Contributors
- Contributors
Luke Demaitre is Visiting Professor in the Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He has written on a wide range of topics in medieval medicine. He continues his research on discussions of leprosy and their context in premodern theory and practice while also studying various aspects of the interactions between Latin and vernacular medical texts. His address is 238 Hunters Road, Washington, VA 22747 (e-mail: ldemaitre@summit.net).
Charles R. R. Hayter is a radiation oncologist practicing at the Kingston Regional Centre, Radiation Oncology Research Unit, Apps Level 4, Kingston, Ontario K7L 2V7, Canada (e-mail: chayter@cancercare.on.ca); and Associate Professor of Oncology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Before obtaining his medical degree, he received an M.A. in Drama from the University of Calgary. He is the author of Gilbert and Sullivan (1987) and of many articles on the history of radiology and radiotherapy. He is currently working on a book on the history of radium and cancer programs in Canada, and on a play about the final years of Arthur Sullivan.
Allison L. Hepler is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maine at Farmington. She received her Ph.D. from Temple University in 1996 but since 1983 has lived in Maine, where her husband built boats and together they built a house. She recently co-authored a chapter in Thriving Beyond Expectations: Women in Maine, 1850–1960 (U. Maine Press, forthcoming), and is currently revising her dissertation, “Women in Labor: Mothers, Medicine, and Occupational Health, 1890–1980,” for Ohio State University Press. Her research interests include occupational health, women’s history, and, recently, arctic history. Her address is 417 Montsweag Road, Woolwich, ME 04579 (e-mail: ahepler@maine.maine.edu or robtamlr@ime.net).
Kathleen W. Jones is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0117 (e-mail: kjwj@vt.edu). Her book, Taming the Troublesome Child: American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority, will be published by Harvard University Press in 1999. Currently she is researching a history of child homicide and suicide in the United States and co-editing a collection of essays with Rebecca Davis on instructional technology, a view from the (classroom) trenches.
George J. Makari is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the History of Psychiatry Section at Cornell University Medical College, Box 171, 525 East 68th Street, New York, New York 10021 (e-mail: gjmakari@mail.med.cornell.edu); he is also on the faculty at the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research at Columbia University. He has published numerous articles on the origins of psychoanalysis, with a special focus on the development of the concept of transference.
Russell C. Maulitz is Chief, Division of Medical Informatics at MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia and Director of the Primary Care Health Information Project, a constituent of the National Medical Knowledge Bank. With a group from the National Library of Medicine and the American Association for the History of Medicine, he is seeking to make the “St. John” project, the digital Surgeon-General’s Catalogue, a reality. His address is: 2414 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-6423 (e-mail: maulitzr@auhs.edu).
Charles E. Rosenberg is the Janice and Julian Bers Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Suite 303, Logan Hall, 249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304 (tel.: 215-898-8210; e-mail: crosenbe@sas.upenn.edu). His most recent books are Explaining Epidemics and Other Studies in the History of Medicine (1992), and a revised and expanded edition of No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought (1997). He is currently at work on a synthetic study of changing ideas of disease from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Arthur M. Silverstein is Independent Order of Odd Fellows Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmic Immunology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has published articles on several aspects of the history and sociology of immunologic science, and A History of Immunology (1989). He is currently working on a book about Paul Ehrlich’s immunology. His current address is...
