Contributors
- Contributors
Marcel H. Bickel is Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, University of Bern Medical School. He is the author of numerous publications in the history of medicine, including several about Henry E. Sigerist. He is also editor of the Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences (Gesnerus). His address is: Department of the History of Medicine, Buehlstrasse 26, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland.
Edward T. Morman is Associate Academy Librarian for Historical Collections and Programs at the New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10029, and was Librarian of the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine until June 1997. His current research interests center on public health in the United States during the twentieth century. He is the author of a biographical essay on George Rosen that appeared in the expanded edition of Rosen’s History of Public Health (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at the Pennsylvania State University, 108 Weaver Building, University Park, PA 16802-5500 (e-mail: rnp5@psu.edu). He is the author of Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis (Harvard University Press, 1988); Value-Free Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge (Harvard University Press, 1991); Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don’t Know about Cancer (Basic Books, 1995); and a forthcoming book, The Nazi War on Cancer. His research interests center on the history of scientific and medical controversy; he has also written on the history of bioethics, environmental policy, agates and the lapidary arts, molecular anthropology, and evolutionary theory.
Jessica M. Robbins is a doctoral student in Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520 (e-mail: jessica.robbins@yale.edu). Her current research interests focus on the epidemiology of women’s health, particularly diabetes, and more broadly on how class, gender, and race intersect in the production of health and disease. Her prior work includes the oral history “We Didn’t Even Have Words,” which appeared in Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak, ed. Julia Penelope (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1994), pp. 207–39.
Carolyn G. Shapiro-Shapin is Assistant Professor of History at Grand Valley State University, 167 AuSable Hall, Allendale, MI 49401 ( ShapiroC@GVSU.edu). She received the Ph.D. degree from Yale in 1993. She is currently working on a study of the relationship between public health, city image, and local boosterism in towns along the Illinois and Mississippi River systems.
