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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 61.1 (2006) 115



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Jonathan Sadowsky holds the Theodore J. Castele Associate Professorship of Medical History in the Department of History at Case Western Reserve University. He received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. His research interest is the social and cultural history of psychiatry in the United States and Africa. His publications include Imperial Bedlam: Institutions of Madness and Colonialism in Southwest Nigeria (University of California Press, 1999). The article in this issue is part of a larger project about the history of electroconvulsive therapy in the United States. Correspondence should be sent to him at Department of History, Case Western Reserve University, 11201 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7107; or e-mail: jas34@po.cwru.edu.
Daniel Gilfoyle is Research Officer at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford. His research interests are veterinary science and experimental medicine in the twentieth century, and he has published in the Journal of Southern African Studies and Kronos The Journal of Cape History. He may be reached at 1 Midland Terrace, Cricklewood, London, NW2 6QH; or e-mail: danheath@dircon.co.uk.
Allen B. Weisse is Professor of Medicine at the New Jersey Medical School in Newark. His laboratory work has included studies in experimental myocardial infarction, including coronary thrombosis. More recently he has focused on various topics of medical history. His latest book, Heart to Heart: The Twentieth Century Battle against Cardiac Disease, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2002. Correspondence can be addressed to his home office at 164 Hillside Avenue, Springfield, NJ 07081; or e-mail: weisseab@umdnj.edu.


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