Office Location: | 206 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708 |
Office Phone: | +1 919 684 3014 |
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Web Page: | http://www.mehumphreys.com |
Teaching (Spring 2024):
M.D. | Harvard University | 1987 |
Ph.D. | Harvard University | 1983 |
MA History of Science | Harvard University | 1977 |
BA Program of Liberal Studies | University of Notre Dame | 1976 |
Current projects: Civil War POWs, Biography of JD Harris, MD
My major research interest is the history of disease in America, especially in the South. Until the last half of the twentieth century diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, pellagra, and hookworm marked the south as tropical, impoverished, and strikingly different from the rest of the United States. My recent work concerns the history of medicine in the American Civil war. I teach and read broadly in the history of public health, medicine, race, biology, and infectious diseases.