Susan Lederer
American historian of science
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Susan E. Lederer is an American historian of science. She is the Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Lederer focuses on medicine and American society in the 20th-century. This includes the areas of race, medicine, public health, popular culture, research ethics, and the history of medical ethics. Lederer completed a B.A. in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 1977. She completed an M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of science at University of Wisconsin–Madison. Lederer's dissertation was titled Human experimentation and antivivisection in turn-of-the-century America. Her advisor was Ronald Numbers.
Susan Lederer's Published Works
Published Works
- Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War (1994) (146)
- Medical History in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum (1995) (116)
- Let the dead teach the living: the rise of body bequeathal in 20th-century America. (2007) (94)
- Political Animals: The Shaping of Biomedical Research Literature in Twentieth-Century America (1992) (83)
- Laying ethical foundations for clinical research. (2001) (64)
- US medical researchers, the Nuremberg Doctors Trial, and the Nuremberg Code. A review of findings of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. (1996) (64)
- The OHRP and SUPPORT--another view. (2013) (56)
- Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America (2008) (55)
- "Ethics and Clinical Research"--The 50th Anniversary of Beecher's Bombshell. (2016) (40)
- Transforming educational accountability in medical ethics and humanities education toward professionalism. (2015) (37)
- Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film (2007) (27)
- Medicine in America: A Short History (1992) (25)
- Repellent Subjects: Hollywood Censorship and Surgical Images in the 1930s (1998) (22)
- Revising the History of Cold War Research Ethics (1996) (20)
- Screening syphilis: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet meets the Public Health Service. (1998) (19)
- Children as Guinea Pigs: Historical Perspectives (2003) (17)
- Pathways to Human Experimentation, 1933-1945: Germany, Japan, and the United States (2005) (16)
- Hideyo Noguchi's Luetin Experiment and the Antivivisectionists (1985) (14)
- Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (2002) (12)
- Bloodlines: Blood Types, Identity, and Association in Twentieth‐Century America (2013) (12)
- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (2007) (5)
- The challenges of challenge experiments. (2014) (5)
- Evaluating students on an interdisciplinary primary care clerkship at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. (1999) (5)
- A Model of Its Kind. Vol. I: A Centennial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. and A Model of lts Kind. Vol. II: A Pictorial History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. (1990) (5)
- The Progress of Experiment: Science and Therapeutic Reform in the United States, 1900-1990. By Harry M. Marks ( New York , Cambridge University Press , 1997 ) 258 pp. $59.95 (1998) (4)
- "Porto Ricochet": Joking about Germs, Cancer, and Race Extermination in the 1930s (2002) (4)
- Orphans as Guinea Pigs (2013) (3)
- “Ethics and Clinical Research” in Biographical Perspective (2016) (3)
- "The right and wrong of making experiments on human beings": Udo J. Wile and syphilis. (1984) (3)
- Alternative Approaches to Healing (2003) (3)
- The Ethics of Experimenting on Animal Subjects (2008) (2)
- Comprar Flesh and Blood Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America | Susan E. Lederer | 9780195161502 | Oxford University Press (2008) (2)
- Experimentation and Ethics (2009) (2)
- Putting Death in Context (2008) (2)
- Experimentation on Human Beings (2005) (2)
- Sex, Race, and Science: Eugenics in the Deep South. By Edward J. Larson. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xii, 251 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-4938-1.) (1996) (2)
- Tucker's Heart (2006) (1)
- Shining light on a shady study. (2012) (1)
- Playing Doctor, Playing Nurse: Perspectives on the Origins of the Toy Doctor and Nurse Kits (2017) (1)
- Children as guinea pigs: historical perspective. (2003) (1)
- Playing Doctor, Playing Nurse: Perspectives on the Origins of the Toy Doctor and Nurse Kits. (2017) (1)
- Book Review:Disease in the Popular American Press: The Case of Diphtheria, Typhoid Fever, and Syphilis, 1870-1920 Terra Ziporyn (1990) (1)
- Rest in Pieces: Body Donation in Mid-Twentieth Century America (2022) (1)
- African-Americans with End Stage Renal Disease in the Early Years of Kidney Transplantation. (2019) (1)
- Dying for Science: Historical Perspectives on Research Participants' Deaths. (2015) (1)
- Everyday Evil@@@Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War (1996) (1)
- Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making. David J. Rothman (1992) (1)
- Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine (2009) (1)
- Media (2020) (0)
- Dark Medicine: Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research (review) (2009) (0)
- Going for the Burn: Medical Preparedness in Early Cold War America (2011) (0)
- Book Reveiw: Karen Rader, Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research. (2004) (0)
- A Developing Timeline for Bioethics (2021) (0)
- Book Review A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America By Michael Sappol. 430 pp., illustrated. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2002. $35. 0-691-05925-X (2002) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW (2004) (0)
- Book Review:Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics, and Popular Culture Jon Turney (1999) (0)
- History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction Jacalyn DuffinHistory of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction Jacalyn Duffin Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, xvi + 432 p., $24.95. (2001) (0)
- Lara V Marks, Sexual chemistry: a history of the contraceptive pill , New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001, pp. xi, 372, illus., £20.00 (hardback 0-3-08943-0). (2005) (0)
- Review: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: From Paternalism to Autonomy? (2003) (0)
- Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America (2015) (0)
- Book Note: The Realms of Apollo: Literature and Healing in Seventeenth Century England (1997) (0)
- Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs into Humans (review) (2001) (0)
- Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution by Robert Baker (review) (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews: Private Matters: American Attitudes Toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860, by Sylvia D.Hoffert (1990) (0)
- Book Review:Animals and Disease: An Introduction to the History of Comparative Medicine Lise Wilkinson (1993) (0)
- Carsten Timmerman and Julie Anderson (eds.) Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xiv+284. ISBN 1-4039-86444-4. £55.00 (hardback). (2008) (0)
- Instructions to Authors (2012) (0)
- Book Review (2003) (0)
- Research on Syphilis in Guatemala in the 1940s: History, Context, and Contemporary Concerns (2011) (0)
- “Ethics and Clinical Research”: (2019) (0)
- Ayesha Nathoo, Hearts Exposed: Transplants and the Media in 1960s Britain (2010) (0)
- Book Notes (1995) (0)
- The Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies (review) (2012) (0)
- Book Review - Jacalyn Duffin; History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction. (2001) (0)
- Book Review:Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932-45 and the American Cover-Up Sheldon H. Harris (1995) (0)
- Andrew Taylor Still, 1828-1917 (1991) (0)
- Living Donors and the Issue of "Informed Consent". (2020) (0)
- In The Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation (review) (1997) (0)
- Surgery and Popular Culture: Situating the Surgeon and the Surgical Experience in Popular Media (2018) (0)
- Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: the case of Harriet Cole (2023) (0)
- The Shaping of Biomedical Research Literature in Twentieth-Century America (2016) (0)
- Michael Bliss. Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 591. $40.00 (2007) (0)
- A many-feathered tale (2000) (0)
- The Trust Principle and Research Ethics. (2019) (0)
- A cultural history of cancer. (1988) (0)
- Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader. By Alan M. Kraut. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2003. xvi, 313 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-374-13537-1.) (2004) (0)
- Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima (review) (1997) (0)
- Organ Transplantation: Meanings and Realities (review) (1997) (0)
- Blood: An Epic Story of Medicine and Commerce (review) (2000) (0)
- Contributors (1971) (0)
- Stories of the sanguine (2018) (0)
- Andreas-Holger Maehle and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch (eds), Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics: From Paternalism to Autonomy?: From Paternalism to Autonomy? (2003) (0)
- Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind. Eileen CristHumans and Other Animals. Arien Mack (2000) (0)
- The soul and its shell (2021) (0)
- Blood Saga: Hemophilia, AIDS, and the Survival of a Community. By Susan Resnik. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvi, 292 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-21195-2.) (2001) (0)
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