Contributors
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- Contributors
Gabriella Berti Logan, who received her Ph.D. degree in history from the University of Ottawa in 1999, is currently teaching the history of technology at that university. She has published an article in the journal Éducation et francophonie; her latest publication is "The Desire to Contribute: An Eighteenth-Century Italian Woman of Science," American Historical Review (June 1994). She is interested in Italian women in science and is current working on a biography of the nineteenth-century astronomer Caterina Scarpellini, and on Italian women botanists. Her address is: 57 Drouin Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1K 2A6 (e-mail: gblogan@magma.ca).
Gregg Mitman is Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Science & Technology Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Medical History and Bioethics, 1300 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706-1532 (e-mail: gmitman@med.wisc.edu). He has written widely on the intellectual, cultural, and political history of ecology and nature in twentieth-century America. His most recent works include a co-edited Osiris volume (2004) with Michelle Murphy and Christopher Sellers on the history of environment and health, and Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film (1999). He is currently completing a book on the ecological history of allergy in America that brings together his interests in environmental history, history of science, and medical history.
Steven J. Peitzman practices and teaches nephrology and internal medicine in Philadelphia at Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital and Drexel University College of Medicine, where he is Professor of Medicine. He also teaches history of medicine within the College's Medical Humanities Program. His historical research and publications have centered on nephrology, medical education, physical diagnosis, and women in medicine. He is the author of A New and Untried Course: Woman's Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850-1998 (2001). Steven Peitzman's address is 2823B Queen Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19129 (e-mail: sjp27@drexel.edu).
Charles E. Rosenberg teaches in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 (e-mail: rosenb3@fas.harvard.edu). He has written on a variety of subjects in the history of medicine and is currently at work on an interpretive history of changing notions of disease from 1800 to the present—from which this essay is drawn. [End Page 763]
Keir Waddington is a Lecturer in History in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University, P.O. Box 909, Cardiff CF10 3XU, Wales, U.K. (e-mail: waddingtonk@cardiff.ac.uk). A social historian of medicine, he is co-author of The History of Bethlem, 1247-1995 (1997), and author of Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898 (2000) and Medical Education at St. Bartholomew's, 1123-1995 (2003), along with articles on medical philanthropy, hospitals and professionalization, nursing, and medical students. He is currently researching diseased meat, bovine tuberculosis, and the public's health, 1860-1914.
George Weisz is Cotton-Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine at McGill University, 3647 Peel Street, Montreal, PQ, Canada H3A 1X1 (e-mail: george.weisz@mcgill.ca). His books include: The Medical Mandarins: The French Academy of Medicine in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1995) and Greater than the Parts: Holism in Biomedicine, 1920-1950 (1998; edited with Christopher Lawrence). He is currently completing a book on the history of medical specialization in France, Germany, Britain, and the United States. [End Page 764]
