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

Books

  1. Humphreys, M, Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War (January, 2008), pp. 1-197, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9780801886966  [abs]
  2. Humphreys, ME, Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States (2001), Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press
  3. Humphreys, M, Marrow of tragedy: The health crisis of the American civil war, vol. 9781421410005 (January, 2013), pp. 1-385, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9781421409993  [abs]
  4. Humphreys, ME, Yellow Fever and the South (1992), New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press

Book Chapters

  1. Humphreys, M, "Malaria," "Typhus," and "Yellow Fever", in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Scientific, Medical and Technological History, edited by Slotten, H (2011), Oxford University Press, New York
  2. Humphreys, ME, "Yellow Fever" and "Malaria", in The Oxford Companion to United States History, edited by Boyer, P (2001), Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. Humphreys, ME, Beware the Poor Historian, in Clio in the Clinic, edited by Duffin, J (2005), pp. 226-235, New York: Oxford University Press
  4. Humphreys, ME, Biographies of "James Lawrence Cabell," "Jerome Cochran," "Henry Rose Carter," "John Maynard Woodworth," and "Stanford Emerson Chaille", in American National Biography, edited by Garraty, JA; Carnes, MC (1999), New York: Oxford University Press
  5. Humphreys, ME, Biographies of Edward Hammond Clarke, William Augustus Hinton, James Lloyd, Cotton Tufts and Paul Dudley White, in Dictionary of American Medical Biography, edited by al, MKE (1984), Greenwood Press
  6. Humphreys, ME; Humphreys M, , Biography of "Walter Reed," and entry on "Yellow Fever", in The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia, edited by Rothenberg, M (2001), New York: N.Y.: Garland Publishing Inc
  7. Humphreys, ME, Essays on "Chlorosis," "Dengue," "Malaria," "Tuberculosis," "Typhoid Fever," and "Yellow Fever", in Plague, Pox and Pestilence: Disease in History, edited by Kiple, KF (1997), London: Weidenfield & Nicolson
  8. Humphreys, M, H. R. Carter, ’Quinine Prophylaxis for Malaria’, commentary, in Public Health Reports Historical Collection, edited by Rinsky, RA (2005), pp. 80-80, Association of Schools of Public Health
  9. Humphreys, M, Malaria in america, in The Global Challenge of Malaria: Past Lessons and Future Prospects, edited by Frank M Snowden and Richard Bucala (January, 2014), pp. 3-18, World Scientific, New Jersey and London, ISBN 9789814405577 [doi]  [abs]
  10. Humphreys, ME, Public Health in the Old South, in Science and Medicine in the Old South, edited by Numbers, RL; Savitt, T (1989), Baton Rouge: LSU Press
  11. Humphreys, ME, Whose Body? Which Disease? Studying Malaria while Treating Neurosyphilis, in Using Bodies: Humans in the Service of Twentieth Century Medicine, edited by Marks, L; Goodman, J (2003), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
  12. Humphreys, ME, Yellow Fever Since 1793: History and Historiography, in A Melancholy Scene of Devastation: The Public Response to the 1793 Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic, edited by Estes, JW; Smith, B (1997), pp. 183-198, Canton, MA: Science History Publications

Book Reviews

  1. Humphreys, M, 17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox, Current Biology, vol. 26 no. 24 (2016), pp. 3407-3412 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Humphreys, M, A Stranger in our Camps: Typhus in American History, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 80 no. 2 (2006), pp. 269-290 [doi]  [abs]
  3. Humphreys, M, Book Review of Ansley Wegner, Phantom Pain: North Carolina’s Artificial-Limbs Program for Confederate Veterans, North Carolina Historical Review, vol. 82 (2005), pp. 91-93
  4. Humphreys, M, Climate Change and Mosquito-Borne Disease: A Historical Perspective, MDAdvisor, vol. 2 no. 2 (Spring, 2009), pp. 16-21
  5. Westman, EC; Yancy, WS; Humphreys, M, Dietary treatment of diabetes mellitus in the pre-insulin era (1914-1922)., Perspect Biol Med, vol. 49 no. 1 (2006), pp. 77-83, ISSN 0031-5982 [16489278], [doi]  [abs]
  6. Humphreys, M, How Four Once Common Diseases Were Eliminated from the American South, Health Affairs, vol. 28 no. 6 (November, 2009), pp. 1734-44 [doi]  [abs]
  7. 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, vol. 59 (1985), pp. 361-382
  8. Humphreys, ME, Kicking a Dying Dog: DDT and the Demise of Malaria in the American South, 1942-1952, ISIS, vol. 87 no. 1 (1996), pp. 1-17 [doi]
  9. Humphreys, ME; Humphreys M, , Letters from a Young Physician: James Jackson, Jr. and His Two Medical Fathers, Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, vol. 60 (1986), pp. 40-45
  10. Humphreys, ME; Humphreys M, , Local Control vs National Interest: The Debate over Southern Public Health, 1878-1884, Journal of Southern History, vol. 50 (1984), pp. 407-428
  11. Humphreys, ME, No Safe Place: Disease and Panic in American History, American Literary History, vol. 14 no. 4 (2002), pp. 845-857, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]
  12. Humphreys, M, On Rats, Lice, and History, Environmental History, vol. 10 (Fall, 2005), pp. 695-696
  13. 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, vol. 51 no. 1 (2008), pp. 103-120 [doi]  [abs]
  14. Humphreys, M, Quinine prophylaxis for malaria (1914): Commentary, Public Health Reports, vol. 121 no. SUPPL. 1 (January, 2006), pp. 80-85 [doi]
  15. 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, vol. 64 no. 8 (April, 2007), pp. 1766-1775, ISSN 0277-9536 [17240029], [doi]  [abs]
  16. Humphreys, M, Review of A. Fairchild, R. Bayer, and J. Colgrove, Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America, Technology and Culture, vol. 50 (Spring, 2009), pp. 480-81
  17. Humphreys, ME, Review of Adell Patton, Jr., Physicians, Colonial Racism and Diaspora in West Africa, Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 51 (1996), pp. 512-513
  18. Humphreys, ME, Review of Albert E. Cowdrey, War and Healing: Stanhope Bayne-Jones and the Maturing of American Medicine, Academic Medicine, vol. 68 (1993), pp. 659-660
  19. Humphreys, M, 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
  20. Humphreys, ME, Review of Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews, eds., Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 72 (1998), pp. 804-805
  21. Humphreys, ME, Review of Antonio McDaniel, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century, Journal of Southern History, vol. 62 (1996), pp. 582-583.
  22. M. Humphreys, Review of Asylum Doctor: James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague, Florida Historical Quarterly (Forthcoming)
  23. 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, vol. 302 (2009), pp. 2492-3
  24. Humphreys, M, Review of Bobby A Wintermute, Public Health and the U. S. Military, Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 66 no. 4 (October, 2011), pp. 581-583
  25. 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, vol. 70 (2004), pp. 175-176
  26. Humphreys, ME, Review of Charles M. Poser and George Bruyn, An Illustrated History of Malaria, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 75 (2001), pp. 148-148
  27. Humphreys, ME, Review of Charles Wooley, The Irritable Heart of Soldiers, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 77 (2003), pp. 960-961
  28. Humphreys, M, Review of Christopher Hoolihan, An Annotated Catalog of the Miner Yellow Fever Collection, ISIS, vol. 82 no. 4 (1991), pp. 314-314
  29. Humphreys, ME, Review of Conevery Valencius, Health of the Country, Medical History, vol. 49 (2005), pp. 114-115
  30. Humphreys, ME, Review of Curtis M. Hinsley, The Smithsonian and the American Indian, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 18 (1996), pp. 373-374
  31. Humphreys, ME, Review of David McBride, Missions for Science, Journal of American History, vol. 90 (2003), pp. 1070-1071
  32. 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, vol. 41 (1997), pp. 234-236
  33. Humphreys, M, Review of Deanne Stephens Nuwer, Plague among the Magnolias, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 84 no. 2 (2010), pp. 301-303
  34. Humphreys, ME, Review of Eugene Link, The Social Ideas of American Physicians, Medical History, vol. 38 (1994), pp. 349-350
  35. Humphreys, ME, Review of Fitzhugh Mullan, Plagues and Peoples: The story of the US Public Health Service, ISIS, vol. 82 (1991), pp. 412-413
  36. Humphreys, ME, Review of Francois Delaporte, The History of Yellow Fever, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 67 (1993), pp. 185-86
  37. Humphreys, M, Review of G. Schroeder-Lein, Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine, Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 42 no. 3 (October, 2008), pp. 433-435
  38. Humphreys, ME, Review of Gerald Grob, The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America, J. American Medical Association, vol. 289 (2003), pp. 2726-2726
  39. Humphreys, ME, Review of Gertrude Fraser, African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory, Medical History, vol. 44 (2000), pp. 422-423
  40. Humphreys, ME, Review of Guy Settipane, Columbus and the New World, Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 51 (1996), pp. 369-70
  41. Humphreys, ME, Review of Guy Williams, The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, 1700-1800, The Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 43 (1988), pp. 121-121
  42. Humphreys, ME, Review of Harold D. Langley, A History of Medicine in the Early US Navy, Medical History, vol. 40 (1996), pp. 396-397
  43. 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, vol. 59 (2004), pp. 490-91
  44. Humphreys, ME, Review of J. Stuart Moore, Chiropractic in America, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 331 (1994), pp. 283-283
  45. Humphreys, M, Review of James C. Whorton, Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America, Isis, vol. 95 (2004), pp. 170-170
  46. 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), pp. 259-261
  47. 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)
  48. Humphreys, M, Review of Jane M Schultz, This Birth Place of Souls, Journal of the Civil War Era, vol. 2 (2011), pp. 104-106
  49. Humphreys, ME, Review of Jo Ann Carrigan, The Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana, Journal of Southern History, vol. 62 (1996), pp. 121-122
  50. Humphreys, ME, Review of Joel Howell, Technology in the Hospital, JAMA, vol. 276 (1996), pp. 424-424
  51. Humphreys, M, Review of John C. Burnham, What is Medical History?, JAMA, vol. 295 (2006), pp. 2540-2541
  52. Humphreys, ME, Review of John H. Ellis, Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South, Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 48 (1993), pp. 342-343
  53. Humphreys, ME, Review of John Roper, ed., Repairing the March of Mars, Journal of Southern History, vol. 69 (2003), pp. 716-717
  54. Humphreys, ME, Review of John Salvaggio, New Orleans Charity Hospital: A Story of Physicians, Politics, and Poverty, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 67 (1993), pp. 599-600
  55. Humphreys, ME, Review of Katherine Ott, Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870, Social History, vol. 23 (1998), pp. 128-128
  56. M. Humphreys, Review of Kathryn Meier, Nature's Civil War, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 45 no. 1 (Summer, 2014), pp. 93-94
  57. 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, vol. 33 (2003), pp. 501-502
  58. Humphreys, ME, Review of Ken DeBevoise, Agents of the Apocalypse, Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 51 (1996), pp. 99-100
  59. 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, vol. 57 (2002), pp. 514-515
  60. Humphreys, M, Review of Kent Gramm, ed., Battle: The Nature and Consequences of Civil War Combat, North Carolina Historical Review, vol. 86 (October, 2009), pp. 458-59
  61. Humphreys, ME, Review of Khaled Bloom, The Mississippi Valley’s Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878, Academic Medicine, vol. 69 (1994), pp. 276-276
  62. 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), pp. 641-642
  63. M. Humphreys, Review of Libra R. Hilde, Worth a Dozen Men: Women and Nursing in the Civil War South, Michigan War Studies Review (forthcoming)
  64. Humphreys, ME, Review of Nancy Tomes, The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 73 (1999), pp. 164-165
  65. Humphreys, ME, Review of Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America, ISIS, vol. 95 (2004), pp. 170-170
  66. Humphreys, ME, Review of Norma Mohr, Malaria: Evolution of a Killer, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 347 (2002), pp. 1215-1216
  67. Humphreys, ME, Review of Norman Gevitz, Other Healers, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 321 (1989), pp. 196-196
  68. Humphreys, ME, Review of Patricia Watson, The Angelical Conjunction: The Preacher-physicians of Colonial New England, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 328 (1993), pp. 820-820
  69. Humphreys, M, Review of Richard Reid, Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment, H-Net (June, 2011) [showpdf.php]
  70. 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, vol. 75 (1998), pp. 339-340
  71. Humphreys, ME, Review of Robert Sallares, Malaria and Rome, Environmental History, vol. 8 (2003), pp. 701-702
  72. Humphreys, ME, Review of Robin Henig, The People’s Health: A Memoir of Public Health and its evolution at Harvard, Medical History, vol. 42 (1998), pp. 267-268
  73. Humphreys, M, Review of Samuel Roberts, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation, American Historical Review, vol. 114 (December, 2009), pp. 1483
  74. Humphreys, ME, Review of Sharla M. Fett, Working Cures: Healing, Health and Power on Southern Slave Plantations, H-Net Book Review (2002)
  75. 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)
  76. 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, vol. 32 (1996), pp. 235-236
  77. Humphreys, ME, Review of Sheldon Watts, Epidemics and History, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 73 (1999), pp. 747-748
  78. Humphreys, ME, Review of Susan Reverby, Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Georgia Historical Quarterly, vol. 85 (2001), pp. 333-335
  79. Humphreys, ME, Review of Sydney Halpern, American Pediatrics, Journal of the History of Medicine, vol. 45 (1990), pp. 122-123
  80. 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, vol. 57 no. 3 (July, 2002), pp. 368-369, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 0022-5045 [doi]
  81. Martin, MG; Humphreys, ME, Social consequence of disease in the American South, 1900-World War II., Southern medical journal, vol. 99 no. 8 (August, 2006), pp. 862-864, ISSN 0038-4348 [16929881], [doi]  [abs]
  82. Humphreys, M, Telemedicine: climate change and mosquito-borne disease: a historical perspective., MD advisor : a journal for New Jersey medical community, vol. 2 no. 2 (January, 2009), pp. 16-21
  83. Humphreys, M, The influenza of 1918: Evolutionary perspectives in a historical context, Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, vol. 2018 no. 1 (January, 2018), pp. 219-229 [doi]  [abs]
  84. 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, vol. 21 no. 1 (July, 2020), pp. 175 [doi]  [abs]
  85. Humphreys, ME, This Place of Death: Environment as Weapon in the American Civil War, Southern Quarterly: a journal of the arts in the South, vol. 53 no. 3/4 (2016), pp. 12-36, University of Southern Mississippi
  86. 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, vol. 36 (1981), pp. 278-295
  87. Humphreys, ME, Water Won’t Run Uphill: The New Deal and Malaria Control in the American South, 1933-1940, Parassitologia, vol. 40 no. 1-2 (1998), pp. 183-192  [abs]
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