Overview
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor Emeritus of History
·
2012 - Present
History,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Emergence of rheumatic fever in the nineteenth century.
Journal Article The Milbank quarterly · January 1989 How do we make sense of the process of disease definition when the tools for "framing" a pathophysiologic reality and the reality to be framed may have both been changing? The sudden emergence of rheumatic fever at the end of the eighteenth century was the ... Full text CiteTherapeutic strategies to combat pneumococcal disease: repeated failure of physicians to adopt pneumococcal vaccine, 1900-1945.
Journal Article Perspectives in biology and medicine · January 1987 Full text CiteDiphtheria and theories of infectious disease: centennial appreciation of the critical role of diphtheria in the history of medicine.
Journal Article Pediatrics · July 1985 CiteRecent Grants
Humanities and Medicine Lecture Series
Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation · 2003 - 2006Duke Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities
Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2001 - 2002Antibiotics and Resistance
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Mary Duke Biddle Foundation · 1999 - 2000View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Duke University ·
1975
Ph.D.
Duke University ·
1975
M.D.
Duke University ·
1969
B.A.