Jim Downs
2 workspublishing since 2024
Jim Downs is an American historian of medicine and the Civil War era, a professor at Gettysburg College and a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Trained at Columbia under Eric Foner, he is the author of Sick from Freedom and Maladies of Empire, and of Medicine by the People, about how ordinary people changed American healthcare.
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Jim Downs is an American historian of medicine and the Civil War era, a professor at Gettysburg College and a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. Trained at Columbia under Eric Foner, he is the author of Sick from Freedom and Maladies of Empire, and of Medicine by the People, about how ordinary people changed American healthcare.
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2 works · 2024–20262026
- ReleasedOct 13Medicine by the PeopleHardcover
2024
- ReleasedMar 1