Location:
Social History and Medicine
, Bernard Schoenberg Professor
of Social Medicine and Professor of History, is director of the Center
for the Study of Science and Medicine at the
College
of
Physicians
and Surgeons. He specializes in social history and the history of medicine. He received his B.A. from
Columbia
(1958) and his Ph.D. from Harvard (1964). His published works include:
Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care (1997);
Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision-making (1991);
The Willowbrook Wars (1984);
Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America (1980); and
The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (1971; new ed., 1990). He has most recently published
The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement (2003), co-authored with Sheila Rothman.
