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Amir Arsalan Afkhami was the William C. and Ruth A. Gaines Doctoral Fellow in History at Yale University. He has just received the Ph.D. degree in history from Yale, and the M.D. degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. His research focuses on social, political, and medical history of the modern Middle East with a specific interest in Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and his dissertation is entitled "Iran in the Age of Epidemics: Nationalism and the Struggle for Public Health, 1889-1926." His current address is: P.O. Box 207105, New Haven, CT 06520 (e-mail: amir.afkhami@yale.edu).
Alex Dracobly is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oregon, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1288 (dracobly@darkwing.uoregon.edu). He defended a dissertation in 1996 at the University of Chicago on medical ethics, jurisprudence, and professionalism in nineteenth-century France, and he is now working on a book tentatively titled, "Experimenting with Syphilis: Philippe Ricord and the World of French Venereology, 1830-1870."
Philippe Fragu, M.D., Ph.D., is a member of François Delaporte's medical history group at Picardie-Jules Verne University in Amiens, France. His research focuses on the role of diagnostic and therapeutic tools in the development of contemporary medicine, through the example of endocrinology. His paper "Interactions physiologie-outils thérapeutiques dans les constructions physiopathologiques du goitre exophtalmique (1860-1960)," was published in Revue d'histoire des sciences, 2000, 53: 107-32, and he is currently preparing a manuscript on the history of the thryoid hormone calcitonin. Dr. Fragu is Director of Research at INSERM, and medical consultant, Nuclear Medicine Unit, Institut Gustave-Roussy, 29 rue Camille Desmoulins, 94805, Villejuif Cedex, France (e-mail: fragu@igr.fr).
David Boyd Haycock read modern history at St. John's College, Oxford, and has an M.A. degree from Sussex University (1992) and a Ph.D. from the University of London (1998). Between 1998 and 2002 he was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford; he also held a three-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship at De Montfort University, Leicester, where he worked with Professor George Rousseau on the interfaces of medicine and literature. The author of William Stukeley: Science, Archaeology and Religion in Eighteenth-Century England (2002), he is now at Birkbeck College, University of London. His address is: 57 Bedford Street, Iffley Fields, Oxford, OX4 1SU, U.K. (e-mail: david.haycock@britishlibrary.net). [End Page 489]
Judith Walzer Leavitt is the Ruth Bleier WARF Professor of Medical History, History of Science, and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1300 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706-15323 (e-mail: jwleavit@wisc.edu). Her major research interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century public health and women's health. Her publications include The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform (1982, 1996), Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950 (1986), Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health (1996), Sickness and Health in America (1978, 1985, 1997), and Women and Health in America (1985, 1999). Her current research projects carry forward her childbirth studies and her interest in public health and gender.
George S. Rousseau received his Ph.D. degree at Princeton University and has taught at the universities of Harvard, UCLA, Cambridge, Oxford, Leiden, Lausanne, Aberdeen, and De Montfort. He is currently a member of the Faculty of Modern History at Oxford University. His main interest is the interface of literature and medicine, for which his work was awarded a three-year U.K. Leverhulme Trust Fellowship, from 1999-2001. He is the author of studies dealing with medicine and the humanities, and his most recent books are Gout: the Patrician Malady (1998), coauthored with Roy Porter, and Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History (2003). His address is: Faculty of Modern History, Broad Street, University of Oxford, OX1 3BD, U.K. (e-mail: george.rousseau@magdalen.oxford.ac.uk).
Steven Shapin is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His books include A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (1994) and The Scientific...
