Andrea Rusnock Explained

Andrea Rusnock is a professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. She has published two books and numerous articles on science and medicine in the Enlightenment, quantification, public health and the environment, and the history of vaccination.^[1] Her work has been reviewed in Medical History: An International Journal for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences,^[2] EH.net of the Economic History Association,^[3] and The American Historical Review.^[4]

Education and background

Rusnock earned her BA from Brown University in 1982. She then attended Princeton University, where she earned her MA in 1985 and her PhD in 1990.

Publications

• 1996: The Correspondence of James Jurin (1684–1750), Physician and Secretary to the Royal Society, edited with an introduction, notes, and calendar of correspondence, Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi). .
• 2002: Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France (Cambridge University Press). .

Awards

• 2006-2007: URI Center for the Humanities Faculty Sabbatical Fellowship, for her project "The Birth of Vaccination."^[5]
• 2013: American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for her project The Birth of Vaccination: An Environmental History.^[6]
• 2014: Winner of the Award for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health/Publications, US Department of Health and Human Services.^[7]

References

1. Web site: Faculty Profile . https://web.archive.org/web/20100528223312/http://www.uri.edu/artsci/his/rusnock.html . dead . 28 May 2010 . www.uri.edu . University of Rhode Island . 14 May 2015 .
2. Book Review. 2844296. Medical History. 2010. Cambridge University Press. Gradmann. C.. 54. 2. 266–268. 10.1017/S0025727300006827.
3. Web site: Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France. eh.net. Economic History Association. 19 May 2015.
4. Web site: Andrea A. Rusnock. Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France. ahr.oxfordjournals.org. Oxford University Press. 19 May 2015.
5. Web site: Recent Grant and Fellowship Awards . web.uri.edu . 19 May 2015 .
6. Web site: Andrea Rusnock F'13 . acls.org. 19 May 2015.
7. Web site: Project Information . report.nih.govindex.aspx. 26 May 2015.

External links

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