Contributors
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Christopher Crenner is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, where he teaches the history of medicine and social medicine. He also practices and teaches in the Department of Medicine. He is currently at work on a book about the negotiation of medical authority in the early twentieth-century practice of Richard Cabot. His research interests include the relation between medical knowledge and diagnostic technologies, the doctor-patient relationship in the twentieth century, and oral histories of medical encounters. His address is: History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, KS 66160-7311 (e-mail: Ccrenner@kumc.edu).
Megan J. Davies is a Wellcome Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow. Her research interests span a range of topics: rural medicine, old age, public health, social welfare and midwifery. Current projects include a comparison of health care in the Scottish Highlands and Islands and remote regions of British Columbia between the two world wars, and a study of an underground midwifery school that operated in Vancouver during the 1980s. Her book, Into the House of Old: A History of Residential Care in British Columbia, will be published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2002. Dr. Davies's address is: 58 Bruntsfield Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland EH10 4DY (e-mail: med@arts.gla.ac.uk).
Niall P. A. S. Johnson recently completed his Ph.D. degree at the University of Cambridge following earlier study at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and Macquarie University, Australia. His work is located at the nexus of a number of disciplines, including geography, history, medicine, and communication. His next substantial publication is a chapter on the British experience of the influenza pandemic in Howard Phillips and David Killingray, eds., The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918-19: New Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2002). He can be reached at: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, U.K. CB2 3HU (e-mail: niallj@yahoo.com).
Juergen Mueller, geographer and historian, started work on the Ph.D. degree in the History Department, University of Hannover, Germany, investigating patterns of reaction to the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 in sub-Saharan Africa. This investigation encompassed the countries of Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and England, and a published bibliography of regional studies concerning Spanish influenza is forthcoming. His current research interests [End Page 196] concern the social and economic history of Anglophone Africa. Mr. Mueller's address is: Goebelstrasse 11, 30163 Hannover, Germany (e-mail: j-dm@gmx.de).
Paulo Alves Porto graduated with a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the Universidade de São Paulo and obtained M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the history of science from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). His master's dissertation resulted in the book Van Helmont e o Conceito de Gás-Química e Medicina no Século XVII (São Paulo: EDUC-EDUSP, 1995). He recently conducted post-doctoral research at the Johns Hopkins University, working on seventeenth-century chemistry and medicine. He is currently a professor at PUC-SP, in the Graduate Program in the History of Science. His address is: Av. dos Eucaliptos, 165-ap. 74-Moema. 04517-050, São Paulo, SP, Brazil (e-mail: palporto@iqsc.sc.usp.br).
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins teaches in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University, Baker 240, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (e-mail: ewatkins@andrew .cmu.edu). She earned her Ph.D. degree in the history of science at Harvard University in 1996; her book, On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives in America, 1950-1970, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1998. She is currently working on a history of estrogen replacement therapy. [End Page 197]
