Keith A. Wailoo is an American historian. He is currently the Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs and Chair of the Department of History at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

. His research lies at the intersection of history and health policy, often focusing on the politics of healthcare, the development of drug policy, and the social implications of health policy. He was elected as a member of the

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in 2021.

Education

Wailoo received a

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in the history and sociology of science from the

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, and a bachelor's degree in

chemical engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of the operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials ...

from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. Prior to arriving at Princeton, he taught at the

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795 ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

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, and the

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. In 2021 he was awarded the

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.Dan David Prize 2021
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Publications

* Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette (University of Chicago Press, 2021) * Pain: A Political History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015) * How Cancer Crossed the Color Line (Oxford University Press, 2011) * 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) * The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay–Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) * A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (University of North Carolina Press, 2006) * Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) * Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)

References

External links

Personal website

History Department webpage

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs webpage
Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Princeton University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) American male non-fiction writers Members of the National Academy of Medicine {{US-med-historian-stub