Notes on Contributors

Robert A. Aronowitz is professor of the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, before receiving his MD from Yale School of Medicine. At Penn, Aronowitz was the founding director of the Health and Societies Program and co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program. He is the author of Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society, and Disease (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society (Cambridge University Press, 2007), co-editor of Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine’s Simple Solutions (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), and has published widely on the history of medicine and disease.