Margaret Humphreys, History and Medical Center
| Office Location: | 206 Carr |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 2285, 919 668 9000 |
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Teaching (Fall 2012):
- 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 368.01, HISTORY OF EVOLUTION & SOCIETY
Synopsis
- Carr 241, 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:
- Military History
- 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 Bobby A Wintermute, Public Health and the U. S. Military. Journal of the History of Medicine 66.4 (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 1.1 (March, 2011): 122-3.
- M. Humphreys. The Civil War and American Medicine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Under review fall 2011.
- M. Humphreys. ""Malaria," "Typhus," and "Yellow Fever"." The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Scientific, Medical and Technological History. Ed. Hugh Slotten. Oxford University Press, forthcoming