Contributors
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John F. Bastian is Director of the Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Clinics at Children's Hospital, 3020 Children's Way, San Diego, CA 92123 (e-mail: jbastian@chsd.edu) and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego. He has treated children with Kawasaki syndrome for over 20 years. His other interests include childhood asthma, primary immunodeficiency disorders, and the applied history of medicine.
Lucinda McCray Beier is Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Illinois State University. Her publications include Sufferers and Healers: The Experience of Illness in Seventeenth-Century England (1987) and A Matter of Life and Death: Health, Illness and Medicine in McLean County, 1830-1995 (1996). Her most recent article, "'We Were Green as Grass': Learning about Sex and Reproduction in Three Working-Class Lancashire Communities, 1900-1970," appears in Social History of Medicine, 2003, 16 (3): 461-80. She is currently working on books on community health culture in the American midwest and Lancashire, England. Her address is: Campus Box 4420, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4920 (e-mail: lmbeier@ilstu.edu).
Jane C. Burns is Chief of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology in the Dept. of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, 200 W. Arbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92103-0830 (e-mail: jcburns@ucsd.edu). Burns has a career-long interest in Kawasaki disease and has authored numerous clinical and basic science articles on the disease. Her current research focuses on the genetic influences underlying susceptibility to Kawasaki disease and coronary artery complications.
Lisa Forman Cody is an associate professor of European history at Claremont McKenna College, Dept. of History, 850 Columbia Ave., Claremont, CA 91711 (e-mail: lisa.cody@claremontmckenna.edu; URL: http://hist.claremontmckenna .edu/lcody). She is the author of Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, in press), and several articles on gender and reproduction.
James Colgrove is a staff associate at the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: jc988@columbia.edu). His research has examined tobacco and illicit-drug policy, harm reduction, and the uses of persuasion and coercion in public health. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Public Health; the Journal of Law, [End Page 537] Medicine, and Ethics; Health Affairs; and Science. He is working on a book about the evolution of vaccination policy in the United States.
David T. Courtwright has written about the history of drug use and drug policy, most recently in Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World (2001) and in the expanded edition of Dark Paradise: A History of Opiate Addiction in America (2001). He is currently working on a social history of aviation and a Jamesian study of the American culture wars. He is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Health of the University of North Florida. His address is: Department of History, University of North Florida, 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South, Jacksonville, FL 32224-2645 (e-mail: dcourtwr@unf.edu).
Julie Fairman is an associate professor and a senior scholar at the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (e-mail: fairman@nursing.upenn.edu). An author of the book Critical Care Nursing: A History (with co-author Joan Lynaugh), she is now working on a book exploring the development of the American nurse practitioner movement, combining her interests in post-World War II history, the history of health care and technology, and gender studies.
Howard I. Kushner is the Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Professor of Science & Society at Emory University and Associate Director of the Center for Health, Culture & Society. Kushner has written extensively on medical and social history, including American Suicide (1991) and A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome (1999). His current research focuses on risk and protective factors in addictive behaviors. His address is: Department of Behavioral Science & Health Education, Rollins School of Public...
