Join us in our conversation with Jeremy Greene, MD PhD. Jeremy is the William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, as well as the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine (which sponsors this podcast) and the Johns Hopkins Department of the History of Medicine. In this episode, we talk with Jeremy about the symbiotic role of medicine and the humanities from his perspective as an MD PhD; about how history can “reshape the limits of the possible” and push back against the “inertia of entrenched power”; about his most recent book, The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth; and about how and why the medical humanities must be a “critical” field. 

SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED 

Jeremy Greene, Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease (2007) 

Jeremy Greene, Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine (2014) 

Jeremy Greene, The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth (2022) 

David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan, We’ll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity (2022) 

Mary Fissell’s episode of “For the Medical Record” 

The Flexner Report 

Keith Wailoo, “Patients are Humans Too: The Emergence of the Medical Humanities” (2022) 

Charles Rosenberg 

Paul Farmer, Partners in Health 

Allan Brandt 

Center of Africana Studies Event with Sadiya Hartman 

Bulletin of the History of Medicine 

Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, Discard Studies (2022)