Alan R. Rushton

Author Biography

Alan R. Rushton practiced Pediatrics and Medical Genetics at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, New Jersey from 1980 until 2017. He completed his professional education at the University of Chicago (PhD in Genetics 1975 and MD with Honors 1977) and residency training at Yale University (1980), and has served on the faculty of Princeton University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He was elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and the Royal Society of Medicine in London.

He has conducted research on the history of medicine and genetics for more than thirty years and has participated in conferences on the history of genetics and medicine in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Sweden, Germany and the Czech Republic.

Dr. Rushton has written five books:

Genetics and Medicine in the United States, 1800 to 1922.

250 pages, 900 references, 1994;

Royal Maladies: Hereditary Diseases in the Ruling Houses of Europe.

270 pages, 1150 references, 2008;

Genetics and Medicine in Great Britain 1600 to 1939.

396 pages, 2400 references, 2009;

Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: The Nobility, the German Red Cross and the Nazi Program to Eliminate Disabled Citizens from Germany 1933-1945. 316 pages, 581 references, 2017;

Talking Back: Protests against the Nazi Program to Murder the Handicapped Citizens of Germany 1933-1945. 407 pages, 412 references, 2017.