Harvard History of Medicine Working Group
Reflecting on the Work and Career of Charles Rosenberg: Allan Brandt Interviews Charles Rosenberg
Charles Rosenberg is a Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, and the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences at Harvard University. His work includes Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (1962); The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau. Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age (1968); No Other Gods. On Science and American Social Thought (1976); The Care of Strangers: The Ruse of America’s Hospital System (1987); Explaining Epidemics (1992); and Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now (2007). He has also co-authored or edited another half-dozen books and is currently at work on a history of conceptions of disease during the past two centuries.
Allan Brandt is a Professor of the History of Science, and the Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard University. His work includes No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 (1987); The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America (2007); and the edited collection Morality and Health (1997). He is currently writing about the impact stigma has on parents and health outcomes.
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