Contributors
- Contributors
Carl F. Ameringer is director of the graduate program in public administration at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University. He was a partner in the Baltimore law firm Niles, Barton & Wilmer and is a former assistant attorney general and deputy counsel to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Ameringer is the author of State Medical Boards and the Politics of Public Protection (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999). His current research examines the effect of government-sponsored litigation on the pace and direction of health care reform.
Sarah Bauerle Bass is an assistant professor in the Temple University Department of Health Studies. Her areas of expertise include human sexuality, especially in the areas of gender, reproductive technologies, and sexually transmitted diseases, such as HIV, and in health communications, especially as it relates to the uses of new technology by patient populations. She is the principal investigator of a National Cancer Institute–funded study researching the use of the Internet by newly diagnosed cancer patients who contact the Cancer Information Service. She also consults with the Fox Chase Cancer Center in developing research projects aimed at bridging the digital divide.
William S. Brewbaker III is professor of law at the University of Alabama, where he teaches courses in health care law, antitrust law, and other subjects. He spent the 2001–2002 academic year on sabbatical leave in Cambridge, England, where he was a Visiting Fellow of St Edmund’s College, a Visitor of the Faculty of Law, and a member of Tyndale House.
Scott Greer is Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit, University College, London, where he is principal investigator of the Devolution and Health project. He is completing a Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University. [End Page 705]
Jennifer Klein is a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy program at Yale University, where she has joined the faculty of the Department of History. From 1998 to 2002 she was an assistant professor of history at Smith College. Her research has focused on the history of private employee benefits, group insurance, and the development of labor-management collective bargaining. Her book on this work, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Origins of America’s Public-Private Welfare State is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
Thad Kousser is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. He studies legislatures and legislative elections and has researched strategic voting in the United States and in the European Union, the electoral effects of campaign finance laws, the determinants of legislative leadership tenures, and the political impact of the one-person, one-vote decisions. His dissertation is titled “Redesigning Democracies: How Term Limits and Legislator Performance Shape the Form and Function of State Politics.”
Martha T. McCluskey is a professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where her teaching and research interests include constitutional law, insurance, welfare, and economic policy. From 1989 to 1993 she worked as an attorney for the Maine Public Advocate’s Office on regulatory issues involving workers’ compensation insurance.
Stanley J. Reiser, the Griff T. Ross Professor of Humanities and Technology in Health Care at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, is a nationally and internationally known scholar and teacher in ethics, technology assessment, history, and health policy. He received his undergraduate education at Columbia University, his medical degree from the State University of New York–Downstate Medical Center, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. For twelve years before coming to the University of Texas–Houston in 1982, he was on the faculty of Harvard University, where he held appointments at Harvard Medical School, Harvard College, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is sole author of more than one hundred publications and has addressed almost three hundred national and international forums and institutions.
Peter Swenson, professor of political science at Northwestern University, is the author of Fair Shares: Unions, Pay, and Politics in Sweden and West Germany (Cornell University Press, 1989) and Capitalists against Markets...
