Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • M.D., Duke University 1975
  • Ph.D., Duke University 1975
  • B.A., Duke University 1969
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2012
  • Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Clinical Science Departments 2000 - 2012
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1987 - 2000
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Clinical Science Departments 1987 - 1998
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Clinical Science Departments 1994 - 1997
  • Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Clinical Science Departments 1978 - 1987
  • Assistant Professor, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1978 - 1987
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Humanities and Medicine Lecture Series awarded by The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation 2003 - 2006
  • Duke Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2001 - 2002
  • Antibiotics and Resistance awarded by Mary Duke Biddle Foundation 1999 - 2000
  • Antibiotics and Resistance awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1998 - 2000
  • Planning Project to Enhance Duke's Interdisciplinary Activities in Social Medicine awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1999 - 2000
  • Center for Medical Humanities awarded by Mary Duke Biddle Foundation 1999 - 2000
  • History Of Rheumatic Fever awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1996 - 1998
  • A History Of Rheumatic Fever awarded by National Institutes of Health 1989 - 1990
  • (88-0356) History of Rheumatic Fever awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1988
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Journal Articles

    • English, PC. "Emergence of rheumatic fever in the nineteenth century." Milbank Q 67 Suppl 1 (1989): 33-49.  Link to Item
    • English, PC. "Therapeutic strategies to combat pneumococcal disease: repeated failure of physicians to adopt pneumococcal vaccine, 1900-1945." Perspect Biol Med 30, no. 2 (1987): 170-185.  Link to Item
    • ENGLISH, PC. "DIPHTHERIA AND THEORIES OF INFECTIOUS-DISEASE - CENTENNIAL APPRECIATION OF THE CRITICAL ROLE OF DIPHTHERIA IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE." PEDIATRICS 76, no. 1 (1985): 1-9.  Link to Item
    • ENGLISH, PC. "PEDIATRICS AND THE UNWANTED CHILD IN HISTORY - FOUNDLING HOMES, DISEASE, AND THE ORIGINS OF FOSTER-CARE IN NEW-YORK-CITY, 1860 TO 1920." PEDIATRICS 73, no. 5 (1984): 699-711.  Link to Item
    • Grossman, H, and English PC, . "Radiology and the History of Child Abuse." Pediatric Annals 12, no. 2 (1983): 870-874.
    • English, PC. "History of the North Carolina Pediatric Society." North Carolina Pediatric Society (1982): i/23-. (Academic Article)
    • English, PC. "The Infant Who Fails to Thrive Without an Organic Reason." Pediatric Annals 7 (1978): 774-781. (Academic Article)

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