Center for History of Medicine: "Death and Diversity in Civil War Medicine" Margaret Humphreys

Date: 

Tuesday, November 18, 2014, 5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Countway Library, Lahey Room, Fifth Floor, 10 Shattuck St., Boston, MA

Margaret Humphreys, PhD.
Professor of Medicine and History,
Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and
History of Medicine, Duke University, and current
President of the American Association for the History of Medicine

This talk explores the reasons for the widely divergent death rates from disease among white Confederate troops, white Union troops, and black Union troops during the American Civil War.    

REFRESHMENTS AT 5:00 PM

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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For more information visit https://cms.www.countway.harvard.edu/wp/?p=9810

Questions? Email us at ContactCHoM@hms.harvard.edu or call 617-432-2170

Sponsored by the Center for the History of Medicine and the Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership