Dr. George Weisz
Faculty
Social Studies of Medicine
McGill University
Canada
Biography
George Weisz is the Cotton-Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine. He received a PhD in History from Stony Brook University and in Sociology from the University of Paris 5 (Descartes). He is interested in healthcare in Europe and North America between the 19th and 21st centuries. His two most recent books are Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History (2014) and Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization, 1830-1950 (2006). He has also written books about the creation of French universities during the Third Republic and the Paris Academy of Medicine in the 19th century. He has edited five collective volume including The History and Sociology of Quantification in Medicine (2006) and Greater than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine 1920-1950 (1998). He has written articles on mineral waters, national differences in gynecological practices, and efforts at international standardization notably through practice guidelines. He is currently working on institutions of global health, national and international efforts to organize effective primary care, and trends in medical education. He has been a Visiting Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the Université de Paris 1 (Sorbonne) and INSERM (Paris). In 1998 he obtained the Burroughs Wellcome Fund 40th Anniversary Career Award in the History of Medicine and Science. In 2013 he received the American Journal Of Public Health's 2012 Paper of the Year Award.
Research Interest
Social Studies of Medicine
Publications
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2005 Body Counts: Medical Quantification in Historical and Sociological Perspectives // Perspectives historiques et sociologiques sur la quantification médicale, edited with Gérard Jorland and Annick Opinel, McGill-Queens Press.
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2014 Chronic Disease in the Twentieth Century: A History, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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2008 Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health in the Twentieth Century, edited with Cynthia Comacchio and Janet Golden, McGill-Queens Press.
