Contributors
- Contributors
Warwick Anderson is Associate Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Health and Society, at the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia (e-mail: wa@hps.unimelb.edu.au). He has published widely on the history of colonial public health and racial discourse, including, most recently, an article on tropical neurasthenia: “‘The Trespass Speaks’: White Masculinity and Colonial Breakdown,” American Historical Review, 1997, 102: 1343–70. He is currently at work on a manuscript on medicine, race, and colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Ted J. Kaptchuk is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Associate Director of the Center for Alternative Medicine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: tkaptchu@bidmc.harvard.edu). Much of his previous work concerned East Asian medicine, and one of his current interests is research methodology and the construction of evidence.
Russell Viner is Director of Adolescent Medicine and Senior Lecturer, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and University College Hospitals, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, U.K. (e-mail: R.Viner@ich.ucl.ac.uk). He received his doctorate in 1997 from the University of Cambridge, where his thesis was entitled “Abraham Jacobi and the Making of American Pediatrics.” His current research interest is in the development of medicine for children in America.
Daniel J. Wilson is Professor of History at Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew Street, Allentown, PA 18104 (e-mail: dwilson@muhlenberg.edu). He is working on a cultural history of the polio epidemics in the United States focused on the experiences of the individuals who had polio.
