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Amy Fairchild is an Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Public Health and Medicine at the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: alf4@columbia.edu). She is now working on a book manuscript, Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and Defense of the Nation, 1981 to 1930, which tells a story of science, race, and power in turn-of-the-century urban America that integrates archival and quantitative data drawn from immigration records for all of the nation’s ports of entry. Her articles on the history of public health interventions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have appeared in the American Journal of Public Health (“Public Health Nihilism vs. Pragmatism: History, Politics, and the Control of Tuberculosis,” 1998, 88: 1014–5; “Policies of Containment: Immigration in the Era of AIDS,” 1998, 84: 2011–22).

David E. J. Linden is a Resident in Neurology and Instructor in the History of Medicine at Frankfurt University. His current research interests include medicine and morality in Galen, and sixteenth-century concepts of melancholy. He is the author of Aristoteles und die Sprache des Epos: Untersuchungen zur Unterscheidung der Logoi (1993). His address is: Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Senckenbergisches Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Paul-Ehrlich-Strasse 20–22, 60596 Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (e-mail: linden@mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de).

Alexandra Lord is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at New Paltz, 75 South Manheim Blvd., New Paltz, NY 12561 (e-mail: lorda@matrix.newpaltz.edu). She received her doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1995 and won the Richard Harrison Shryock Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine in the same year. Between 1995 and 1996, she held the J. Elliot Royer Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the History of Health Sciences at the University of California at San Francisco. Her research focuses on issues of gender, health, and ethnic identity, and she is currently working on a book about eighteenth-century British gynecology and obstetrics.

Fiona A. Macdonald is Research Fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, working on medicine in Scottish culture between c. 1726 and 1832. Before this, she was researcher for a new history of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, 1599–1858 (forthcoming from Hambledon Press). She read Celtic and Scottish History at the University of Glasgow, and her earlier work was in the history of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, including a forthcoming monograph entitled Missions to the Gaels, 1560–1760 (Tuckwell Press). Her address is: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, U.K.

Michael R. Marrus is Professor of History and Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto, 65 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada M5S 2Z9 (e-mail: mmarrus@chass.utoronto.edu). He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. A graduate of the University of Toronto, he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. Among his books are Vichy France and the Jews, coauthored with Robert Paxton (1981); The Unwanted: European Refugees in the Twentieth Century (1985), and The Holocaust in History (1987). His most recent book is The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945–46: A Documentary History (1997).

Susan P. Mattern is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Georgia, LeConte Hall, Athens, GA 30602-1602 (e-mail: smattern@arches.uga.edu). She holds a Ph.D. in ancient history from Yale University and is the author of A Wasteland Called Peace: Roman Imperial Strategy in the Principate, forthcoming in spring 1999 from the University of California Press. She is currently working on a biography of Galen of Pergamon.

David Rosner is Professor of History and Public Health and co-director of the Program in the History of Public Health and Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: dr289@columbia.edu). He is author of A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in...

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