Amy Welling Gregg

Amy Welling Gregg completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies in 2017 and is a proud alumna and faculty member of The Ohio State University. She has taught in the Department of Comparative Studies-Newark, the Department of History-Newark, the College of Pharmacy-Columbus, and the Department of International Studies-Columbus. It is her pleasure to be part of such a distinguished teaching community. The intellectual diversity of The Ohio State University provides a home for her interdisciplinary research and teaching. Amy is a social justice scholar, who focuses on the intersection of race, gender, and class in American Medical, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Bioethics. Her current book project is Nineteenth-Century American Medicine: The Implications of Professionalism, Capitalism, and Implicit Bias. It traces the emergence of American medicine and pharmacy as institutions and the dismissal of medicinal practices of American Indians, women, and African Americans during the professionalization process. During the Antebellum and Post-Bellum periods in The United States, medical fields became professionalized, Eclectic medicine, which was patient-driven, inclusive, and nature-based, came under attack by the emerging field of Allopathic medicine. Determined to pursue a scientific approach, this new medicine focused on disease and practiced vivisection despite social, cultural, and ethical concerns. She analyzes the debate between the opposing medical philosophies, the implicit biases that influenced the process of professionalism, and the resulting impact on the fields of medicine, pharmacy, and public health. Finally, Amy demonstrates the emergence of bioethics as a result of the inherent discrimination in those institutions. In the classroom, her interests lie in places where dominating cultural values, political ambitions, and economic status have caused the arrest, subservience, and challenge to the human dignity of others. Consequently, she intertwines her research with course materials empowering students to investigate what it means to be an American through identity construction at the intersection of race, gender, and class. Amy has multiple article publications and is in the process of moving the book to publication. She is the recipient of multiple grants from The American Institute of The History of Pharmacy and was the Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellow in 2019. Furthermore, Amy earned teaching honors from both Northern Kentucky University and The Ohio State University. In 2018, she earned a certification as a Science Writer from Duke University and a certification as a Medical Writer from Doane University. She earned a Bachelor's degree in history from Northern Kentucky University, a Master's degree in history from Miami University, and a Master's degree and Doctorate degree in Comparative Studies from The Ohio State University.