Stewart Justman
2015
Address: 1703 Maurice
Missoula, MT 59801
E-mail: stewart.justman@umontana.edu
Phone: 406 549-0645 (home)
406 243-5793 (office)
EDUCATION
1972 B.A., Columbia University
1976 Ph.D., Columbia University, English Literature
Dissertation: Abuse of Authority in Chaucer
Director: Robert Hanning
HONORS
1972
1972-73
1973-74
1975
1975-76
1975-76
1979
1979-80
2004
2006
2009
B.A., summa cum laude
Columbia University Merit Fellowship
President's Fellow
High distinction on orals
Named F. J. E. Woodbridge Distinguished Fellow
Named Whiting Fellow
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities
PEN Award for the Art of the Essay
Ray and Pat Browne Award for a Single Author Study (given by
the Popular Culture Association for the best book of 2005)
University of Montana Distinguished Scholar Award
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1973-75
1975-76
1976-80
1980-86
1986-
Columbia College, Teaching Assistant
University of Montana, Instructor
University of Montana, Assistant Professor
University of Montana, Associate Professor
University of Montana, Professor
MEDICAL BOOKS
The Nocebo Effect: Overdiagnosis and Its Costs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
To Feel What Others Feel: Social Sources of the Placebo Effect, University of California Medical
Humanities Press, 2012.
Do No Harm: How a Magic Bullet for Prostate Cancer Became a Medical Quandary, Ivan R.
Dee, 2008. Reviewed in June 5, 2008 New England Journal of Medicine. (Note: On December
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1, 2010 an FDA advisory committee recommended against the use of finasteride and dutasteride
for prevention of prostate cancer.)
Seeds of Mortality: The Public and Private Worlds of Cancer, Ivan R. Dee, 2003. Reviewed in
October 30, 2003 New England Journal of Medicine.
OTHER BOOKS
The Apple of Discord: Ten Tortured Marriages, Viva Books, India, 2009.
Shakespeare: The Drama of Generations, Macmillan of India, 2007.
Literature and Human Equality, Northwestern University Press, 2006.
Fool’s Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology, Ivan R. Dee, 2005.
The Springs of Liberty: The Satiric Tradition and Freedom of Speech, Northwestern University
Press, 1999.
The Psychological Mystique, Northwestern University Press, 1998.
The Autonomous Male of Adam Smith, University of Oklahoma Press, 1993; Vol. 14 of the Project
on Discourse and Theory.
The Hidden Text of Mill's Liberty, Rowman & Littlefield, 1991.
MEDICAL ARTICLES
“The Medicalization of Misspelling: DSM and the Management of Life,” Academic Questions 28
(2015): 322-33.
“Can I Author Myself? The Limits of Transformation,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
2015;doi: 10.1093/jmp/jhv021.
“The Finasteride Riddle,” Journal of Signs and Symptoms 3 (2014): 154-59.
“Deceit and Transparency in Placebo Research,” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 86 (2013):
323-31.
“Placebos in the Clinic,” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 106 (2013): 208-09.
“Placebo: The Lie That Comes True?”, Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (2013): 243-48.
“Do No Harm: A Case in Point,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 55 (2012): 291-98.
“Artificial Epidemics,” published for e-readers by Now and Then Reader, February 2012.
“Uninformed Consent: Mass Screening for Prostate Cancer,” Bioethics 26 (2012): 143-48.
“To Feel What Others Feel: Two Episodes from 18th-Century Medicine,” Medical Humanities 37
(2011): 34-37; published online in advance of print.
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“The Power of Rhetoric: Two Healing Movements,” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 84
(2011): 15-25. A corrected text is available from the author.
“From Medicine to Psychotherapy: The Placebo Effect,” History of the Human Sciences 24
(2011): 95-107.
“Lying About Placebos,” Skeptic 16: 2 (2011): 41-44.
“What’s Wrong with Chemoprevention of Prostate Cancer?”, American Journal of Bioethics,
December 2011. A response to commentaries on this article appears in the online edition.
“How Did the PSA System Arise?”, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 103 (2010): 309-12.
“Imagination’s Trickery: The Discovery of the Placebo Effect,” Journal of the Historical Society
10 (2010): 57-73.
“The Use of Five-Alpha Reductase Inhibitors for Prostate Cancer Chemoprevention: American
Society of Clinical Oncology/American Urological Association 2008 Clinical Practice Guideline,”
Journal of Clinical Oncology 27 (2009): 1502-16. Third author. Also published in Journal of
Urology 181 (2009): 1642-57.
“Reticence in Action: The Antisepsis Controversy,” Journal of the Historical Society 9 (2009):
427-41.
“A Preventive Slippery Slope,” Hastings Center Report, March-April 2009.
OTHER ARTICLES (selected)
“The Folly of Systems: The Satiric Tradition and Mental Disorders,” Philosophy and Literature 37
(2013): 472-85.
“Abuse of the Dead: Comment on ‘American Despair in an Age of Hope,’” Salmagundi 176
(2012): 127-37.
“From Aesop to Orwell: The Roots of Doublespeak,” Connor Court Quarterly (Australia), April
2012.
“The Advertisement of Guilt,” Soundings 93 (Spring-Summer 2010): 163-73.
“Literature and Propaganda,” Salmagundi 174-75 (2012): 203-21.
“Oriental Tales and Great Expectations,” Dickens Quarterly 27 (2010): 28-37.
“Bibliotherapy: Literature as Exploration Reconsidered,” Academic Questions 23 (2010): 125-35.
“Stiva’s Idiotic Grin” Philosophy and Literature 33 (2009): 427-34.
“Dr. Humbert,” Raritan 29 (2009): 33-39.
“Converts, Uncertainty and the Novel,” Literature and Philosophy 32 (2008): 359-72.
“Tolstoy’s Wisdom and Folly”: A Review of Gary Saul Morson’s “Anna Karenina” In Our Time:
Seeing More Wisely, Literary Imagination (10) 2008: 352-57.
“Literature and the Turn from History,” Literary Imagination 10 (2008): 25-35.
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“The Secularism of Fiction: A Medieval Source,” Literary Imagination 10 (2008): 127-141.
“The Uncaged Bird: Pop Psychology and its Sources,” Salmagundi, Winter 2008.
“All Is Not As It Should Be: The Nature of Liberal Guilt,” Salmagundi, Summer 2004.
“Direct and Indirect Guilt in Little Dorrit,” Soundings, Spring-Summer 2002: 39-52.
"Hamlet and the Odyssey” Literary Imagination, Fall 2002.
"Freud and His Nephew," Social Research, Summer 1994, 457-476.
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