Susan E Lederer

Biographic Data

ID114196
NAMESusan E Lederer
GIVEN NAMESSusan E
FAMILY NAMELederer
SIGNATURELEDERER S E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS35
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX3

  • Medical specimens and the erasure of racial violence: The case of Harriet Cole

    Open AccessSusan C Lawrence, Susan E LedererARTICLEMedical Humanities2023Cited by: 1References: 2

    This article analyses the complex narrative of Harriet Cole, a 36-year-old African-American woman whose body was delivered to the anatomy department of Hahnemann Medical School in 1888. The anatomist Rufus B Weaver used her preserved remains to create a singular anatomical specimen, an intact extraction of the 'cerebro-spinal nervous system'. Initially anonymised, deracialised and unsexed, the central nervous system specimen endured for decades b…

  • Rest in Pieces: Body Donation in Mid-Twentieth Century America

    Susan E Lederer, Susan C LawrenceARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2022

    By the mid-1950s, formal body donation programs began to supplant the decades-long reliance on the anatomy acts that made the bodies of the indigent and unclaimed available for medical education and research. By the mid-1980s, nearly all American medical schools relied on voluntary anatomical gifts of dead bodies. Throughout the nineteenth century, a handful of Americans requested through wills, letters, and suicide notes that their corpses be gi…

  • A Developing Timeline for Bioethics

    Open AccessMarion Danis, Robert Baker et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2021

    This brief essay describes the purpose, the content, and the development, by a group of Hastings Center fellows and a scholar at the Center, of the Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline. The timeline covers the wide range of contemporary events pertaining to the intersection of bioethics with the medical and biological sciences, health care, and health policy, as well as the medical arts and medical humanities. A collaborative effort that documents …

  • Living Donors and the Issue of “Informed Consent”

    Open AccessSusan E LedererARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2020

    This essay considers the issue of informed consent as it arose in the context of 1960s living kidney donors. In one of the earliest empirical inquiries into informed consent, psychiatrists Carl H. Fellner and John R. Marshall interviewed donors about their decision‐making process and their experience and reflections on donorship. In their much‐cited 1970 paper, the physicians reported that living donors, rather than reaching a reasoned, intellect…

  • Dying for Science: Historical Perspectives on Research Participants' Deaths

    Open AccessSusan E LedererARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2015

    The continuance of public and institutional support for medical research after the publicized deaths of human research participants in the 1950s contrasts sharply with the disciplining of institutions responsible for two such deaths in recent decades, which suggests that medical research participants are no longer receiving public recognition for their contributions to science

  • Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution

    Susan E LedererARTICLEJournal of the History of…2015

    This is an important book. The first history of American medical ethics since Donald Konold's 1962 volume, A History of American Medical Ethics, 1847–1912, Baker's book represents a major contribution to a much neglected historiography, for despite the ubiquity of bioethics in contemporary media and in medical schools, there has been surprisingly scant attention to the histories of medical ethics and bioethics in the United States. As philosopher…

  • Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America

    Susan E Lederer, E LedererARTICLEJournal of American History2015

    Journal Article Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America Get access Laurie B. Green, John McKiernan-González, and Martin Summers. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. xxviii, 296 pp. Cloth, $82.50. Paper, $27.50.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 217–218, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav244 Published: 01 June 2015

  • Orphans as Guinea Pigs

    Susan E LedererCHAPTERIn the Name of the Child2013

    In the decades between 1870 and 1930 the social and economic value of children in American society underwent a profound transformation. 1 The sentimentalization of children and the greater sensitivity to child mortality contributed to campaigns to promote child welfare, to the creation of a number of specialized institutions to enhance the physical and emotional well-being of American children, and to the development of a new medical specialty, p…

  • Bloodlines: Blood types, identity, and association in twentieth-centuryAmerica

    Open AccessSusan E LedererARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…2013Cited by: 1References: 10

    The search for a reliable and reproducible means to distinguish bloods of humans and animals was critically important for clinical medicine (especially the practice of blood transfusion), but also important for forensic purposes, and for establishing paternity and maternity. But the ability to distinguish the bloods of individuals advanced other social goals, especially the elusive, if long sought after, desire for racial purity in populations. T…

  • Shining Light on a Shady Study

    Open AccessSusan E LedererARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2012

  • The Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies (review)

    Susan E LedererARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2012

    Reviewed by: The Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies Susan E. Lederer Henri Colt, Silvia Quadrelli, and Lester Friedman, eds. The Picture of Health: Medical Ethics and the Movies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xxx + 527 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-19-973536-5). “Pictures are for entertainment,” American film producer Samuel Goldwyn famously observed, “messages should be delivered by Western Union.” The producer [End Page 146] o…

  • Ayesha Nathoo, Hearts Exposed: Transplants and the Media in 1960s Britain

    Susan E LedererARTICLESocial History of Medicine2010

    On the cover of Ayesha Nathoo's new book, South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard appears captured by the lens of a bulky movie camera which looms as large as Barnard himself in the frame. Escorted by a policeman and amidst an apparent entourage, the surgeon glances back, mouth agape; the facial expression of the famously photogenic young surgeon resists easy decipherment (Is he bemused? Confused? Or merely gratified by the media storm?). Potent…

  • Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine

    Susan E LedererARTICLESocial History of Medicine2009

    Journal Article Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine Get access Jonathan B. Imber, Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. Pp. xix + 275. $29.95. ISBN 978 0 691 13574 8. Susan E. Lederer Susan E. Lederer University of Wisconsin [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History…

  • Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film

    Susan E LedererARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2007

    This paper explores the cultural representations of cancer in popular Hollywood films released between 1930 and 1970. These cinematic treatments were not representative of the types of cancer that increasingly afflicted Americans, nor were filmmakers and studios concerned with realistic representations of the disease, its treatment, and its outcomes. As in the "epidemic entertainments" of the early twentieth century that portrayed diseases as cul…

  • Experimentation on Human Beings

    Susan E Lederer, S LedererARTICLEOAH Magazine of History2005

    Experimentation on human beings has played an important role in the development of American medical science and medical practice. Even after extensive studies on laboratory animals, some individual—whether an infant, child, woman, or man—must be the first to receive a new drug, undergo a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure, or participate in a trial of a new vaccine to prevent such dread diseases as smallpox and AIDS. But who should be the first,…

  • Interchange: History in the Professional Schools

    Susan E Lederer, Jonathan Zimmerman et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2005Cited by: 3

  • Pathways to Human Experimentation, 1933-1945: Germany, Japan, and the United States

    Gerhard Baader, Susan E Lederer et al.ARTICLEOsiris2005

    The history of human experimentation in the twelve years between Hitler's rise to power and the end of the Second World War is notorious in the annals of the twentieth century. The horrific experiments conducted at Dachau, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, Birkenau, and other National Socialist concentration camps reflected an extreme indifference to human life and human suffering. Unfortunately, they do not reflect the extent and complexity of the human …

  • Blood Saga: Hemophilia, Aids, and the Survival of a Community

    Susan E Lederer, Susan ResnikARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Blood Saga: Hemophilia, AIDS, and the Survival of a Community. By Susan Resnik. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xvi, 292 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-520-21195-2.) Get access Susan E. Lederer Susan E. Lederer Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Page 1591, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674903 P…

  • Blood: An Epic Story of Medicine and Commerce (review)

    Susan E LedererARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2000

    This history of the origin and development of blood transfusion begins with the dramatic confrontation in a French courtroom in 1992 between people dying of AIDS and high-ranking officials in the French national transfusion service, who knowingly permitted thousands of hemophiliacs to use blood-clotting factors infected with the HIV virus. In the past decade similar accusations have rocked the agencies responsible for the safety of the blood supp…

  • Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind . Eileen Crist Humans and Other Animals . Arien Mack

    Susan E LedererARTICLEIsis2000

  • Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics, and Popular Culture. Jon Turney

    Susan E LedererARTICLEIsis1999

  • Repellent Subjects: Hollywood Censorship and Surgical Images in the 1930s

    Susan E LedererARTICLELiterature and medicine1998

    Lederer provides a historical overview of the censorship of surgical images of U.S. films made in the 1930's. This essay examines the Motion Picture Production Code in an effort to understand the effect of the category of "Repellent Subjects" identified by the Code. It includes "surgical operations" alongside "actual hangings or electrocutions as legal punishments of crime," "brutality," "branding of people and animals," "apparent cruelty to chil…

  • Screening Syphilis: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet Meets the Public Health Service

    Susan E Lederer, John ParascandolaARTICLEJournal of the History of…1998

    SUSAN E. LEDERER, JOHN PARASCANDOLA; Screening Syphilis: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet Meets the Public Health Service, Journal of the History of Medicine and

  • Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima (review)

    Susan E LedererARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1997

    Reviewed by: Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima Susan E. Lederer M. Susan Lindee. Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xi + 287 pp. Ill. $29.95. On 6 August 1945 the Enola Gay, an American B-29, dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. As historian M. Susan Lindee notes, the survivors of Hiroshima and of Nagasaki, where a second …

  • In The Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation (review)

    Susan E LedererARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine1997

    Reviewed by: In The Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation Susan E. Lederer F. Barbara Orlans. In The Name of Science: Issues in Responsible Animal Experimentation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. ix + 297 pp. Ill. $39.95. In the Name of Science provides a useful discussion of the contemporary animal experimentation controversy, encompassing moral and practical issues that arise in using animals in the laboratory. Un…