University of Michigan
Center for the History of Medicine
100 Simpson Memorial Institute
102 Observatory
Ann Arbor
MIUSA
48103
Biographical Sketch: Alexandra Minna Stern, Ph.D., is the Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine, Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine, and Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, History, and American Culture at the University of Michigan.
Her book Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, (University of California Press, 2005) won the 2006 American Public Health Association’s Arthur Viseltear Prize for outstanding contribution to the scholarship on the history of public health.