Robert Aronowitz
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Robert Aronowitz's Degrees
- Doctorate Medicine University of Pennsylvania
- PhD History and Sociology of Science University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Alan Aronowitz is an American physician and medical historian based at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Making Sense of Illness, and Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society.
Robert Aronowitz's Published Works
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Published Works
- When Do Symptoms Become a Disease? (2001) (144)
- The converged experience of risk and disease. (2009) (127)
- Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society and Disease (1998) (121)
- Hormone replacement therapy, cancer, controversies, and women’s health: historical, epidemiological, biological, clinical, and advocacy perspectives (2005) (118)
- Framing disease: an underappreciated mechanism for the social patterning of health. (2008) (104)
- Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions (2010) (84)
- Unexplained Symptoms After Terrorism and War: An Expert Consensus Statement (2003) (81)
- Lyme disease: the social construction of a new disease and its social consequences. (1991) (69)
- Do not delay: breast cancer and time, 1900-1970. (2001) (63)
- Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty (2015) (62)
- The rise and fall of the psychosomatic hypothesis in ulcerative colitis. (1988) (39)
- The Rise and Fall of the Lyme Disease Vaccines: A Cautionary Tale for Risk Interventions in American Medicine and Public Health (2012) (39)
- Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society (2007) (35)
- Cultural reflexivity in health research and practice. (2015) (31)
- Different questions beg different methods (1995) (25)
- In defense of qualitative research (2007) (24)
- The Framingham heart study and the emergence of the risk factor approach to coronary heart disease, 1947-1970 (2011) (14)
- Cursing the darkness (1998) (10)
- Decision making and fear in the midst of life (2010) (6)
- "Screening" for prostate cancer in New York's skid row: history and implications. (2014) (5)
- Prevention of Lyme disease after tick bites. (1993) (4)
- Learning to Live with the Virus (2020) (4)
- The Social and Economic Influences on Medication Use and Misuse (2012) (4)
- From Skid Row to Main Street: The Bowery Series and the Transformation of Prostate Cancer, 1951–1966 (2014) (4)
- Individualized risk and public health: Medical perils, political pathways, and the cultural framing of vaccination under the shadow of sexuality (2010) (3)
- Contingent Knowledge and Looping Effects - A 66-Year-Old Man with PSA-Detected Prostate Cancer and Regrets. (2019) (3)
- Rejoinder to commentaries on "Framing disease: an underappreciated mechanism for the social patterning of health" (2008) (2)
- Pure or Impure Science? (1997) (2)
- In defense of qualitative research: responses to the Poses and Isen perspectives article. (1998) (2)
- Cursing the darkness: are there limits to end-of-life research? (1998) (2)
- The trouble with chronic fatigue (1991) (2)
- Residency as metaphor (2007) (1)
- Three Shots at Prevention (2010) (1)
- Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot (review) (2006) (1)
- To screen or not to screen (1995) (1)
- Commentary: By and for clinicians: the early years of Framingham. (2015) (1)
- Comments on psychiatric aspects of ulcerative colitis. (1991) (0)
- Book reviews (2007) (0)
- Editors note (1994) (0)
- Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity by Warwick Anderson and Ian R. Mackay (review) (2016) (0)
- Book reviews (2007) (0)
- Book ReviewSeeing Voices: A journey into the world of the deaf (1989) (0)
- Comprar Unnatural History | Robert A. Aronowitz | 9780521822497 | Cambridge University Press (2008) (0)
- Book reviews (2007) (0)
- Book reviews (2007) (0)
- Chapter 7. Situating Health Risks: An Opportunity for Disease-Prevention Policy (2020) (0)
- "SCREENING" for Prostate Cancer in New York's Skid Row. (2014) (0)
- The Left Atrium (1999) (0)
- Book reviews (2007) (0)
- Too much treatment? (2011) (0)
- Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (review) (2008) (0)
- Book Review Drawing Blood: Technology and disease identity in twentieth-century America (The Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine.) By Keith Wailoo. 288 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. $39.95. 0-8018-5474-1 (1998) (0)
- THANKS TO REVIEWERS1999 (1999) (0)
- Book reviews (2007) (0)
- The Rise of Causal Concepts of Disease: Case Histories. Codell Carter K. Aldershot UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2003, pp. 248, (HB) £55.00 ISBN: 0-7546-0678-3. (2004) (0)
- 382 book reviews Bull. Hist. Med., 2006, 80 (2006) (0)
- Introduction: A Cancer Vaccine for Girls? HPV, Sexuality, and the New Politics of Prevention (2010) (0)
- ALCOHOL AND THE U-SHAPED CURVE (1989) (0)
- Christopher Crenner. Private Practice: In the Early Twentieth-Century Medical Office of Dr. Richard Cabot (2006) (0)
- Prostate Cancer: People Transforming A Diagnosis, A Diagnosis Transforming People (2020) (0)
- Chronic fatigue syndrome as a “real” disease? (2007) (0)
- Diagnosis, Therapy, and Evidence: Conundrums in Modern American Medicine (review) (2010) (0)
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