Research Interests for Margaret Humphreys

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.

Recent Publications

1. M. Humphreys, Review of Bobby A Wintermute, Public Health and the U. S. Military, Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 66 no. 4 (October, 2011)
2. M. Humphreys, Review of Richard Reid, Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment, H-Net (June, 2011) [showpdf.php]
3. M. Humphreys, Review of Andrew Bell, Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever and the Course of the Civil War, Journal of the Civil War Era, vol. 1 no. 1 (March, 2011), pp. 122-3
4. M. Humphreys, The Civil War and American Medicine (Under review fall 2011), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
5. M. Humphreys, "Malaria," "Typhus," and "Yellow Fever", in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Scientific, Medical and Technological History, edited by Hugh Slotten (forthcoming), Oxford University Press, New York