Contributors
- Contributors
Anne Hardy is Historian of Modern Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, U.K (e-mail: a.hardy@wellcome.ac.uk). She is the author of The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Disease and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856–1900 (Oxford, 1993). She is currently working on a history of British epidemiology circa 1890–1940.
Russell C. Maulitz, an Associate Professor at Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Mail Stop 449, Broad and Vine Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192, is Associate Director for Historical and Clinical Programs in that university’s Institute for Academic Informatics. He is currently continuing work begun as a 1993–96 Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Scholar in Medical Humanities, on periods of rapid transformation in the French and American Medical communities. His e-mail address is: maulitz@auhs.edu.
Michael R. Mcvaugh is William Smith Wells Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Department of History, CB #3195, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195 (e-mail: mcvaugh.ham@mhs.unc.edu). His research centers on European medicine and surgery in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: his Medicine Before the Plague: Practitioners and Their Patients in the Crown of Aragon, 1285–1335 was published in 1993. The first volume of his commented edition of the “Great Surgery” of Guy de Chauliac (1363) came out in December 1996, and the second volume is scheduled to appear in May 1997.
Terrie M. Romano is Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 (e-mail: tmr@post.queensu.ca). She has written “The Cattle Plague of 1865 and the Reception of ‘the Germ Theory’ in Mid-Victorian Britain” (J. Hist. Med. All. Sci., 1997, 52(1): 51–80) and is currently researching perceptions of carnivorous plants in the nineteenth century and the role of exotic plants in fueling imperial acquisitiveness and scientific discovery.
Walton O. Schalick III is a resident in Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital in Boston and in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and a Clinical Fellow in Pediatrics and PM&R at Harvard Medical School. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in medieval medical history at the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include the history of medieval medicine, pediatrics, PM&R, and dermatology, as well as the treatment of pediatric pain syndromes. His address is: 100 Goddard Ave., Brookline, MA 02146 (e-mail: schalick_w@a1.tch.harvard.edu or schalick@massmed.org).
Martha H. Verbrugge is Professor of History at Bucknell University, where she teaches the history of science and medicine. She is the author of Able-Bodied Womanhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston (Oxford University Press, 1988), which won the History of Women in Science Prize of the History of Science Society in 1991. She is currently writing a history of women physical educators in twentieth-century America. Her address is: Department of History, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837 (e-mail: verbrgge@bucknell.edu).
