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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 59.1 (2004) 179



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Thomas G. Benedek, M.D., a retired rheumatologist, is Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, in the Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of History in the History Department of the University of Pittsburgh. He is a past president of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Send correspondence to him at 1130 Wightman Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15217-1050. E-mail: benedek@pitt.edu.

Sharon M. Leon is a doctoral candidate in the American Studies Department at the University of Minnesota. She is currently completing a dissertation on the Roman Catholic response to the eugenics movement in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Correspondence may be sent to her at 104 Scott Hall, American Studies Department, University of Minnesota, 72 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. E-mail:

leon0120@tc.umn.edu.

Lawrence B. Goodheart is professor of history at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Mad Yankees: The Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003). He can be reached at 455 North Bigelow Road, Hampton, CT 06247-1200. E-mail: goodheart@snet.net.

Patrick Singy is completing his Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science at the University of Chicago. In addition to his interest in eighteenth-century sexuality, he is working on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century structures of medical perception in practices such as the taking of the pulse, percussion of the chest, and consultation by letter. His address is: University of Chicago, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, SS 205, 1126 East 59th St., Chicago, IL 60637 E-mail:

pbsingy@midway.uchicago.edu.



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