technology in the Hospital: Transforming Patient Care in the Early Twentieth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).
Dr. Howell's research has been recently supported by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and by a Burroughs Welcome Foundation Award in the History of Medicine. He was recently named to the University of Michigan Society of Fellows.
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