Donald L.
Madison
Professor
B. Mus. 1958, La Sierra College; M.D., 1965, Loma Linda University; joint appointments: Professor of Family Medicine and Health Policy and Administration
My career as medical administrator and student of medical care organization branched during the 1980s to include medical and American history. I now teach courses for medical students in contemporary health care policy and politics and the social history of American medicine; I have also taught honors courses for several years to undergraduate students in American Studies—focusing on American cultural history from 1870s to the 1970s, the experience of health, illness and healing in American life, and on the American musical theatre. In all of these courses I use art and photographic images, sound recordings, film, fiction, readers theater and programmed library investigations. In addition, I have frequently directed medical students in elective field courses in comparative (international) health care systems.
All of my research
has focused in one way or another on the work and careers of physicians
and the settings in which they practice. Earlier, I studied the stability
of the medical staffs of large group practice organizations. This led
to an historical study of American medical practice as organization. More
recently I have investigated the popular image of the American physician
as portrayed on stage, screen and television.
You may contact Dr. Madison by email: donmad@med.unc.edu; by phone at: (919) 962-1136; or by post at: CB #7240, Department of Social Medicine / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7240.
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