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Michael Bliss is a University Professor at the University of Toronto, 88 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4G 3L1. His prizes include the Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine, for The Discovery of Insulin (1982). He is now working on a new biography of Harvey Cushing.

K. Codell carter is Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University, 3196 Jesse Knight Humanities Bldg., P.O. Box 26279, Provo, UT 84602-6279 (e-mail: codell_carter@byu.edu). He has a B.S. degree in mathematics and an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Utah, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University. His main research interest is nineteenth- and early twentieth-century etiology.

Joseph W. Lella is Professor of Sociology and of the History of Medicine, King's College and Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, 266 Epworth Ave., London, Ontario, Canada N6A 2M3 (e-mail: jlella@uwo.ca). He has written and taught about social change in chronic care hospitals, about medical ethics, and about the humanities and social sciences in medical education. His work in the history of medicine deals with the life of Sir William Osler, and the evolving medical gentlemanly and Oslerian traditions in modern society. His latest book is Willie: A Dream: A Dramatic Monologue Portraying Sir William Osler, with Commentary and References (2000).

Josephine M. Lloyd is a history of medicine Ph.D. student in the HPS Division of the School of Philosophy at Leeds University, England. Her interests center on the Enlightenment period, and she is particularly interested in the way in which medical specialties were progressing and developing in provincial England at this time. Her doctoral research assesses the medical achievements of the Leeds surgeon and man-midwife William Hey F.R.S. (1736-1819), considering his national role as well as his local involvement. Her address is: "White Wings," Quaker Close, Fenny Drayton nr. Nuneaton, CV13 6BS, U.K. (e-mail: lloyd@whitewings.freeserve.co.uk).

Russell C. Maulitz is Chief of the Division of Medical Informatics at MCP Hahnemann University and holds professorships at MCP Hahnemann University and Drexel University in Philadelphia. His address is: 2967 West School House Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19144 (russell@drexel.edu). [End Page 847]

Earl Nation graduated from Western Reserve Medical School in 1935 and served an internship and residency at Los Angeles County General Hospital. He then practiced urology in Pasadena, California from 1941 to 1990. He was Associate Professor of Urology at the University of Southern California; Treasurer and President of the American Urological Association; and charter member (and, in 1978, President) of the American Osler Society. His books (some with co-authors) include: Men and Books (1958); Student and Chief: The Osler-Camac Correspondence (1980); and An Annotated Checklist of Osleriana (1976 and 2000). In retirement, he is busy with reading and writing. His address is: 311 E. Sierra Madre Blvd., #E, Sierra Madre, CA 91024 (e-mail: enoitan@gte.net).

Todd L. Savitt teaches history of medicine and medical ethics in the Medical Humanities Department at the Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858 (e-mail: savittT@mail.ecu.edu). He writes about African-American medical history as well as the medical history of the American South and West. He directs the medical readers' theater program at the ECU medical school and has written a book on the subject (Medical Readers' Theater: A Guide and Scripts, forthcoming from the University of Iowa Press, Spring 2002).

Philip M. Teigen is Deputy Chief of the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: pteigen@nih.gov). In addition to exploring medical history as writing, he publishes on the history of veterinary medicine, most recently, "Nineteenth-Century Veterinary Medicine as an Urban Profession," Vet. Herit., 2000, 23: 1-5. With Leon Z. Saunders, he is working on the memoirs of a Civil War veterinarian.

Carsten Timmermann is a Wellcome Research Associate at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, U.K. (e-mail: timmermann@fs4.ma.man.ac.uk; website: http://www.man.ac.uk/chstm/people/timmermann.htm). He is currently...

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