Professional Summary
Joel D. Howell is a Professor at the University of Michigan in the departments of Internal Medicine (Medical School), Health Management and Policy (School of Public Health), and History (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts), as well as the Victor C. Vaughan Professor of the History of Medicine. He received his M.D. 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 Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science.
Dr. Howell has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 1984. He is the 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. He was recently named to the University of Michigan Society of Fellows.
Education
Ph.D., History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1985
M.D., University of Chicago, 1979
Research Interest & Projects
Dr. Howell's 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 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.
Selected Publications
Howell, J.D. (2001). Contextualizing the Research. In Science, Ethics, Power: The Production of Knowledge and Indigenous Peoples. Journal of the International Institute, 9(1), 26.
Howell, J.D. (2001). A History of Caring in Medicine. In Cluff, L.E. and Binstock, R.H. (Ed.) The Lost Art of Caring: A Challenge to Health Professional, Families, Communities, and Society. (77-103). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Howell, J.D. (2000). Osteopathic Treatment of Low Back Pain. New England Journal of Medicine, 342, 820.
Howell, J.D. (1999). The Paradox of Osteopathy. New England Journal of Medicine, 341, 1465-67.
Howell, J.D. (1995). Technology in the Hospital: Transforming Patient Care in the Early Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Paperback edition 1997).
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