Susan Lederer
American historian of science
About Susan Lederer
Born 1955. Susan Lederer is an American historian, university teacher and historian of science.
Susan E. Lederer (born 1955) is an American historian of science. She is the Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Lederer focuses on medicine and American society in the 20th-century. This includes the areas of race, medicine, public health, popular culture, research ethics, and the history of medical ethics. Lederer completed a B.A. in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 1977. She completed an M.A. and Ph.D. (1987) in the history of science at University of Wisconsin–Madison. Lederer's dissertation was titled Human experimentation and antivivisection in turn-of-the-century America. Her advisor was Ronald Numbers.
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American historian of science
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Susan Lederer was born in 1955.
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Susan Lederer is a historian, university teacher and historian of science.
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