Background
Aronowitz was born in Brooklyn New York City in 1953 to National and Eve Aronowitz. He grew up with his older brother and sister.
Aronowitz was born in Brooklyn New York City in 1953 to National and Eve Aronowitz. He grew up with his older brother and sister.
He attended Samuel J. Tilden High School, until he graduated at the age of 16. Aronowitz studied linguistics before receiving his Doctor of Medicine
He is the author of Making Sense of Illness, and Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society. Education and Professional from Yale. After a residency in Internal Medicine, he received training in the history of medicine as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar.
He taught at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and practiced medicine at Cooper Hospital before arriving at Penn in 1999.
At Penn, Doctor Aronowitz also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine. He was the founding director of the Health and Societies Program, and co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program, a post-doctoral and research program focused on population health.
He is currently in the midst of a project on the history of health risks in American medicine and society, for which he is the recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Quotations: "Making Sense of Illness succeeds as both a medical monograph and a book for the lay reader because it speaks to such deep matters of health and health care delivery, and accomplishes its task in relatively jargon-free language. This is a book for the thinking reader".