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  • Contributors

Daniel M. Fox, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, has worked at two universities as well as in federal and state government. Pertinent publications include Health Policies, Health Politics: The British and American Experience, 1911–1965 (1986) and Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy (1995).

Phil Nicholas Jr. received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University at Albany in 2002 and has lectured at Saint Michael’s College and the University at Albany.

Jared N. Day is a Research Associate at the Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a historical consultant on toxic waste cleanup and the author of Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City, 1890–1943 (Columbia University Press, 1999).

Lisa Margot Johnson is currently a Ph.D. candidate in History at Carnegie Mellon University with a primary focus on urban environmental history, race, ethnicity, and public health.

Beatrix Hoffman is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and author of The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America (Chapel Hill, 2001). She is currently writing a history of the right to health care in the United States.

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