Margaret Humphreys

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Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD
Josiah C. Trent Professor of the History of Medicine
Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine
Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
Professor of History, Duke University
meh@duke.edu

A specialist in the history of science and medicine, Margaret Humphries, MD, PhD has focused her research and publications primarily on infectious disease in the U.S. and the American south, as well as the history of medicine during the American Civil War. Dr. Humphreys has also published on the history of diabetes, public health ethics, and colonial medicine. Her research has appeared in Isis, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Social Science and Medicine, Public Health Reports and Environmental History. Of special note are her books Yellow Fever and the South (Rutgers University Press, 1992), Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), Intensely Human: The Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), and, most recently, Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013).  In addition to her own research, she was editor in chief of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences from 1999-2012.

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