Susan E. Lederer
Robert Turell Professor of History of Medicine and Bioethics
Chair, Medical History and Bioethics
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Special interests and recent research:
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 to examine the development of "hospital food" and medical efforts to treat diseases — diabetes, pernicious anemia, and cancer — using dietary interventions.
Recent publications:
Flesh and Blood: A Cultural History of Transplantation and Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
- "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, September 2005, 19(5): 20-22.
Regularly offered courses:
- 668: Seminar: Fat and Thin: Making American Bodies
- 919: Seminar: Diet & Nutrition: History Science Politics of Food