David Rosner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3785212 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Rosner |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Rosner |
| ASSINATURA | ROSNER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0127-6987 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 90 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The FDA Acts to Eliminate Asbestos in Talc
When the Air Became Important
Reviewed by: When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries by Janet Greenlees David Rosner Janet Greenlees. When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2019. xiv + 250 pp. Ill. $50.95 (978-0-8135-8796-7). In the early 1840s Charles Dickens, perhaps t…
Ashamed” to Put His Name to It
One of the most well-documented episodes of scientific manipulation and overt fraud was the scandal involving Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT) in the 1970s and the chronic toxicity tests it conducted on behalf of Monsanto that ultimately led to the indictment and conviction of employees of IBT and the Monsanto Corporation. IBT, at the time the nation’s largest private laboratory, served a range of industries and government agencies. IBT con…
Sartre as prosecutor of occupational murder
On February 4, 1970, in the Fouquières-lès-Lens coal mine in northern France, sixteen miners were killed in a gas explosion (“firedamp,” grisou in French). This was an accident like many others before it, yet with a relatively high number of fatalities. The public prosecutor concluded, as usual, that there was no case against the publicly owned mine. No investigation was to be carried out. The accident had been the work of fate, of bad luck
Baby Powders and the Precautionary Principle
A Short History of Occupational Safety and Health in the United States
As this short history of occupational safety and health before and after establishment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) clearly demonstrates, labor has always recognized perils in the workplace, and as a result, workers’ safety and health have played an essential part of the battles for shorter hours, higher wages, and better working conditions. OSHA’s history is an intimate part of a long struggle over the rights of wo…
Eloge
Deceit and Denial
Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players, investigated untapped sources, and uncovered a bruising story of cynical and cruel disregard for health and human rights. This resulting exposé is fu…
A Tribute to Elizabeth Fee for Her Powerful Work on Behalf of Public Health
AffiliationsDavid Rosner is with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY
An Enormous Victory for Public Health in California
An Enormous Victory for Public Health in California: Industries Are Responsible for Cleaning Up the Environments They Polluted David Rosner PhD, MPH, and Gerald Markowitz PhD Affiliation David Rosner is with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Gerald Markowitz is with the John Jay College and Graduate Center, City University of New York.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent…
Nondetected”
The recent lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson have raised the issue of what and when talcum powder manufacturers knew about the presence of asbestos in their products and what they did or did not do to protect the public. Low-level exposure to asbestos in talc is said to result in either mesothelioma or ovarian cancer. Johnson & Johnson has claimed that there was “no detectable asbestos” in their products and that any possible incidental presence…
Fake Silk
Reviewed by: Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon by Paul David Blanc David Rosner Paul David Blanc. Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2016. xiv + 309 pp. $40.00 (978-0-300-20466-7). In March 1846 a remarkable discovery was made that had a profound impact on economic life in Britain and ultimately around the world. Chemist Alexander Parke adapted a newly discovered chemical with the…
Trying Times
Disease and Discovery
Reviewed by: Disease and Discovery: A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916-1939 by Elizabeth Fee, and: Health and Humanity: A History of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg SchoolofPublicHealth, 1935-1985 by Karen Kruse Thomas David Rosner Elizabeth Fee. Disease and Discovery: A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916-1939. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. xii + 286 pp. Ill.…
Ain’t Necessarily So!”
Canada is proposing a ban on asbestos, and the US Environmental Protection Agency has listed it among the first 10 materials it is investigating under the new Toxic Substances Control Act revisions. However, this effort is currently running up against enormous industry and political opposition. Here, we detail the activities in the early 1970s of the Friction Materials Standards Institute, an industry trade association, to stifle earlier attempts…
Building the World That Kills Us
One of the most troubling urban health issues is childhood poisoning caused by lead, the widespread environmental toxin. It is in old plumbing fixtures, solder, paint and other building materials in huge quantities. Despite decades of improvements in blood lead levels among America’s children, the continuing presence of lead on the walls of the nation’s older houses and the known neurological effects of low-level exposures presents a classic prob…
Unleashed on an Unsuspecting World”
Examining previously underused corporate documents, we revisit the story of the Asbestos Information Association/North America, an industry trade group that sought in the early 1970s to counteract the growing public attention to, and government regulation of, asbestos as a serious threat to workers and consumers. From the mid-1960s through the early 1970s, according to its own spokesperson, asbestos was exposed as “probably the most hazardous ind…
Flint, Michigan
Once Charitable Enterprise
Rosner and Markowitz Respond
AffiliationsDavid Rosner is with the Mailman School of Public Health and the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Gerald Markowitz is with the John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the Mailman School of Public Health
Dangerous Trade
Reviewed by: Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing World David Rosner Christopher Sellers and Joseph Melling, eds. Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard Across a Globalizing World. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. x + 218 pp. Ill. $29.95 (978-1-4399-0469-5). The papers in this collection were first presented at a December 2007 conference at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In ke…
With the Best Intentions
In 2001, Maryland’s court of appeals was asked to decide whether researchers at Johns Hopkins University had engaged in unethical research on children. During the 1990s, Johns Hopkins’s Kennedy Krieger Institute had studied 108 African American children, aged 6 months to 6 years, to find an inexpensive and “practical” means to ameliorate lead poisoning. We have outlined the arguments in the case and the conundrum faced by public health researcher…
From the Triangle Fire to the BP Explosion
The Exodus of Public Health What History Can Tell Us About the Future
We trace the shifting definitions of the American public health profession's mission as a social reform and science-based endeavor. Its authority coalesced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as public health identified itself with housing, sanitation, and labor reform efforts. The field ceded that authority to medicine and other professions as it jettisoned its social mission in favor of a science-based identity. Understanding t…
Once Charitable Enterprise
A 'gift of God
A recent article in the American Journal of Public Health noted the high correlation between the lead content of soil in urban areas and the elevated blood-lead levels of children in these cities. An editorial in the same issue of the Journal suggested that the "use of leaded gasoline and [high] traffic density" helped explain the is observation. For most public health experts, the controversy over the possible adverse effects of leaded gasoline …
The Exodus of Public Health What History Can Tell Us About the Future
We trace the shifting definitions of the American public health profession's mission as a social reform and science-based endeavor. Its authority coalesced in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as public health identified itself with housing, sanitation, and labor reform efforts. The field ceded that authority to medicine and other professions as it jettisoned its social mission in favor of a science-based identity. Understanding t…
Doctors in Crisis
conservatism of the medical profession in general, and most particularly, the American Medical Association. Critics charge that doctors have been an elite who have been primarily and excessively interested in increasing their status and achieving a large income commensurate with a high social standing. Furthermore, it is asserted, physicians blocked reforms and innovations designed to improve health care for a majority of Americans, especially if…
Love Canal Revisited
Love Canal Revisited tells of a signature moment in the history of American environmentalism: the crisis over chemical pollution for the residents of Love Canal, a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The short story of this community is well known: residents of this lower-middle-class community discovered chemicals leaching into their basements and forming puddles in their yards. Children came down with rar…
L'histoire au prétoire
Les risques environnementaux et professionnels préoccupent de plus en plus les pays industrialisés soumis, vieillissement des populations aidant, à l'aggravation du fléau des maladies chroniques.Aux États-Unis,la responsabilité de ces formes nouvelles d'exposition aux produits toxiques se juge devant les tribunaux. Ces dernières années, la question de savoir à quel moment les entreprises,chimiques ou autres,ont eu connaissance de la nocivité de l…
Exploring the Dangerous Trades
In 1943, noted industrial health expert, Dr
Health Care in America
Journal Article Health Care in America: Essays in Social History. Ed. by Susan Reverby and David Rosner. (Philadelphia and Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America. By E. Richard Brown. (Berkeley Get access Martin S. Pernick Martin S. Pernick University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 3, December 1980, Pages 710–712, https://doi.…
Corporate Responsibility for Toxins
From the beginning of its history, industry has responded to calls for government regulation by arguing that voluntary compliance was sufficient to ensure that it acted responsibly. Here we outline three cases that raise broad policy questions concerning the degree to which we can trust industry to control its own behavior with regard to industrial pollutants. First, we outline the experience of Americans with the lead industry, the producer of a…
Race, foster care, and the politics of abandonment in New York City
Following the end of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the sectarian system of foster care services in New York City practiced open discrimination. African-American children were generally segregated in a small number of overcrowded and understaffed all-Black institutions. As the African-American migration to the city accelerated in the years following the outbreak of World War II, a small group of psychologists, jurists, philanthropists, and so…
Flint, Michigan
With the Best Intentions
In 2001, Maryland’s court of appeals was asked to decide whether researchers at Johns Hopkins University had engaged in unethical research on children. During the 1990s, Johns Hopkins’s Kennedy Krieger Institute had studied 108 African American children, aged 6 months to 6 years, to find an inexpensive and “practical” means to ameliorate lead poisoning. We have outlined the arguments in the case and the conundrum faced by public health researcher…
The limits of thresholds
Since the 1930s threshold limit values have been presented as an objectively established measure of US industrial safety. However, there have been important questions raised regarding the adequacy of these thresholds for protecting workers from silicosis. This paper explores the historical debates over silica threshold limit values and the intense political negotiation that accompanied their establishment. In the 1930s and early 1940s, a coalitio…
A Short History of Occupational Safety and Health in the United States
As this short history of occupational safety and health before and after establishment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) clearly demonstrates, labor has always recognized perils in the workplace, and as a result, workers’ safety and health have played an essential part of the battles for shorter hours, higher wages, and better working conditions. OSHA’s history is an intimate part of a long struggle over the rights of wo…
Building the World That Kills Us
One of the most troubling urban health issues is childhood poisoning caused by lead, the widespread environmental toxin. It is in old plumbing fixtures, solder, paint and other building materials in huge quantities. Despite decades of improvements in blood lead levels among America’s children, the continuing presence of lead on the walls of the nation’s older houses and the known neurological effects of low-level exposures presents a classic prob…
Children, Race and Power
The Clarks established New York's Northside Center after World War II. At the centre the nation's most important child-welfare advocates, black leaders, academics and philanthropists came together seeking common ground. This study provides a biography of the Clarks and a history of the centre
An Enormous Victory for Public Health in California
An Enormous Victory for Public Health in California: Industries Are Responsible for Cleaning Up the Environments They Polluted David Rosner PhD, MPH, and Gerald Markowitz PhD Affiliation David Rosner is with the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY. Gerald Markowitz is with the John Jay College and Graduate Center, City University of New York.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent…
Nondetected”
The recent lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson have raised the issue of what and when talcum powder manufacturers knew about the presence of asbestos in their products and what they did or did not do to protect the public. Low-level exposure to asbestos in talc is said to result in either mesothelioma or ovarian cancer. Johnson & Johnson has claimed that there was “no detectable asbestos” in their products and that any possible incidental presence…
A Doctor of Their Own
Parents have known since time immemorial, and social scientists have agreed since the turn of the 20th century, that adolescents are a people unto themselves - a distinct developmental category. Yet it was not until the 1950s that a medical specialty specifically for teenagers came into being. In this volume, Heather Munro Prescott shows how the mid-20th-century emergence of adolescent medicine resulted from a combination of social changes that r…
Hospitals, Insurance, and the American Labor Movement
In the summer of 1989, an extended strike by the various “Baby Bell” telephone companies, including those of New York, Massachusetts, California, and thirteen other states in the Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast, brought to public attention the importance of health and hospital insurance to the nation's workers. In what the Los Angeles Times headline proclaimed was a “Phone Strike Centered on the Issue of Health Care,” workers at NYNEX, Pacific…
Slaves of the Depression
Journal Article “Slaves of the Depression”: Workers' Letters about Life on the Job. By Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. xi + 229 pp. Cloth, $31.50; paper, $9.95.) Get access John T. Cumbler John T. Cumbler University of Louisville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Page 1005, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901…
Sartre as prosecutor of occupational murder
On February 4, 1970, in the Fouquières-lès-Lens coal mine in northern France, sixteen miners were killed in a gas explosion (“firedamp,” grisou in French). This was an accident like many others before it, yet with a relatively high number of fatalities. The public prosecutor concluded, as usual, that there was no case against the publicly owned mine. No investigation was to be carried out. The accident had been the work of fate, of bad luck
Special Forum
The Blues
Journal Article The Blues: A History of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield System. By Robert Cunningham III and Robert M. Cunningham Jr. (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. xiv, 311 pp. $36.00, ISBN 0-87580-224-9.) Get access David Rosner David Rosner Columbia University, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September 1998, Pages 739…
The Street of Walking Death
Journal Article “The Street of Walking Death”: Silicosis, Health, and Labor in the Tri-State Region, 1900–1950 Get access Gerald Markowitz, Gerald Markowitz professor of history John Jay College, City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Rosner David Rosner professor of history Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York Search for other works by this author …
Dying for Work
Doctors in Crisis
conservatism of the medical profession in general, and most particularly, the American Medical Association. Critics charge that doctors have been an elite who have been primarily and excessively interested in increasing their status and achieving a large income commensurate with a high social standing. Furthermore, it is asserted, physicians blocked reforms and innovations designed to improve health care for a majority of Americans, especially if…
A history of public health in New York City 1866–1966
Theory and practice in American medicine
Social Control and Social Service
Research Article| October 01 1979 Social Control and Social Service: The Changing Use of Space in Charity Hospitals David Rosner David Rosner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (21): 183–197. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1979-21-183 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David Rosner; Social Control and Social Service: The Changing Use of Space in Cha…
Healing and History
Gaining control
This is an historical study of an early twentieth century political struggle regarding hospital reimbursement in New York City. During a period called the "Progressive Era" (1895--1915), administrators in the City's Comptroller's office sought to gain control over small, locally run community hospitals by dismantling the long-standing practice of flat-grant payments to institutions. Central office planners felt that these payments gave too much c…
Health Care in America
Journal Article Health Care in America: Essays in Social History. Ed. by Susan Reverby and David Rosner. (Philadelphia and Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America. By E. Richard Brown. (Berkeley Get access Martin S. Pernick Martin S. Pernick University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 3, December 1980, Pages 710–712, https://doi.…
The Cultural Crisis of Modern Medicine
A Once Charitable Enterprise
This 1982 book examines the changes in hospital care in New York that occurred around the turn of the twentieth century. It represents a fundamental departure from traditional medical history, which has usually emphasised 'progress' through science and technology. Professor Rosner identifies the economic, political and demographic pressures that brought about a reshaping of the health care system, and analyses the dramatic reorganisation of hospi…
Living History
Living History Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, and David Rosner CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.72.10.1170 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Tempest in a Test Tube
Research Article| October 01 1982 Tempest in a Test Tube: Medical History and the Historian David Rosner David Rosner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1982) 1982 (26): 166–171. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1982-26-166 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David Rosner; Tempest in a Test Tube: Medical History and the Historian. Radical History Review 1 October…
The Physician's Hand
Journal Article “The Physician's Hand”: Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing. By Barbara Melosh. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982. ix + 260 pp Notes and index. Cloth, $24.95; paper, $9.95.) Get access David Rosner David Rosner Baruch College, CUNY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 636–637, https://doi.org/10.2307/19034…
A Once Charitable Enterprise
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
For the Poorest of the Poor
Safety and Health on the Job as a Class Issue
PASSAGE OF THE 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) was a major victory for American labor and spurred the organization of dozens of coalitions uniting workers and community activists in Committees on Occupational Safety and Health (COSH). These innovative outgrowths of the post-OSHA era support worker grievances and often provide unions with technical advice about dangers at the workplace. Significantly, this interest in struggling for…
A Once Charitable Enterprise
Journal Article A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York, 1885–1915. By David Rosner. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1982. ix + 234 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, tables, notes, select bibliography, and index. $29.50.) Get access Thomas N. Bonner Thomas N. Bonner Wayne State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volu…
The problem of medical knowledge, examining the social construction of medicine
A Once Charitable Enterprise
Medical Nemesis
A 'gift of God
A recent article in the American Journal of Public Health noted the high correlation between the lead content of soil in urban areas and the elevated blood-lead levels of children in these cities. An editorial in the same issue of the Journal suggested that the "use of leaded gasoline and [high] traffic density" helped explain the is observation. For most public health experts, the controversy over the possible adverse effects of leaded gasoline …
Response from Rosner and Markowitz
Response from Rosner and Markowitz David Rosner, and Gerald Markowitz CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.75.12.1452-b Published Online: October 07, 2011
A Once Charitable Enterprise
Compulsory Health Insurance
A Once Charitable Enterprise
This work, examines the transformation of American hospitals from a series of community- based charitable institutions into the large, bureaucratic system that existed by the end of the Progressive era. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the …
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