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Charles Rosenberg, PhD

Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine

Professor Rosenberg, professor of the history of science and Ernest Monrad professor of the social sciences in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is a distinguished historian of American medicine.  He is author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Cholera YearsThe Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System, and Explaining Epidemics and other studies in the History of Medicine.  He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, has served as president of the American Association for the History of Medicine, was recipient of the George Sarton Medal from the History of Science Society in 1997, and is a member of the board of directors of the Center for Advanced Study on the Behavioral Sciences. 

Affiliation

Department of the History of Science, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

On the history of medicine in the United States, theory, health insurance, and psychiatry: an interview with Charles Rosenberg.
Authors: Authors: Rosenberg C, Mantovani R.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
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Back to the future.
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Lancet
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Managed fear.
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Lancet
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Commentary: Epidemiology in context.
Authors: Authors: Rosenberg CE.
Int J Epidemiol
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Siting epidemic disease: 3 centuries of American history.
Authors: Authors: Rosenberg CE.
J Infect Dis
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Erwin H. Ackerknecht, social medicine, and the history of medicine.
Authors: Authors: Rosenberg CE.
Bull Hist Med
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Contested boundaries: psychiatry, disease, and diagnosis.
Authors: Authors: Rosenberg CE.
Perspect Biol Med
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Hormone replacement therapy, cancer, controversies, and women's health: historical, epidemiological, biological, clinical, and advocacy perspectives.
Authors: Authors: Krieger N, Löwy I, Aronowitz R, Bigby J, Dickersin K, Garner E, Gaudillière JP, Hinestrosa C, Hubbard R, Johnson PA, Missmer SA, Norsigian J, Pearson C, Rosenberg CE, Rosenberg L, Rosenkrantz BG, Seaman B, Sonnenschein C, Soto AM, Thornton J, Weisz G.
J Epidemiol Community Health
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What is disease? In memory of Owsei Temkin.
Authors: Authors: Rosenberg CE.
Bull Hist Med
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The tyranny of diagnosis: specific entities and individual experience.
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Milbank Q
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