Charles E. Rosenberg

Charles E. Rosenberg ( born November 11, 1936 in New York City ) is an American historian of science. He was a professor at Harvard University. His specialty is the history of medicine in the United States.

Rosenberg studied at the University of Wisconsin -Madison with a bachelor 's degree in 1956 and from Columbia University with a master's degree in 1957 and his doctorate in 1961. Starting in 1963 he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and from 2001 at Harvard University. 2003/ 04 he stood there in front of the Department of History of Science. He is a professor of the History of Science and Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences. It deals with the social history of medicine, history of the disease concept in the U.S. and history of epidemics.

In 1995 he received the George Sarton Medal in 1969 and the William H. Welch Award of the American Association for the History of Medicine, which he was president. He was Guggenheim Fellow. In 1981 he was president of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. 1979/80 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Rosenberg is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986 ), the Institute of Medicine (1984) and the American Philosophical Society. In 1997 he became an honorary doctorate from the University of Wisconsin. He is with Drew Gilpin Faust ( born 1947 ) who married since 2007, President of Harvard University.

Writings

  • The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849 and 1866, The University of Chicago Press 1962, 2nd edition 1987
  • The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age, The University of Chicago Press, 1968.
  • The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System, Basic Books 1987
  • Explaining Epidemics, Cambridge University Press 1992
  • No Other Gods. On Science and American Social Thought, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976, 1997
  • Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now. The Johns Hopkins University Press 2007
  • Janet Golden Pictures of Health, A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860 - 1945, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991
  • Janet Golden Framing Disease, Studies in Cultural History, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992
  • Publisher: Right Living: An Anglo - American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
  • Editor with Rosemary Stevens, Lawton R. Burns History and Health Policy in the United States. Putting the Past Back In, Rutgers University Press, 2006
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