Keith Andrew Wailoo is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University where he teaches in the Department of History and the School of Public and International Affairs. He is former Chair of the Department of History, the former Vice Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, and current President of the American Association for the History of Medicine. He is an award-winning author on drugs and drug policy; race, science, and health; genetics and society; and history of medicine, disease, health policy and medical affairs in the U.S.
Recent health, history, and policy writings include: “Historical Aspects of Race and Medicine: The Case of J. Marion Sims,” Journal of the American Medical Association (October 2018); “Sickle Cell Disease: A History of Progress and Peril,” New England Journal of Medicine (March 2017); and “The FDA’s Proposed Ban on Menthol Cigarettes,” New England Journal of Medicine (March 2019)
Wailoo is currently working on two book-length projects: a history of the tobacco marketing, race, and menthol cigarette, and a history of addiction in the U.S.
His books include:
Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2021)
Pain: A Political History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)
How Cancer Crossed the Color Line (Oxford University Press, 2011)
The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) Recipient of the 2006 Association of American Publishers Book Award in the History of Science
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) Recipient of the 2002 American Political Science Association Book Award (Social and Legal Dimensions of Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.); 2003 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship; 2002 Lillian Smith Book Award for Non-Fiction; 2005 William H. Welch Award, American Association for the History of Medicine for best book in the field; and 2006 Sickle Cell/Thalassemia Patients Network, Community Service Award.
Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) Recipient of the 1996 Arthur Viseltear Award, American Public Health Association
Keith Wailoo's co-edited volumes include:
Medicare and Medicaid at 50: America's Entitlement Programs in the Age of Affordable Care (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (Rutgers University Press, 2012)
Katrina’s Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America (Rutgers University Press, 2010)
Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
He has lectured widely, and published articles in the British medical journal Lancet, the New York Times, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Daily Beast, American Prospect, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, the Bulletin for the History of Medicine, the Journal for the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law.
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