Contributors
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Mark Aldrich is Marilyn Carlson Nelson Professor of Economics at Smith College, 10 Prospect Street, Northampton, MA 01063 (e-mail: maldrich@smith.edu). His most recent book is Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of Work Safety, 1870-1939 (1997). He is currently working on a book about the history of railroad safety in the United States.
Dov Front was Chairman of Nuclear Medicine, Rambam Medical Center, and Geyser Professor of Radiology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, School of Medicine, Haifa, Israel. Dr. Front held both the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. He died unexpectedly on 13 January 2000 at the age of sixty.
L. S. Jacyna is Senior Research Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, 24 Eversholt Street, London NW1 1AD, U.K. (e-mail: s.jacyna@wellcome.ac.uk). His research interests include the history of cell theory and of the neurosciences. He is the author of Philosophic Whigs: Medicine, Science, and Citizenship in Edinburgh, 1789-1848 (1994) and of Lost Words: Narratives of Language and the Brain (2000).
Kevin P. Siena recently earned his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and is now Assistant Professor of History, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8 (e-mail: ksiena@trentu.ca). His dissertation, "Poverty and the Pox: Venereal Disease in London Hospitals, 1600-1800," explores institutional medical provision for impoverished venereal patients in early modern London. He has published on the history of VD in the Journal of the History of Sexuality ("Pollution, Promiscuity, and the Pox: English Venereology and the Early Modern Medical Discourse on Social and Sexual Danger," J. Hist. Sexual., 1998, 8: 553-74) and is now working on a study of eighteenth-century workhouse infirmaries. He also plans to continue his study of VD and early modern medical ethics.
