Charles E. Rosenberg’s Publications

Books

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.

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

No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Reprinted in paper, 1978. Revised and Expanded ed., Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (Expanded version of the book with a new preface “Science in Play,” and three additional chapters).

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

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

Explaining Epidemics and Other Studies in the History of Medicine (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Past and Present (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

Edited Volumes

The Family in History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1975. Editor and author of chapter 1, “History and Experience.” Reprinted in paper, 1978.

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,” and “Florence Nightingale on Contagion: The Hospital as Moral Universe.”

Editor with Morris Vogel, The Therapeutic Revolution: Essays in the Social History of American Medicine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.

Editor with Janet Golden, Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Author of “Framing Disease: Illness, Society, and History,” and individual headnotes.

Right Living: An Anglo-American Tradition of Self-Help Medicine and Hygiene. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Editor and author of “Preface” and “Health in the Home. A Tradition of Print and Practice.”

Editor with Rosemary Stevens and Lawton R. Burns, History and Health Policy in the United States. Putting the Past Back in. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2006. Author of chapter 1, “Anticipated Consequences: Historians, History, and Health Policy.”

Articles

“The Cholera Epidemic of 1832 in New York City,” Bull. Hist. Med., 1959, 33, 37–49.

“The Cause of Cholera: Aspects of Etiological Thought in Nineteenth Century America,” Bull. Hist. Med., 1960, 34, 331–54.

“Charles Benedict Davenport and the Beginning of Human Genetics,” Bull. Hist. Med., 1961, 35, 266–76.

“The Place of George M. Beard in Nineteenth Century Psychiatry,” Bull. Hist. Med., 1962, 36, 245–59.

“The American Medical Profession: Mid Nineteenth Century,” Mid America, 1962, 44, 163–71.

“Martin Arrowsmith: The Scientist as Hero,” Amer. Quar., 1963, 15, 447–58. Reprinted in Robert Griffin, Twentieth Century Interpretations of Arrowsmith. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1968; and Harold Bloom, Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith: Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

“The Adams Act: Politics and the Cause of Scientific Research,” Agricultural Hist., 1964, 38, 3–21.

“On the Study of American Biology and Medicine: Some Justifications,” Bull. Hist. Med., 1964, 38, 364–76.

“Science and American Social Thought,” in Science and American Society, ed. David Van Tassel and Michael Hall. Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press, 1966, 135–62. Reprinted in Sociology of Science, ed. Barry Barnes. London: Penguin, 1972.

“Cholera in Nineteenth Century Europe: A Tool for Social and Economic Analysis,” Comp. Stud. Soc. Hist., 1966, 8, 452–63.

“Factors in the Development of Genetics in the United States: Some Suggestions,” J. Hist. Med. Allied Sci., 1967, 22, 27–46.

“The Practice of Medicine in New York a Century Ago,” Bull. Hist. Med., 1967, 41, 223–53. Reprinted several times.

With Carroll S. Rosenberg, “Pietism and the Origins of the American Public Health Movement,” J. Hist. Med. Allied Sci. 1968, 23, 16–35.

“John Jacob Abel” and “Wilbur Olin Atwater,” in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume 1 (1970), 9–12, 325–26.

“On Writing the History of American Science,” in The State of American History, ed. Herbert Bass. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970, 183–96.

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