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Jo N. Hays (Emeritus)

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1970 Specialization: History of science and medicine, especially British

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Research Interests:

Social History of diseases

Diseases and Western imperialism

Scientific institutions and popular scientific culture in 19th century Great Britain

Research in progress:

(Book) Fifty Great Epidemics in World History (ABC-Clio, to be published 2005)
(Book) Disease, Medicine, and Western Imperialism, 1800-1950 (early stages of writing)
(Article) "Contributors to the Penny Cyclopedia, 1830-1845" (presently on a back burner)

Publications:

The Burdens of Disease: Epidemics and Human Response in Western History (Rutgers University Press, 1998; third printing, 2003)

"Disease as Urban Disaster: Ambiguities an Continuities," in G. Massard-Guilbaud, H.R. Platt, and D. Schott, eds., Cities and Catastrophes (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002)

Articles forthcoming:

"Historic Perceptions of Epidemics: Simple Questions, Complex Answers," in volume in preparation on the "Justinianic Plague," ed. L.K. Little, based on proceedings of a conference at the American Academy in Rome

Biographical articles on Edward William Brayley, Dionysius Lardner, and Charles Frederick Partington, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, to be published in 2004)

Past research articles in:

Annals of Science
British Journal for History of Science
Metropolis and province
Pennsylvania Magazine of History
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Office Phone: (773) 508-2221

Office: Crown Humanities Center 508

E-mail address: jhays@luc.edu

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