Contributors
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Ku-Ming (Kevin) Chang is Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Nanking District, Taipei City, 11529 Taiwan (e-mail: kchang@sinica.edu.tw). He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in 2002 with a dissertation on Georg Ernst Stahl and the reconceptualizations of matter and life in post-Cartesian Europe, and has been revising it for publication. He is also the author of an article in a forthcoming issue of History of Universities that examines the transformation of the dissertation from an oral disputation to the written specimen of a degree candidate's scholarship in early modern Europe.
Monica H. Green is Professor of History at Arizona State University. She has published extensively on women's medicine in medieval Europe, and has recently extended her interests to interdisciplinary, cross-cultural studies of women's health. She is the author of Women's Healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and Contexts (Ashgate, 2000), winner of the 2004 John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America, and has edited and translated The "Trotula": A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001). She has just completed a monograph, The Masculine Birth of Gynecology, and is now undertaking a general study of the medical school of Salerno in the twelfth century.
Mark Jurdjevic is Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Ottawa, Gaston Héon House, 155 Séraphin Marion, Room 105, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada (e-mail: mjurdjev@uottawa.ca). He has taught at Yale University's Whitney Humanities Center and received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He teaches early modern European history, specializing in the political and intellectual history of Renaissance Florence. He has published in Past & Present, Renaissance Quarterly, the Journal of the History of Ideas, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, the Canadian Journal of History, and Bibliothèque d'humanisme et Renaissance.
Gretchen Krueger is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1900 East Monument Street, Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail: gkruege2@jhmi.edu). Her dissertation, "'A Cure is Near': Children, Families, and Cancer in America, 1945-1980," examined cooperation, skepticism, and resistance between parents and practitioners during a childhood illness. She is currently revising the dissertation into a book manuscript and researching the development of clinical oncology in the United States. [End Page 939]
Janice Matsumura is Assistant Professor of Japanese history at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 (e-mail: jmatsumu@sfu.ca). She has written on wartime thought control and internal security. Her most recent article, "Mental Health as Public Peace: Kaneko Junji and the Promotion of Psychiatry in Modern Japan," appears in Modern Asian Studies, 2004, 38 (4): 899-930. Her current research focuses on the Japanese psychiatric profession, particularly impressions of national identity and gender in the writings of leading practitioners.
John Scarborough is Professor, History of Pharmacy and Medicine, and Classics and Ancient History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Avenue, 2515 Rennebohm Hall, Madison, WI 53705 (e-mail:jscarborough@pharmacy.wisc.edu). His forthcoming book on Hellenistic toxicology will be completed shortly, and he continues his pleasant labors with the Greek text of Dioscorides of Anazarbus.
Caitlin Tillman received a Master of Science in Information at the University of Michigan. She worked on the Discovery and Early Development of Insulin, 1920-1925 digital project at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in the University of Toronto. The completed project can be seen at http://digital.library.utoronto.ca/insulin/. She has also worked at Harvard University' s Biblioteca Berenson in Florence, Italy, and, most recently, at Yale University. Her address is: 1651/2 Drummond Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 1K3, Canada (e-mail: caitlin_tillman@yahoo.ca). [End Page 940]
