Publications of Margaret E. Humphreys    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

1. Humphreys, M. Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American civil war.9781421410005 Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, January, 2013. 1-385 pp.  [abs]
2. Humphreys, M. Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War. Johns Hopkins University Press, January, 2008. 1-197 pp.  [abs]
3. Humphreys, ME. Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
4. Humphreys, ME. Yellow Fever and the South. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Book Chapters

1. Humphreys, M. "Malaria in america." The Global Challenge of Malaria: Past Lessons and Future Prospects. Ed. Frank M Snowden and Richard Bucala. World Scientific, January, 2014. 3-18. [doi]  [abs]
2. Humphreys, M. ""Malaria," "Typhus," and "Yellow Fever"." The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Scientific, Medical and Technological History. Ed. Slotten, H. Oxford University Press, 2011.
3. Humphreys, M. "H. R. Carter, ’Quinine Prophylaxis for Malaria’, commentary." Public Health Reports Historical Collection. Ed. Rinsky, RA. Association of Schools of Public Health, 2005. 80-80.
4. Humphreys, ME. "Beware the Poor Historian." Clio in the Clinic. Ed. Duffin, J. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 226-235.
5. Humphreys, ME. "Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating Neurosyphilis." Using Bodies: Humans in the Service of Twentieth Century Medicine. Ed. Marks, L; Goodman, J. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
6. Humphreys, ME; Humphreys M. "Biography of "Walter Reed," and entry on "Yellow Fever"." The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Rothenberg, M. New York: N.Y.: Garland Publishing Inc, 2001.
7. Humphreys, ME. ""Yellow Fever" and "Malaria"." The Oxford Companion to United States History. Ed. Boyer, P. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
8. Humphreys, ME. "Biographies of "James Lawrence Cabell," "Jerome Cochran," "Henry Rose Carter," "John Maynard Woodworth," and "Stanford Emerson Chaille"." American National Biography. Ed. Garraty, JA; Carnes, MC. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
9. Humphreys, ME. "Essays on "Chlorosis," "Dengue," "Malaria," "Tuberculosis," "Typhoid Fever," and "Yellow Fever"." Plague, Pox and Pestilence: Disease in History. Ed. Kiple, KF. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1997.
10. Humphreys, ME. "Yellow Fever Since 1793: History and Historiography." A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic. Ed. Estes, JW; Smith, B. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1997. 183-198.
11. Humphreys, ME. "Public Health in the Old South." Science and Medicine in the Old South. Ed. Numbers, RL; Savitt, T. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1989.
12. Humphreys, ME. "Biographies of Edward Hammond Clarke, William Augustus Hinton, James Lloyd, Cotton Tufts and Paul Dudley White." Dictionary of American Medical Biography. Ed. al, MKE. Greenwood Press, 1984.

Book Reviews

1. Duggan, AT; Klunk, J; Porter, AF; Dhody, AN; Hicks, R; Smith, GL; Humphreys, M; McCollum, AM; Davidson, WB; Wilkins, K; Li, Y; Burke, A; Polasky, H; Flanders, L; Poinar, D; Raphenya, AR; Lau, TTY; Alcock, B; McArthur, AG; Golding, GB; Holmes, EC; Poinar, HN. The origins and genomic diversity of American Civil War Era smallpox vaccine strains..  Genome biology 21.1 (July, 2020): 175. [doi]  [abs]
2. Humphreys, M. The influenza of 1918: Evolutionary perspectives in a historical context.  Evolution, Medicine and Public Health 2018.1 (January, 2018): 219-229. [doi]  [abs]
3. Humphreys, ME. This Place of Death: Environment as Weapon in the American Civil War.  Southern Quarterly: a journal of the arts in the South 53.3/4 (2016): 12-36.
4. Humphreys, M. 17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox.  Current Biology 26.24 (2016): 3407-3412. [doi]  [abs]
5. M. Humphreys. Review of Shauna Devine, Learning from the Wounded: The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science..  Bulletin of the History of Medicine (Forthcoming).
6. M. Humphreys. Review of Kathryn Meier, Nature's Civil War.  Journal of Interdisciplinary History 45.1 (Summer, 2014): 93-94.
7. Humphreys, M. Review of James L. A. Webb, Jr., Humanity’s Burden: A Global History of Malaria.  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (February, 2014).
8. M. Humphreys. Review of Asylum Doctor: James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague.  Florida Historical Quarterly (Forthcoming).
9. M. Humphreys. Review of Libra R. Hilde, Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South.  Michigan War Studies Review (forthcoming).
10. Humphreys, M. Review of Bobby A Wintermute, Public Health and the U. S. Military.  Journal of the History of Medicine 66.4 (October, 2011): 581-583.
11. Humphreys, M. Review of Richard Reid, Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment.  H-Net (June, 2011). [showpdf.php]
12. Humphreys, M. 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.
13. Humphreys, M. Review of Jane M Schultz, This Birth Place of Souls.  Journal of the Civil War Era 2 (2011): 104-106.
14. 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): 259-261.
15. Humphreys, M. Review of Deanne Stephens Nuwer, Plague among the Magnolias.  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84.2 (2010): 301-303.
16. Humphreys, M. Review of Samuel Roberts, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation.  American Historical Review 114 (December, 2009): 1483.
17. Humphreys, M. How Four Once Common Diseases Were Eliminated from the American South.  Health Affairs 28.6 (November, 2009): 1734-44. [doi]  [abs]
18. Humphreys, M. Review of Kent Gramm, ed., Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat.  North Carolina Historical Review 86 (October, 2009): 458-59.
19. Humphreys, M. Telemedicine: climate change and mosquito-borne disease: a historical perspective..  MD advisor : a journal for New Jersey medical community 2.2 (January, 2009): 16-21.
20. Humphreys, M. Review of Bert Hansen, Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America.  Journal of the American Medical Association 302 (2009): 2492-3.
21. Humphreys, M. 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.
22. Humphreys, M. Climate Change and Mosquito-Borne Disease: A Historical Perspective.  MDAdvisor 2.2 (Spring, 2009): 16-21.
23. Humphreys, M. Review of G. Schroeder-Lein, Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine.  Georgia Historical Quarterly 42.3 (October, 2008): 433-435.
24. Slater, LB; Humphreys, M; Humphreys M. Parasites and Progress: Ethical Decision-Making and the Santee-Cooper Malaria Study, 1944-49.  Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 51.1 (2008): 103-120. [doi]  [abs]
25. Humphreys, M; Costanzo, P; Haynie, KL; Ostbye, T; Boly, I; Belsky, D; Sloan, F. Racial disparities in diabetes a century ago: evidence from the pension files of US Civil War veterans..  Soc Sci Med 64.8 (April, 2007): 1766-1775. [17240029], [doi]  [abs]
26. Martin, MG; Humphreys, ME. Social consequence of disease in the American South, 1900-World War II..  Southern medical journal 99.8 (August, 2006): 862-864. [16929881], [doi]  [abs]
27. Humphreys, M. Quinine prophylaxis for malaria (1914): Commentary.  Public Health Reports 121.SUPPL. 1 (January, 2006): 80-85. [doi]
28. Humphreys, M. Review of John C. Burnham, What is Medical History?.  JAMA 295 (2006): 2540-2541.
29. Westman, EC; Yancy, WS; Humphreys, M. Dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus in the pre-insulin era (1914-1922)..  Perspect Biol Med 49.1 (2006): 77-83. [16489278], [doi]  [abs]
30. Humphreys, M. A Stranger in our Camps: Typhus in American History.  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 80.2 (2006): 269-290. [doi]  [abs]
31. Humphreys, M. Book Review of Ansley Wegner, Phantom Pain: North Carolina’s Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans.  North Carolina Historical Review 82 (2005): 91-93.
32. Humphreys, ME. Review of Conevery Valencius, Health of the Country.  Medical History 49 (2005): 114-115.
33. Humphreys, M. On Rats, Lice, and History.  Environmental History 10 (Fall, 2005): 695-696.
34. Humphreys, ME. Review of C D Pitcock and B J Gurley, eds. I acted from Principle: The Civil War Diary of Dr. William M. McPheeters, Confederate Surgeon in the Trans-Mississippi.  Journal of Southern History 70 (2004): 175-176.
35. Humphreys, M. Review of Howard Phillips and David Killingray, eds. The Spanish Influenza Pandemic, 1918-19.  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 59 (2004): 490-91.
36. Humphreys, ME. Review of Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America.  ISIS 95 (2004): 170-170.
37. Humphreys, M. Review of James C. Whorton, Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America.  Isis 95 (2004): 170-170.
38. Humphreys, ME. Review of Keith Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health.  Journal of Interdisciplinary History 33 (2003): 501-502.
39. Humphreys, ME. Review of Gerald Grob, The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America.  J. American Medical Association 289 (2003): 2726-2726.
40. Humphreys, ME. Review of John Roper, ed., Repairing the March of Mars.  Journal of Southern History 69 (2003): 716-717.
41. Humphreys, ME. Review of Robert Sallares, Malaria and Rome.  Environmental History 8 (2003): 701-702.
42. Humphreys, ME. Review of David McBride, Missions for Science.  Journal of American History 90 (2003): 1070-1071.
43. Humphreys, ME. Review of Charles Wooley, The Irritable Heart of Soldiers.  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 77 (2003): 960-961.
44. Humphreys, ME. Review: The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth Century America.  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 57.3 (July, 2002): 368-369. [doi]
45. Humphreys, ME. Review of Kenneth M. Ludmerer, Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care.  Journal of the History of Medicine 57 (2002): 514-515.
46. Humphreys, ME. Review of Sharla M. Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations.  H-Net Book Review (2002).
47. Humphreys, ME. Review of Norma Mohr, Malaria: Evolution of a Killer.  New England Journal of Medicine 347 (2002): 1215-1216.
48. Humphreys, ME. No Safe Place: Disease and Panic in American History.  American Literary History 14.4 (2002): 845-857. [doi]
49. Humphreys, ME. Review of Susan Reverby, Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.  Georgia Historical Quarterly 85 (2001): 333-335.
50. Humphreys, ME. Review of Lester D. Stephens, Science, Race and Religion in the American South: John Bachman and the Charleston Circle of Naturalists, 1815-1895.  Journal of American History (2001): 641-642.
51. Humphreys, ME. Review of Charles M. Poser and George Bruyn, An Illustrated History of Malaria.  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75 (2001): 148-148.
52. Humphreys, ME. Review of Gertrude Fraser, African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory.  Medical History 44 (2000): 422-423.
53. Humphreys, ME. Review of Sheldon Watts, Epidemics and History.  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 73 (1999): 747-748.
54. Humphreys, ME. Review of Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life.  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 73 (1999): 164-165.
55. Humphreys, ME. Review of Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews, eds., Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge.  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 72 (1998): 804-805.
56. Humphreys, ME. Review of Robert L. Blakely and Judith Harrington, eds., Bones in the Basement: Postmortem Racism in Nineteenth-Century Medical Training.  North Carolina Historical Review 75 (1998): 339-340.
57. Humphreys, ME. Review of Robin Henig, The People’s Health: A Memoir of Public Health and its evolution at Harvard.  Medical History 42 (1998): 267-268.
58. Humphreys, ME. Review of Katherine Ott, Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870.  Social History 23 (1998): 128-128.
59. Humphreys, ME. Water Won’t Run Uphill: The New Deal and Malaria Control in the American South, 1933-1940.  Parassitologia 40.1-2 (1998): 183-192.  [abs]
60. Humphreys, ME. Review of David Rothman, Steve Marcus and Stephanie Kiceluk eds, Medicine and Western Civilization; and William Rothstein, ed. Readings in American Health Care.  Medical History 41 (1997): 234-236.
61. Humphreys, ME. Review of Curtis M. Hinsley, The Smithsonian and the American Indian.  History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 18 (1996): 373-374.
62. Humphreys, ME. Review of Adell Patton, Jr., Physicians, Colonial Racism and Diaspora in West Africa.  Journal of the History of Medicine 51 (1996): 512-513.
63. Humphreys, ME. Review of Ken DeBevoise, Agents of the Apocalypse.  Journal of the History of Medicine 51 (1996): 99-100.
64. Humphreys, ME. Review of Jo Ann Carrigan, The Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana.  Journal of Southern History 62 (1996): 121-122.
65. Humphreys, ME. Review of Sheila Rothman, Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness.  Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences 32 (1996): 235-236.
66. Humphreys, ME. Review of Harold D. Langley, A History of Medicine in the Early US Navy.  Medical History 40 (1996): 396-397.
67. Humphreys, ME. Review of Antonio McDaniel, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century.  Journal of Southern History 62 (1996): 582-583..
68. Humphreys, ME. Review of Guy Settipane, Columbus and the New World.  Journal of the History of Medicine 51 (1996): 369-70.
69. Humphreys, ME. Review of Joel Howell, Technology in the Hospital.  JAMA 276 (1996): 424-424.
70. Humphreys, ME. Kicking a Dying Dog: DDT and the Demise of Malaria in the American South, 1942-1952.  ISIS 87.1 (1996): 1-17. [doi]
71. Humphreys, ME. Review of Eugene Link, The Social Ideas of American Physicians.  Medical History 38 (1994): 349-350.
72. Humphreys, ME. Review of J. Stuart Moore, Chiropractic in America.  New England Journal of Medicine 331 (1994): 283-283.
73. Humphreys, ME. Review of Khaled Bloom, The Mississippi Valley’s Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878.  Academic Medicine 69 (1994): 276-276.
74. Humphreys, ME. Review of Albert E. Cowdrey, War and Healing: Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicine.  Academic Medicine 68 (1993): 659-660.
75. Humphreys, ME. Review of John H. Ellis, Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.  Journal of the History of Medicine 48 (1993): 342-343.
76. Humphreys, ME. Review of Patricia Watson, The Angelical Conjunction: The Preacher-physicians of Colonial New England.  New England Journal of Medicine 328 (1993): 820-820.
77. Humphreys, ME. Review of John Salvaggio, New Orleans Charity Hospital: A Story of Physicians, Politics, and Poverty.  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 67 (1993): 599-600.
78. Humphreys, ME. Review of Francois Delaporte, The History of Yellow Fever.  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 67 (1993): 185-86.
79. Humphreys, M. Review of Christopher Hoolihan, An Annotated Catalog of the Miner Yellow Fever Collection.  ISIS 82.4 (1991): 314-314.
80. Humphreys, ME. Review of Fitzhugh Mullan, Plagues and Peoples: The story of the US Public Health Service.  ISIS 82 (1991): 412-413.
81. Humphreys, ME. Review of Sydney Halpern, American Pediatrics.  Journal of the History of Medicine 45 (1990): 122-123.
82. Humphreys, ME. Review of Norman Gevitz, Other Healers.  New England Journal of Medicine 321 (1989): 196-196.
83. Humphreys, ME. Review of Guy Williams, The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, 1700-1800.  The Journal of the History of Medicine 43 (1988): 121-121.
84. Humphreys, ME; Humphreys M. Letters from a Young Physician: James Jackson, Jr. and His Two Medical Fathers.  Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin 60 (1986): 40-45.
85. Humphreys, ME; Humphreys M. Hunting the Yellow Fever Germ: The Principle and Practice of Etiological Proof in Late Nineteenth-Century America.  Bulletin of the History of Medicine 59 (1985): 361-382.
86. Humphreys, ME; Humphreys M. Local Control vs National Interest: The Debate over Southern Public Health, 1878-1884.  Journal of Southern History 50 (1984): 407-428.
87. Humphreys, ME. Vindicating the Minister’s Medical Role: Cotton Mather’s Concept of the Nishmath Chajim and the Spiritualization of Medicine.  Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 36 (1981): 278-295.