Notes on Contributors

Dr. Louise Hill Curth teaches early modern medical history at the University of Exeter and the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter, England, and is the book review editor for the Social History of Medicine. Her research and publications focus on medical beliefs and practices for both humans and animals, as well as on the print culture in early modern England. Correspondence should be sent to her at the Department of History, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, Great Britain; or e-mail: l.curth@exeter.ac.uk.

Dr. Robert Darby is an independent scholar specializing in the social history of medicine and male sexuality. In 2004 he was a Visiting Fellow in the School of Sciences, Australian National University. His study of the rise and fall of routine male circumcision in Britain will be published by Chicago University Press in 2005. He lives in Canberra, Australia; he can be reached at 15 Morehead Street, Curtin, ACT 2605; or e-mail robjlk@homemail.com.au.

Beth Linker is a doctoral candidate at Yale University in the History of Medicine and Science. She is completing her dissertation on the visual representation and physical rehabilitation of disabled soldiers in World War I America. Her article, "Strength and Science: Gender, Physiotherapy, and Medicine in the United States, 1918–1935" forthcoming in the Journal of Women's History, demonstrates how, by creating a post-Victorian identity, wartime physiotherapists became physical manipulators of the male body and purveyors of knowledge regarding the definition and treatment of disability. She can be reached at the Program in the History of Medicine and Science, Yale University, Sterling Hall of Medicine, P.O. Box 208015, New Haven, CT 06520-8015; or e-mail beth.linker@yale.edu.