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| Charles E. Rosenberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | Charles Ernest Rosenberg (1936-11-11) November 11, 1936 (age 88) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse |
Drew Gilpin Faust (m. 1980) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Hofstadter |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | History of science |
| Institutions | |
Charles Ernest Rosenberg (born 1936) is an American historian of medicine. He is Professor of the History of Science and Medicine and the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences at Harvard University.
Early life and education
Rosenberg was born in New York City on November 11, 1936, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1956. He received both his master's degree (1957) and PhD (1961) from Columbia University.
Career
Rosenberg taught at the University of Pennsylvania from 1963 until 2001. In 2001, he moved to Harvard University. He served as acting chairman of Harvard's history of science department in 2003–2004.
Personal life
Rosenberg is married to Drew Gilpin Faust, the former president of Harvard University.
Honors
In 2002, Rosenberg was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Selected bibliography
- Rosenberg, Charles E. (1962). The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849 and 1866. The University of Chicago Press.
- Rosenberg, Charles E. (1968). The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age. The University of Chicago Press.
- Rosenberg, Charles E. (1987). The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System. Basic Books.
- Rosenberg, Charles E. (1992). Explaining Epidemics. Cambridge University Press.
- Rosenberg, Charles E. (1997). No Other Gods. On Science and American Social Thought. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Rosenberg, Charles E. (2007). Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Further reading
- "Festschrift for Charles E. Rosenberg. Proceedings of a roundtable. June 18–19, 2004. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 63 (4). England: 411–522. October 2008. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn038. PMID 19209427.
- "Charles E. Rosenberg's publications". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 63 (4). England: 476–83. October 2008. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn025. PMID 18755813.
- Tomes, Nancy; Greene Jeremy (October 2008). "Is there a Rosenberg school?". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 63 (4). England: 455–66. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn024. PMID 18477579.
- Reverby, Susan M. (October 2008). ""Don't fence me in": connecting irony to power in the scholarship of Charles E. Rosenberg". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 63 (4). England: 447–54. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn023. PMID 18434426.
- Tomes, Nancy; Reverby Susan M (October 2008). "Continuity and contingency: the medical-historical world according to Charles E. Rosenberg". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 63 (4). England: 411–3. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn019. PMID 18403429.
- Stevens, Rosemary A (October 2008). "Charles E. Rosenberg and the multifaceted promise of medical history". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 63 (4). England: 414–22. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn020. PMID 18403428.
- Rogers, Naomi (October 2008). "Explaining everything? The power and perils of reading Rosenberg". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 63 (4). England: 423–34. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn021. PMID 18403427.
References
- "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved July 8, 2021.
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