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Gerald Oppenheimer

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Research Interests

  • American, History of Medicine

Education

  • Ph. D. University of Chicago

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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Brooklyn College

Selected Publications

  • Oppenheimer, G. and Bayer, R. Shattered Dreams?:  An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic.  (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

  • Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. AIDS Doctors:  Voices From the Epidemic.  (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

  • Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. (eds.)  Confronting Drug Policy:  Illicit Drugs in a Free Society (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

PUBLICATIONS:  JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

  •  March, D. and Oppenheimer, GM. Social Disorder and Diagnostic Order: The U.S. Mental Hygiene Movement, the Midtown Manhattan Study, and the Development of Psychiatric Epidemiology in the 20th Century, International Journal of Epidemiology 2014 (Supplement 1): i29-i42. 
  • Oppenheimer, GM. and Benrubi, ID.,  Evidence, Science and Politics:  The McGovern Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs and the Meat Industry’s Battle over the Diet-Heart Question (1976-1977).
  • Bayer R, Oppenheimer GM, Routine HIV Testing, Public Health and the USPSTF—An End to the Debate,  New England Journal of Medicine 2013; 368:881-884.
  • Oppenheimer, G., Blackburn, H., Puska, P.  From Framingham to North Karelia to U.S. Community Prevention Programs: Negotiating  Research Agendas for Coronary Heart Disease in the Second Half of the 20th Century, Public Health Reviews 2011;33:452-486.
  • Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. Routine HIV Screening: What Counts in Evidence Based Policy?  The New England Journal of Medicine 2011; 365:1265-1168.
  • Oppenheimer, G. and Bayer, R.  An Epidemic of Unknown Proportions: The First Decade of HIV/AIDS, in HIVAIDS in the Post-HAART Era. Hall J., Hall  B., Cockerell, C. (eds.) (Shelton, Conn:  People’s Medical Publishing House, 2011):      3-19.
  • Oppenheimer, G.  Framingham: The First 20 Years. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases 2010; 53:55-61.
  • Oppenheimer, G. and Bayer, R. AIDS Exceptionalism.  AMA Virtual Monitor December 2009;
  • Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G.  Roll-out and Rationing: Providing Anti-Retroviral Therapy in South Africa. Cynthia Pope, Renee White, Robert Marlow, eds., in HIV/AIDS: Stories of an Epidemic, Routledge, 2008: 305-317
  • Oppenheimer, G. and Susser, E.  The Context and Challenge of Max von Pettenkofer’s Contribution to Epidemiology.  American Journal of Epidemiology 2007; 166:1239-1241.
  • Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G.  Scale Ups, Scarcity and Selection: The Historical  Experience of Doctors in South Africa.  AIDS  2007; 21 (supplement 5):543-547.
  • Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. The AIDS Pioneers—Reflections on the Epidemic’s Early Years. New England Journal of Medicine. 2006;355:2273-2275.
  • Oppenheimer, G. and Bayer, R. Choosing Between Life and Death: Rationing of Health Care during the AIDS Epidemic in South Africa. in L’Épidémie du SIDA en Afrique subsaharienne. Regards historiens.  Becker, Denis, eds, Paris: Karthala, 2006: 167-192
  • Oppenheimer, G.  Profiling Risk: The Emergence of Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology in the U.S. 1947-1970.  International Journal of Epidemiology   2006:35:515-519.
  • Oppenheimer, G. Becoming the Framingham Study, 1947-1950. American Journal of Public Health 2005; 95:602-610.
  • Oppenheimer, G., Bayer, R., Colgrove, J.  Public Health and Human Rights: Old Wine in New Bottles? Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2002; 30:522-532.
  • Oppenheimer, G., Rosner, D. Two Lives, Three Legs, One Journey: A Retrospective Appreciation of Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser. International Journal of Epidemiology 2002; 31: 49-53. 
  • Oppenheimer, G.  Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy. American Journal of Public Health 2001; 91: 1049-1055.
  • Fairchild, A. and Oppenheimer, G.  Public Health Nihilism versus Pragmatism: History, Politics, and the Control of Tuberculosis.  American Journal of Public Health 1998;88: 1105-1117
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Affiliated Campus(es)

  • Brooklyn College

Books

Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic

Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic

by Gerald Oppenheimer Faculty, History

 

On April 27th, 1994, the first democratic election in South Africa ended 46 years of Apartheid. But, at the very moment of transition, the seeds of the world's most catastrophic AIDS epidemic had already been sown. Since the epidemic's onset, more than 1,000,000 South African men, women, and children have died. The national government finally committed itself, in 2003, to making anti-retroviral drugs available to those whose lives hung in the balance and a halting rollout of drug treatment began. Based on interviews from the great urban centers, provincial centers, and rural villages, this book captures the experience of health care workers as they confronted indifference from colleagues, opposition from superiors, unexpected resistance from the country's political leaders, and material scarcity that was both the legacy of Apartheid and a consequence of the global power of the international pharmaceutical industry. 

Published June 2007
Oxford University Press, 2007

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