John Eyler
In June 2009, after thirty-five years on the faculty, John Eyler retired as Professor and Director of the Program in the History of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. His research interests center on nineteenth and twentieth-century medicine and the medical sciences in Great Britain and the United States, especially on the history of public health, epidemiology, and disease theory. He is the author of Victorian Social Medicine: The ideas and Methods of William Farr (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., 1979); and Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885-1935 (New York: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1997). He is currently studying American research on influenza between the world wars. He joined the AAHM in 1973, has served on several of its committees, and was in 2005 its Garrison Lecturer.