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| Margaret Humphreys, Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine and Professor of Medicine
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | 206 Carr | | Office Phone: | 919 684 2285, 919 668 9000 | | Email Address: |   | Teaching (Fall 2013):
- MEDHUM 301B.16, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
Synopsis
- TBA, 12:00 AM-11:59 PM
- MEDHUM 301B.16-S, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
Synopsis
- TBA, 12:00 AM-11:59 PM
- HISTORY 369.01, PUBLIC HEALTH IN AMERICA
Synopsis
- Biddle 104, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- Education:
| PhD History of Science | Harvard University | 1983 |
| M.D. | Harvard Medical School | |
| MD | Harvard Medical School | 1987 |
| MA History of Science | Harvard University | 1977 |
| BA Program of Liberal Studies | University of Notre Dame | 1976 |
| Ph.D. | Harvard Medical School | |
- Specialties:
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Medicine, Science and Technology
Intellectual History
United States and Canada
- Research Interests:
Current projects:
Medicine in Gone With the Wind, Smallpox in US Civil War 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.
- Areas of Interest:
- History of medicine
History of public health
History of evolutionary thought
History of disease
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Rachel Levandoski
- Moshe Usadi
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- M. Humphreys, Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
(2013), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
- 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)
- M. Humphreys, Review of Richard Reid, Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment,
H-Net
(June, 2011) [showpdf.php]
- 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
- 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
During the fall of 2009 I have been in residence at the National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC) as a resident associate. 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 |
