Contributors
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Miguel de Asúa is Professor of History of Science and Medicine at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín and a member of the Research Career of the National Council for Science and Technology (Argentina). His research interests lie in the history of medieval science and medicine, and Latin American science. He has recently finished a book on early modern views of the fauna of Iberian America and is now engaged in a research project on Jesuit science and medicine in eighteenth-century Río de la Plata. His address is: Estanislao del Campo 324, Haedo, 1706, Buenos Aires, Argentina (e-mail: mdeasua@mail.retina.ar).
Jeanne Kisacky is an independent scholar (e-mail: jskisacky1@verizon.net), as well as a part-time Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, Department of Architecture, Syracuse, NY 13244-1250, and a part-time Adjunct Assistant Professor at Binghamton University, Department of Art History, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. Her background is in architecture, and her research and teaching interests have focused on the history of architecture in its relation to ideas of health. She is currently trying to turn ten years of research on hospital architecture into a book (or two).
Wendy Kline is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210373, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0373 (wendy.kline@uc.edu). She received her Ph.D. degree in history from the University of California, Davis, in 1998; her book, Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom, was published by the University of California Press in 2001. She is currently working on a history of the women's health movement in the United States, which includes recent responses to her on-line questionnaire on reading Our Bodies, Ourselves (http://homepages.uc.edu/~paulawk/).
Nicolas Rasmussen is Senior Lecturer in the School of History & Philosophy of Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia (e-mail: Nicolas.Rasmussen@unsw.edu.au). His research has largely concerned the interplay of academia, industry, and government in the development of the life sciences and medicine in the United States during the early and middle twentieth century. He is the author of Picture Control: The Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-1960 (Stanford, 1997), and he is currently writing a book on the history of amphetamine, from which this present study has emerged.
