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David Rothman, Ph.D.

David Rothman, professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Science and Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, specializes in social history and the history of medicine. He received his BA from Columbia in 1958 and his PhD from Harvard in 1964. His published works include The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (1971, 1990); Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America (1980), The Willowbrook Wars (1984), Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision-making (1991), and Beginnings Count: The Technological Imperative in American Health Care (1997).