Contributors
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Gert H. Brieger is Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University, 1900 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail: gbrieger@earthlink.net). He was Chairman of the Department of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at Johns Hopkins from 1984 to 2002 and is currently co-editor of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Charles Hayter is Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto, Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, 2075 Bayview Ave., Toronto, Ont. M4N 3M5, Canada (e-mail: charles.hayter@tsrcc.on.ca), and the current President of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine. His research interests include the history of radiotherapy and cancer control, and he has recently completed a book manuscript on the history of radium and the response to cancer in Canada.
Judith A. Houck is Assistant Professor in the departments of Medical History and Bioethics, Women's Studies, and History of Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research focuses primarily on the history of women's health in the United States. She is currently finishing a manuscript on the history of menopause in America, tentatively titled, Not Just Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in America, 1897-2000. She can be reached at the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, 1300 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53713 (e-mail: jahouck@facstaff.wisc.edu).
Judith Temkin Irvine is Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1020 L.S.A. Bldg., 500 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382 (e-mail: jti@umich.edu). Her research concerns language in cultural and historical context.
Julie Livingston is an Assistant Professor in the Federated Department of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University. Her research is on the history of disability, aging, and chronic illness in twentieth-century Botswana. She holds degrees in public health and history and is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the understanding of health. She can be reached at: 206 President Street #2, Brooklyn, NY 11231 (e-mail: jliving@tulrich.com).
Elaine Murphy is Chairman of North East London Strategic Health Authority and a part-time historian. She is an honorary Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Wellcome [End Page 233] Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. Her research interests include the social administration of insanity and metropolitan pauper farms. Her address is: 382 Lauderdale Tower, Barbican, London EC2Y 8NA, U.K. (e-mail: elaine.murphy@nelondon.nhs.uk).
David J. Rothman is the Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine, Director of the Center for the Study of Medicine, and Professor of History at Columbia University. His books range from Discovery of the Asylum (1971), to Strangers at the Bedside (1991), and Beginnings Count (1997). His new book, coauthored with Sheila M. Rothman, on the past, present, and future of medical enhancements will appear in the fall of 2003. His recent essays address trafficking in organs, medical professionalism, and the ethics of research in third world countries. David Rothman also chairs the Program on Medicine as a Profession for the Open Society Institute. His address is: Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, 630 W. 168th Street, Black Bldg. 101, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: djr5@columbia.edu).
Ellen Silbergeld is Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail: esilberg@jhsph.edu). She received a B.A. degree from Vassar, and a Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins. She has conducted toxicological and epidemiological research on lead poisoning for over 25 years, including studies on mechanisms of neurodevelopmental toxicity, exposures of children and adults to lead, and the remobilization of lead from bone at menopause. She has advised state, federal, and international organizations on lead poisoning prevention, including EPA, CDC, WHO, and HUD. Her research on lead has been recognized by the Barsky Award of the American Public Health Association and a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
Owsei Temkin was a member of the faculty at the Institute of the History of Medicine of The Johns...
