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Professor

• Fields of Study

  • History of disease, disability, health, and the body
  • Professionalism and professional cultures
  • History of ethics and value issues in medicine
  • Film and the mediation of professional and popular cultures

• About

  Selected Publications:

  “Disease and the Racial Division of Labor in America: The 2011 Garrison Lecture of the American Association for the History of Medicine,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (forthcoming 2012).

  The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures since 1915, Oxford University Press, 1996.

  A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Anesthesia in Nineteenth-Century America, Columbia University Press, 1985.

• Education

  • Ph.D. Columbia University, 1979