Rodney M. Coe (November 10, 1933 – March 14, 2014) was an American medical sociologist notable for his research in the intersection of sociology and medicine.
[1] Coe was on the swim team and in the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps while attending Iowa State University.
In 1962, Coe completed a Ph.D. in sociology at Washington University in St. Louis in 1962 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.
He left during a period of upheaval in the department of sociology spurred by faculty research on issues of economic and social power inequities and homosexual activities in restrooms.
[1] In 1969, he spent eight months at University of Chile United Nations Latin America as a member of the social sciences faculty.
Coe died March 14, 2014, at the Saint Louis University Hospital after a long illness.