Frank Snowden

Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of History and Professor of History of Medicine
Chair of the Program in the History of Medicine & Science

Professor Snowden received his B.A. from Harvard in 1968, and his B.Phil and D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1972 and 1975. He has taught at London University from 1978 until 1991 and at Yale since 1991. His research interests include: the comparative history of epidemic diseases; the history of public health; the impact of emerging and resurgent diseases; issues in medical ethics; and bioterrorism. He is currently Chair of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine.

His teaching areas are the history of infectious diseases, the history of public health, and the intellectual history of medicine.

Principal Publications

• Violence and Great Estates in the South of Italy: Apulia, 1900 - 1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984
• The Fascist Revolution in Tuscany, 1919 - 1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
• Naples in the Times of Cholera, 1884 - 1911 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
• edited with John Dickie and John Foot, Disastro! Disasters in Italy since 1860 (New York: Palgrave, 2002)
• The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900 - 1962 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
• Italian edition: La conquista della malaria: una modernizzazione italiana, 1900 – 1962 (Turin: Einaudi, 2008).

Email: frank.snowden@yale.edu