Robert F. Haggard

Biography

Robert F. Haggard is an associate editor at the Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 
Retirement Series at Monticello. His work has appeared in the American Historical Review, The Historian, and Essays in History.

See Work

CRITICISM / Summer 2005

Old Wine in New (Medicine) Bottles?

By Robert F. Haggard

What the author finds is that Jefferson had an abiding interest in all things medical. He owned more than one hundred medical texts and treatises (about 3 percent of his pre-1815 holdings); counted among his friends a number of noted...