Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences (History of Medicine), Division of Research Ethics
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, TX 75390-9070
Office: 214-648-5993
Fax: 214-648-4967

Current Research

Ethics/Medical Humanities Areas of Expertise/Interest:

History of Medicine and Public Health
AIDS and Epidemics
Medical Ethics and Clinical Research Ethics
Health Disparities
Religion and Health

CME Lectures:

• The Endless Debate: Health Reform in American History
• A Health Policy Primer for Physicians
• Health Reform and the Challenge of Market Innovation
• Your Huddled Masses: Healthcare for Undocumented Persons in Historical Context
• The Coming Plague: Epidemics in Historical Perspective
• Doing Medicine in a Politicized Epidemic:  The case of AIDS
• Mastering the Mind: Mental Illness, Medical Research, and American Society
• Infections and Inequalities: the Problem of Health Disparities in American History
• Medicine, Magic, and Religion
• Moments of Trial: History of Clinical Research Ethics in America
• Major Problems in the History of American Medicine
• The History and Practice of Public Health in America
• The Biosocial Context of Obesity in America

Public Lectures:

History of American Medicine in the Twentieth Century
History of American Public Health
Viruses, Plagues, and American History
The Making of A Chronic Disease: America and the Problem of AIDS
Fast Food Nation: The History of the Obesity in America
Your Ever-Loving Mind: Understanding the Evolution of Mental Illness in America
Toward Equity: The History of Health Disparities in America
Health, Healing, and Religion: Exploring the Role of Religion in American Medicine
Matters of Life and Death: The Evolution of Bioethics in America

Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Publications:

Inrig, Stephen J. In a Place So Ordinary: North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS (under contract, University of North Carolina Press).

Inrig, Stephen. “Benjamin Carson,” in Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896-2006: From the Age of Segregation to the 21st Century, edited by Paul Finkelman et al. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Inrig, Stephen. "Koop, C. Everett." In Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, edited by Gary L. Anderson and Kathryn G. Herr. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008.

Inrig, Stephen. “Louis Sullivan” in Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896-2006: From the Age of Segregation to the 21st Century, edited by Paul Finkelman et al. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Inrig, Stephen. "Operation Rescue." In Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, edited by Gary L. Anderson and Kathryn G. Herr. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2008.

Key Publications:

Inrig, Stephen J. In a Place So Ordinary: North Carolina and the Problem of AIDS (under contract, University of North Carolina Press).