Care of Strangers

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.

An elegantly written book that broadens the history of hospitals and places it squarely within the larger field of American social history. -- Virginia G. Drachman American Historical Review