Our Present Complaint, 1st Edition

Cogently written and well documented, the book will benefit medical practitioners, and will be especially useful to those who make medical policy. Highly recommended. Choice This collection of essays, drawing on Rosenberg’s half-century career as one of our preeminent historians of medicine, will be well appreciated by fellow historians and their students, but it ought to be required reading for health care providers, payers, policy makers, and patients. – Elizabeth Siegel Watkins Journal of American History Our Present Complaint… is a timely book. It examines important concepts and history that people need to be aware of and think through if they seek to understand and address the many problems with the American medical system. – Sharon A. Falkenheimer Themelios [Rosenberg] reminds us that the problems addressed by disciplines such as bioethics and interdisiplinary communities such as that of health policy are inevitably situated and configured by a broader context to which ethicists and policy makers would do well to pay attention. – Thomas S. Huddle, M.D., Ph.D. Journal of the History of Medicine

Charles E. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. He is the author of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System; and No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought.