Rosemary Stevens

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Born in 1935, Rosemary A. Stevens received her BA from St. Hilda’s College (Oxford University), her MA from Oxford University, an MPH in health services administration and policy and her Ph.D. in epidemiology from Yale University. After completing her MPH, Stevens oversaw a 100-bed hospital in London. She then held a number of academic positions at Yale University Medical School, Tulane University and the University of Pennsylvania, where Stevens was Stanley I. Sheerr Professor in Arts and Sciences and served as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, the first woman to hold that position. Stevens is a Senior Fellow at UPenn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and professor emerita of History and Sociology of Science. In 2017, she became DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholar in Social Medicine and Public Policy at the Weill Cornell Medical College.

Stevens was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983. In 1997, she received an Investigator Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her work on specialization in American medicine. She also received the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2011 she gave the American Osler Society’s John P. Govern Award Lecture.

Besides In Sickness and In Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century, her books include The Public-Private Health Care State: Essays on the History of American Health Care Policy and “Medical Specialization as American Health Policy: Interweaving Public and Private Roles” in History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In which she co-edited with Charles E. Rosenberg and Lawton R. Burns.


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