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Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 60.1 (2005) 132-133



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David Cantor works as a historian at the National Cancer Institute and the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland. He has published on the histories of cancer, the rheumatic diseases, and neo-Hippocratism. He is the editor of Reinventing Hippocrates (Ashgate, 2001). Correspondence can be sent to him at Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Executive Plaza North, Suite 2025, Bethesda, MD 20892-7309. E-mail: cantord@mail.nih.gov or cantord1@mail.nih.gov.
Jeffrey K. Beemer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts and senior research associate for the Social and Demographic Research Institute. His research interests include the epidemiological and mortality transitions in nineteenth-century New England and the social theoretical bases underlying nineteenth-century industrialization. His current research focuses on the theoretical and historical relationships between changing conceptions of disease, public health reform, and the public sphere in late-nineteenth-century Massachusetts. His address is: Social and Demographic Research Institute, Machmer W37A, 240 Hicks Way, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-9278. E-mail: beemer@soc.umass.edu.
Douglas L. Anderton is Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Social and Demographic Research Institute, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has coauthored several books including Demography: The Study of Human Populations (Waveland Press, 2001), Population of the United States (Free Press, 1998), Fertility Change on the American Frontier (University of California Press, 1990), and an edited series of Readings in Population Research Methodology (Social Development Center, 1997). His most recent research project centers on the mortality transition in emerging industrial communities in nineteenth-century New England and the changing precision in classification of death causes over this critical period. His address is: Social and Demographic Research Institute, Machmer W35, 240 Hicks Way, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003-9278. E-mail: dla@sadri.umass.edu. [End Page 132]
Susan Hautaniemi Leonard is a Research Investigator at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Her research emphasizes the relationship between human populations and their environments. She researches mortality in emergent industrial towns of the Northeast United States; settlement dynamics, aging, migration, and isolation in the U.S. Great Plains; and human female reproductive senescence. Her work has appeared in Social Science History, Historical Methods, Human Biology, and the American Journal of Human Biology. Her address is: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248. Email: hautanie@icpsr.umich.edu.
Janet Padiak is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McMaster University, where she is extending her study on the morbidity and mortality of the men, women, and children of the British army to the home stations of the United Kingdom. She has published papers on cause of death analysis, infant mortality, and suicide in a colonial setting. Correspondence should be sent to: Department of Anthropology, Chester New Hall, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4M4. E-mail: padiakj@mcmaster.ca.


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