Jim Downs
Research: Race and Medicine, Smallpox Epidemic in 1860s in U.S, Cholera 19th Century Pandemics, History of Epidemiology, Military Medicine, Medicine and Imperialism, Public Health
See also: https://www.gettysburg.edu/academic-programs/history/faculty/employee_de...
Maladies of Empire: How Slavery, Imperialism and War Transformed Medicine, Harvard University Press, September 2021.
Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, 2012.
“Structural Violence: The Humanitarian Crisis before the Memphis Massacre,” in Beverly G. Bond and Susan O’Donovan, eds., Remembering the Memphis Massacre: An American Story, University of Georgia Press, 2020
#BlackLivesMatter: “Toward an Algorithm of Black Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction”, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth Century Americanists, Forum on Cultural Meaning of Suffering, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2016
“Who Got Bloody?: The Cultural Meaning of Blood during the Civil War and Reconstruction,” in Kimberly Anne Coles, Ralph Bauer, Zita Nunes, Carla Peterson, eds., The Cultural Politics of Blood, Palgrave MacMillan, 2014
“The Art of Medicine: Emancipation, Sickness, and Death during the American Civil War,” The Lancet, November 10, 2012, Vol. 380, Number 9854.
