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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access originally published online on April 23, 2008
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 2008 63(4):447-454; doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn023
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"Don't Fence Me In": Connecting Irony to Power in the Scholarship of Charles E. Rosenberg

Susan M. Reverby*

Correspondence: * Susan M. Reverby, Women's Studies Department, Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481. Email: sreverby{at}wellesley.edu


  Abstract

Irony and contingency are central to Charles E. Rosenberg's scholarship and theoretical stance. Irony is a a way to speak through history both to power and to those who would contest power. The question becomes, What kind of politics is it? The limitations of Rosenberg's ironic trope and its world weariness that can provide critique but no way to change is analyzed.

Key Words: irony • history of medicine • Charles E. Rosenberg • politics of history


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