Notes on Contributors

Warwick Anderson is chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. When he wrote this essay review he was director of the history of the health sciences program at the University of California at San Francisco. In spring 2003, Basic Books published his study of race science in Australia, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny. Correspondence can be sent to him at Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, 1300 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706. E-mail: whanderson@med.wisc.edu.

Julie Fairman is an associate professor at the School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, and a senior scholar in the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing. She is current working on a history of the nurse practitioner movement. This paper was supported in part by the NLM, #1 G13 LMO7250-01. She can be reached at University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA 19104. E-mail:

fairman@nursing.upenn.edu.

Jonathan Gilbride is a pediatric nurse practitioner and is also working as a nurse in the burn unit at New York-Presbyterian Cornell Medical Center, New York City. His address is 435 E70th St., Apt. 28M, New York, NY 10021. E-mail:

jonathangilbride@hotmail.com.

Nicholas B. King is the J. Eliot Royer postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his masters degree in medical anthropology and his doctorate in the history of science from Harvard University. His research examines emerging diseases, bioterrorism, surveillance, and the commodification of medicine. He is currently preparing a manuscript based on his dissertation, Infectious Disease in a World of Goods (Harvard, 2001). Send correspondence to him at 3333 California St., Suite 485, San Francisco, CA 94143-0850. E-mail:

nbking@itsa.ucsf.edu.

Christine Nutton, M.A., Ph.D., is a former Bye-Fellow of Girton College Cambridge, specializing in 16th- and 17th-century French literature. Vivian Nutton, M.A., Ph.D., Hon.F.R.C.P., is Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London. He has written extensively on the history of medicine from antiquity to the Renaissance. Correspondence can be sent to them at The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, 24 Eversholt St., London, NW1 1AD, United Kingdom. E-mail:

ucgavnu@ucl.ac.uk.

Christopher Sellers, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997). He is currently at work on environmental and health history of post-World War II suburbs in the United States. His address is: Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348. E-mail:

csellers@notes.cc.sunysb.edu.

Nancy Tomes, Ph.D., is Professor of History at Stony Brook University. She is the author most recently of The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life (Harvard University Press, 1998). She is currently working on a book about the impact of consumer movements and consumerism on American medicine and public health. Her address is Department of History, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4348. E-mail: nancy.tomes@sunysb.edu.

 

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