David Rosner
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
Department of History
Research
David Rosner is Professor of History and Public Health at Columbia University and Director of the new Center for the History of Public Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. He received his doctorate from Harvard in the History of Science and formerly was University Distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York. In addition to numerous grants, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and a Josiah Macy Fellow. He has been awarded the Distinguished Scholar's Prize from the City University and recently, the Viseltear Prize for Outstanding Work in the History of Public Health from the APHA. He is author of A Once Charitable Enterprise (Cambridge University Press, 1982; Princeton University Press, 1987), and editor of Hives of Sickness, Epidemics and Public Health in New York City (Rutgers University Press, 1995) and Health Care in America: essays in Social History (with Susan Reverby). In addition, he has co-authored and edited with Gerald Markowitz numerous books and articles, including Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth Century America, (Princeton University Press, 1991;1994), Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clark's Northside Center, (University Press of Virginia, 1996); Dying for Work, (Indiana University Press, 1987) and Slaves of the Depression, Workers' Letters About Life on the Job, (Cornell University Press, 1987). His new book, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution is published by the University of California Press/Milbank Fund. Currently, he and Gerald Markowitz are working on a book on the boundaries between occupational and environmental health for the University of California Press and the Milbank Memorial Fund.
Selected Work
- Are We Ready? 9/11 and Public Health, co-authored with Gerald Markowitz (University of California Press/Milbank Fund, 2006).
- "Labor and Health Policy" With Gerald Markowitz, in Health and the American Public: The Past 100 Years, (University of California Press and The Milbank Fund, 2003)
- Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution Co-authored with Gerald Markowitz. (University of California Press/Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002)
- "The History of the Lead Industry's Promotion of White Lead Paints" With Gerald Markowitz, in New York State Bar Association, Lead Paint Poisoning Prevention and Litigation, (New York: NYSBA, 2002) pp. K-1-K-56
- "Making Distinctions Natural: The Uses of Categorization in Human Biology" With Dorothy Nelkin, in Robert Baker, ed. The Encyclopedia of Bioethics,[50 mp] (2002)
- "Two Lives, Three Legs, One Journey: A Retrospective Appreciation of Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser" With Gerald Oppenheimer, International Journal of Epidemiology, (2002)
- "Le Prove di una Cospirazione Illegale delle Imprese,': Il Cloruro di Vinile e L'industria Chimica in America e in Europa," ["'Evidence of an Illegal Conspiracy by Industry,': Vinyl Chloride and the American and European Chemical Industry,"] Epidemiologe e Prevencione, (Translated in Italian), with G. Markowitz, (2002)
- "Lead: The Relevance of History," With Gerald Markowitz, Mealey's Litigation Report, [LexisNexis], Nov. 1, 2001, 1-19
See Also
- Featured publications by David Rosner
