Contributors
- Contributors
Anne Crowther is Professor of Social History at the University of Glasgow, 4 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland (e-mail: ECONMAC@DISH.gla.ac.uk). She has written on the history of the medical profession in Britain and on the history of forensic medicine in Scotland.
Marguerite Dupree is Senior Research Fellow (Core Staff) at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 5 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Her current research concerns the history of the medical profession in Britain, and medical entrepreneurs and the development of hydropathy in Scotland. Her e-mail address is MDUPREE@DISH.gla.ac.uk.
Larry D. Eldridge is an assistant professor of history at Widener University, One University Place, Chester, PA 19013-5792 (e-mail: larry.d.eldridge@widener.edu). Author of A Distant Heritage: The Growth of Free Speech in Early America (New York University Press, 1994), and editor of Women and Freedom in Early America (New York University Press, 1996), he is a specialist in the social and legal history of colonial America. He is currently completing a book-length study of wife abuse in the early colonies.
Irvine Loudon is a medical historian whose publications include Medical Care and the General Practitioner, 1750–1850 (Clarendon Press, 1986), Death in Childbirth: An International Study of Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality, 1800–1950 (Clarendon Press, 1992), and Childbed Fever: A Documentary History (Garland Press, 1995). He is currently editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Medicine (in press, 1997), co-editor of A History of General Practice under the National Health Service (in preparation), and author of a monograph on the history of puerperal fever, to be published by Oxford University Press. He is also an etcher and was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Etchers in 1995. His address is: The Mill House, Locks Lane, Wantage, Oxon. OX12 9EH, U.K. (e-mail: irvine.loudon@vax.ox.ac.uk).
Donald L. Madison is Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches medical history, health care policy, and American studies. Most of his work, as medical administrator and researcher, has focused in one way or another on the work and careers of physicians and the settings in which they practice. His address is CB#7240, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7240 (e-mail: donmad@med.unc.edu; URL: http://www.med.unc.edu/wrkunits/2depts/soclmed/welcome.htm).
Dale C. Smith is Interim Chairman, Department of Medical History, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814-4799. His research interests focus on the relationship between medical research and clinical practice. He has published widely on the history of infectious diseases, and his publications include William Budd’s Essay on Fever (1984), one of the Henry E. Sigerist Supplements to the Bulletin, and “A Historical Overview of the Recognition of Appendicitis,” (New York State J. Med., 1986, 86: 571–83, 639–47), which won the Laurance D. Redway Award for Medical Writing of the Medical Society of the State of New York.
