Naomi Rogers, PhD
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Naomi Rogers, Ph.D. (she/her) is Professor of the History of Medicine in the Section of the History of Medicine and the Program in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. She holds courtesy appointments in the History Department and in the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. A graduate of the University of Melbourne (Australia), Rogers received her MA and PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania. Her historical interests are in 20th and 21st century history of medicine, health inequities and social justice. Her research focuses include gender and health; disease and public health; disability; feminism; alternative medicine; health policy; and health activism.
Research Interests
Community Health Services; Community Medicine; Delivery of Health Care; Education, Medical; Health Policy; History of Medicine; Public Health; Reproduction; Social Justice; Social Medicine; Students, Medical; Urban Health; Women's Health; Pandemics; Racism; Diseases; Health Equity; Disability Studies
Public Health Interests
Community Health
Selected Publications
- "Services Not Mausoleums": Race, Politics, and the Concept of Community in American Medicine (1963-1970).Adams ZM, Rogers N. "Services Not Mausoleums": Race, Politics, and the Concept of Community in American Medicine (1963-1970). The Journal Of Medical Humanities 2020, 41: 515-529. PMID: 32378066, DOI: 10.1007/s10912-020-09618-6.
- Remembering Gina Feldberg.Rogers N. Remembering Gina Feldberg. Canadian Bulletin Of Medical History = Bulletin Canadien D'histoire De La Medecine 2020, 37: 10-13. PMID: 32354287, DOI: 10.3138/cbmh.37.1.02.
- Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American MedicinePolio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine, Oxford University Press, 2013
- Save Her for the Dean: Feminists Fight the Culture of Exclusion in American Medical Education, 1970-1990, in Women Physicians and the Cultures of MedicineSave Her for the Dean: Feminists Fight the Culture of Exclusion in American Medical Education, 1970-1990, in Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine eds Elizabeth Fee, Ellen More and Manon Perry (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 205-241.
- Polio chronicles: warm springs and disability politics in the 1930s.Rogers N. Polio chronicles: warm springs and disability politics in the 1930s. Asclepio; Archivo Iberoamericano De Historia De La Medicina Y Antropología Médica 2009, 61: 143-74. PMID: 19753689, DOI: 10.3989/asclepio.2009.v61.i1.275.
- Explaining everything? The power and perils of reading Rosenberg.Rogers N. Explaining everything? The power and perils of reading Rosenberg. Journal Of The History Of Medicine And Allied Sciences 2008, 63: 423-34. PMID: 18403427, DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrn021.
- Silence Has Its Own Stories: Elizabeth Kenny, Polio and the Culture of Medicine, Social History of Medicine.Silence Has Its Own Stories: Elizabeth Kenny, Polio and the Culture of Medicine, Social History of Medicine. (2008) 21: 145-161.
- Race and the politics of polio: Warm Springs, Tuskegee, and the March of Dimes.Rogers N. Race and the politics of polio: Warm Springs, Tuskegee, and the March of Dimes. American Journal Of Public Health 2007, 97: 784-95. PMID: 17395849, PMCID: PMC1854857, DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.095406.
- An Alternative Path: The Making and Remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of PhiladelphiaAn Alternative Path: The Making and Remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia Rutgers University Press, 1998
- Dirt and Disease: Polio before FDR RutgersDirt and Disease: Polio before FDR Rutgers University Press, 1992
- Health Activism and the Humanization of American Medicine :book manuscript in process