Contributors
- Contributors
Carl F. Ameringer is director of the graduate program in public administration at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University. He is a former assistant attorney general and deputy counsel to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Ameringer is the author of State Medical Boards and the Politics of Public Protection (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). His current research examines the relationship between the Federal Trade Commission and organized medicine from 1975 to the present.
Michael D. Barr is a QUT postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Community and Cross-Cultural Studies, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. His areas of academic interest focus on Singapore politics but extend to the Asian values debate. His first book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs behind the Man, was published in 2000 by Curzon Press, London, and Georgetown University Press in Washington, D.C. He is currently writing a book provisionally titled Looking East? Cultural Politics and Asian Values.
Tony A. Blakely is a public health medicine physician and epidemiologist from New Zealand currently working at the Wellington School of Medicine. During 1999 he spent seven months as a research fellow at the Harvard Center for Society and Health, studying income inequality and self-rated health with Ichiro Kawachi and colleagues.
Albert W. Dzur is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Western Michigan University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. His work in contemporary political theory has appeared in Polity, Public Affairs Quarterly, and Social Theory & Practice. His current research examines the appeal of community participation in professional domains. The purpose of this research is to see how abstract ideals of public participation and deliberation may be put into practice by contemporary reform movements [End Page 339] and to learn more about the promise and limits of these ideals. More generally, this research looks into the relation between democratic values and norms of professional practice and ultimately the relation between political theory and the professions.
John C. Guignard was in air force and naval medical defense research and specialized in adverse effects of complex stressful environments. In England, he founded Southampton University’s Human Factors Research Unit. In the United States, he served as a research medical officer at the U.S. Naval Biodynamics Laboratory, New Orleans. He now works on human factors, safety, disaster preparedness, and health aspects of public transportation and the workplace. His scientific committee work has included national and international (ISO) safety and health guidelines and consensus standards development. He serves on the international editorial board of the Journal of Low Frequency, Noise, Vibration and Active Controls.
Robert B. Hackey is an associate professor of health policy and management at Providence College, where he has taught since 1999. His current research focuses on the future of state certificate of need regulation in a competitive health care system. He is the author of Rethinking Health Care Policy: The New Politics of State Regulation (Georgetown University Press 1998) and numerous articles on state and federal health care policy. His coedited volume on The New Politics of State Health Policy (University Press of Kansas) was published in 2001.
David Hemenway is an economist and professor of health policy at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). He is the director of both the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center. A former Pew Fellow on Injury Control, he recently completed a Senior Soros Justice Fellowship and an investigator award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is the top recipient of the HSPH teaching excellence award. He has written numerous articles on such topics as suicide, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, fires, falls and fractures. Hemenway’s most recent work concerns methods to reduce firearm injuries.
Allan M. Hoffman is dean and professor in the College of Health Sciences at Des Moines University and director of the Center for the Prevention of Community Violence. He is the author of Schools, Violence and Society (Praeger, 1996), Violence on Campus (Aspen...
