PROVIDENCE – The 13th annual Stanley Jackson Prize for the best paper in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences was presented to Todd M. Olszewski, Providence College assistant professor of health policy, the school announced in February.
His paper, “The Causal Conundrum: The Diet-Heart Debates and the Management of Uncertainty in American Medicine,” was published in the April 2015 edition of the journal. It examines the history of debate focused on the credibility of diet and heart hypotheses linking coronary artery disease with diet. His research outlines the fact that while physicians began the debate in the 1950s and the general public had adopted “heart-healthy” diets by the 1960s, the link was not endorsed until the 1980s.
Olszewski holds a doctorate from Yale University and is considered an expert in the history of medicine.
The Stanley Jackson Prize was created in honor of Stanley W. Jackson, a former editor of the journal, president of the American Association for the History of Medicine and a professor of psychiatry and medical history at Yale Medical School.
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