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Charles E. Rosenberg

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.

Charles E. Rosenberg

Charles Ernest Rosenberg

(1936-11-11) November 11, 1936
New York City, New York, U.S.
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(m. 1980)​

Richard Hofstadter

History

History of science

Early life and education[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Rosenberg is married to Drew Gilpin Faust, the former president of Harvard University.

Honors[edit]

In 2002, Rosenberg was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[1]

Rosenberg, Charles E. (1962). The Years: The United States in 1832, 1849 and 1866. The University of Chicago Press.

Cholera

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). . Basic Books.

The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System

Rosenberg, Charles E. (1992). Explaining . Cambridge University Press.

Epidemics

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.

"Festschrift for Charles E. Rosenberg. Proceedings of a roundtable. June 18–19, 2004. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA". . 63 (4). England: 411–522. October 2008. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn038. PMID 19209427.

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

"Charles E. Rosenberg's publications". . 63 (4). England: 476–83. October 2008. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn025. PMID 18755813.

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Tomes, Nancy; Greene Jeremy (October 2008). "Is there a Rosenberg school?". . 63 (4). England: 455–66. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn024. PMID 18477579.

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

(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.

Reverby, Susan M.

Tomes, Nancy; Reverby Susan M (October 2008). "Continuity and contingency: the medical-historical world according to Charles E. Rosenberg". . 63 (4). England: 411–3. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn019. PMID 18403429.

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Stevens, Rosemary A (October 2008). "Charles E. Rosenberg and the multifaceted promise of medical history". . 63 (4). England: 414–22. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn020. PMID 18403428.

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Rogers, Naomi (October 2008). "Explaining everything? The power and perils of reading Rosenberg". . 63 (4). England: 423–34. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn021. PMID 18403427.

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Harvard University Department of the History of Science