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Christopher Crenner
Associate Professor and Chair of History and Philosophy of Medicine
Ph.D. History of Science, Harvard University, 1993
MD, Harvard Medical School, 1993
Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine
MS 1025, KUMC
3901 Rainbow Boulevard
Kansas City, KS 66160
(913) 588-7040 -- department
(913) 588-7060 -- fax
(913) 588-7098 -- office
E-Mail: ccrenner@kumc.edu
Chris Crenner's research and teaching focus on the history of medicine, chiefly American medicine from the 18th through the 20th centuries, with an emphasis on the development of scientific medical practice. He is interested in the ways that formal systems of medical knowledge, especially the biomedical sciences, are related to conventional medical practice. He has just completed a book titled Private Practice (Johns Hopkins, 2005) which investigates daily medical practice and patient-doctor interactions in the office of the eminent Boston physician, Richard Cabot. Cabot kept detailed collections of patient correspondence that reveal the dilemmas that arose for doctors and patients in negotiating the use and limitations of a new, rigorously technical medical practice. Cabot was an early convert to and later controversial public critic of a new scientific medicine, during a period of rapid change in his profession in the early twentieth century.
Publications include:
- Pathology and Treatment: The Case of Ulcers. Caduceus. Vol. 11, 1995.
- Introduction of the Blood Pressure Cuff into U.S. Medical Practice: Technology and Skilled Practice. Annals of Intern Med. Vol., 128, 1998.
- Organizational Reform and Professional Dissent in the Careers of Richard Cabot and Ernest Amory Codman, 1900-1920. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. Vol. 56, 2001.
- EL Krakauer K Fox. Barriers to Optimum End-of-Life Care for Minority Patients. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. Vol. 50, 2002.
- Diagnosis and Authority in the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Practice of Richard C. Cabot. Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Vol. 76, 2002.
- Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot. Johns Hopkins, 2005.
- A Brief History of Timelessness in Medicine, in Jacalyn Duffin, ed., Clio in the Clinic: History in Medical Practice, Toronto University Press, 2005.
- Private Laboratories and Medical Expertise in Boston, circa 1900, in Carsten Timmerman and Julie Anderson, ed., Devices and Designs. Palgrave, forthcoming.
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Concept of Racial Nervous Predisposition, in Matthew Ramsey and Larry Churchill, eds., Rethinking Inequalities and Differences in Medicine. Forthcoming.
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2005  Private Practice
In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot
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