Jim Downs
Jim Downs is the Gilder Lehrman–NEH Professor of History at Gettysburg College and a Guggenheim Fellow. Author of Maladies of Empire and other books, his writing has appeared in publications such as the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and Slate. He lives in Philadelphia.
Jim Downs
Jim Downs is the Gilder Lehrman–NEH Professor of History at Gettysburg College and a Guggenheim Fellow. Author of Maladies of Empire and other books, his writing has appeared in publications such as the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and Slate. He lives in Philadelphia.
Books by Jim Downs

Medicine by the People: How Ordinary People Changed American Healthcare
Jim Downs
Hardback, 2026
A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care

Medicine by the People: How Ordinary People Changed American Healthcare
Jim Downs
E Book
A grassroots history of American medicine that shows how regular people were architects of medical knowledge and care



