Susan E. Lederer

Biography

Interests

Medicine and society in twentieth-century America; race, medicine, and public health; medicine and popular culture; research ethics; and history of medical ethics.

Affiliations

History

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, History of Science, 1987

M.A., University of Wisconsin–Madison, History of Science, 1979

B.A., Johns Hopkins University, History of Science, 1977

Books

Susan E. Lederer, Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Susan E. Lederer, Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

Selected Articles

Susan E. Lederer, “Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81 (2007), 94-115.

Susan E. Lederer, “Experimentation on Human Beings,” Organization of American Historians Magazine of History 19:5 (2005), 20-22.

Susan E. Lederer, “Banking on the Body: Historical Perspectives on the Sale of Flesh and Blood,” ISPS Journal 5 (2005), 67-76.

Susan E. Lederer, “Children as Guinea Pigs: Historical Perspectives,” Accountability in Research 10 (2003), 1-16.

Courses taught

MHB 746: Race, Science, and Medicine: Past and Present
MHB 750: Outbreak!: Epidemics, Migration, and the Changing Contours of Global Health