Barron Lerner
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Barron H. Lerner teaches at the Columbia University
College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health.
His book The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America, was cited as an American Library Association Notable Book. It also received the 2006 William H. Welch H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine for the best book in the history of medicine over the previous five years.
His book One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900, is the first history of drunk driving in America. It was published by Johns Hopkins University Press
in October 2011.
Lerner's other books are Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis on the Skid Road (1998) and When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine (2006).
Lerner writes regularly on topics in clinical medicine, bioethics and medical history for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate and other publications.
On August 30, 2011, he published an op-ed in the New York Times entitled "The Annals of Extreme Surgery" (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/opinion/the-annals-of-extreme-surgery.html) about Hipec treatment for advanced cancers.
He is the author of several articles in the New England Journal of Medicine
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Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health.
His book The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America, was cited as an American Library Association Notable Book. It also received the 2006 William H. Welch H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine for the best book in the history of medicine over the previous five years.
His book One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900, is the first history of drunk driving in America. It was published by Johns Hopkins University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
The Johns Hopkins University Press is the publishing division of the Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1878 and holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously running university press in the United States. The Press publishes books, journals, and electronic databases...
in October 2011.
Lerner's other books are Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis on the Skid Road (1998) and When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine (2006).
Lerner writes regularly on topics in clinical medicine, bioethics and medical history for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate and other publications.
On August 30, 2011, he published an op-ed in the New York Times entitled "The Annals of Extreme Surgery" (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/opinion/the-annals-of-extreme-surgery.html) about Hipec treatment for advanced cancers.
He is the author of several articles in the New England Journal of Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine
The New England Journal of Medicine is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It describes itself as the oldest continuously published medical journal in the world.-History:...
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- Lerner BH. Sins of omission: cancer research without informed consent. N Engl J Med. 2004;351:628-630.
- Lerner BH. Last-ditch medical therapy—revisiting lobotomy. N Engl J Med. 2005;353:119-121.
- Lerner BH. Remembering Berton Roueche—master of medical mysteries. N Engl J Med. 2005;353:2428-2431.
- Lerner BH. Subjects or objects? Prisoners and human experimentation. N Engl J Med. 2007;356:1806-1807.
- Lerner BH. When diseases disappear—the case of familial dysautonomia. N Engl J Med. 2009;361:1622-1625.
Further Reading
- Lerner, Barron (2006-06-27). "'Tough Love' Lessons From a Deadly Epidemic". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). Retrieved 2007-12-16.
- Lerner BH. Hope and reality Lou Gehrig’s way. New York Times, April 19, 2005, F5 (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/health/19essa.html).
- Lerner BH. Enduring and endearing, a patient moves in. New York Times, December 13, 2005, (www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/health/13case.html).
- Lerner BH. Young doctors learn quickly in the hot seat. New York Times, March 14, 2006, F5 (www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/health/14comm.html).
- Lerner BH. When the disease eludes a diagnosis. New York Times, March 25, 2008, F6 (query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE4DB163DF936A15750C0A96E9C8B63).
- Lerner BH. At bedside, stay stoic or display emotions? New York Times, April 22, 2008, F7 (www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/health/views/22essa.html).