Locating Medical History: The Stories and Their Meanings

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Olga Amsterdamska teaches science studies and history of medicine at the University of Amsterdam. She has published articles on the history of the biomedical sciences, especially on the relations between the laboratory and the clinic in microbiology and biochemistry. Her current research centers on the history of British and American epidemiology and the changing notions of what makes epidemiology a science. Warwick Anderson is the Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health and chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin , Madison. When he wrote this essay he was director of the history of the health sciences program at the University of California at San Francisco. In 2003, Basic Books published his study of race science in Australia, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny. He is currently working on what he hopes is a postcolonial study of kuru investigations in the highlands of New Guinea and in Bethesda, Maryland. Allan M. Brandt is the Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he directs the Program in the History of Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of the History of Science, where he is currently chair. His work focuses on the social history of medicine, disease, and public health policy in the twentieth-century United States. He is the author of No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 (1987) and editor of Morality and Health (1997). Theodore M. Brown is a professor and chair of the Department of History and Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester. He earned his Ph.D. in History of Science from Princeton University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine. His research currently focuses on the history of psychosomatic medicine and on American public health and health policy. He is a contributing editor for the American Journal of Public Health and, with Elizabeth Fee, co-edited Making Medical History: The Life and Times of Henry E. Sigerist (1997). Roger Cooter is a Wellcome Professorial Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. The author of The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science (1984) and Surgery and Society in Peace and War (1993), he has also edited volumes on child health, alternative medicine, accidents, war and medicine, and most recently, with John Pickstone, Medicine in the Twentieth Century (2000). 486 Contributors Martin Dinges is deputy director of the Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosche Stiftung, Stuttgart, Germany, and adjunct professor of modern history at the University of Mannheim, Stuttgart, Germany. The volumes he has edited include Neue Wege in der Seuchengeschichte (1995, with Thomas Schlich), Weltgeschichte der Homöopathie, Länder— Schulen—Heilkundige (1996), Homöopathie. Patienten, Heilkundige und Institutionen. Von den Anfängen bis heute (1996), Medizinkritische Bewegungen im Deutschen Reich (ca. 1870–ca. 1933) (1996), and Patients in the History of Homoeopathy (2002). He has also written on the social history of medicine during the Enlightenment and on the reception of the work of Michel Foucault. Alice Domurat Dreger is an associate professor of science and technology studies in the Lyman Briggs School at Michigan State University and associate faculty at the university’s Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences. She served for three years as the founding chair of the board of directors of the Intersex Society of North America, a nonpro fit policy and advocacy group. Her research and outreach focus on the biomedical treatment of people born with unusual anatomies and the relation between anatomy and identity . Her books include Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (1998) and Intersex in the Age of Ethics (1999). Jacalyn Duffin is a hematologist and historian who teaches medicine, history, and philosophy from the Hannah Chair at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is author of Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life (1993), To See with a Better Eye: A Life of R. T. H. Laennec (1998), and History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction (1999). Her current research interests are in disease concepts, diagnostic semeiology, and medical saints. Elizabeth Fee is chief of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine , National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, and adjunct professor of history and health policy at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore...