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History
of Science & Medicine | Core Faculty |
 Naomi
Rogers
Associate Professor of History of Medicine and
of Women's and Gender Studies
Education
- University of Pennsylvania: Ph.D. 1986
Works in Progress
- Book tentatively titled Healer From the Outback:
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Polio and American Medicine,
1940-1952.
- A study of American radical health movements
in the 1960s.
- A study of American homeopathy in the 20th century.
Publications
Books
- An Alternative Path: The Making and Remaking
of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia
Rutgers University Press, 1998
- Dirt and Disease: Polio before FDR Rutgers
University Press, 1992
Selected Articles
- Caution: The AMA May Be Dangerous To Your Health:
The Student Health Organizations (SHO) and American
Medicine, 1965-1970, Radical History Review
forthcoming in 2001.
- The Public Face of Homeopathy : Alternative
Medicine, the Public and the State in the United
States 1900-1950, in Martin Dinges, ed., Patients
in the History of Homeopathy: International Perspectives,
in press.
- The Debate Considered [Historians and Sister
Kenny], Australian Historical Studies 114:163-166,
2000.
- American Homeopathy Confronts Scientific Medicine,
in Robert J?tte, Guenter B. Risse and John Woodward,
eds.,Culture, Knowledge and Healing: Historical
Perspectives of Homeopathic Medicine in Europe
and North America, European Association for
the History of Medicine and Health, 1998, pp.
31-64.
- A Disease of Cleanliness: Polio in New York
City, 1900-1990, in David Rosner, ed., Hives
of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New
York City Rutgers University Press, 1995,
pp. 115-130.
- Sister Kenny' (RKO 1946), Isis 84:772-774,
1993.
- Thomas Francis, Jr: From the Bench to the Field,
in Joel Howell, ed., Medical Lives and Scientific
Medicine at Michigan, 1861-1969 University
of Michigan Press, 1993, pp. 161-187.
- Women and Sectarian Medicine, in Rima D. Apple,
ed., Women, Health and Medicine in America:
A Historical Handbook Garland, 1990, pp.
280-310. Paperback edition, Rutgers University
Press, 1991.
- Germs with Legs: Flies, Disease, and the New
Public Health, Bull. Hist. Med. (1989)
63: 599- 617.
- Dirt, Flies and Immigrants: Explaining the Epidemiology
of Poliomyelitis, J. Hist. Med. Allied Sci.
(1989) 44: 486-505; reprinted in Judith Walzer
Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers, eds., Sickness
and Health in America: Readings in the History
of Medicine and Public Health University of
Wisconsin Press, 1997, pp. 543-554.
- The Proper Place of Homeopathy: Hahnemann Medical
College and Hospital in an Age of Scientific Medicine,
Penn. Mag. Hist. & Biog. (1984) 108: 159-201;
reprinted in The Hahnemannian (1985) 120:
5-11.
naomi.rogers@yale.edu
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