“Death and Diversity in Civil War Medicine”

Margaret Humphreys, MD, PhD

Josiah C. Trent Professor of the History of Medicine

Professor of Medicine and of History

Duke University

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center 

Sponsored by the Department of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1. Recognize diversity in health outcomes among diseased Civil War soldiers.
2. Examine the various causes of this diversity, with a focus on country of origin (Confederacy compared to Union), and race (white compared to black).
3. Using the Civil War story as a case study, reflect on the causes of persistent U.S. health disparities that are associated with poverty and race.

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