Naomi Rogers

Associate Professor of History of Medicine and of Women's and Gender Studies Education

Naomi Rogers professional interests range across the history of disease, public health, gender and medicine, nursing, and alternative medicine in 19th- and 20th-century America. Her forthcoming publications include: a book tentatively titled Healer From the Outback: Sister Elizabeth Kenny, Polio and American Medicine, 1940-1952; astudy of American radical health movements in the 1960s; and astudy of American homeopathy in the 20th century.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania: Ph.D. 1986

Works in Progress

• Book tentatively titled The Polio Wars: Elizabeth Kenny and American Medicine, in process.
• Book tentatively titled Shine A Little Light: Humanizing American Medicine, 1945-1980, in process.
• A study of feminism, medicine and the state in the 1970s, in process.
• A study of disability rights activism in the 1930s, in process.

Selected Publications

Books, edited volumes

• An Alternative Path: The Making and Remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia Rutgers University Press, 1998
• Dirt and Disease: Polio before FDR (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992) paperback and hardback editions; new paperback edition, 1998.

Articles

1. American Medicine and the Politics of Filmmaking: Sister Kenny (RKO, 1946), in Medicine‚s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Halth, and Bodies in American Film and Television eds. Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes and Paula A. Treichler (Rochester: University of Rochester Press), forthcoming.
2. Revolutionary Medicine: China‚s Barefoot Doctors and American Health Policy in the 1970s, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, in process.
3. Explaining Everything: Its Powers and Its Perils, in Continuity and Contingency: The Medical-Historical World According to Charles E. Rosenberg, eds. Susan Reverby and Nancy Tomes, volume in process.
4. Save Her for the Dean: Feminists Fight the Culture of Exclusion in American Medical Education, 1970-1990, in Health Politics, Gender, and Power: American Women Physicians Confront the Masculine Culture of Medicine eds Elizabeth Fee, Ellen More and Manon Perry (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), in process.
5. Race and the Politics of Polio: Warm Springs, Tuskegee and the March of Dimes, American Journal of Public Health (May 2007) 97: 2-13.
6. Polio Can Be Cured: Science and Health Propaganda in the United States from Polio Polly to Jonas Salk in John Ward and Christopher Warren, eds., Silent Victories: The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 81-101.
7. Vegetables on Parade: American Medicine and Child Health Education in the Jazz Age, in Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag, eds. Children‚s Health Issues in Historical Perspective (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2005), 23-71.
8. Sister Kenny Goes to Washington: Polio, Populism and Medical Politics in Postwar America, in Robert D. Johnston, ed., The Politics of Healing: Histories of Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America (New York: Routledge, 2004), 97-116.
vTeaching Women‚s Health into the 21st Century, (with Janet Henrich) Women and Health 37 (2003) 69-79; repr. in Teaching Gender, Teaching Women‚s Health: Case Studies in Medical and Health Science Education ed. Lenore Manderson (Haworth Press, 2003) 69-79.
9. The Public Face of Homeopathy: Politics, the Public and Alternative Medicine in the United States 1900-1940,in Martin Dinges, ed., Patients in the History of Homeopathy (Sheffield: European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Publications, 2002), 351-371.
10. Caution: The AMA May Be Dangerous To Your Health: The Student Health Organizations (SHO) and American Medicine, 1965-1970, Radical History Review forthcoming in 2001.
11. The Public Face of Homeopathy : Alternative Medicine, the Public and the State in the United States 1900-1950, in Martin Dinges, ed., Patients in the History of Homeopathy: International Perspectives, in press.
12. The Debate Considered [Historians and Sister Kenny], Australian Historical Studies 114:163-166, 2000.
13. American Homeopathy Confronts Scientific Medicine, in Robert J?tte, Guenter B. Risse and John Woodward, eds.,Culture, Knowledge and Healing: Historical Perspectives of Homeopathic Medicine in Europe and North America, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, 1998, pp. 31-64.
14. A Disease of Cleanliness: Polio in New York City, 1900-1990, in David Rosner, ed., Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City Rutgers University Press, 1995, pp. 115-130.
15. Sister Kenny' (RKO 1946), Isis 84:772-774, 1993.
16. Thomas Francis, Jr: From the Bench to the Field, in Joel Howell, ed., Medical Lives and Scientific Medicine at Michigan, 1861-1969 University of Michigan Press, 1993, pp. 161-187.
17. Women and Sectarian Medicine, in Rima D. Apple, ed., Women, Health and Medicine in America: A Historical Handbook Garland, 1990, pp. 280-310. Paperback edition, Rutgers University Press, 1991.
18. Germs with Legs: Flies, Disease, and the New Public Health, Bull. Hist. Med. (1989) 63: 599- 617.
19. Dirt, Flies and Immigrants: Explaining the Epidemiology of Poliomyelitis, J. Hist. Med. Allied Sci. (1989) 44: 486-505; reprinted in Judith Walzer.
Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers, eds., Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health University of Wisconsin Press, 1997, pp. 543-554.
20. The Proper Place of Homeopathy: Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in an Age of Scientific Medicine, Penn. Mag. Hist. & Biog. (1984) 108: 159-201; reprinted in The Hahnemannian (1985) 120: 5-11.