Robert A. Aronowitz, M.D. Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Department of History and Sociology of Science
Claudia Cohen Hall, 249 S. 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304
Telephone: (215) 898-5621
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M.D., Yale University School of Medicine
Graduate Study in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
M.A., Columbia University, Teachers College
B.A., University of Michigan
Area of Specialization:
History of 20th century disease, epidemiology, population health.
Books:
Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society, (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. and New York, 1998.
Robert A. Aronowitz studied linguistics before receiving his M.D. from Yale. After finishing residency in Internal Medicine, he received training in the history of medicine as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. Dr. Aronowitz taught at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and practiced medicine at Cooper Hospital before arriving at Penn in 1999. At Penn, Dr. Aronowitz was the founding director of the health and societies program. He also co-directs Penn's Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program, an innovative post-doctoral and research program focused on population health. Dr. Aronowitz's first book, Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease (Cambridge 1998) explores changing disease definitions and meanings in the 20th century. His second book, Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society (Cambridge, 2007) is a history of breast cancer in American society since the early 19th century, with special attention to patient and doctor decision making and the experience of disease and risk. He is currently in the midst of a project on the history of health risks in American medicine and society, for which he was the recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Curriculum Vitae
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