Contributors
- Contributors
Christopher Hamlin is Associate Professor of History and director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Values, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (e-mail: Christopher.S.Hamlin.1@nd.edu). He is completing a book entitled Public Health in the Age of Chadwick and working on a new edition of Chadwick’s Sanitary Report.
Marcia L. Meldrum is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Center for Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine, at the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473 (e-mail: meldrum@histr.sscnet.ucla.edu). The article in this issue of the Bulletin is based on her dissertation, “‘Departures from the Design’: The Randomized Clinical Trial in Historical Context, 1946–1970,” for which she received the SUNY Stony Brook Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Award in 1994. She is currently revising the dissertation for publication, doing further research on the intrauterine device, and developing an archive at UCLA on the history of pain studies.
Jole Shackelford is a research associate affiliated with the Program in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in early modern European science and medicine, especially Scandinavian. He has recently published “Erastus and Severinus: The Early Reception of Paracelsian Theory,” Sixteenth-Century Journal, 1995, 26: 123–35, and Nordic Science in Historical Perspective (Madison, Wisconsin: Nordic Council Curriculum Project, 1994). He is currently completing a book on Petrus Severinus and Danish Paracelsianism. His address is: 992 Portland Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104-7036 (e-mail: Shack001@maroon.tc.umn.edu).
Hans Rudolf Wilhelm completed medical studies at the University of Zurich. His dissertation (University of Bern, 1989) concerned the history of psychiatry in nineteenth-century Switzerland, and his current research interests include the historical dimensions of psychiatry. He is the author of the fifty-year index (1943–93) of Gesnerus, and in 1994 he reorganized the archive of the Swiss Society of Psychiatry. His address is: Winkelriedstrasse 25, CH — 8006 Zurich, Switzerland.
Elizabeth A. Williams is Associate Professor of History at Oklahoma State University, 501 Life Sciences West, Stillwater, OK 74078-0611. She is the author of The Physical and the Moral: Anthropology, Physiology, and Philosophical Medicine in France, 1750–1850 (Cambridge University Press, 1994). The recent recipient of a National Science Foundation Scholar’s Award, she is currently writing a history of vitalism in eighteenth-century Montpellier.
