Susan E. Lederer
Position title: Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics
Email: selederer@wisc.edu
Phone: 608.262.4195
Address:
Office: 1420 Medical Sciences Center
Joint Appointment: Medical History & Bioethics
Biography
My interests include Medicine and society in twentieth-century America; race, medicine, and public health; medicine and popular culture; research ethics; and history of medical ethics.
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
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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 Publications
- “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 19:5 (2005), 20-22.
- “Banking on the Body: Historical Perspectives on the Sale of Flesh and Blood,” ISPS Journal 5 (2005), 67-76.
- “Children as Guinea Pigs: Historical Perspectives,” Accountability in Research 10 (2003), 1-16.
Advisor To
Courses Taught
- History of Science 523 – Race, American Medicine and Public Health – Syllabus 2020 (pdf)
- MHB 668 – Seminar: Fat and Thin: Making American Bodies