Renee C. Fox
| Renée Claire Fox | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 15th, 1928 New York City, NY |
| Education | Whittier College (1946-1947), Harvard University (1949-1954) |
| Alma mater | Smith College (1944-1945, 1947-1949) |
| Organization | American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society |
| Title | Chair of the University of Pennsylvania Sociology Department, Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences, Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences, Emerita Senior Fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Term | 1972-1978 |
| Awards | Radcliffe Graduate School Medal, Leo G. Reeder Award, Lifetime Achievement Award |
Renée Claire Fox, a summa cum laude graduate of Smith College in 1949, earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 1954 from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, where she studied in the Department of Social Relations. Renée Fox’s major teaching and research interests – sociology of medicine, medical research, medical education, and medical ethics – have involved her in first-hand, participant observation-based studies in Continental Europe (particularly in Belgium), in Central Africa (especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo), and in the People’s Republic of China, as well as in the United States. She has lectured in colleges, universities, and medical schools throughout the United States, and has taught in a number of universities abroad.
Renée Claire Fox was born on February 15, 1928 in New York City to parents Fred Fox and Henrietta and has two younger siblings, a brother, Howard, and a sister, Rosa. She is of East European Jewish descent. Her father was the founder of P.F. Fox & Co. Investment Securities. Fox was raised in the city and attended elementary school at P.S 9 with her siblings. She graduated from 8th grade at the age of twelve and went to Julia Richman, an all-girls public school, for high school. Fox graduated high school at the age of 16 and then enrolled in Smith College in Massachusetts.
Fox attended Smith College from 1944-1945. While attending, she lived in Jordan House. As a freshman, she took courses in Introductory English and Speech, the latter of which was taken to lessen her New York accent. At the end of the year she was named a Sophie Smith Scholar for academic achievement. During the summer after her freshman year, Smith became diagnosed with bulbospinal polio. She spent several months at Sydenham Hospital in Harlem and Knickerbocker Hospital. In September 1947, Fox returned to Smith College to continue in her Junior year. She lived in Chapin House and joined the honors program for sociology. Her senior honors thesis research involved “learning more about the history of the Soviet Union and the American Communist Party, in examining the status and role of intellectuals in American Society, particularly the literary intelligentsia, and in analyzing the symbolic as well as the economic and political impact of the Depression on the American scene.” Based upon her overall academic achievement and her senior thesis work, Fox graduated from Smith in 1949 with summa cum laude honors. Fox returned to Smith in 1975 to be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree and in 1980 as a visiting William Allen Neilson Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. As a visiting professor, she taught courses and delivered a lecture series entitled, “Life, Death, and Modern Medicine.”
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