Bøger af Margaret (Josiah Charles Trent Professor in the History of Medicine Humphreys

Her research recovers the specific concerns of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South, broadening our understanding of the evolution of preventive medicine in the United States.

In addition Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States argues that malaria control was central to the evolution of local and federal intervention in public health, and demonstrates the complex interaction between poverty, race, and geography in determining the fate of malaria.

Medicine and public health clearly advanced during the war-and continued to do so after military hostilities ceased.