He is the author of a new book, The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2001), on which this e-seminar is based. Lerner received his M.D. degree from Columbia in 1986 and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington in 1996. He is also the author of Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis Along the Skid Road (Johns Hopkins, 1998). In addition to his research in the history of medicine, Dr. Lerner teaches medical ethics and practices internal medicine at Columbia. He is the author of over twenty peer-reviewed medical articles and writes for the Washington Post and Mamm Magazine.