Barron H. Lerner (born 27 September 1960) is an American doctor and historian, who is a member of the faculty at the New York University Langone School of Medicine.
[1] Lerner also received the 2006 William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine for the book; one such Medal is awarded each year to the author or authors of a book of "outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history" published during the five calendar years preceding the award.
Two of Lerner's other books are Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis on the Skid Road (1998) and When Illness Goes Public: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine (2006).
It tells the true story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics, paternalism, and patient autonomy that profoundly influenced health care.
The New York Times reviewed the book in July 2014, saying, "The Good Doctor is more than a son’s search to understand his father’s actions.
Among Lerner's many contributions to The New York Times is an August 2011 op-ed piece entitled, "The Annals of Extreme Surgery".