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PhD History Rutgers University
Masters History Rutgers University
Bachelors History Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, David M. Oshinsky is an American historian. He is the director of the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU School of Medicine and a professor in the Department of History at New York University. Background Oshinsky graduated from Cornell in 1965 and obtained his PhD from Brandeis University in 1971. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize in History for his 2005 book, Polio: An American Story. Oshinsky’s most recent book, Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital, was published in 2016. His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy, and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning "Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. His articles and reviews appear regularly in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He previously held the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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David Oshinsky's Published Works

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Polio: An American Story (2005) (187)
A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy (1983) (84)
Adverse Consequences of Rushing a SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: Implications for Public Trust. (2020) (60)
American Passages: A History of the United States (1999) (19)
Capital Punishment on Trial: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America (2010) (13)
Storytelling in the context of vaccine refusal: a strategy to improve communication and immunisation (2015) (13)
Childhood vaccination requirements: Lessons from history, Mississippi, and a path forward. (2015) (9)
The Reluctant Patron: The United States Government and the Arts, 1943–1965. By Gary O. Larson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. xvi + 314 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $12.95.) (1984) (8)
Oral History: Playing by the Rules. (1990) (6)
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital (2016) (6)
Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American Labor Movement. (1976) (4)
A Nation of Shoppers (1999) (4)
Every Man a King (2006) (4)
One person made a difference (1993) (1)
6. Convict Labor in the Post– Civil War South: Involuntary Servitude After the Thirteenth Amendment (2010) (1)
The case of the Nazi professor (1989) (1)
The Elusive Worlds of Joe McCarthy and Pat McCarran@@@A Conspiracy so Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy.@@@Pat McCarran: Political Boss of Nevada. (1983) (1)
Polio: A Look Back at America's Most Successful Public Health Crusade (2009) (0)
Susan E. Lederer. Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press. 2008. Pp. xvi, 224. $35.00 (2009) (0)
The last refuge of everybody (1995) (0)
Mastering Rubella The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease by Meredith Wadman Penguin Random House, New York, 2017. (2017) (0)
Unshaded Opinions: Discriminating Against Discrimination: Preferential Admissions and the De-Funis Case, by Robert M. O'Neil, and Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, by Nathan Glazer (1976) (0)
Fear and loathing in the White House (1997) (0)
Hubert Humphrey: A Biography. By Carl Solberg. (New York: Norton, 1984. 572 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) (1985) (0)
To the editor (1991) (0)
:Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America (2009) (0)
Trouble in Mind (1999) (0)
Joe Must Go@@@God, Church, and Flag: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and the Catholic Church, 1950-1957.@@@Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American Labor Movement. (1979) (0)
Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin by Stephen E. Mawdsley (review) (2017) (0)
Up for the Count (2006) (0)
Heart of the Matter: The Academic System in American Society by Alain Touraine (1974) (0)
Meritocracy Badges: Education and Politics at Harvard, by Seymour Martin Lipset and David Riesman (1975) (0)
Soldiers for Stalin@@@"JIMMY HIGGINS": The Mental World of the American Rankand-File Communist, 1930-1958. (1989) (0)
Probing Beyond Protest: Governing the University by Leon D. Epstein, Adapting Universities to a Technological Society by Eric Ashby, and Reform in Graduate Education by Lewis B. Mayhew and Patrick J. Ford (1974) (0)
Mastering Rubella: The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease: by Meredith Wadman: Penguin Random House, New York, 2017. (2017) (0)
Only the accused were innocent (1994) (0)

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