John Harley Warner

John Harley Warner is Avalon Professor of History of Medicine, History, and American Studies. He is the author of The Therapeutic Perspective: Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America (1986; 1997) and Against the Spirit of System: The French Impulse in Nineteenth–Century American Medicine (1998; 2003), and co–editor of Major Problems in the History of American Medicine and Public Health (2001) and Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings (2004). He teaches the cultural and social history of medicine, health cultures, disease, and public health. He is now working on a study of the epistemological, aesthetic, technical, moral, and political choices in the grounding of modern American medicine.