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Béla Bodó is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida. His interest is in Central European social and political history. His articles have appeared in Yad Vashem Studies, Hungarian Studies Review, and Journal of Family History. His recent monograph, entitled Tiszazug: A Social History of a Murder Epidemic, is being published in the series Eastern European Monographs, by Columbia University Press. He is currently writing a book on the White Terror in Hungary after World War I. His address is: Department of History, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave., SOC 238, Tampa, FL 33620-8100 (e-mail: bbodo@chuma1.cas.usf.edu).

Toby Gelfand is Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada K1H 8M5, where he holds appointments in the Faculty of Medicine and the History Department. He is coauthor of Charcot: Constructing Neurology (1995) and is currently working on Defending the Clinic, a study of Paris medicine during the second half of the nineteenth century. His e-mail address is: tgelfand@uottawa.ca.

Luz María Hernández-Sáenz is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario at London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2 (e-mail: lmhs@uwo.ca). She is a social historian who specializes in Mexico's medical profession and institutions during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is the author of Learning to Heal: The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico, 1767-1831, and is now researching Mexico's nineteenth-century public health policies.

David S. Jones studied medicine and history of medicine at Harvard University. His dissertation examined responses to epidemics of smallpox and tuberculosis among American Indians from the colonial period to the twentieth century. A book based on this work, Rationalizing Epidemics, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press (2003). He has also published research on the history of cardiac surgery and the radiation experiments conducted on human subjects during the Cold War. Currently a resident in psychiatry at McLean Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, he can be reached at 59 Alton Place #1, Brookline, MA 02446 (e-mail: dsjones@post.harvard.edu).

Russell Maulitz is a practicing internist in Drexel University's College of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he is also Professor of Medical Informatics. In collaboration with a team from the AAHM, Drexel University, and the National Library of Medicine, he recently completed the digital edition of the Surgeon General's Index Catalogue, which should be available on the World Wide Web sometime this year. His address is: 2414 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-6423 (e-mail: russell@drexel.edu). [End Page 873]

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