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Name: Alfred Imre Tauber
Address: 22 Hardy Lane, Boscawen, NH 03303
1 Ehud St. Jerusalem, Israel 93502
email: ait@bu.edu website: http://blogs.bu.edu/ait/ http://people.bu.edu/ait/
Date of Birth: June 24, 1947
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C.
Education:
1965-1969 Tufts University, College of Liberal Arts, B.S.
1969-1973 Tufts University School of Medicine, M.D.
Postdoctoral training:
Internship and Residencies:
1973-1974 Intern in Medicine, University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals; Seattle, Washington
1974-1975 Resident in Medicine, University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals
Fellowships:
1975-1976 Clinical Fellow in Medicine (Hematology) Tufts-New England Medical Center Hospital, Boston
1976-1977 Research Fellow in Medicine (Hematology) Tufts-New England Medical Center Hospital
1977-1978 Research Fellow in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Research Fellow, Robert B. Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA
Licensure and certification:
Medical license: Washington, 1973-1975 (No. 12311); Massachusetts 1975 (No. 37751); Virginia 1985-2000 (No. 38875); New Hampshire 1997- 2005 (No. 9971)
Medicaid No. 2068745; Medicare No. M09910
NPI: 1346212511
1974 Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners, Certificate No. 130158
1977 Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine, Certificate No. 054030
1980 Diplomate, Hematology Subspecialty Board, Certificate No. 054030
Academic appointments:
1978-1980 Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
1980-1982 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
1982-1986 Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM)
1982-1986 Associate Research Professor of Biochemistry, BUSM
1985-1987 Associate Professor of Pathology, BUSM
1986-1987 Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Division of Medical and Dental Sciences, Boston University Graduate School
1986-2004 Professor of Medicine, BUSM
1987-2011 Professor of Pathology, BUSM
1991-1992 Adjunct Professor of Biology, College of Liberal Arts, Boston University
1992-2011 Professor of Philosophy (tenured, 1998), College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
2004-2011 Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
2011- Professor of Philosophy, emeritus, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
2011- Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine, emeritus, Boston University School of Medicine
Hospital appointments:
1978-1979 Staff Consultant in Hematology, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
1979-1980 Junior Associate in Medicine, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Research Associate, Robert B. Brigham Hospital
1980-1982 Junior Associate in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Research Associate, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Robert B. Brigham Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital
1982-1984 Medical Director, Clinical Hematology Laboratory, Boston City Hospital
1982 Associate Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital
1982-1988 Associate Visiting Physician, Boston City Hospital
1982-1991 Chief, Hematology and Oncology Sections and William Bosworth Castle Hematology Research Laboratory, Boston City Hospital
1984-1991 Director, Division of Clinical Laboratories, Boston City Hospital
1984-1989 Associate Staff, University Hospital
1989-1995 Visiting Physician, Boston City Hospital
1995-2008 Physician, Boston Medical Center
Other professional positions and major visiting appointments:
1980-1982 Consultant, U.S. Public Service Hospital, Brighton, MA
Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1983-1995 Associate Staff in Medicine, University Hospital, Boston, MA
1983-1991 Consultant, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital
1985-1987 Director, Boston University School of Medicine - Hebrew University Exchange Program
1986-1987 Director, Boston University Immunology Laboratory at Jefferson Memorial Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia
1990-1992 Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Graduate School, Boston University
1992-1993 Associate Director, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
1993-2010 Director, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
1993-2010 Affiliated Faculty of the Law, Medicine and Ethics Program, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health
2004-2007 Advisor-at-large, Academies Program, Boston University School of Medicine
2004-2007 Sackler Fellow, Sackler Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University
2006 Reynolds Visiting Lectureship, Baylor University, Waco, TX
2007-2010 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2007- Sackler Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of
Science and Ideas
2010- Director, emeritus, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
Editorial boards:
1986-1989 Associate Editor, The Journal of Immunology
1988-1993 Editorial Board, Blood
1989-1993 Section Head, Journal of Immunology
2001- Editorial Board, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
2002-2007 Editorial board, ComPlexUs. Modeling and Understanding Functional Interactions in Life Sciences
2009- Editorial Board, Korot, The Israel Journal of the History of Medicine and Science
Research grants:
1976-1978 Research Fellowship Award - Oxygen-dependent bactericidal mechanisms. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
1978-1981 Young Investigator Award - Modulation of granulocyte migration and cytotoxicity. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
1977-1982 Co-investigator - Regulation of hypersensitivity reaction in the lung. Oxidative metabolic pathways of alveolar macrophages. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
1981-1989 Principal Investigator - Molecular mechanisms of neutrophil superoxide generation. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
1982-1983 Co-recipient, Whitaker Health Sciences Fund Grant: Anthracycline semiquinone generation of NADH-ubiquinone oxido-reductase
1983-1984 Principal Investigator - Generation of a radio-labeled antibody to human neutrophil myeloperoxidase. Community Technology Foundation, Boston
1983-1984 Co-investigator - Effects of Bactrim on neutrophil function and proliferation. Roche Laboratories
1987-1992 Principal Investigator - Biochemical interaction of the human neutrophil with chlamydia. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
1984-1993 Principal Investigator - Production of toxic species in acute lung injury. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
1992-1993 Co-investigator - Characterization of the bovine conglutinin gene. Applied Immune Science, Santa Clara, CA.
1993-1995 Co-investigator - Genetic reductionism: Its sources and implications. National Center for Human Genome Research (NIH)
Memberships, offices and committee assignments in professional societies:
1975-1994 American Federation for Clinical Research
1978-2005 American Society of Hematology
1978 Member, American College of Physicians
1981 Fellow, American College of Physicians
1982-1991 Massachusetts Medical Society
1982-2004 The American Association of Immunologists
1982-1986 The Society for Free Radical Research
1983-1992 The American Society for Cell Biology
1983-1997 American Society of Biological Chemists
1983-1989 American Society of Clinical Oncology
1984-1985 President, Boston Blood Club
1984-1986 Academic Co-chairman, Leukemia Subgroup, Cancer Management Information System, Massachusetts Division of the American Cancer Society
1984-1987 Scientific Subcommittee on Leukocyte Physiology, American Society of Hematology
1984-1989 American Association for Cancer Research
1985-2000 American Society for Clinical Investigation
1985 Correspondent, President's Panel on the Health of U.S. Colleges and Universities
1986-1988 New York Academy of Sciences
1986-1995 Reticuloendothelial Society
1989- Association of American Physicians
1989-1992 Scientific Subcommittee on Immunohematology, American Society of Hematology
1990-2007 History of Science Society
1990-1997 The International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology
1991-1999 The American Association for the History of Medicine
1993-2009 American Philosophical Association
1993-2007 Philosophy of Science Association
2009- The Committee of Concerned Scientists
Review committees:
1986-1989 Veterans Administration Medical Research Merit Review Board for Hematology
1991-1993 Immunology and Microbiology Study Committee, American Heart Association
Ad Hoc Reviewer for National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, March
of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities
2004 Chairman, Review committee, Georgetown University Ethics Program
Teaching experience:
1978-1982 Lecturer in Hematology and Internal Medicine teaching programs; staff instructor on teaching services of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
1982-1991 Director of graduate and post-graduate training program in Hematology and Oncology, Boston City Hospital
1983-1985 Lecturer, Advanced Biochemistry, Biochemistry Department, Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) 1987; "Inflammation" Pathology Graduate Seminar, BUSM
1990, 1991 "Modern Concepts of Organism" University Professors Program (UNI MS 506)
Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences:
1993, 1995, 2000 "Philosophy of Medicine," PH 224; 273
1993, 1996, 1999 "Philosophy of Biology," PH 583
1994, 1998 "History of Science," PH 237
1994 "Immunology," BI 435/635
1995, 1996, 2003 "Philosophy of Sexuality and Gender," PH 227; 258
1996-98 “Directed Study,” PH 492
1997 “Philosophy of Science,” PH 270
1997 “Philosophy of Religion,” PH 443/643
1998 “Philosophy of Nature,” PH 251
1999 “Philosophy of History” PH 278
2000, 2005, 2008 “Persons and Nature” PH 444
2000 (6 times) “Philosophy of Medicine” 701.0, B.U. School of Medicine
2002 “Introduction to Philosophy” PH 100
2002 (Spring and Fall) “The American Philosophical Tradition” PH 249
2003 “Philosophy and Literature” PH 252
2004 “Philosophy of Health Care” PH 452/652
2004, 2005, 2006 “Topics in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy” PH 482/682
2005 “Great Philosophers” PH 110
2006 “Science and its Reasons” Graduate seminar, Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University
2008 “Ecology and Literature” PH 471
2009 Workshop: "American Individualism," The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem Institute
2009 “Metaphysics” PH 440
2010 “Philosophy of Psychoanalysis,” Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University and Department of Philosophy, Haifa University
2011 “Utopianism in our Era,” Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University
2012 “Reason and its Discontents,” Cohn Institute, Tel Aviv University
Research trainees:
1980-1981 Doreen B. Brettler, M.D., Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1983-1984 Neils Borregaard, Ph.D., M.D., Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1983-1984 Frank K. Higson, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1983-1985 Jonathan Wright, M.D., Research fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1984-1985 Jane A. Cox, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1984-1985 Louise Sparks, M.D., Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1984-1986 Sachiko Yoshimoto, M.D., Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1985-1986 Isabelle Maridonneau-Parini, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1985-1987 Stephen M. Tringale, Masters Program, Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine
1985-1990 Jerome B. Myers, Doctoral Program, Department of Pathology, BUSM
1986-1988 Anand B. Karnad, M.D., Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1987-1990 Irene Ginis, Doctoral Program Department of Pathology, BUSM
1989-1990 Lauren Oshry, M.D., Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1989-1991 David E. Daigneault, M.D., Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1990-1994 Jia-Sheng Wang, Doctoral Program, Department of Pathology, BUSM
1991-1997 Tirsit Mogues, Doctoral Program, Department of Pathology, BUSM
1992-1994 Paul Eggleton, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1993-1995 Monica Matwani,Ph.D., Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Division of Hematology, Boston City Hospital
1995-1996 Eileen Crist, Ph.D., Research Associate, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
2001-2003 Susan Lanzoni, Ph.D., Research Associate, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University, NSF Post-doctoral fellow
2004-2006 Constantinos Mekios, Doctoral program, Department of Philosophy, Boston University
2005-2006 Andrea Grignolio, Research Associate, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
2005-2009 Gal Kober, Doctoral program, Department of Philosophy, Boston University
Administrative committees:
1983-1985 American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant Committee, Boston University School of Medicine
1982-1991 Laboratory Advisory Committee, Boston City Hospital
1984-1985 Subcommittee on Appeals of the Student Promotion Committee, Boston University School of Medicine
1984-1991 Executive Committee of the Medical and Dental Staff, Boston City Hospital
1985-1987 Chairman, Professional Advisory Group, Cost Containment Committee, Boston City Hospital
1990-1991 Ambulatory Services Committee, Boston City Hospital
1991- Graduate Qualifier Exam Committee, Department of Pathology Division of Medical and Dental Sciences, B.U. Graduate School
1991 Chairman, Research Advisory Study, Boston City Hospital
1994-2003 Institutional Review Board, Boston University, Charles River Campus
2004-2005 Chairman, Ethics Sub-committee, Clinical Curriculum Committee, BUSM
Other appointments and awards:
1973 Alpha Omega Alpha, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
1978- Board of Fellows, Brandeis University
1986-1988 Member of the Board, Boston University Hillel Foundation
1987-1989 Research Committee of Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, LaJolla, CA
1989- Who's Who in America
1993-2000 Dibner Institute Advisory Committee, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Cambridge, MA.
1995-1997 Faculty Advisory Council on the Natural Sciences, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
1998-2002 Advisory Board, Program in the History of Ideas, Brandeis University
2000 Confessions of a Medicine Man (MIT Press, 1999) cited by Choice as “Outstanding Academic Title” and awarded First Prize, Allied Health category, by the American Medical Writers Association
2003-2013 Trustee, Tufts University
2006 Phi Beta Kappa (Honorary), Tufts University Chapter
2006 The Gold Humanism Honor Society, Boston University School of Medicine Chapter
2007-2010 Chairman, Academic Affairs Committee; Executive Committee; and Honorary Degree Committee, Board of Trustees, Tufts University
2008 Medal for Science, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna
2010- Board of Governors, University of Haifa
2011 Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, University of Haifa
2012 Board of Directors, New Israel Fund
2013- Chairman, Board of Governors, University of Haifa
2013- Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary: 9 monographs; 13 edited works; 64 history and philosophy of science/medicine papers; 28 ethics papers; 8 papers on Freud; 7 American philosophy papers; 48 book reviews, short introductions, and book forewords; 85 original scientific reports; 23 scientific reviews, letters, and book chapters; 47 scientific abstracts:
Monographs:
9. Tauber, A.I. Requiem for the Ego. Freud and the Origins of Postmodernism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013.
8. Tauber, A.I. Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. (Hardback and paperback editions) Nominated for National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Gradiva Award, 2011; Spanish translation, Avarigani Editors, 2013.
7. Tauber, A.I. Science and the Quest for Meaning. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009.
6. Tauber, AI. Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 2005. (Hardback and paperback editions)
5. Tauber, A.I. Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. (Paperback 2003)
4. Tauber, A.I. Confessions of a Medicine Man. An Essay in Popular Philosophy. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, A Bradford Book, 1999. (Paperback 2000). Awarded “Outstanding Academic Title” by Choice (Journal of the American Library Association) and First Prize, Allied Health category, by the American Medical Writers Association. Korean translation, 2004; Spanish translation, with new Preface, 2011.
3. Podolsky S.H. and Tauber, AI. The Generation of Diversity: Clonal Selection Theory and the Rise of Molecular Immunology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. (Paperback 2000, Tauber and Podolsky)
2. Tauber A. I. The Immune Self: Theory or Metaphor? New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. (Paperback 1996; Italian translation, L’immunologia Dell’io, Milano: McGraw Hill Libri Italia, 1999)
1. Tauber A. I. and Chernyak L. Metchnikoff and the Origins of Immunology: From Metaphor to Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Edited works:
13. Tauber, A.I. “Philosophy of Medicine,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 51:317-463, 2008.
12. Cooper, R. A. and Tauber, A.I. ”Values and Ethics: A Collection of Curricular Reforms for a New Generation of
Physicians,” Academic Medicine 82:405–427, 2007.
11. Gourko, H., Williamson, DI. and Tauber, AI. (Edited, translated, and annotated) The Evolutionary Biology
Papers of Elie Metchnikoff. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
10. Cohen, RS. and Tauber, AI. Philosophies of Nature: The Human Dimension. In Celebration of Erazim Kohak. Vol. 195, Boston Studies in the Philos0phy of Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
9. Tauber, A. I. and Kanamori, A. “A Symposium on David Hilbert.” Synthetase 110: 1-166, 1997.
8. Keating, P, Balaban, M., Cambrosio, A. and Tauber, AI. “Historical Studies in Immunology.” Journal of the History of Biology. (Special journal issue) Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 317ff. 1997.
7. Tauber, AI. Science and the Quest for Reality. New York: New York University Press and London: Macmillan Press, 1997. (Hardback and paperback editions).
6. Tauber AI. The Elusive Synthesis: Aesthetics and Science. Volume 182, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. (Paperback edition, 1997).
5. Gilbert, SF and Tauber, AI. (Special journal issue) “Science and Postmodernism.” Science in Context, 8: 559-655, 1995.
4. Cambrosio A, Keating P, Tauber AI. “Conceptual Foundations of Immunology” Journal of the History of Biology (Special journal issue) 27:375ff, 1994.
3. Gilbert, SF, Sarkar, S, and Tauber, AI. "Symposium on the Evolution of Individuality by Leo W. Buss." Biology and Philosophy 7:461-499, 1992.
2. Tauber AI. Organism and the Origins of Self. Volume 129, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.
1. Tauber AI, Wintroub BU, Simon AS. Progress in Clinical and Biological Research. Vol. 297. Biochemistry of the Acute Allergic Reaction, Fifth International Symposium. New York: Alan R. Liss, 1989. [Festschrift for K. Frank Austen].
Papers
History and philosophy of science and medicine
64. Tauber, A.I. Immunology’s theories of cognition: Historical developments and philosophical considerations, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 35: 241-68.
63. Tauber, A.I. Philosophy as self-knowledge, Philosophia, In press.
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