Margaret Humphreys, History and Medical Center
| Office Location: | 206 Carr |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 2285, 919 668 9000 |
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Teaching (Fall 2009):
- MEDHUM 301B.16, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
- MEDHUM 301B.16-S, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
- MEDHUM 301B.16, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
- MEDHUM 301B.16-S, RESEARCH IN MEDHUM
- 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
- Specialties:
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United States
19th and 20th Centuries
Public Health
Medicine
- 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. After completing projects on the history of malara and yellow fever, I'm in the early stages of research on the history of medicine in the Civil War. I teach and read broadly in the history of public health, medicine, race, biology, and infectious diseases.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- 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).
- M. Humphreys. Review of Samuel Roberts, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation. American Historical Review (December, 2009).
- M. Humphreys. "How Four Once Common Diseases Were Eliminated from the American South." Health Affairs 28 (November, 2009): 1734-44.
- 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.
- 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.