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History
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Daniel J. Kevles
Stanley Woodward Professor of History
and Professor of History of Medicine, of American
Studies, and of Law (adjunct); Chair of the Program
in the History of Science & Medicine
Professor Kevles' research interests
include: the interplay of science and society past
and present; the history of science in America;
the history of modern physics; the history of modern
biology, scientific fraud and misconduct; the history
of intellectual property in living organisms; and
the history of science, arms, and the state. He
is currently the Chair of the program in the History
of Science& Medicine.
His teaching areas are the history
of modern science, including genetics, physics,
science in American society.
daniel.kevles@yale.edu
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Susan E. Lederer
Associate Professor of the History
of Medicine (School of Medicine), History, &
African American Studies
Susan E. Lederer's areas of research are medicine
and society in twentieth-century America, media
and medicine, and the history of medical ethics.
Her book Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation
and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America
is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She
is also the author of Frankenstein: Penetrating
the Secrets of Nature (Rutgers University Press,
2002), which is the book for an exhibition on Frankenstein
that she curated for the National Library of Medicine,
and Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation
in America before the Second World War (Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1997).
susan.lederer@yale.edu
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Ole Molvig
Assistant Professor of History
Ole Molvig is an historian of the
modern physical sciences. He completed his B.S.
degrees at the University of Wisconsin in Physics,
Astronomy, and History of Science, and did his
graduate work at Princeton University where he
examined the responses to Albert Einstein's General
Theory of Relativity for his Ph.D. in History.
Specifically Professor Molvig explores the mechanisms
through which consensus is reached regarding the
meaning of novel scientific work; namely, how
did different communities, from theoretical physicists
to newspaper journalists, decide that Einstein's
theory was one of gravitation, applicable to the
universe as a whole, and revolutionary?
Professor Molvig's other research
interests include the history of astronomy, precision
instrumentation, physics in WWI, popular science,
and modern European intellectual and cultural
history. His regular course offerings include
a survey of the modern sciences, as well as more
focused graduate and undergraduate seminars in
the history of physics, the history of technology,
the scientific revolution, and methods in the
history of science.
Professor Molvig lives in Branford
College, where he is a Residential Fellow.
David Musto
Professor of Child Psychology &
History of Medicine (School of Medicine)
Dr. David F. Musto is the leading
historian of drug policy in the United States.
He is the author of four major works on drug regulation
in America: The American Disease: Origins of
Narcotic Control (Oxford 3d ed. 1999), One
Hundred Years of Heroin (Auburn 2002), Drugs
In America: A Documentary History (NYU 2002),
and The Quest for Drug Control (Yale 2002).
He has been a member of the Yale Medical School
faculty since 1969. His research has centered
on social history, particularly the development
of policies involving alcohol, narcotics, AIDS,
the family and mental health.
Dr. Musto has investigated many
areas touching on history and medicine and has
been called upon to serve the nation in various
capacities including membership on the White House
Strategy Council on Drug Abuse Policy during the
Carter administration, membership from 1981 to
1990 on the National Council of the Smithsonian
Institution and as historical consultant to the
Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Epidemic.
david.musto@yale.edu
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Naomi Rogers
Associate Professor of History
of Medicine (School of Medicine), History, &
Women's and Gender Studies
Naomi Rogers professional interests
range across the history of disease, public health,
gender and medicine, nursing, and alternative
medicine in 19th- and 20th-century America. Her
forthcoming publications include: a book tentatively
titled Healer From the Outback: Sister Elizabeth
Kenny, Polio and American Medicine, 1940-1952;
astudy of American radical health movements in
the 1960s; and astudy of American homeopathy in
the 20th century.
naomi.rogers@yale.edu
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Frank Snowden
Professor of History
Professor Snowden received his PhD
from Oxford University in 1975. His books include
Violence and Great Estates in the South of
Italy: Apulia, 1900-1922 (1984); The
Fascist Revolution in Tuscany, 1919-1922 (1989);
and Naples in the Times of Cholera (1995).
He is currently writing An Italian Triumph:
The Conquest of Malaria, 1900-1962. He teaches
undergraduate and graduate courses in Italian
history, European social and political history,
and the history of medicine. His interests include
the history of cholera and its impact on European
society, 1830-1912.
 Bruno J. Strasser
Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine (School of Medicine) and History
Bruno J. Strasser's research focuses on the history of the biomedical sciences in the 20th century. His book, La fabrique d'une nouvelle science: La biologie moleculaire a l'age atomique, 1945-1964 explores the emergence of molecular biology as new scientific discipline and professional identity in the atomic age. It received the Henry-E. Sigerist prize 2006. He is currently working on a new book project on collections and collectors in 20th century life sciences. He has published on the history of international scientific cooperation during the Cold War, the interactions between experimental science and clinical medicine, the transformations of the pharmaceutical industry, the development of scientific instrumentation, the role of collective memory, and the relationships between science and society.
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William C. Summers
Lecturer in History; Professor
of Therapeutic Radiology, Molecular Biophysics
and Biochemistry, and the History of Medicine
(School of Medicine)
Professor William C. Summers' interests
range from molecular biology to Chinese culture
and history. A well-published researcher in virology
and in the history of science and medicine, Professor
Summers earned both his M.D. and his Ph.D. in
molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin
in 1967. He joined the Yale Faculty in 1968. Professor
Summers has held fellowships and visiting faculty
positions at major research universities in the
United States, Sweden, Great Britain, and China;
he serves on numerous panels and editorial boards.
He first travelled to the People's
Republic of China in 1980 with the Yale delegation
that re-established the medical exchange program
with the Hunan Medical College. Professor Summers
has done extensive research on Chinese public
health and medicine, publishing articles on historic
parallels between Chinese and Western medical
development, Chinese government medical policy,
and acupuncture.
At Yale, students enjoy Professor
Summers' college seminar, "Plagues and Peoples,"
which deals with historical issues of policy and
epidemic disease. He also teaches a seminar on
the history of Chinese science in which he deals
with Chinese concepts of the natural world, Asian
technological development, and East-West scientific
interactions. His outgoing and accessible personality
makes him a favorite among students.
william.summers@yale.edu
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 Frank M. Turner
John Hay Whitney Professor of History; Director, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Frank M. Turner concentrates his scholarship on Victorian science, the relationship of science and religion, science in its social relations, science and politics, science in its institutional settings. The time period of his primary focus is seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
John Harley Warner
 Professor of History of Medicine, History & American Studies; Director of Graduate Studies for the Program in the History of Science & Medicine; Chair, Section of the History of Medicine (School of Medicine)
John Harley Warner, an historian who focuses chiefly on American medicine and science, received his Ph.D. in 1984 from Harvard University (History of Science), and from 1984-1986 was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. In 1986 he joined the Yale faculty with a primary appointment in the School of Medicine, where he is now Chair of the Section of the History of Medicine. His research interests include the cultural and social history of medicine in 19th and 20th century America, comparative history (particularly British, French, and North American medicine), and medical cultures since the late 18th century. He is especially interested in clinical practice, orthodox and alternative healing, the multiple meanings of scientific medicine, and the interactions among identity, narrative, and aesthetics in the grounding of modern medicine.
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