Dr. Barron Lerner
Physician • Speaker • NYU Professor • Author
Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD is a professor of medicine and population health at NYU Langone Health. He is a bioethicist, speaker and historian, the author of five books, a regular contributor to the New York Times, The Washington Post and Slate, and can be heard on many NPR programs, including Fresh Air and All Things Considered.
A Bioethicist on the Vaccine Rollout
All Of It with Alison Stewart • March 2, 2021
Recent Writings
Remembering Betty Rollin, Who Told Her Breast Surgeon That Post-Operative Appearance Mattered
Women who had undergone disfiguring surgery for breast cancer, according to one surgeon in the 1970s, needed to
Remembering the Forgotten “Black Angels”
Many historians, including myself, have told the story of New York City’s Sea View Hospital, a tuberculosis sanatorium
Arthur Ashe and AIDS: Did the Public Have the Right to Know His Diagnosis?
Do prominent public figures who are ill have some type of responsibility to reveal their diseases, or are
Drunken Driving Is a Persistent Problem but There May Be a Technological Solution
Drunken driving control efforts have sputtered out in recent years with more than 11,000 preventable deaths now occurring
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