Stevens, Rosemary, 1935-

Rosemary Stevens was born in England and had her undergraduate education in English literature at Oxford University. She came to the United States in 1961 and completed her doctoral program in epidemiology and public health at Yale University in 1968. She started teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. She was chairman of the Department of History and Sociology of Science from 1980 to 1991 and the first woman dean of Penn's School of Arts and Sciences from 1991 to 1996.

From the description of Technology and Institutions in the Twentieth Century. (University of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122318312

Rosemary Stevens was born in England and had her undergraduate education in English literature at Oxford University. She came to the United States in 1961 and completed her doctoral program in epidemiology and public health at Yale University in 1968. After that, she taught at Yale for eight years and at Tulane University for two years. She started teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. She was chairman of the Department of History and Sociology of Science from 1980 to 1983, and, re-elected in 1986, held that position until fall, 1991, when she was appointed as the first woman dean of Penn's School of Arts and Sciences.

In the early sixties when she was research associate at the medical school of Yale, Stevens started a major research project on a comparative study of specialization in medicine in the United Kingdom and the United States. As the research developed, it became a project involving three separate studies, one on the United Kingdom, mainly England and Wales, one dealing with the United States, and a third one that was to focus on comparative aspects of health care organization in the two countries. The first part of the research ended up in the publication in 1966 of Medical Practice in Modern England: the Impact of Specialization and State Medicine. The second part of the project resulted in the publication of American Medicine and the Public Interest published in 1971. The third part of the plan did not proceed as she had anticipated. She kept her interest, however, in following closely the development of health service in both countries, with increasingly more time spent on studies of the American side, though. In 1974 another book on American medicine, a joint work with Robert B. Stevens, was published, namely, Welfare Medicine in America" a Case Study of Medicaid, which was followed by the publication of a third book, In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century in 1989. On the English medicine, she published National Health Service in England in 1980: Notes on Comparisons and Stresses in 1981.

Another area of her scholarly interest is the situation of alien doctors and foreign medical graduates in the United States. She published the book Foreign Trained Physicians and American Medicine, which she co-authored with Joan Vermeulen. In 1978 another book on the subject was published under the title of The Alien Doctors, Foreign Medical Graduates in American Hospitals.

Also in the early sixties, she made several trips to Africa for surveys of health services in Tanganyika, one of the former British colonies there.

Besides numerous teaching, research, and administrative positions, she has been on the boards of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates and the Milbank Memorial Fund. She is member of the Institute of Medicine of the Natural Academy of Science, History of Science Society, American Association for History of Medicine, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the Cosmopolitan Club.

Rosemary Stevens was naturalized in 1968.

From the description of Papers, 1949-1991 (bulk 1960-1991). (University of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122528509