George Rosen

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George Rosen (born June 23, 1910 in Brooklyn , † July 27, 1977 in Oxford ) was an American doctor and medical historian.

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George Rosen was born in Brooklyn, New York to a family of Jewish immigrants. His father, an avid trade unionist, worked in an ironing shop. His brother became a lawyer. In 1930 Rosen graduated from City College with a Bachelor of Science degree. Because of the admission restrictions for Jewish students in the USA at the time, he was only able to fulfill his wish to study medicine abroad. He chose Berlin . He arrived there with a few dozen young Americans - all Jews except one African-American - who were going abroad to study medicine. In autumn 1933 he asked the Berlin medical historian Paul Diepgen for a topic for his dissertation. Diepgen referred him to Henry E. Sigerist in Baltimore , who suggested a topic from American-European history of medicine. The work was supervised by Diepgen. In January 1933, Rosen met her fellow Jewish student Beate Caspari (1910–1995) from Berlin. They married in July 1933 and this was the only way Beate - protected by her new citizenship - was able to complete her medical studies.

In 1935 the couple left Germany and settled in New York City. Beate Caspari-Rosen specialized in the field of ophthalmology. The couple had two children, Paul Peter Rosen (* 1938, pathologist) and Susan Rosen Koslow (* 1941, historian). From 1935 to 1937 George Rosen worked as an assistant at the Beth El Hospital and the Lutheran Hospital in Brooklyn and practiced until 1942 with a specialization in the field of ear, nose and throat diseases. He also studied sociology and graduated in 1944 with a Dr. phil. from Columbia University .

In 1936 Rosen took part in the Wesley Carpenter Lectures at the New York Academy of Medicine, in which Henry E. Sigerist stated that historical studies of occupational diseases had hitherto been largely neglected by medical historians and that these studies were very rewarding. As a result, Rosen was the one of Sigerist's students who carefully cultivated and further developed the study of social factors in the history of medicine. A long and intensive friendship developed between Sigerist and Rosen.

From 1943 to 1946, Rosen served in the US Army's military intelligence service . There he was deployed in the preventive medical service , in the office of the surgeon general and in the European theater of war. In London he interviewed German military doctors who were captured and uncovered human experiments by the Nazis.

From 1946 to 1952 George Rosen was editor of the "Journal of the History of Medicine". In 1947 he received a "Master of Public Health". 1950 to 1957 he was "Associated Medical Director" of the health insurance for Greater New York, from 1951 to 1969 Professor of Public Health Education at Columbia University. From 1969, George Rosen was Professor of Medical History and Epidemiology at Yale University .

“At various times in his life, Rosen would have called himself a democratic socialist or a left liberal. Certainly he was a moderate leftist with a tendency towards social reform for the benefit of the poor and working people. He was not an activist by temperament and he never joined any political organization. ... Rosen was against the Vietnam War, just as he had supported the Spanish Republic in the late 1930s (although he never announced that outside of his family or circle of friends). "

- Edward T. Morman. : George Rosen, public health and history . In: George Rosen. A History of Public Health. Expanded edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London 1993, pp. LXXIX-LXXX, LXXXIII

Works (selection)

Title page of the dissertation 1935
  • The absorption of William Beaumont ’s discovery into European medicine. A contribution to the history of physiology in the 19th century (essays on the history of medicine and natural sciences, edited by Paul Diepgen , Julius Ruska and Julius Schuster , volume 8). Emil Ebering, Berlin 1935 (dissertation). Foreword: "... I would like to express my sincere thanks to Professor Sigerist for suggesting this topic . At the same time, I would like to thank Professor Diepgen for the interest he showed in my work and Dr. Artelt for his very friendly advice . ... "
    • The reception of William Beaumont's discovery in Europe . New York 1942
  • Carl Ludwig and his American students . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 4 (1936), pp. 609-650
  • On the historical investigation of occupational diseases . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 5 (1937), pp. 941-946
  • Together with Beate Caspari-Rosen. Editor of Ciba Symposia . 1938 to 1944.
  • Jacob Henle : on miasmata and contagia . Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1938
  • Claude Bernard ’s work on experimental pneumoconiosis . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 7 (1939), pp. 412-416
  • Occupational Diseases of English Seamen during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 7 (1939), pp. 751-758
  • A Theory of Medical Historiography . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 8 (1940), pp. 655-666 ( Klebs-Festschrift )
  • The Miner's Elbow . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 8 (1940), pp. 1249-1397
  • Paracelsus : on the miners sickness and other miners diseases, translated from the German with an introduction. In: Henry E. Sigerist (Ed.) Four treatises of Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus . Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1941
  • Disease and Social Criticism: A Contribution to a Theory of Medical History . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 10 (1941), pp. 5-15
  • John Ferriar's Advice to the Poor . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 11 (1942), pp. 222-227
  • Changing Attitudes of the Medical Profession to Specialization . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 12 (1942), pp. 343-354
  • The Specialization of Medicine: with particular reference to ophthalmology . 1944 (sociological dissertation)
  • Left-Wing Puritanism and Science . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 15 (1944), pp. 375-380
  • The Medical Aspects of the Controversy over Factory Conditions in New England, 1840-1850 . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 15 (1944), pp. 483-497
  • An Eighteenth Century Plan for a National Health Service . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 16 (1944), pp. 429-436
  • The Philosophy of Ideology and the Emergence of Modern Medicine in France . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 20 (1946), pp. 328-339
  • Fees and fee bills. Some economic aspects of medical practice in 19th Century America . Hopkins, Baltimore 1946 (Bulletin of the history of medicine / Supplements 6)
  • Together with Beate Caspari-Rosen. Autobiography in medicine on the doctor in search of himself . In: Journal of the History of Medicine, Volume 1 (1946), pp. 290-299
  • What is Social Medicine? A Genetic Analysis of the Concept . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 21 (1947), pp. 674-733
  • Together with Beate Caspari-Rosen. 400 years of a doctor's life . New York 1947
  • Medicine under Hitler . In: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Volume 25 (1949), pp. 125-129
  • A history of public health . MD Publ., New York 1958.
    • Expanded edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London 1993, ISBN 0-8018-4645-5
  • Democracy and economic change in India . Univ. of Calif Pr., Berkeley, Calif. 1967
  • Madness in society. Chapters in the historical sociology of mental illness . Harper Row, New York 1969
  • From medical police to social medicine. Essays on the history of health care . Science History Publ., New York 1974, ISBN 0-88202-015-3
  • Preventive medicine in the United States 1900-1975; trends and interpretations . Science Hist. Publ., New York 1975
  • Peasant society in a changing economy. Comparative development in Southeast Asia and India . University of Illinois Press, Urbana 1975, ISBN 0-252-00464-7

literature

  • Erwin H. Ackerknecht . George Rosen (1910-1977) . In: Gesnerus, Volume 34, Issue 3-4 (1977), pp. 419-420 (digitized version )
  • Lloyd G. Stevenson. George Rosen, 1910–1977 . In: Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 51: 620-624 (1977)
  • George A. Silver: George Rosen: A Life in Public Health. In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. XXXIII, 1978, p. 266, doi: 10.1093 / jhmas / XXXIII.3.266 .
  • Saul Benison. George Rosen: An Appreciation . In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 33 (1978), pp. 245-253
  • BG Rosenkrantz: George Rosen, historian of the field. In: American Journal of Public Health . Volume 69, Number 2, February 1979, pp. 165-168, PMID 367188 , PMC 1619071 (free full text).
  • Elizabeth Fee. Public health, past and present: a shared social vision . In: George Rosen. A History of Public Health. Expanded edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London 1993, pp. IX-LXVII
  • Edward T. Morman. George Rosen, public health and history . In: George Rosen. A History of Public Health. Expanded edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London 1993, pp. LXIX-LXXXVIII

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henry E. Sigerist. On the historical background of industrial and occupational diseases . In: Bull. NY Acad. Med., 1936 2nd ser. 12, pp. 157-609
  2. ↑ Edward T. Morman. George Rosen, public health and history . In: George Rosen. A History of Public Health. Expanded edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London 1993, pp. LXXVI
  3. ↑ Erwin H. Ackerknecht. George Rosen (1910-1977) . In: Gesnerus, Volume 34, Issue 3-4 (1977), pp. 419-420
  4. ↑ Arthur J. Viseltear. The George Rosen - Henry E. Sigerist Correspondence . In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 33 (1978), pp. 281-313
  5. ↑ Edward T. Morman. George Rosen, public health and history . In: George Rosen. A History of Public Health. Expanded edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London 1993, pp. LXIX-LXXXVIII
  6. ↑ At different times in his life, Rosen might have characterized himself as a democratic socialist or a left liberal. In any case, he was consistently a man of the moderate left, with a commitment to social reform on behalf of the poor and the working class. By temperament, though, he was not an activist, and he never joined any political organization. (LXXIX-LXXX)… Rosen opposed the war in Vietnam much as he had supported the Spanish Republic in the late thirties (although in neither case did he take a vocal stand outside his circle of friends and family.) (LXXXIII)

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personal data
SURNAME Roses, george
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physician and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1977
Place of death Oxford