Contributors
- Contributors
Joel T. Braslow is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a staff psychiatrist at the Sepulveda VA Medical Center, Mail Code OOP-G, 16111 Plummer Street, Sepulveda, CA 91343 (e-mail: jbraslow@ucla.edu). His research interests include the history of twentieth-century American psychiatry, and he has recently completed a book on the history of somatic therapies in the first half of the twentieth century (University of California Press, forthcoming).
Jacalyn Duffin, a hematologist and historian, teaches medical history and philosophy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, where she holds the Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine. Her research interests are in French and Canadian medicine, medical images, and medical saints. She is the author of Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life (University of Toronto Press, 1993) and a biography of R. T. H. Laennec (forthcoming). Her address is: History of Medicine, 78 Barrie Street, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada (e-mail: duffinj@post.queensu.ca).
Leslie A. Falk is Professor Emeritus, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of numerous publications in the history of medicine, including several about Henry Sigerist. His current address is: 100 Wake Robin Drive, Shelburne, VT 05482-7573.
Pauline M. H. Mazumdar teaches the history of medicine at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7, Canada (e-mail pmazumda@chass.utoronto.ca). She is the author of two recent books: Eugenics, Human Genetics and Human Failings: The Eugenics Society, Its Sources and Its Critics in Britain (Routledge, 1992); and Species and Specificity: An Interpretation of the History of Immunology (Cambridge, 1995). She is working at present on the standardization of sera and serological tests by the Health Commission of the League of Nations.
William G. Rothstein is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 345ACIV-B, 5401 Wilkens Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21228-5398 (e-mail: rothstein@umbc2.umbc.edu). He is editor and part author of Readings in American Health Care: Current Issues in Socio-Historical Perspective (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995). He is currently engaged in research on the risk factor in medicine.
