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Edward A. Eckert is Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His current address is: Postfach 143, CH-3818 Grindelwald, Switzerland. Following a primarily scientific education, he taught microbiology at two schools of medicine, where his research centered on the viral etiology of chicken leukemia. At Michigan, he directed his teaching and research more toward epidemiology, studying the immunology of influenza and rabies viruses and the recent state of enteric diseases in the United States. Since becoming emeritus, he has directed his research at the application of epidemiological principles and quantitative methods to historical epidemics, resulting in a book on plague in central Europe (The Structure of Plagues and Pestilences in Early Modern Europe: Central Europe, 1560-1640, 1996), and an ongoing study of cholera in the Prussian borderlands of Germany and Poland.

Julie Fairman is Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, and an Associate of the Center of the Study of the History of Nursing and the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (e-mail: fairman@nursing.upenn.edu). She is coauthor, with Joan Lynaugh, of the book Critical Care Nursing: A History (1998). She is currently working on a book that will use the development of the nurse practitioner movement as a case study to explore changes in health care between 1960 and 1980; the book will investigate the perspectives and relationships of nurses and physicians, and their evolving professional practices.

Nick Hopwood teaches history of modern medicine and biomedical sciences in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH, U.K. (e-mail: ndh12@cam.ac.uk). Research interests include reproductive sciences, especially embryology; and popular science, especially in the labor movement, on which articles have appeared in History Workshop Journal and History of Science. The present essay is work toward a history of embryos in modern Germany. He is also currently editing a reprint of a trade catalogue of embryological models, to be published as Embryos in Wax: The Models of Adolf and Friedrich Ziegler (Whipple Museum of the History of Science, and Medizinhistorisches Institut Bern). [End Page 218]

Lynn Marie Pohl is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington. She is interested in how relations between care-givers and care-receivers have been shaped by the dynamics of race, class, and gender, and by the development of institutional and laboratory medicine. Her dissertation-in-progress looks at the problems of "depersonalization" in professional medicine by focusing on the ways in which patients and physicians talk and write about sickness, bedside medical care, and medical institutions in the American South from the 1880s through the 1930s. She can be contacted at: History Department, Ballantine Hall, Bloomington, IN 47405-6624 (e-mail: lpohl@indiana.edu). [End Page 219]

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