Brian Dolan, PhD
Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
School of Medicine

Research areas include historical perspectives on the development of modern clinical practices and medical epistemology; the ethcis and values of medical technologies, such as information management systems and telemedicine.

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
  • Post Doc History of Medicine Wellcome Trust 1996
  • PhD History and Philosophy of Science Cambridge University 1995
  • BA Biology & History of Science University of Florida 1992

Interests

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  • medical humanities
  • qualitative research
  • bioethics
  • social science
  • history of medicine
  • philosophy of science

Websites

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Grants and Projects

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  • UC Medical Humanities Consortium - Medical Humanities Press, University of California Office of the President, 2015

Publications (24)

Top publication keywords:
NeurosciencesInfluenza Pandemic, 1918-1919Pneumonia, ViralMind-Body Relations, MetaphysicalPatientsTechnology, DentalPhilosophyHistory, 18th CenturyMasksHistory of DentistryPandemicsCultureEthics, DentalHistory, 20th CenturyCoronavirus Infections

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  • UCSF Department of Urology: The First 100 Years
    UCSF Department of Urology: The First 100 Years 2017 Brian Dolan
  • A History of Neurological Surgery at UCSF, 1912-2015
    A History of Neurological Surgery at UCSF, 1912-2015 2016 Brian Dolan
  • Humanitas: Readings in the Development of the Medical Humanities
    Humanitas: Readings in the Development of the Medical Humanities 2015 Brian Dolan
  • At Work in the World: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Health
    Speaking about the Other: On the Relevance of the Humanities to Occupational Health 2012 Brian Dolan
  • At Work in the World: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Health
    At Work in the World: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Health 2012 Paul Blanc and Brian Dolan
  • The Healing Art of Writing
    The Healing Art of Writing 2011 Joan Baranow, Brian Dolan, David Watts
  • History, Medical Humanities and Medical Education
    Social History of Medicine 2010 Dolan, Brian
  • Pixels, Patterns and Problems of Vision: The Adaptation of Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Mammography in Radiological Practice in the US
    History of Science 2010 Dolan, B, Tillack, A
  • The U.S. Oral Health Workforce in the Coming Decade
    The Ethical Principles and Obligations to Increasing Access 2009 Brian Dolan
  • Epistolary Medicine: Letters Between Medical Students and Patients Lead to Reflection
    Lancet 2009 Dolan, B, Goren, N, and Perlis, C
  • The American dentists: ethics, technology and education for the twenty-first century.
    Journal of the history of dentistry 2009 Dolan B
  • Putting Alternative Medicine to the Test
    Nature Medicine 2008 Brian Dolan
  • Clio Electric: Online Resources in Post‐1750 History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
    Isis 2007 Brian Dolan
  • Soul searching: a brief history of the mind/body debate in the neurosciences.
    Neurosurgical focus 2007 Dolan B
  • Twenty Years of Social History of Medicine
    Social History of Medicine 2007 Dolan, B
  • What have teeth taught us about culture? Practice, patienthood and ethics in the history of dentistry and public health.
    Journal of the history of dentistry 2007 Dolan B
  • Computer Aided Diagnosis in Mammography: Its Development and Early Challenges
    Circuits, Systems, and Computers 2006 Brian Dolan
  • Plague in San Francisco (1900)
    Public Health Reports 2006 Brian Dolan
  • Blowpipes and Batteries: Humphry Davy, Edward Daniel Clarke, and Experimental Chemistry in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain.
    Ambix 1998 Dolan BP