Notes on Contributors

Chia-Feng Chang is Assistant Professor in the Department of History, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, and Editor of the Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine. In 1996, she received her Ph.D. degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has recently published “The Conceptions of Contagion in Chinese Medicine: A Case from the Zhubing Yuanhou Lun (The Origins and Symptoms of Disease, 610 AD)”, Taida lishi xuebao (Historical Inquiry, National Taiwan University) (no. 27, pp. 37–82, 2001). She is working on images of children, etiology of childhood disease, and the establishment of pediatrics in Chinese medicine. E-mail: ccfchang@ccms.ntu.edu.tw.

John M. Forrester graduated in Classics at the University of St. Andrews, and after military service in WWII, graduated in Medicine at the University of Oxford. He has retired after being successively a general medical practitioner, a physiologist, and an administrative medical officer. In medical history, he has published on Malpighi, on an experiment of Galen’s, on James Currie of the “cold water cure for fever,” and other topics. Publication of his translation of Jean Fernel’s Physiologia is scheduled for 2002. Address correspondence to him at 120 Morningside Drive, Edinburgh EH10 5NS, Scotland. E-mail: john@j-forrester.demon.co.uk.

Margaret C. Jacob is Professor of History at the University of California-Los Angeles. Her most recent books are The Enlightenment. A Brief History with Documents (Bedford, 2000) and Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West (Oxford University Press, 1997). Currently she is at work on the sources of scientific innovation in the period from 1800 to 1830 in Britain, the low countries and France; the project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Correspondence can be sent to her at the Department of History, UCLA, Box 951473, Los Angeles, CA 90024. E-mail: mjacob@history.ucla.edu.

Suzanne White Junod is a historian for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She has recently published on women’s health issues, food issues, homeopathy, and a Haitian drug crisis. She is currently writing a book on the history of food safety issues, concerns, and controls in twentieth century America. Address correspondence to her at FDA History Office, HFC-24, Room 13–51, Rockville, MD. E-mail: sjunod@ora.fda.gov.

Lara Marks, formerly a senior lecturer in the history of medicine at Imperial College, is now a Visiting Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene. Her research interests include ethnicity and health, maternal and infant health, and the history of the pharmaceutical industry. Her most recent book is Sexual Chemistry: A History of the Pill (Yale University Press, 2000). Correspondence should be sent to her at Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge University, 13 Hugo Road, London N19 5EU, UK. E-mail: LM272@cam.ac.uk.

Michael J. Sauter is a visiting scholar at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C., in Mexico City. He has recently completed his dissertation Visions of the enlightenment: The edict on religion of 1788 and political reaction in Prussia (UCLA, 2002) and, with Dora B. Weiner, has coauthored “Paris and the Rise of Clinical Medicine During the French Revolution and under Napoleon,” (Osiris, forthcoming). He is currently working on the role public clocks played in Berlin between 1780 and 1830 in shaping public notions of scientific authority. E-mail: mjsauter@hotmail.com.