Susan E. Lederer

Education

Ph.D. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-Madison
History of Science (December 1987)

M.A. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-Madison
History of Science (December 1979)

B.A. Johns Hopkins University
History of Science (1977)

Professional Experience

Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, Chair, Medical History and Bioethics, UW - Madison (January 2008 - present)

Associate Professor, History of Medicine, History, African American Studies, Yale University, New Haven CT (2002 - 2007), Associate Professor American Studies, Yale University, New Haven CT (2005-2007)

Assistant Professor, History of Medicine, History, Yale University, New Haven CT (1999-2002)

Visiting Professor, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, (June 2000 & 2001)

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities,(1993-1999); Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities (1987-1983) Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey PA

Guest Curator, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Exhibit: “Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature,” 1997-1998

Honors and Awards

Fellowships and Grants

NLM Grant for Collection Development, Summer 2003

Fellow, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, Spring 1998

Research Grant, Rockefeller Archive Center of The Rockefeller University, 1997-1998

U.S. Public Health Service Grant, 1RO1 LMO5326-O1 (National Library of Medicine), 1991-1994

Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990-1991

Research Grant, Rockefeller Archive Center of The Rockefeller University, 1988-1989

Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1982-1983

University Fellow, University of Wisconsin Graduate School, 1981-1982

Maurice Richardson Fellow, Department of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, 1980-1981

Co-Director, “Discovery and Invention: The Dynamics of Scientific Change in Medicine,” Pennsylvania Humanities Council Grant, 1989-1990

Articles Published in the Last 10 Years

"Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (2007): 94-115.

"Experimentation on Human Beings," Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, Sept 2005, 19(5): 20-22.

"Banking on the Body: Historical Perspectives on the Sale of Flesh and Blood," ISPS Journal, 2005, 5: 67-76.

"Children as Guinea Pigs: Historical Perspectives," Accountability in Research, 2003, 10, 1-16.

"'Porto Ricochet": Joking about Germs, Cancer, and Race Extermination in the 1930s," American Literary History 2002, 14, 720-746.

"Laying Ethical Foundations for Clinical Research," (with Jon Harkness and Daniel Wikler), Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2001, 79, 365-72.

"Evaluating Students on an Interdisciplinary Primary Care Clerkship at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine" (with Karen M. Kaplan, et al). Academic Medicine, 1999, 74, S67-69.

"Screening Syphilis: Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet Meets the Public Health Service" (with John Parascandola), Journal of the History of Medicine, 1998, 53, 345-370.

"Repellent Subjects: Hollywood Censorship and Surgical Images in the 1930s" Literature and Medicine, 1998, 17, 91-113.

Current Research Projects/Interests

Bombs, blood, and burns: a book-length project on medical preparedness for an atomic attack on an American city, 1949-1962.

A book-length project on doctors, diets, and nutrition (I begin with Fannie Farmer's Cookbook for the Sick and Convalescent, examine the development of "hospital food," and medical efforts to treat diseases--diabetes, pernicious anemia, and cancer--using dietary interventions.)

Courses Taught

• 668: Seminar: Fat and Thin: Making American Bodies [syllabus to be posted soon]