david blumenthal
David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., is Director of the Institute for Health Policy and a physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System in Boston, Massachusetts. [1]
AcademyHealth named IHP Director Dr. David Blumenthal the 2008 recipient of its prestigious Distinguished Investigator Award. [2]
He teaches and writes on constructive Jewish theology, medieval Judaism, Jewish mysticism, and holocaust studies. [3]
The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of health services research and health policy. [2]
The Harvard Education Review article is less evil and more dangerous than that. [4]
His previous published works include numerous scholarly articles, reviews, and eleven books including the two volume Understanding Jewish Mysticism (1978, 1982), God at the Center (Harper and Row, 1988; reprinted Jason Aronson, 1994; French translation as Dieu au coeur, 2002), Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest (Westminster / John Knox, 1993), The Banality of Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah and Jewish Tradition (Georgetown University Press: 1999) and Philosophic Mysticism: Essays in Rational Religion (2007). [5]
His previous published works include numerous scholarly articles, reviews, and eleven books including the two volume Understanding Jewish Mysticism (1978, 1982), God at the Center (Harper and Row, 1988; reprinted Jason Aronson, 1994, translated as Dieu au coeur, 2002), Facing the Abusing God: A Theology of Protest (Westminster / John Knox, 1993), and The Banality of Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah and Jewish Tradition (Georgetown University Press: 1999). [3]
They have fought the school establishment in skirmishes and battles across the country, and their enemy has proved wiley and stubborn. [4]
Professor Blumenthal is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Religion. [3]
Four months and a summer later, an institution that many Faculty members hoped would disband after the April crisis still continues: the ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ Faculty caucuses. [4]
Dr. Blumenthal’s research interests include the extent and consequences of academic-industrial relationships in the life sciences; professionalism and the determinants of physician behavior; the organization and financing of physicians services; the dissemination of health information technology; and quality management in health care organizations. [2]
Students and faculty began taking stands House by House on the day’s events, as they retreated yesterday from University Hall and Memorial Church to afternoon and evening gatherings in the Houses. [...] THE LAST YEAR and a half has not been a happy time for advocates of community control of ghetto schools. [4]
He is also Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. [1]
Dean Theodore R. Sizer received a comprehensive mandate from the Faculty for reforming the Ed School’s urban program, and with tradition everywhere in retreat, groups of dissidents from all programs began yelling for reforms, many totally unrelated to the revolution in the nation’s streets. [4]
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[2] News :: Institute for Health Policy
[3] Faculty & Staff | The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies | Emory University
[4] The Harvard Crimson :: Writer Profile :: DAVID BLUMENTHAL
[5] David R. Blumenthal