Margaret Humphreys
| Title: | Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine |
| Office Location: | 206 Carr |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 2285, 919 668 9000 |
| Email Address: | meh@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD History of Science Harvard University, 1983
- MD Harvard Medical School, 1987
- MA History of Science Harvard University, 1977
- BA Program of Liberal Studies University of Notre Dame, 1976
Research Interests
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.
Awards/Recognitions
In 2007 I was named to the Josiah Charles Trent Professorship in the History of Medicine. I've been honored to give several named lectureships, including the Rosen lecture at Yale, the Reynolds Lecture at University of Alabama Birmingham, and the Hudson Lecture at the University of Kansas Medical Center. I have received research support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Library of Medicine, the Burroughs-Wellcome History of Medicine Fund and the Trent Foundation
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- T. S. Cook Lecture, Inominate Club, Louisville, KY, May, 2008
- Timothy Donovan Lecturer, University of Arkansas, April, 2008
- Award nomination, Organization of American Historians, November, 2007
- Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, July, 2007
- Sally and Bruce Kantar Lecture, University of Minnesota, November, 2005
- Social Science Research Institute Fellow, Duke University, September 2005-May 2006
- Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship at the National Humanities Center, American Council of Learned Societies, February, 2004
- MEDHUM 301B.16, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
- MEDHUM 301B.16-S, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
Recent Publications
Books- Intensely Human: The Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
- 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.
- 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.
- M. Humphreys, "Review of G. Schroeder-Lein, Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine". Georgia History (forthcoming 2009).
- M. Humphreys, "Review of A. Fairchild, R. Bayer, and J. Colgrove, Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America". Technology and Culture (forthcoming 2009).