Joel D. Howell, MD, PhD

Joel D. Howell, MD, PhD is the Director of the Program in Society and Medicine. Dr. Howell is appointed as Professor of the Department of Internal Medicine, as well as the Co-Director, RWJ Clinical Scholars Program, Professor in the Department of History, and Professor in Department of Health Services Management and Policy in the School of Public Health. Dr. Howell's research interests include international comparisons of medical technology use, technology assessment, history of medical technology, history of health care, and medical ethics.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Address
6312 Med Sci I, Box 0604
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Telephone Number (734) 647-4844
Fax (734) 647-3301.

E-mail: jhowell@umich.edu

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books
  1. "Machines' Meanings: British and American Use of Medical Technology, 1890-1930," Ph.D. Thesis, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1987.
  2. Howell JD, ed. Technology and American Medical Practice: 1880-1930. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1988.
  3. Howell JD, ed. Medical Lives and Scientific Medicine at Michigan: 1891-1969. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
  4. Howell JD. Technology in the Hospital: Transforming Patient Care in the Early Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Original Papers
  1. Lamberti JJ, Silver H, Howell JD, Kampman K, Glagov S. Transmural Gradients of Experimental Myocardial Ischemia: Limited Correlation of Ultrastructure with Epicardial S-T Segment Elevation. Am Heart J 1978; 96:496-506.
  2. Howell JD, Pringle K, Kirschner B, Burrington JD. Peutz-Jeghers Polyps Causing Colocolic Intussusception in Infancy. J Pediatric Surgery 1981; 16:82-84.
  3. Howell JD. Early Perceptions of the Electrocardiogram: From Arrhythmia to Infarction. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 1984; 58:83-98.
  4. Howell JD. A Medical History Potpourri. SREPCIM Newsletter 1985; 7:3.
  5. Howell JD. "Soldier's Heart": The Redefinition of Heart Disease and Speciality Formation in Early Twentieth-Century Great Britain. Medical History 1985; Supplement No. 5:34-52.
  6. Rostain T, Howell JD. Dr. Wallaby: A Parable for Modern Medicine. Journal of the American Medical Association 1985; 254:2947-2948.
  7. Howell JD. The First World War and British Cardiology: A Case of Soldiers' Hearts. The Society for the Social History of Medicine Bulletin 1985; 37:54-57.
  8. Gramelspacher GP, Howell JD, Young MJ. Perceptions of Ethical Problems by Nurses and Doctors. Archives of Internal Medicine 1986; 146:577-578.
  9. Howell JD. Early Use of X-Ray Machines and Electrocardiographs at The Pennsylvania Hospital: 1897 through 1927. Journal of the American Medical Association 1986; 255:2320-2323.
  10. Howell JD. The Changing Face of Twentieth Century American Cardiology. Annals of Internal Medicine 1986; 105:772-782. Reprinted in: Rothstein WG, ed. Readings in American Health Care. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
  11. Arnold RM, Povar GJ, Howell JD. The Humanities, Humanistic Behavior, and the Humane Physician: A Cautionary Note. Annals of Internal Medicine 1987; 106:313-318.
  12. Howell JD. Cardiac Physiology and Clinical Medicine? Two Case Studies. In: Geison GL, ed. Physiology in the American Context, 1850-1940. Bethesda, Maryland: American Physiological Society, 1987:279-292.
  13. Howell JD, Lurie N, Woolliscroft JO. Worlds Apart: Some Thoughts to be Delivered to House Officers on the First Day of Clinic. Journal of the American Medical Association 1987; 258:502-503.
  14. Kahn JK, Howell JD. Profiles in Cardiology: Frank Norman Wilson. Clinical Cardiology 1987; 10:616-618.
  15. Howell JD. Hearts and Minds: The Invention and Transformation of American Cardiology. In: Maulitz RC, Long DE, eds. Grand Rounds: One Hundred Years of Internal Medicine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988:243-275.
  16. Howell JD. Patient Care at Guy's and the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1900-1920. In: British Society for the History of Science and the History of Science Society, Program, Papers, and Abstracts for the Joint Conference. Manchester, England, 11-15 July 1988:247-254.
  17. Howell JD. What Is the Difference Between an HIV and a CBC? Hastings Center Report 1988, 18(4):18-19; reprinted in: Gold SJ, Moral Controversies: Race, Class, and Gender in Applied Ethics (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993).
  18. Howell JD. John Shaw Billings (1838-1913). Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 1988; 112:661-662.
  19. Howell JD. Specialties and the American Board of Internal Medicine: A Historical Perspective. In: American Board of Internal Medicine Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium and Celebration. Portland, Oregon: ABIM, 1987:9-17, and The Invention and Development of American Internal Medicine. Journal of General Internal Medicine 1989; 4:127-133.
  20. Howell JD. The History of Medicine. In: Kelley WN, ed. Textbook of Internal Medicine. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1989:6-8; 2nd ed. (revised), 1992:5-8; 3rd ed. (revised), 1997:9-12.
  21. Howell JD. University of Michigan's Rackham Arthritis Research Unit. Michigan Medicine 1989; 88:36-38.
  22. Martin SC, Howell JD. One Hundred Years of Clinical Preventive Medicine in America. Primary Care 1989; 16:3-8.
  23. Foley KT, Howell JD, Junck L. Progression of Hydrocephalus During Corticosteroid Therapy for Neurosarcoidosis. Postgraduate Medicine Journal 1989; 65:481-484.
  24. Howell JD, McLaughlin CG. Regional Variation in 1917 Health Care Expenditures. Medical Care 1989; 27(8):772-788.
  25. Howell JD. Machines and Medicine: Technology Transforms the American Hospital. In: Long DE, Golden J, eds. The American General Hospital: Communities and Social Contexts. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1989:109-134.
  26. Howell JD. Introduction. To a new edition of History of Electrocardiography, by George E. Burch and Nicholas P. DePasquale. 1964; San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1990:v-xl.
  27. Howell JD. AndrŽ FrŽdŽric Cournand. In: Fox DM, Meldrum M, Rezak I, eds. Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990: 107-111.
  28. Howell JD. Niels Ryberg Finsen. In: Fox DM, Meldrum M, Rezak I, eds. Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990: 181-184.
  29. Howell JD. Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann. In: Fox DM, Meldrum M, Rezak I, eds. Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990: 194-197.
  30. Howell JD. Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. In: Fox DM, Meldrum M, Rezak I, eds. Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland Publishing, 1990: 462-466.
  31. Howell JD. Ideas for Medical Education: An Elective Course in Medical History. Academic Medicine 1991; 66:668-669.
  32. Stromberg J, Howell JD, Achenbaum WA. Some Thoughts About Aging From a Nineteenth Century Connecticut Yankee. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1991; 35:140-144.
  33. Howell JD. Diagnostic Technologies: X-Rays, Electrocardiograms, and CAT Scans. Southern California Law Review 1991; 65:529-564.
  34. Howell JD. The History of Eugenics and the Future of Gene Therapy. Journal of Clinical Ethics 1991; 2:274-278.
  35. Howell JD. Lowell T. Coggeshall and American Medical Education: 1901-1987. Academic Medicine 1992; 67:711-718.
  36. Howell JD, McLaughlin CG. Race, Income, and the Purchase of Medical Care by Selected 1917 Working-Class Urban Families. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 1992; 47:439-461.
  37. Howell JD. Concepts of Heart-Related Diseases. In: Kiple KF, ed. The Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993:91-102.
  38. Achenbaum WA, Howell JD, Parker MM. Patterns of Alcohol Use and Abuse Among Aging Civil War Veterans, 1865-1920. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 1993; 69:69-85.
  39. Howell JD. Frank Norman Wilson: Theory, Technology, and Electrocardiography. In: Howell JD, ed. Medical Lives and Scientific Medicine at Michigan, 1861-1969. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1993:101-127.
  40. Howell JD. The Purchase of Health Care by Selected American Households in 1917-1919: A Machine Readable Source. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 1993; 67:696-702.
  41. Woolliscroft JO, Howell JD, Patel BP, Swanson DB. Resident Patient Interactions: The Humanistic Qualities of Residents Assessed by Patients, Attending Physicians, Program Supervisors, and Nurses. Academic Medicine 1994; 69:216-224.
  42. Howell JD. Preserving Patient Records to Support Health Care Delivery, Teaching, and Research. In: McCall N, Mix LA, eds. Designing Archival Programs to Advance Knowledge in the Health Fields. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995: 33-51.
  43. Howell JD. Histories of Academic Medical Education. Academic Medicine 1995; 70:692-695.
  44. Lederer SE, More ES, Howell JD. Medical History in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum. Academic Medicine 1995; 70:770-776.
  45. Martin SC, Howell JD. Creating University Hospitals: Rationales and Realities. Academic Medicine 1995; 70:1012-1016.
  46. Howell JD. Cardiovascular Disease. In: Ferrell RH, Hoff J, eds. Dictionary of American History. Supplement, Part 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996:98-99.
  47. Howell JD. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. In: Ferrell RH, Hoff J, eds. Dictionary of American History. Supplement, Part 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996:121.
  48. Howell JD. Health Care for All, Health Care for Me: The Personal Nature of Health Workforce Policy. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 1996; 21:849-853.
  49. Kelley WN, Howell JD. Introduction to Internal Medicine as a Discipline. In: Kelley WN, ed. Textbook of Internal Medicine. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 3rd ed. (revised), 1997:2-4.
Other Publications
  1. Contributor to Nobel Prize Winners, Tyler Wasson, ed. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
  2. Howell JD. "Modernizing Diagnosis," in a supplement on "Health and Human Values." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 22, 1988.
  3. Report of the Medical School Task Force on the Humanities and Social Sciences, January, 1991.
  4. Report of the Department of Internal Medicine Committee on Medical Ethics, March, 1991.
  5. Howell JD. "The Electronic Network: A Historian's View." The Watermark 1993; 16:56.
  6. Report of the Historical Center for the Health Sciences Review Committee, 1996.
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