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Languages: English, Spanish
Research Interests: History of disease; Global health; Pharmaceuticals; Therapeutics; Twentieth century clinical medicine
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Dr. Jeremy Greene is an associate professor of the history of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise includes internal medicine. Dr. Greene serves as the Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine.
Dr. Greene’s research interests include the history of therapeutics, especially pharmaceuticals.
He also practices internal medicine at the East Baltimore Medical Center with admitting privileges to the Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
Dr. Greene earned his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He completed his residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital.
He serves on the Johns Hopkins University Press Faculty Editorial Board. His book Prescribing by Numbers was recognized with a Rachel Carson Prize in 2009.
Dr. Greene is broadly interested in the history of therapeutics—especially pharmaceuticals—and his research explores the ways in which our cures and remedies come to influence our understandings of what it means to be sick or healthy, normal or abnormal.
He is currently working on a history of generic drugs. Generic drugs are never fully identical to the brand name products they imitate. Rather, their claims of being “the same” lie in proof that they are similar enough in ways that matter to be functionally interchangeable. As the market for generic substitutes has grown—from only 10 percent of the American pharmaceutical market in 1960 to nearly 80 percent by 2010—so too have epistemological and epidemiological conflicts over how one can prove that generics are truly equivalent to their brand-name counterparts. These conflicts over generic drugs reveal fundamental conflicts over what it means to practice rational medicine, and what role consumers, physicians, insurers and others should have in defining that rationality.
Dr. Greene’s broader research interests focus on the history of disease, the history of global health and the relationship between medicine and the marketplace.
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