Abstract
This study analyzes the education and professional career of Jack Elinson (1917-2017), pioneer in the field of sociomedical sciences in introducing its teaching and research in a school of public health at Columbia University, where he worked for thirty years (1956-1986). Elinson is acknowledged for his contributions to social psychology, statistics and medical sociology, especially on health care indicators and their relationship with quality of life. In 1985 he received the Leo G. Reeder Award from the American Sociological Association for his studies in the field of medical sociology. Jack Elinson, Renée Fox, Robert Straus, Eliot Freidson and many others were part of the group of the second generation of social scientists in the process of institutionalization of medical sociology/health care.
Highlights
This study analyzes the education and professional career of Jack Elinson (1917-2017), pioneer in the field of sociomedical sciences in introducing its teaching and research in a school of public health at Columbia University, where he worked for thirty years (1956-1986)
For a year or so after her death, I was shunted between grandmothers in Brownsville (Brooklyn) and East Harlem where my older half-sister lived. (I do not remember where my younger sister was put). He narrates that his father, a Russian-Jewish immigrant, arrived in the United States of America in 1904 and when he was 40 years old he was widowed for the second time
Leaving the War Department involved political reasons, as reported in the obituary of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (Elinson was president from 1979 to 1980): Dr Elinson was a passionate advocate for racial equality and relished meeting international visitors at conferences focusing on social inequities and the new field of sociomedical sciences
Summary
Jack Elinson, the 99-year-old pioneer in the institutionalization of sociomedicine in public health in the United States of America, died on February 13, 2017. Leaving the War Department involved political reasons, as reported in the obituary of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (Elinson was president from 1979 to 1980): Dr Elinson was a passionate advocate for racial equality and relished meeting international visitors at conferences focusing on social inequities and the new field of sociomedical sciences. An important mark of his action was the creation of the first department of sociomedical sciences in a school of public health at Columbia University, incorporating sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, social psychology and philosophy in the study of medicine and health care He worked in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia in the 1956-1986 period
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