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Alberto Cambrosio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, McIntyre Medical Building, Room 416, 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1Y6 (e-mail: alberto.cambrosio@mcgill.ca). He specializes in the sociology of biomedical innovation.

Peter Keating is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3P8 (e-mail: keating.peter@uqam.ca). He specializes in the history of the biomedical sciences and has recently completed a book manuscript with Alberto Cambrosio entitled Biomedical Platforms: (Re)Producing the Normal and the Pathological in Late Twentieth-Century Biomedicine.

E. James Lieberman is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University School of Medicine, and in private practice at 3900 Northampton St. NW, Washington, DC 20015 (e-mail: ejl@gwu.edu; web site: www.ottorank.com). He has written on Esperanto and its physician-author, L. L. Zamenhof, and on the evolution of psychotherapy. His biography of Viennese-American psychologist Otto Rank, Acts of Will (1985), has appeared in French and German translations. He co-translated Rank's Psychology and the Soul (1998), and is now working on the English translation of the second edition of Rank's Myth of the Birth of the Hero.

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 numerous articles on the history and sociology of immunology, A History of Immunology (1989), and Paul Ehrlich's Receptor Immunology: The Magnificent Obsession (2002). His current address is: Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1900 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail: arts@jhmi.edu).

Christiane Sinding, M.D., Ph.D., is working at the Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé et Société (CNRS, INSERM, EHESS), Site CNRS, 7 rue Guy Môquet, 94801 Villejuif Cedex, France (e-mail: sinding@ext.jussieu.fr). She has been trained as a physician, then as a historian of science. She is the author of Le clinicien et le chercheur: des maladies de carence a la médecine moléculaire (1991), and most of her articles deal with the history of endocrinology and diabetes. She is currently working on a book on the history of therapeutic innovation in diabetes mellitus. One of her main concerns is to bring to light the invisible work of physicians and patients in the construction of medicine. [End Page 427]

Jason Szabo, M.D., M.A., has been a member of the McGill AIDS Center of the Montreal General Hospital since completing his residency in 1991. There he continues to be involved in clinical research and in the care of people living with HIV/AIDS. For the last several years, he has been a graduate student in the Department of the Social Studies and History of Medicine at McGill, where he is in the final stages of writing his Ph.D. thesis, which deals with the cultural history of incurable disease in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. His address is: Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, c/o IDTC, Room A-5123, Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Cedar Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A4 (e-mail: jszabo_ca@yahoo.com).

Elizabeth Temkin is a nurse-midwife at Planned Parenthood, 779 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 06604 (e-mail: temkine@earthlink.net). She is on the clinical faculty at Yale School of Nursing. Her research focuses on the history of postpartum care. [End Page 428]

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