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 2010 - 2012
  • Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Clinical Science Departments 2000 - 2003
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1987 - 2000
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Clinical Science Departments 1997 - 1998
  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Clinical Science Departments 1994 - 1997
  • Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Clinical Science Departments 1987 - 1994
  • 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
  • History of Rheumatic Fever awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1988
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • English, P. C. “Emergence of rheumatic fever in the nineteenth century.” The Milbank Quarterly 67 Suppl 1 (January 1989): 33–49. https://doi.org/10.2307/3350184.
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    • English, P. C. “Therapeutic strategies to combat pneumococcal disease: repeated failure of physicians to adopt pneumococcal vaccine, 1900-1945.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 30, no. 2 (January 1987): 170–85. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.1987.0058.
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    • English, P. C. “Diphtheria and theories of infectious disease: centennial appreciation of the critical role of diphtheria in the history of medicine.” Pediatrics 76, no. 1 (July 1985): 1–9.
    • English, P. C. “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 (May 1984): 699–711.
    • Grossman, H., and H. English PC. “Radiology and the History of Child Abuse.” Pediatric Annals 12, no. 2 (1983): 870–74.
    • English, P. C. “History of the North Carolina Pediatric Society.” North Carolina Pediatric Society, 1982.
    • English, P. C. “The Infant Who Fails to Thrive Without an Organic Reason.” Pediatric Annals 7 (1978): 774–81.

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