Contributors
- Contributors
Charlotte G. Borst is Associate Professor of History and Executive Director of Historical Collections at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research focuses on issues of gender and health in American history. She is the author of Catching Babies: The Professionalization of Childbirth, 1870–1920 (1995), and numerous articles on the history of midwives and obstetrics. She is currently at work on a project that examines the role of gender in shaping the twentieth-century academic medical center. Several articles are forthcoming, and Gender, Class, and Race and the Academic Medical Center in Twentieth-Century America is under contract to Harvard University Press. Her address is: Reynolds Historical Library, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1700 University Blvd., Birmingham, AL 35294 (e-mail: CBorst@UAB.edu). As of 1 July 1998, she will be the Chair of the Department of History, St. Louis University, 211 North Grand Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103.
Gerald N. Grob is the Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University, 30 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1293 (e-mail: ggrob@rci.rutgers.edu). He is author of numerous books and articles dealing with the history of mental health policy in the United States. His latest book is The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill (1994). Currently he is working on a book on the relation between disease and environment in American history from the first settlements to the present.
Natalie Holt is a second-year medical student at the Yale University School of Medicine. In 1995, she received a Bachelor of Arts in History and Science from Harvard University. In addition to the history of the physician assistant profession, her research interests include late nineteenth-century medical practice; an article on this subject appears in the Winter 1998 issue of The Pharos. Her address is 655 North Monroe Street, Ridgewood, NJ 07450 (e-mail: natalie.holt@yale.edu).
Richard J. Kahn is an internist practicing at Penobscot Bay Medical Center, Four Glen Cove Drive #104, Rockport, ME 04856 (e-mail: rkahn@midcoast.com), with clinical teaching positions at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Dartmouth Medical School. His research interest is in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century medicine. Work in progress includes the publication of an annotated transcript of Jeremiah Barker’s 400-page manuscript Diseases of the District of Maine . . . 1735–1820.
Patricia G. Kahn is Director of the Niles Perkins Health Science Library, Penobscot Bay Medical Center, Six Glen Cove Drive, Rockport, ME 04856 (e-mail: pkahn@saturn.caps.maine.edu), and serves on the boards of the Maine Health Sciences Library & Information Consortium (HSLIC) and the North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries (NAHSL). She collaborates with Richard on assorted medical history projects.
James Harvey Young, Candler Professor of American Social History Emeritus at Emory University, resides at 272 Heaton Park Drive, Decatur, Georgia 30030-1027 (e-mail: jyoun02@emory.edu). His research has focused on the history of food and drug regulation and of health quackery in America. His books include The Toadstool Millionaires (1961), The Medical Messiahs (1967), Pure Food (1989), and American Health Quackery (1992).
