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Timothy Alborn is Assistant Professor of History at Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, NY 10468 (e-mail: alborn@lehman.cuny.edu); and at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He has written widely on the cultural history of nineteenth-century British finance; his publications include the book Conceiving Companies: Joint-Stock Politics in Victorian England (1998) and articles in Victorian Studies, Journal of Victorian Culture, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Journal of Modern History. He is currently writing a book entitled Regulated Lives: Life Assurance and British Society, 1820-1920, on the social and intellectual interactions of physicians, actuaries, and salesmen who worked for British life insurance companies.

Amy L. Fairchild is an Assistant Professor in the Program in the History and Ethics of Public Health and Medicine, and Assistant Director for Academic and Scholarly Activities at the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 600 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032-2625 (e-mail: alf4@columbia.edu). Her current research projects include the history and ethics of public health surveillance, and public health and the built environment (www.livingcity.hs.columbia.edu). Her book, Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force, 1891 to 1930, is forthcoming from the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Frederick M. Hodges is a post-doctoral research associate in the History Department at Yale University, Department of History, Yale University, P.O. Box 208324, New Haven, CT 06520-8324 (e-mail: fhodges@calalum.org). He recently earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford in association with the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine. Dr. Hodges was a member of Magdalen College while at Oxford. His doctorate, "A History of Spermatorrhoea: The Evolution and Legacy of Medical Conceptualisations of a Venereal Disease and Male Debility in Nineteenth-Century America," is now being readied for publication. His research interests include the history of eugenics, medical ethics, classical Greek medicine, and public health.

Gwen Kay is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oswego, 433 Mahar Hall, Oswego, NY 13126 (e-mail: kay@oswego.edu). She is currently completing a manuscript on cosmetics and the FDA in the first half of the twentieth century. [End Page 639]

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