David Rosner | |
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| Born | (1947-03-13)March 13, 1947 (age 78) |
| Education | City College of New York (BA) University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MPH) Harvard University (PhD) |
David Rosner (born March 13, 1947) is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and professor of history in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences atColumbia University. He is also co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health atColumbia's Mailman School of Public Health. He was elected to theNational Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine in 2010.[1]
Rosner's work has been influential in a number of international legislative and legal decisions regarding industrial safety and health, health policy and race relations. The 2005 edition of his book,Deadly Dust, co-authored withGerald Markowitz, was one of the major stimuli of a five-year, international study of mining and health standards through collaboration with theAgence National Francais, the French equivalent of theNational Science Foundation.[citation needed]
This collaboration brings together experts from countries around the world to discuss the variety of historical factors that have shaped international policies regardingsilicosis, a deadly lung disease affecting workers in a host of industries. In its earlier 1991 edition, this book led to the bringing together of over 600 public health, industry and governmental experts from theNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, theOccupational Safety and Health Administration, theMining Safety and Health Administration and elsewhere in a National Conference on Silicosis inWashington. This conference led theRobert Reich, the US Secretary of Labor, to identify silicosis as a disease that should be eliminated in the coming years and the banning of certain dangerous practices in a variety of industries.[citation needed]
In addition, he has been a consultant and expert witness inlead poisoning cases, on behalf of theState of Rhode Island in its landmark suit against the lead pigment industry and individual plaintiffs injured by lead from paint on the walls of the nation's housing.[2][3] Later again he also appeared in theCalifornia lead paint trial.[4][5]
With Gerald Markowitz, Distinguished Professor of History at theCity University of New York, and support from the National Science Foundation, he authored the book:Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children, (Berkeley: University of California Press/Milbank Fund, 2013) which includes tracing the implications of lowered blood lead levels on public health research and practice.[6]
Toxic Docs which reveals documents which support the story of the ongoing effort of theLead Industries Association, theTobacco industry and other propaganda organizations of industry to discredit public health concerns so they can continue to pollute and profit from dangerous products was also produced with Markowitz and alsoMerlin Chowkwanyun.[7][8][9][10] Toxic Docs originated when Merlin Chowkwanyun assisted Rosner with creating a response to a criticism of two chapters in bookDeceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution by publishing the chapters online along with the original source documents as citations and later expanded that technique into Toxic Docs.[11]
Rosner is the author and editor of ten books; includingA Once Charitable Enterprise (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2004;Princeton University Press, 1987),[12]Hives of Sickness:' Epidemics and Public Health in New York City (Rutgers University Press, 1995),[13] andHealth Care in America: Essays in Social History (withSusan Mokotoff Reverby).[14]
In addition, he has co-authored and edited with Gerald Markowitz numerous books and articles, includingDeadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth Century America, (Princeton University Press, 1991;1994; University of Michigan, 2005),[15][16]Children, Race, and Power: Kenneth and Mamie Clarks’ Northside Center, (University Press of Virginia, 1996; Routledge Press, 2001);Dying for Work, (Indiana University Press, 1987)[17] and“Slaves of the Depression,” Workers’ Letters About Life on the Job, (Cornell University Press, 1987).[18] Along withJames Colgrove and Gerald Markowitz he co-editedThe Contested Boundaries of Public Health which appeared from Rutgers University Press in 2008. He and Gerald Markowitz have authoredDeceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (University of California Press/Milbank Fund, 2002)[19] andAre We Ready? Public Health Since 9/11 (University of California Press/ Milbank, 2006). His bookLead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children appeared in 2013 from the University of California Press/Milbank Fund.
Rosner serves on the editorial board of theJournal of Public Health Policy,[20] theJournal of Scientific Practice and Integrity,[21] andEnvironmental Justice.[22]He has also been an advisory editor for theUniversity of Rochester's Press Series focusing on the study of medical history.[23]
Dr. David Rosner received hisBA fromCity College of New York in 1968, an MPH from theUniversity of Massachusetts in 1972, and a PhD fromHarvard University in 1978.[1] The father of Zachary and Molly, he lives with his wife Dr. Kathlyn Conway, apsychotherapist and author, inNew York City.[24]
He is a member of the International Silicosis Project, a project organized through the French government andSciences Po on the international comparison of an occupational disease,silicosis. In 2008, he was a fellow at theEcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. In the past, he has participated in anIREX program on Eastern Europe.[25]
In addition to numerous grants, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and a Josiah Macy Fellow. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2010. He has been awarded the Distinguished Scholar's Prize from the City University, the Viseltear Prize for Outstanding Work in the History of Public Health from the APHA and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Massachusetts. He has also been honored at the Awards Dinner of the New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health and he and Gerald Markowitz have been awarded theUpton Sinclair Memorial Lectureship “For Outstanding Occupational Health, Safety, and Environmental Journalism by the American Industrial Hygiene Association.”[26]
As the case proceeded, Rosner and Markowitz were each on the stand for the better part of three days.
A California judge has called David Rosner "the people's historian."
"A single document by itself doesn't tell the whole story," says Chowkwanyun. "ToxicDocs connects the dots. This larger dataset paints a much bigger picture."
A common narrative is that a toxic substance was known to be harmful to the chemical industry well before it's exposed as such and gets banned by government agencies.
with Chowkwanyun, they started by creating a website and uploading the maligned chapters of "Deceit and Denial," with each footnote linked to the original supporting documents in their entirety. ... Since then, Chowkwanyun has expanded that early effort into what is now called ToxicDocs.org
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