Contributors
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Steven King is Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Health, Medicine, and Society at Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane Campus, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP, England (e-mail: sking@brookes.ac.uk). He has research interests in the history of English poverty and welfare, 1601–1914; the history of European industrialization; the history of medicine in Britain, 1650–1900; and British historical demography, 1650–1850. He is currently finishing two monographs, one on women and local government in England, 1880–1921, and the other on the experience of being poor in England, 1650–1900. In the longer term he plans a monograph on regional medical cultures in Europe.
Socrates Litsios retired from The World Health Organization (WHO) in 1997 and currently lives at rue des Scies, Baulmes, 1446, Switzerland (email: litsioss@bluewin.ch). His interest in medical history developed while he was working with the WHO malaria action program in the 1980s. This led to the writing of the book The Tomorrow of Malaria (Pacific Press, 1996), and numerous articles (see www.litsios.com). Since then he has started the writing of a three-volume general history of public health focusing on infectious disease control. Plague Legends: From the Miasmas of Hippocrates to the Microbes of Pasteur was published by Science & Humanities Press in 2001. Plague Legends II: In Search of Public Health (1830–1940) is in press.
Peter E. Pormann is a Francis A. Yates Long-Term Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, UK (e-mail: peter.pormann@sas.ac.uk), and has previously held a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford. He has written extensively on the Late Antique Greek Medical Tradition and its influence on the formation of Islamic medical theory and practice, and is the author of The Oriental Tradition of Paul of Aegina's "Pragmateia" (Leiden: Brill, 2004). His doctoral thesis, on which this book is based, received The Hellenic Foundation's 2003 Award for the best doctoral thesis in the United Kingdom, in the Byzantine/Medieval History category. Together with Emilie Savage-Smith, he is currently finishing a monograph entitled Medieval Islamic Medicine, to be published in 2006 by Edinburgh University Press in its series "New Islamic Survey."
Leo B. Slater is currently a DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Memorial Fellow in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology at the Office of NIH History, National Institutes of Health. He received his Ph.D. degree in History from Princeton University and has published on the history of organic chemistry and pharmaceutical research. Other interests include the history of infectious disease. Current projects are a book on the history of the U.S. antimalarial research project during World War II and work on the history of malaria research at NIAID and its predecessors. His address is: 2070 Belmont Road, NW, Apt. 101, Washington, DC 20009-5410 (e-mail: leobslater@yahoo.com).
