Joel Howell, MD, PhD, has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 1984. In addition to being the Director of the Medical Arts Program, he is a Senior Associate Director of the University of Michigan Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, the Victor Vaughan Professor of the History of Medicine, and a Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine (Medical School), History (College of LSA), and Health Management and Policy (School of Public Health).
Dr. Howell’s special interest lies in the history of medical technology and the medical humanities. Recent projects for Dr. Howell include exploration of the history of medical education in Ethiopia and the history of cardiology in Brazil. He written extensively on the history of human experimentation, on the use of children’s bodies for anatomic study in the early 20th study, and on ideas about heart attacks.
