Charles E. Rosenberg, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus

Dept of the History of Science 227 Science Center Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138

Email: [email protected] Phone: 617-495-9953 (o)

EDUCATION

B.A. University of Wisconsin, 1956 M.A. Columbia University, 1957 Ph.D. Columbia University, 1961

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS:

Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University, Institute of the History of Medicine, 1960 61 Guggenheim Fellow, 1965 66, 1989 90 National Institute of Health, Research Grant, 1964 70 Recipient, William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine, 1969 Member, Council, History of Science Society, 1972 5 Member, History of Life Sciences Study Section, National Institute of Health, 1972 75 Senior Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972 73 Member, Council, American Association for the History of Medicine, 1974 Rockefeller Humanities Fellow, 1976 77 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, 1979 80 Vice President (1980) & President (1981), Society for the Social History of Medicine Member, Board of Directors and Executive Committee, Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980-¬ Member, History and Philosophy of Science Panel, NSF, 1981 82 Fielding H. Garrison Lecturer, American Association for the History of Medicine, 1982 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1983 84 Member, American Antiquarian Society, 1984¬- Member, Institute of Medicine, 1984¬- Member, Executive Board, Organization of American Historians, 1986 88 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1986¬- Benjamin Rush Lecturer, American Psychiatric Association, 1988 Vice President (1990 92) and President (1992 94), American Association for the History of Medicine Recipient, George Sarton Medal, History of Science Society, 1997 Recipient, Honorary Ph. D., University of Wisconsin, 1997 Member, Board of Directors, Center for Advanced Study on the Behavioral Sciences, 1999-2005. Member, American Philosophical Society, 2002-, Library Committee, 2002-, Council, 2006-.

TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, 1961 62 Research Assistant Professor, Department of History and History of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1962 63 Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1963 65 Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1965 68 Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1968 Chair, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1974 75, 1979 83. Chair, Department of History and Sociology of Science, 1991 95. Professor of the History of Science and Ernest Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, 2001- Acting Chair, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, 2003-04

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES:

1. The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849 and 1866. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962. (Reprinted in paperback, University of Chicago, Phoenix Books, 1968; second ed. with new afterword, 1987.)

2. The Trial of the Assassin, Guiteau: Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age. (University of Chicago Press, 1968). Reprinted in paper, 1976.

3. The Family in History (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1975), editor and author of chapter 1, "History and Experience," pp. 1 11 (reprinted in paper, 1978).

4. No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1976; reprint in paper, 1978).

5. Healing and History: Essays for George Rosen (New York and London: Science History Publications and Dawson, 1979), editor and author of "George Rosen and the Social History of Medicine," pp. 1 5, and "Florence Nightingale on Contagion: The Hospital as Moral Universe, pp. 116.¬

6. The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine, edited by Morris Vogel and Charles Rosenberg (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979).

7. The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (New York: Basic Books, 1987).

8. With Janet Golden, Pictures of Health, A Photographic History of Health Care in Philadelphia, 1860 1945 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991).

9. With Janet Golden, Framing Disease, Studies in Cultural History (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992), author of "Framing Disease: Illness, Society, and History," pp. xiii xxvi and individual headnotes.

10. Explaining Epidemics and other studies in the History of Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

11. No Other Gods. On Science and American Social Thought . Revised and Expanded Ed. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997). Expanded version of a book originally published in 1976 with a new preface "Science in Play," ix xvi, and three additional chapters.

12. Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), editor and author of “Preface” and “Health in the Home. A Tradition of Print and Practice,” pp. 1-20.

13. Editor, with Rosemary Stevens and Lawton R. Burns, History and Health Policy in the United States. Putting the Past Back in. (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2006) and author of Chapter One: “Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy,” pp. 13-31.

ARTICLES 1. "The Cholera Epidemic of 1832 in New York City," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 33:37 49, 1959.

2. "The Cause of Cholera: Aspects of Etiological Thought in Nineteenth Century America," ibid. 34:331 354, 1960

3. "Charles Benedict Davenport and the Beginning of Human Genetics," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 35: 266 276, 1961

4. "The Place of George M. Beard in Nineteenth Century Psychiatry," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 36: 245 259, 1962.

5. "The American Medical Profession: Mid Nineteenth Century," Mid America 44: 163 171. 1962.

6. "Martin Arrowsmith: The Scientist as Hero, "American Quarterly 15:447 458, 1963. Reprinted in R. Griffin, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Arrowsmith (Englewood Cliffs, 1968) and Harold Bloom, Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith: Modern Critical Interpretations (New York, 1988).

7. "The Adams Act: Politics and the Cause of Scientific Research," Agricultural History 38:3 21, 1964.

8. "On the Study of American Biology and Medicine: Some Justifications," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 38:364 376, 1964

9. "Science and American Social Thought," Science and American Society, ed. David Van Tassel and Michael Hall (Homewood, Illinois, 1966), pp. 135 162. Reprinted in Barry Barnes, ed., Sociology of Science (London: Penguin, 1972).

10. "Cholera in Nineteenth Century Europe: A Tool for Social and Economic Analysis," Comparative Studies in Society and History 8:452 463, 1966

11. "Factors in the Development of Genetics in the United States," Journal of the History of Medicine 22: 27 461 1967.

12. "The Practice of Medicine in New York a Century Ago," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 41:223 253, 1967. Reprinted several times.

13. With Carroll S. Rosenberg, "Pietism and the Origins of the American Public Health Movement," Journal of the History of Medicine 23:16 35, 1968.

14. "John Jacob Abel" and "Wilbur Olin Atwater," in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume 1 (1970), pp. 9 12, 325¬-326.

15. "On Writing the History of American Science," in Herbert Bass, ed., The State of American History (Chicago, 1970), pp. 183 196.

16. "The Medical Profession, Medical Practice and the History of Medicine," in Edward Clarke, ed., Modern Methods in the History of Medicine (London: University of London, 1971), pp. 22 35.

17. "Science, Technology, and Economic Growth: The Case of the Agricultural Experiment Station Scientist," Agricultural History 44 :1 20, January 1971. Reprinted in George Daniels, ed., Science and Society in Nineteenth Century America (Evanston: Northwestern, 1972), pp. 181 209. 18. "Anxiety, Ideology, and order: Reflections on the Making of American Public Policy," in Charles A Barker, ed., Power and Law (Baltimore, 1971), pp. 22 23.

19. "The American Hospital: A Century's Perspective," in Medical Problems in Historical Perspective, American Philosophical Society, 1971, pp. 181 194.

20. "Sexuality, Class and Role in Nineteenth Century America," American Quarterly (May, 1973), pp. 131 153.

21. "Joseph Goldberger," in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume V (1972), pp. 451 453.

22. With Carroll S. Rosenberg, "The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Women in the Nineteenth Century," Journal of American History 60:332 356, September 1973. (Winner, Binkley Stephenson Prize for Best Article for 1973.) Reprinted many times.

24. "Social Class and Medical Care: The Rise and Fall of the Dispensary in Nineteenth Century America," Journal of the History of Medicine 29:32 54, 1974. Reprinted several times.

25. "Science and Social Values in Nineteenth Century America: A Case Study in the Growth of Scientific Institutions," in Arnold Thackray and Everett Mendelsohn, Science and Values (New York, 1974), pp. 21 42.

26. "H. Newell Martin," and "Graham Lusk,” in Dictionary of Scientific Biography,Volume VIII (1974), pp. 555 556; Volume IX (1974), pp. 142 143.

27. "The Bitter Fruit: Heredity, Disease and Social Thought in Nineteenth Century America," Perspectives in American History 8:189 235, 1974.

28. "The Crisis in Psychiatric Legitimacy," in George Kriegman et. al., eds., American Psychiatry: Past, Present and Future (Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia, 1975), pp. 135 148.

29. "The Therapeutic Revolution: Medicine, Meaning and Social Change in Nineteenth Century America," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 20:485 506, 1977. Reprinted several times.

30. "And Heal the Sick: The Hospital and Patient in Nineteenth Century America," Journal of Social History 10:428 447, 1977.

31. "Rationalization and Reality in American Agricultural Research, 1875 1910,” Social Studies of Science 7: 401 422, 1977. Reprinted in N. Reingold, ed., The Sciences in the American Context (Washington: Smithsonian, 1979).

34. "The Origins of the American Hospital System," Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 55:10 22, 1979.

35. "Towards an Ecology of Knowledge," in Alexandra Oleson and John Voss, The Organization of Knowledge in Modern America, 1860 1920 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1979), pp. 440 455.

36. "Inward Vision and Outward Glance: The Shaping of the American Hospital, 1880 1914,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 13:346 391, 1979. Reprinted in History and Social Policy, ed. David Rothman and Stanton Wheeler (New York: Academic Press, 1981), pp. 19 55.

37. "Nature Decoded,” (Review Essay), Isis 71:291 295, 1980. 38. “Between Two Worlds: American Medicine in 1879,” in John Blake, ed., Centenary of Index Medicus (Washington: GPO, 1980), pp. 3-18.

39. "Medicine and Community in Victorian Britain,” (Review Essay), Journal of Interdisciplinary History 11: 677 684, 1981.

40. "From Almshouse to Hospital: The Shaping of Philadelphia General Hospital," Health and Society 60:108 154, 1982.

41. "Recent Developments in the History of Nursing," Sociology of Health and Illness 4:86 94, 1982.

42. "The History of Disease: Now and in the Future,” in Lloyd G. Stevenson, ed., A Celebration of Medical History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1982), pp. 32 36.

43. "Medical Text and Social Context: Explaining William Buchan's ' Domestic Medicine,’” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 57:22 42, 1983.

44. "Science in American Society: A Generation of Historical Debate,” Isis 74: 356 367, 1983.

45. The Structure of American Medical Practice, 1875 1941 by George Rosen (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1983), Charles E. Rosenberg, Editor and Author of chapter one, "The Shape of Traditional Medical Practice," pp. 1 12.

46. "From M'Naghton to Hinckley: Historians and the Possibly Insane Offender," (Review Essay), Bulletin of the History of Medicine 57:621 624, 1983.

47. "What It was Like to Be Sick in 1884,” American Heritage 35:22 31, 1984.

48. "Doctors and Credentials: The Roots of Uncertainty," Transactions and Studies, College of Physicians of Philadelphia ser. 5, 6:295 302, 1984.

49. "Deconstructing Disease," Reviews in American History (March, 1986), 110 115.

50. "The Aged in a Structured Social Context: Medicine as a Case Study," In D. Van Tassel and P.N. Stearns, eds., Old Age in a Bureaucratic Society (New York and Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986), 231 245.

51. "John Gunn, Everyman's Physician," Introduction to Gunn's Domestic Medicine, A Facsimile (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee, 1986), v xxi.

52. "Disease and Social Order, Definitions and Expectations," Milbank Quarterly 64, Suppl. 1, 34 55, 1986. Revised and reprinted in Elizabeth Fee and Daniel Fox, eds., AIDS The Burden of History (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1988), pp. 12 32.

53. "Clio and Caring: An Agenda for American Historians and Nursing," Nursing Research 36:67 68, 1987.

54. "Woods and Trees: Ideas and Actors in the History of Science,” Isis 79:565 570, 1988.

55. "What is an Epidemic? AIDS in Historical Perspective," Daedalus, Spring, 118:1 17, 1989.

56. "Body and Mind in Nineteenth Century Clinical Medicine: Some Clinical Origins of the Neurosis Construct," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 63:185 197, 1989. 57. "Disease in History: Frames and Framers," Milbank Quarterly 67 (Supplement 1): 1 15, 1989.

58. "Institutionalized Ambiguity: Conflict and Continuity in the American Hospital," Second Opinion 12:62 73, 1989.

59. "Community and Communities: The Evaluation of the American Hospital," in Diana E. Long and Janet Golden, The American General Hospital: Communities and Social Contexts (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 3 17), 1989.

60. "Looking Backward, Thinking Forward: The Roots of Hospital Crisis," Transaction & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, ser. v, 12: 127 50, 1990.

61. "Making it in Urban Medicine: A Career in the Age of Scientific Medicine," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 64: 163 186, 1990.

62. "Preface," In Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz, ed., From Consumption to Tuberculosis. A Documentary History (New York: Garland Press, 1994).

63. "Catechisms of Health: The Body in the Prebellum Classroom," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 69:175 97, 1995.

64. "Banishing Risk: Or the More things Change the More they Remain the Same, " Perspectives in Biol. & Med. 39: 28-42, 1995. Reprinted in a slightly different form as " Banishing Risk: Continuity and Change in the Moral Management of Disease," In Allan M. Brandt and Paul Rozin, eds. Morality and Health (New York and London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 35 52.

65. "Science from Below: The Next Generation," In Charles E. Rosenberg and Ronald Numbers, ed. The Scientific Enterprise in America. Readings from Isis. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996), pp. 15-20.

66. "Pathologies of Progress: The Idea of Civilization as Risk," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72: 714 30, 1998.

67. "The Book in the Sickroom: A Tradition of Print and Practice," In The Library Company of Philadelphia, "Every Man his own Doctor": Popular Medicine in Early America (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1998), pp. 1 21.

68. "Holism in Twentieth Century Medicine," In Christopher Lawrence and George Weisz, eds. Greater than the Parts. Holism in Biomedicine, 1920 1950 (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 335 55.

69. "Meanings, Policies, and Medicine: On the Bioethical Enterprise and History," Daedalus 128: 27 46, 1999.

70. "Codes Visible and Invisible: The Twentieth Century Fate of a Nineteenth Century Code," In: Robert B Baker, et. al. eds., The American Medical Ethics Revolution. How the AMA's Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physicians' Relationships to Patients, Professionals, and Society (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), pp. 207 17.

71. “The Tyranny of Diagnosis: Specific Entities and Individual Experience,” Milbank Quarterly 80, No. 2, (Summer 2002), pp.237-260. 72. “What is Disease? In Memory of Owsei Temkin” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77(2003), 491- 505.

73. “Eloge. Owsei Temkin, 1902-2002,” Isis 95(2004),451-3.

74. “Contested Boundaries. Psychiatry, Disease, and Diagnosis,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Summer, 2006).

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

Member, editorial board, Journal of the History of Medicine, 1965 70 Member, editorial board, Isis, 1976 78 Editor (with Charles Webster), Studies in the History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, 22 volumes published as of Fall 1990¬ Editor, Medicine and Society in America (1972), Arno Press, 47 volumes and introductions to six Editor, Sex, Marriage and Society (with Carroll Smith Rosenberg) (1974), Arno Press, 35 volumes Editor, The History of Hereditarian Thought (1984),Garland Press, 32 volumes Editor, Medical Care in the United States: The Debate before 1940 (1984), Garland Press, 14 volumes with introductions to three Editor, Isis, 1986 88