Research
Tracy's first book, Alcoholism in America from Reconstruction to Prohibition, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press. She has co-edited two volumes, Altering American Consciousness—The History of Alcohol and Drug Use from 1800 to 2000, published by the University of Massachusetts Press, and Conversations With Food, published by Vernon Press. She has also co-edited with Alison Bashford a special issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine on modern incarnations of Hippocrates' "Airs Waters and Places." Currently she is completing a biography of nutritional physiologist, heart disease epidemiologist, and Mediterranean diet cookbook author, Ancel Keys.
Ancel Keys
Tracy is completing a biography of physiologist and epidemiologist Ancel Keys (1904-2004). Keys may have influenced the American diet more than any other biomedical scientist in the twentieth century. Not only was he a pioneer in the development of processed foods—with the U.S. Army Quartermaster he created the World War Two “K Ration” (the K is for Keys)—but he also was the first to appreciate the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. As a physiologist, Keys made important contributions to fish metabolism and tidal pool adaptation, high-altitude acclimatization, nutrition research, athletic performance, and the biology of human starvation.
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