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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Advance Access published online on April 10, 2008
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrn020
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Charles E. Rosenberg and the Multifaceted Promise of Medical History

Rosemary A. Stevens*

Correspondence: * Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry, Box 171, 1300 York Avenue, New York, New York 10065. E-mail: ras2023{at}med.cornell.edu.


  Abstract

Charles E. Rosenberg has had a major influence in defining the history of medicine as a field. However, critics who focus on his leadership or "school" in terms of defined scholarly perspectives, including those of social history and the framing of disease, offer inadequate descriptions of the messages, breadth, and scope of his scholarly work as a whole. Shoehorning the history of medicine into prescribed patterns in order to build a more unitary discipline would weaken rather than strengthen the field and is not in the Rosenberg tradition.

Key Words: social history of medicine • professional disciplines • experts


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