Biosketch

Joseph M. Gabriel is a historian who studies the history of medicine, cultural history, and intellectual history. Dr. Gabriel was awarded a Ph.D. in history from Rutgers University in 2006. In 2006-2007 held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. He is currently writing a book on the history of addiction in the United States from roughly 1790-1940. In it, Dr. Gabriel argues that the feeling of "loss of control" that is at the heart of the addictive experience grew out of complicated changes in the culture and economy of the nineteenth century, and that the emergence of this type of individual experience was fundamentally intertwined with the origins of narcotic control as both a scientific and political project. In addition to the history of addiction, Dr. Gabriel is interested in the history of the pharmaceutical industry, the history of biotechnology, cultural history, the history of aesthetics, and the history of pragmatism and neo-pragmatism.

Education

Ph.D., Department of History, Rutgers University (2006) M.A., History, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1999) B.A., Philosophy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1992)

Honors/Awards

Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Award from the American Association for the History of Medicine (2009) First Year Assistant Professor Research Grant, Florida State University. (2008)) National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California San Diego (2006-2007) Reynolds Associate Research Fellowship, Lister Hill Library of Health Sciences, University of Alabama, Birmingham (2007) University Graduate Excellence and Research Fellowship, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University (2004-2005)

Research Focus

History of medicine Cultural history The history of addiction and narcotic control Intellectual history The history of biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry

Publications

Electronics: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Press, 2004; reprint, John Hopkins University Press, 2007), with David Morton, co-author. “’The Soul, a Stranger to the Body’: Anesthetics, Epistemology, and the Transformation of Pain” Raritan: A Quarterly Review (Forthcoming). “A Thing Patented is a Thing Revealed: Francis E. Stewart, George S. Davis, and the Legitimization of Patent Rights in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, 1879-1911” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (April, 2009), 135-172. “The Mirror of Narcissus: History, Metaphysics, and the Limits of Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism,” with Nathan Crick, co-author. Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 35:3 (Summer 2006), 351-368. “Mass-Producing the Individual: Mary C. Jarrett, Elmer E. Southard, and the Industrial Origins of Psychiatric Social Work” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 79 (Fall, 2005), 430-458.