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Margaret Humphreys, M.D., Ph.D. |
The McGoogan Library of Medicine’s ninth annual Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D. History of Medicine Lecture will be held at noon on April 11 in the Sorrell Center, Room 1005. A box lunch will be available at 11:30 a.m.
Margaret Humphreys, M.D., Ph.D., Josiah Charles Trent Professor of the History of Medicine, in the School of Medicine of Duke University in Durham, N.C., and past president of the American Association for the History of Medicine, will present on “Marrow of Tragedy: Medicine in the American Civil War.”
The Civil War was the greatest health disaster the United States has ever experienced, killing more than a million Americans and leaving many others invalided or grieving. Poorly prepared to care for wounded and sick soldiers as the war began, Union and Confederate governments scrambled to provide doctoring and nursing, supplies, and shelter for those felled by warfare or disease.
Dr. Humphreys’ books include “Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War,” “Intensely Human: The Health of Black Soldiers in the American Civil War,” and “Yellow Fever and the South.”
Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., professor emeritus of internal medicine at UNMC, died in 2010 in Minneapolis. Dr. Davis came to UNMC as an associate professor of medicine in 1969. From 1970-1987, he served as director of the Special Coagulation Laboratory. From 1974-1976, he served as acting director of the division of hematology. He was director of the UNMC Division of Hematology from 1976 to 1979. From 1979 to 1982, he served as head of the section of hematology, UNMC Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Davis was the director of the Nebraska Regional Hemophilia Center from 1983-1986. He retired from UNMC in 1994.