Contributors
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Joel T. Braslow is Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and History at the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA-NPI Health Services Research Center, 10920 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (e-mail: jbraslow@ucla.edu). He is also an investigator in the Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center located at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. He is the author of Mental Ills and Bodily Cures: Psychiatric Treatment in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (1997). He is currently working on a history of antipsychotic drugs funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and an NIMH career development award.
John C. Burnham is Professor of History and (by courtesy) Professor of Psychiatry at The Ohio State University, 106 Dulles Hall, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1367 (e-mail: burnham.2@osu.edu). He has published books and articles on the history of American psychiatry and psychoanalysis, on the historical significance of psychotic delusions, and on other related subjects. He is currently working on the history of the deinstitutionalization of mental patients in the mid-twentieth century. His most recent book is How the Idea of Profession Changed the Writing of Medical History (1998).
Ellen Dwyer is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and History at Indiana University in Bloomington. Author of a book, Homes for the Mad: Life Inside Two Nineteenth-Century Lunatic Asylums (1987), and of a number of articles, she presently is completing a manuscript, The Burden of Illness: Epilepsy in the U.S., 1880-1950. She also is working on a project that explores therapeutics at Indiana's Central State Hospital in the 1950s. Her address is: History Department, Ballantine Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 (e-mail: dwyer@indiana.edu).
Robert Hewitt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, The Pennsylvania State University, 210 Engineering Unit D, University Park, PA 16802-1429 (e-mail: rrh5@psu.edu). His research interests include the World Health Organization's "Healthy City" initiatives, and urban design as it relates to health. [End Page 883]
Mariko Ogawa is Professor of the History of Science at Mie University, 1515 Kamihama, Tsu, Mie 514 8507, Japan (e-mail: ogawa@human.mie-u.ac.jp). She has published a number of articles on the development of the biological sciences in Britain and Germany in the nineteenth century, coauthored a book on the history of science, and translated several books on gender and science into Japanese. Currently, she is working on a book about cholera epidemics and the Suez Canal.
Heather Munro Prescott is Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department, Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley Street, P.O. Box 4010, New Britain, CT 06050-4010 (e-mail: prescott@mail.ccsu.edu). She is the author of A Doctor of Their Own: The History of Adolescent Medicine (1998), Winner of the 2000 Will Solimene Award of Excellence in Medical Communication, sponsored by the New England Chapter of the American Medical Writers Association. She is currently working on a book entitled Student Bodies: College and University Health in the United States, 1860 to the Present.
Rosemary A. Stevens, a native of England, holds the Stanley I. Sheerr Chair in Arts and Sciences and is Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Logan Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304 (e-mail: rstevens@mail.sas.upenn.edu). Her major books include Medical Practice in Modern England (1966), American Medicine and the Public Interest (1971), and In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century (1989). In her present research, under a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy, she is exploring the formal history of medical specialization in the United States during the past thirty years.
Bonj Szczygiel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, and associate director of the Center for Studies in Landscape History, The Pennsylvania State University, 210 Engineering Unit D, University Park, PA 16802-1429 (e-mail: bxs28@psu.edu). Her current research interests include nineteenth-century urban design and gender issues in landscape design. She is lead editor of Gendered Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Past Place and Space, published...
