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History of Medicine Faculty

Gert H. Brieger, M.D., Ph.D.: Johns Hopkins Distinguished Service Professor (Emeritus); History of surgery, history of medical education.

Nathaniel C. Comfort, Ph.D.: Associate Professor; History of biology, especially genetics, molecular biology, and biomedicine; history of recent science, oral history and interviewing. Current project: History of human and medical genetics in America.

Mary E. Fissell, Ph.D.: Professor; European health care and popular medicine, 17th and 18th centuries; early modern gender and the body.

Marta Hanson, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor in the History of East Asian Medicine; History of Chinese science and medicine; history of epidemics and disease in China.

Harry M. Marks, Ph.D.: Associate Professor, E. Treide and A.M. Harvey Professorship in the History of Medicine; History of 20th century medicine; history of disease; history of public health.

Graham Mooney, Ph.D.: Assistant Professor; Adjunct appointment in the Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health; History of Public health 19th and 20th centuries; historical epidemiology; historical demography; disease surveillance and risk.

Randall M. Packard, Ph.D.: Director and William H. Welch Professor of the History of Medicine; social history of disease and healing in Africa; history of public health; history of colonial and post-colonial medicine; Co-editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.

Gianna Pomata, Ph.D.: Professor; medieval and Renaissance European medicine; natural history; Italy; history of history and of scholarship

Christine A. Ruggere: Associate Director and Curator, Historical Collection, Institute of the History of Medicine, and Lecturer in the History of Medicine.

Daniel P. Todes, Ph.D.: Professor; History of Russian medicine and science; social relations of scientific thought; history of biomedical sciences. Currently writing a biography of Ivan Pavlov.


Associated Faculty

Elizabeth Fee, Ph.D.: Chief of the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine.

James D. Goodyear, Ph.D.: Senior Lecturer and Associate Directory, Public Health Studies Program: History of tropical medicine, history of 18th-19th-century Latin America.

Nancy McCall: Research Associate, Archivist Alan M. Chesney Archives.

Gerard Shorb: Research Associate, Archivist Alan M. Chesney Archives.

Arthur M. Silverstein, Ph.D.: Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine; History of immunology.

Visiting Faculty and Fellows 2007-2008

Lihong Du, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; public health administration in China, 19th-20th centuries.

Dan O'Connor, Ph.D., a Greenwall Foundation postdoctoral fellow, jointly in the Institute for the History of Medicine and the Berman Institute of Bioethics. Medical decision-making and choice in twentieth-century America and Britain, including transsexuality, elective amputation, contraception, and performance enhancing drugs.

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