Susan E. Lederer

Associate Professor of History of Medicine (School of Medicine)
Associate Professor of History, American Studies, and African American Studies

Susan E. Lederer is associate professor of the history of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. Her book Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She is also the author of Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (Rutgers University Press, 2002), which is the book for an exhibition on Frankenstein that she curated for the National Library of Medicine, and Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).

Email: susan.lederer@yale.edu

Education

• Johns Hopkins University: 1977, B.A. (History of Science)
• University of Wisconsin, Madison: 1979 M.A. (History of Science)
• University of Wisconsin, Madison: 1987 Ph.D. (History of Science)

Selected Publications

Books, edited volumes

• Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
• Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, Rutgers University Press, 2002.
• Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
• (with Ruth Faden and other members of the Committee), The Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).

Articles

• “Tucker’s Heart: Racial Politics and Heart Transplantation in America,” in Keith Wailoo, Peter Guarnaccia, and Julie Livingston, eds. A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2006).
• “Darkened by the Shadow of the Atom: Burn Research in 1950s America,” in Man, Medicine, and the State: The Human Body as an Object of Government Sponsored Medical Research in the 20th Century. Wolfgang Eckart, ed. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006), pp. 263-78.
with Richard M. Ratzan, “Mary Shelley: Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus,” in A Companion to Science Fiction, David Seed ed. (Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2005), pp. 455-65.
• “Hollywood and Human Experimentation: Representing Medical Research in Popular Film,” in Medicine’s Moving Pictures eds. Paula Treichler, Nancy Tomes, and Leslie Reagan (forthcoming).
• “Research without Borders: The Origins of the Declaration of Helsinki,” in Twentieth-Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research: Historical Perspectives on Values, Practices, and Regulations, eds Volker Roelcke and Giovanni Maio (Stuttgart, Steiner, 2004), pp. 199-218.
• “Animal Parts/Human Bodies: Organic Transplantation in Early Twentieth-Century America,” in The Animal Human Boundary: Historical Perspectives, eds. Angela N.H. Creager and William Chester Jordan (Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2002), pp. 305-29.
• “Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81, 2007, 94-115
• “Experimentation on Human Beings,” Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, Sept 2005, 19(5): 20-22.
• “Banking on the Body: Historical Perspectives on the Sale of Flesh and Blood,” ISPS Journal, 2005, 5: 67-76.
• Gerhard Baader, Susan E. Lederer, Morris Low, Florian Schmaltz, and Alexander Schwerin, “Pathways to Human Experimentation, 1933-1945: Germany, Japan, and the United States,” in Osiris Politics and Science in Wartime, Carol Sachse and Mark Walker, eds. 2005, 20, 205-31.
• “Children as Guinea Pigs: Historical Perspectives,” Accountability in Research, 2003, 10, 1-16.
• “Porto Ricochet: Joking about Germs, Cancer, and Race Extermination in the 1930s,” American Literary History 2002, 14, 720-746.
• “Laying Ethical Foundations for Clinical Research,” (with Jon Harkness and Daniel Wikler), Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2001, 79, 365-72.
• “The Tuskegee Syphilis Study in the Context of American Medical Research, in Tuskegee's “Truths”: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study”, ed. Susan M. Reverby Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000, pp. 266-275.
• “Medical Ethics and the Media: Oaths, Codes, and Popular Culture, in The American Medical Ethics Revolution”, ed. Robert Baker, Arthur Caplan, Linda Emanuel, and Stephen Latham, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
• “Media and Medicine (with Naomi Rogers)”, in Medicine in the Twentieth Century, ed. J. Pickstone and R. Cooter, Harwood, 2000. pp. 487-502.