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Publications of Margaret Humphreys     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Margaret Humphreys

Books

1. Intensely Human: The Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
2. Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
3. Yellow Fever and the South (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992).

Papers Published

1. M. Humphreys. "How Four Once Common Diseases Were Eliminated from the American South." Health Affairs  28 (November, 2009): 1734-44.
2. M. Humphreys. "Climate Change and Mosquito-Borne Disease: A Historical Perspective." MDAdvisor  2:2 (Spring, 2009): 16-21.
3. Leo B. Slater and M. Humphreys. "Parasites and Progress: Ethical Decision-Making and the Santee-Cooper Malaria Study, 1944-49." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine  51 (January, 2008): 103-120.
4. M. Humphreys, Idrissa Boly, Truls Ostbye, Kerry Haynie, Philip Costanzo, Frank Sloan. "Racial Disparities in Diabetes a Century Ago: Evidence from the Pension Files of U.S. Civil War Veterans." Social Science and Medicine  64:8 (April, 2007): 1766-75.
5. M. Humphreys. "A Stranger in our Camps: Typhus in American History." Bulletin of the History of Medicine  80 (2006): 269-290.
6. Eric C. Westman, William Yancy, Jr., Margaret Humphreys. "Dietary Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus in the Pre-Insulin Era (1914-1922)." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine  49 (2006): 77-83.
7. MG Martin and M. Humphreys. "Social Consequences of Disease in the American South, 1900-World War II." Southern Medical Journal  99:8 (August, 2006): 862-864.  [abs]
8. M. Humphreys. "On Rats, Lice, and History." Environmental History  10 (Fall, 2005): 695-696.
9. "Beware the Poor Historian." Clio in the Clinic  (2005): 226-235.
10. M. Humphreys. "H. R. Carter, 'Quinine Prophylaxis for Malaria', commentary." Public Health Reports Historical Collection  (2005): 80.
11. "Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating Neurosyphilis." Using Bodies: Humans in the Service of Twentieth Century Medicine  (2003).
12. "No Safe Place: Disease and Panic in American History." American Literary History  14 (2002): 845-857.
13. ""Yellow Fever" and "Malaria"." The Oxford Companion to United States History  (2001).
14. "Biography of "Walter Reed," and entry on "Yellow Fever"." The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia  (2001).
15. "Biographies of "James Lawrence Cabell," "Jerome Cochran," "Henry Rose Carter," "John Maynard Woodworth," and "Stanford Emerson Chaille"." American National Biography  (1999).
16. "Water Won't Run Uphill: The New Deal and Malaria Control in the American South, 1933-1940." Parassitologia  40 (1998): 183-192.
17. "Yellow Fever Since 1793: History and Historiography." A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic  (1997): 183-198.
18. "Essays on "Chlorosis," "Dengue," "Malaria," "Tuberculosis," "Typhoid Fever," and "Yellow Fever"." Plague, Pox and Pestilence: Disease in History  (1997).
19. "Kicking a Dying Dog: DDT and the Demise of Malaria in the American South, 1942-1952." ISIS  87 (1996): 1-17.
20. "Public Health in the Old South." Science and Medicine in the Old South  (1989).
21. "Letters from a Young Physician: James Jackson, Jr. and His Two Medical Fathers." Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin  60 (1986): 40-45.
22. "Hunting the Yellow Fever Germ: The Principle and Practice of Etiological Proof in Late Nineteenth-Century America." Bulletin of the History of Medicine  59 (1985): 361-382.
23. "Biographies of Edward Hammond Clarke, William Augustus Hinton, James Lloyd, Cotton Tufts and Paul Dudley White." Dictionary of American Medical Biography  (1984).
24. "Local Control vs National Interest: The Debate over Southern Public Health, 1878-1884." Journal of Southern History  50 (1984): 407-428.
25. "Vindicating the Minister's Medical Role: Cotton Mather's Concept of the Nishmath Chajim and the Spiritualization of Medicine." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences  36 (1981): 278-295.

Book Reviews

1. M. Humphreys, "Review of James L. A. Webb, Jr., Humanity's Burden: A Global History of Malaria". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences   (Spring, 2010).
2. M. Humphreys, "Review of Samuel Roberts, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation". American Historical Review   (December, 2009).
3. M. Humphreys, "Review of Kent Gramm, ed., Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat". North Carolina Historical Review  86 (October, 2009): 458-59.
4. M. Humphreys, "Review of A. Fairchild, R. Bayer, and J. Colgrove, Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America". Technology and Culture  50 (Spring, 2009): 480-81.
5. M. Humphreys, "Review of Bert Hansen, Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America". Journal of the American Medical Association   (forthcoming, 2009).
6. M. Humphreys, "Review of Deanne Stephens Nuwer, Plague among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi". Bulletin of the History of Medicine   (forthcoming).
7. M. Humphreys, "Review of G. Schroeder-Lein, Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine". Georgia Historical Quarterly  42:3 (October, 2008): 433-435.
8. M. Humphreys, "Review of John C. Burnham, What is Medical History?". JAMA  295 (2006): 2540-2541.
9.  "Review of Conevery Valencius, Health of the Country". Medical History  49 (2005): 114-115.
10. M. Humphreys, "Book Review of Ansley Wegner, Phantom Pain: North Carolina's Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans". North Carolina Historical Review  82 (2005): 91-93.
11. M. Humphreys, "Review of James C. Whorton, Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America". Isis  95 (2004): 170.
12. M. Humphreys, "Review of Howard Phillips and David Killingray, eds. The Spanish Influenza Pandemic, 1918-19". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences  59 (2004): 490-91.
13.  "Review of C D Pitcock and B J Gurley, eds. I acted from Principle: The Civil War Diary of Dr. William M. McPheeters, Confederate Surgeon in the Trans-Mississippi". Journal of Southern History  70 (2004): 175-176.
14.  "Review of Charles Wooley, The Irritable Heart of Soldiers". Bulletin of the History of Medicine  77 (2003): 960-961.
15.  "Review of David McBride, Missions for Science". Journal of American History  90 (2003): 1070-1071.
16.  "Review of Robert Sallares, Malaria and Rome". Environmental History  8 (2003): 701-702.
17.  "Review of John Roper, ed., Repairing the March of Mars". Journal of Southern History  69 (2003): 716-717.
18.  "Review of Gerald Grob, The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America". J. American Medical Association  289 (2003): 2726.
19.  "Review of Keith Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health". Journal of Interdisciplinary History  33 (2003): 501-502.
20.  "Review of Norma Mohr, Malaria: Evolution of a Killer". New England Journal of Medicine  347 (2002): 1215-1216.
21.  "Review of Sharla M. Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations". H-Net Book Review   (2002).
22.  "Review of Kenneth M. Ludmerer, Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care". Journal of the History of Medicine  57 (2002): 514-515.
23.  "Review of Barron Lerner, The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth Century America". Journal of the History of Medicine  57 (2002): 368-369.
24.  "Review of Charles M. Poser and George Bruyn, An Illustrated History of Malaria". Bulletin of the History of Medicine  75 (2001): 148.
25.  "Review of Lester D. Stephens, Science, Race and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895". Journal of American History   (2001): 641-642.
26.  "Review of Susan Reverby, Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study". Georgia Historical Quarterly  85 (2001): 333-335.
27.  "Review of Gertrude Fraser, African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory". Medical History  44 (2000): 422-423.
28.  "Review of Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life". Bulletin of the History of Medicine  73 (1999): 164-165.
29.  "Review of Sheldon Watts, Epidemics and History". Bulletin of the History of Medicine  73 (1999): 747-748.
30.  "Review of Katherine Ott, Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870". Social History  23 (1998): 128.
31.  "Review of Robin Henig, The People's Health: A Memoir of Public Health and its evolution at Harvard". Medical History  42 (1998): 267-268.
32.  "Review of Robert L. Blakely and Judith Harrington, eds., Bones in the Basement: Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth-Century Medical Training". North Carolina Historical Review  75 (1998): 339-340.
33.  "Review of Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews, eds., Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge". Bulletin of the History of Medicine  72 (1998): 804-805.
34.  "Review of David Rothman, Steve Marcus and Stephanie Kiceluk eds, Medicine and Western Civilization; and William Rothstein, ed. Readings in American Health Care". Medical History  41 (1997): 234-236.
35.  "Review of Joel Howell, Technology in the Hospital". JAMA  276 (1996): 424.
36.  "Review of Guy Settipane, Columbus and the New World". Journal of the History of Medicine  51 (1996): 369-70.
37.  "Review of Antonio McDaniel, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century". Journal of Southern History  62 (1996): 582-583..
38.  "Review of Harold D. Langley, A History of Medicine in the Early US Navy". Medical History  40 (1996): 396-397.
39.  "Review of Sheila Rothman, Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness". Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences  32 (1996): 235-236.
40.  "Review of Jo Ann Carrigan, The Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana". Journal of Southern History  62 (1996): 121-122.
41.  "Review of Ken DeBevoise, Agents of the Apocalypse". Journal of the History of Medicine  51 (1996): 99-100.
42.  "Review of Adell Patton, Jr., Physicians, Colonial Racism and Diaspora in West Africa". Journal of the History of Medicine  51 (1996): 512-513.
43.  "Review of Curtis M. Hinsley, The Smithsonian and the American Indian". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences   (1996).
44.  "Review of Khaled Bloom, The Mississippi Valley's Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878". Academic Medicine  69 (1994): 276.
45.  "Review of J. Stuart Moore, Chiropractic in America". New England Journal of Medicine  331 (1994): 283.
46.  "Review of Eugene Link, The Social Ideas of American Physicians". Medical History  38 (1994): 349-350.
47.  "Review of Francois Delaporte, The History of Yellow Fever". Bulletin of the History of Medicine  67 (1993): 185-86.
48.  "Review of John Salvaggio, New Orleans Charity Hospital: A Story of Physicians, Politics, and Poverty". Bulletin of the History of Medicine  67 (1993): 599-600.
49.  "Review of Patricia Watson, The Angelical Conjunction: The Preacher-physicians of Colonial New England". New England Journal of Medicine  328 (1993): 820.
50.  "Review of John H. Ellis, Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South". Journal of the History of Medicine  48 (1993): 342-343.
51.  "Review of Albert E. Cowdrey, War and Healing: Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicine". Academic Medicine  68 (1993): 659-660.
52.  "Review of Fitzhugh Mullan, Plagues and Peoples: The story of the US Public Health Service". ISIS  82 (1991): 412-413.
53. M. Humphreys, "Review of Christopher Hoolihan, An Annotated Catalog of the Miner Yellow Fever Collection". ISIS  82:4 (1991): 314.
54.  "Review of Sydney Halpern, American Pediatrics". Journal of the History of Medicine  45 (1990): 122-123.
55.  "Review of Norman Gevitz, Other Healers". New England Journal of Medicine  321 (1989): 196.
56.  "Review of Guy Williams, The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, 1700-1800". The Journal of the History of Medicine  43 (1988): 121.

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