David S. Barnes, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, History & Sociology of Science, School of Arts and Sciences
- Member, MPH Advisory Committee
Professor Barnes is an historian of public health and Director of the Health and Societies program. He is the author of The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France (University of California Press, 1995). His second book (forthcoming, Johns Hopkins Press) examines how older, sanitarian concerns about filth and cleanliness came to be integrated alongside the bacteriological etiologies into a new “sanitary-bacteriological synthesis” at the end of the nineteenth century. He has also published articles about ethical quandaries posed by molecular epidemiology as applied to infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, and about medical responses to foul odors in nineteenth-century cities. He is actively involved in teaching and research related to contemporary public health policy at the national and international levels.