Susan Lederer
Susan E. Lederer (born 1955) is an American historian of science. She is the Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Lederer focuses on medicine and American society in the 20th-century. This includes the areas of race, medicine, public health, popular culture, research ethics, and the history of medical ethics. Lederer completed a B.A. in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 1977. She completed an M.A. (1979) and Ph.D. (1987) in the history of science at University of Wisconsin–Madison. Lederer's dissertation was titled Human experimentation and antivivisection in turn-of-the-century America. Her advisor was Ronald Numbers. Selected works Books References Living people 1955 births Place of birth missing (living people) American historians of science Johns Hopkins University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty American women historians 20th-century American historians 21st-century American historians 20th-century American women 21st-century American women academics