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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 59.3 (2004) 503-505



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Robert Barde is Academic Coordinator at the Institute of Business and Economic Research at the University of California, Berkeley. He is coauthor (with Susan Carter and Richard Sutch) of the Immigration chapter for the Millenial Edition of Historical Statistics of the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and was Managing Editor for the entire project 1995–98. He is currently writing a book on the early 20th century immigration industry centered on San Francisco, Island of Angels. He can be reached at IBER, F502 Haas, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–1922. E-mail: barde@haas.berkeley.edu.
William Kingston teaches Innovation in Trinity College, Dublin (where the famous experiment that went wrong for Alexander Fleming and led him to discover Penicillin was first done). He is also the Visiting Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. A new and enlarged edition of one of his books, Innovation: The Creative Impulse in Human Progress, has recently been published by theLeonard F. Sugerman Press, Washington, D.C. His mailing address is: School of Business Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and his email is: wkngston@tcd.ie.
Cynthia Klestinec, Ph.D., formerly a lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University, is assistant professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is currently working on her book manuscript, a study of the curricular and extracurricular activities of the medical students at the sixteenth-century University of Padua and the aesthetic criteria involved in the development of early modern anatomy and medicine. Her address is 686 Cherry Street, Skiles room 336, Atlanta, GA 30332–0165. E-mail: cindy.klestinic@lcc.gatech.edu.
Rina Knoeff, Ph.D., is research fellow at the Faculty of Arts and Culture at Maastricht University (NL). She is the author of Herman Boerhaave (1668 – 1738) . Calvinist Chemist and Physician (Amsterdam: Edita, 2002). She is currently working on a project about the relations between anatomy, philosophy and representation in the early modern period. Her address is [End Page 503] Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Culture, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands. E-mail: r.knoeff@lk.unimaas.nl.
Howard I. Kushner is the Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Professor of Science and Society at Emory University where he holds a joint appointment in the Rollins School of Public Health, and in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts. He is also the associate director of Emory's Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society. Kushner is author of numerous articles and four books, including American Suicide: A Psychocultural Exploration (Rutgers University Press, 1991) and A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome (Harvard University Press, 1999). His current research includes a collaborative investigation of Kawasaki Disease, with colleagues at the University of California, San Diego and collaboration with Dr.Claire E. Sterk at Emory on risk and protective factors in addictive behaviors. Kushner is on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and Journal of the History of Neuroscience. Correspondence should be directed to: Rollins School of Public Health, 5th floor, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30322. E-mail: hkushne@sph.emory.edu.
Claire E. Sterk is a Charles Howard Candler Professor in Public Health and Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. She currently has an Independent Scientist Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to enhance ways to link qualitative and quantitative methodologies, as well as to link addiction and mental health. Sterk has authored numerous articles and three books, including Fast Lives: Women Who Use Crack Cocaine (Temple University Press, 1999) and Tricking and tripping: Prostitution during the AIDS era (Social Change Press, 2000). Currently, she also has funding from NIDA to investigate emerging drug trends — including new drugs, new ways of using drugs, and new users, the possible links between HIV...

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