Fred Rosner (October 3, 1935 – July 2024) was an American professor of medicine atMount Sinai School of Medicine[1] and the director of the Department of Medicine atQueens Hospital Center. He was also the chairman of theMedical Ethics Committee of theState of New York. He was, moreover, an expert onJewish medical ethics and on the medical writings ofMoses Maimonides.
Rosner was born in Berlin, Germany, where, at the age of three, he and his brother were on the last of theKindertransport boats to the United Kingdom. After the end of the Second World War, Rosner immigrated to the United States and was an undergraduate atYeshiva University. He qualified as an MD at theAlbert Einstein College of Medicine, with the first graduating class in 1959.
He was a diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine and was board certified in his specialty ofhematology. Among his many awards are the American Medical Association's Isaac Hays, MD, and John Bell, MD, Award for Leadership in Ethics and Professionalism; the Bernard Revel Memorial Award from the Yeshiva College Alumni Association for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts & Sciences; and the Lawrence D. Redway Award for Excellence in Medical Writing from the Medical Society of New York.
Rosner published eight books on Jewish medical ethics, includingModern Medicine and Jewish Ethics (Ktav, 1991);Medicine and Jewish Law I, II and III (Jason Aronson, 1990 and 1993);Pioneers in Jewish Medical Ethics (Jason Aronson, 1997); andBiomedical Ethics and Jewish Law (Ktav, 2001). He also translatedAvraham Steinberg's seven-volumeEncyclopedia Hilchatit Refuit from Hebrew into English as theEncyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics.[2]
His other books include: an English translation of Julius Preuss's classic reference workBiblical and Talmudic Medicine (reprinted in 1993) and theEncyclopedia of Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud (Jason Aronson, 2000).[3] He is also the translator and editor ofMoses Maimonides' Medical Writings (seven volumes published by the Maimonides Research Institute, Haifa),A Medical Encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides (Jason Aronson, 1998), andThe Medical Legacy of Moses Maimonides (Ktav, 1998). Dr. Rosner was recognized as an authority on this giant of Jewish thought and medieval medicine.
He also published almost 800 articles and thirty-nine chapters in books on all aspects ofJewish medical ethics and Jewish medical history, and on many other topics, includinghaematology,leukemia,anaemia,immunology, and general medicine.
Rosner was an internationally known authority on medical ethics, having lectured widely on Jewish medical ethics throughout USA, and served as visiting professor or lecturer in Israel, England, France, Germany, Mexico, Canada, the Netherlands, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. He died in July 2024, at the age of 88.[4]
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