Contributors

Patricia D’Antonio is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Nursing and a Fellow at the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, NEB #307, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (e-mail: dantonio@pobox.upenn.edu). She is currently working on an edited book of readings in nursing history.

Saul Jarcho, a retired internist, has contributed numerous articles and review to the Bulletin since 1941, and to other publications, including the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, of which he was editor from 1967 to 1976. Recently he completed a translation of the consultation reports of Francesco Torti (1658–1741), which is awaiting publication. He was President of the American Association for the History of Medicine from 1968 to 1970. His address is: 11 West 69th Street, New York, NY 10023 (e-mail: IrmJar@aol.com).

Graham Mooney has research interests in historical demography and the history of public health. He is currently a research officer on a project, “Mortality in the Metropolis, 1860–1920,” funded by the Wellcome Trust and based at the Centre for Metropolitan History, University of London, Malet Street, London, UK WC1E 7HU (e-mail: gmooney@sas.ac.uk). He will shortly take up a Fellowship in the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute in London to expand his study of infectious disease surveillance in Britain between 1880 and 1920.

Julio César Pangas is Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine and of Psychiatry, Department of Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, José E. Uriburu 1029, P.B. “C”, 1114 Capital Federal, Argentina (e-mail: jcaradio@impsat1.com.ar). He specializes in Oriental Studies and the Akkadian language. His current research interests include the medicine of ancient Mesopotamia, the history of illness in the ancient Near East, paleopathology, and madness in antiquity.

Joseph Ziegler is a lecturer in the Department of General History, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel (e-mail:zieglerj@research.haifa.ac.il). His book Medicine and Religion c. 1300: The Case of Arnau de Vilanova was published in 1998. He is currently engaged in a study of the use of medicine by scholastic theologians. His long-term project is the study of the medical aspects of medieval physiognomy.