Contributors
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Carl Martin Allwood is Professor of Psychology at Lund University in Sweden. His research interests include metacognition, and usability aspects of the development process of computer systems. His work in science studies adopts the perspective of the anthropology of knowledge and includes a project, together with Jan Bärmark, on the formation and function of research problems in the research process and how researchers handle these problems. Allwood has also written on the distinction between qualitative and quantitative approaches to science, hermeneutics in social anthropology, and the development of indigenized psychologies.
Jan Bärmark is Associate Professor in the Department of Theory of Science at Göteborg University in Sweden. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis about Abraham Mallow's theory and psychology of science. Together with the historian of ideas Ingemar Nilsson, he has written a psychobiography of the Swedish psychotherapist, Poul Bjerre (1876–1964). With Carl Martin Allwood, he is finishing a project on the formation of problems in science. Since 1974, Bärmark has studied Buddhism with Tibetan lamas. From this interest has come his case studies on Tibetan Buddhist medicine, written from the perspective of anthropology of knowledge and resulting in a comparative study of the cognitive styles of Tibetan medicine and Western science.
Alberto Cambrosio is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Studies in Medicine at McGill University. His work focuses on the sociology of biomedical practices and innovations. He co-authored, with Peter Keating, Exquisite Specificity: The Monoclonal Antibody Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), and co-edited, with Margaret Lock and Allan Young, Living and Working with New Biomedical Technologies. Intersections of Inquiry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). [End Page 563]
Peter Keating is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Quebec at Montreal and a member of the Interuniversity Centre for the Study of Science and Technology (CIRSST). Among his publications are Yves Gingras, Peter Keating, and Camille Limoges, Du scribe au savant: Les porteurs du savoir de l'Antiquité à la révolution industrielle (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2000), and Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating, Exquisite Specificity: The Monoclonal Antibody Revolution (Oxford, 1995). He is presently (2000–2001) Burroughs-Wellcome Fellow at the National Humanities Center.
Timothy Lenoir is Professor of History and chair of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at Stanford University. Lenoir is the author of The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth Century German Biology, (Reidel, 1982; paper ed., Chicago, 1989), which examines the development of non-Darwinian theories of evolution, particularly in the German context during the nineteenth century. His other books include: Politik im Tempel der Wissenschaft: Forschung und Machtausübung im deutschen Kaiserreich (Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, 1992); Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific Disciplines (Stanford, 1997), a volume which examines the formation of disciplines and the role of public institutions in the construction of scientific knowledge; an edited volume, Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication (Stanford, 1998). Lenoir is currently engaged in an investigation of the introduction of computers into biomedical research from the early 1960s through the 1990s, particularly the development of computer graphics, medical visualization technology, the development of virtual reality and its application in surgery. With funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Lenoir is currently working on a web documentary project to document the history of bioinformatics. Lenoir has been a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and twice a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Brian Regal is completing his doctoral dissertation in American Intellectual history at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, and is currently a researcher with the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston. His dissertation is a biography of evolutionary biologist Henry Fairfield Osborn.
Donelle R. Ruwe is Assistant Professor of English at Fitchburg State College, Massachusetts, where she teaches [End Page 564] British literature and poetry. She is on the governing board of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writer's Association and is co-editing the forthcoming essay collection, Re Presenting Power: British Women Writers 1780–1900. She has published poetry and fiction, articles on romantic era women writers, American Indian writers, and has forthcoming articles on...
