Charles Rosenberg

Charles Rosenberg, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Social Sciences, Ph.D. 1961, Columbia University, has written widely on the history of medicine and science. He is best known for Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (Chicago 1962; new edition 1987);The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and Law in the Gilded Age(Chicago, 1968); No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought (John Hopkins, 197; new and expanded edition, 1997); The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (Basic Books, 1987); Explaining Epidemics (Cambridge, 1992).

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. A recipient of the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM, Professor Rosenberg has also been awarded the George Sarton Medal (for lifetime achievement) from the History of Science Society. He has served as president of the AAHM and Society for the Social History of Medicine (UK) and on the executive board of the Organization of American Historians and on the council of the History of Science Society and of the AAHM. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Professor Rosenberg currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a member of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics and Center for Nursing History advisory boards.

Contact information:
- Department of the History of Science