Contributors to this issue

ACKERKNECHT, ERWIN H., is emeritus professor of medical history in Zurich, Switzerland, and the author of 12 books, among them Malaria in the Upper Mississippi Valley (1700-1900), History and Geography ofthe Most Important Diseases, and Short History ofPsychiatry. At present he is working on the history of the "diseases of wealth".

ALTSCHULE, MARK, D., is currently Honorary Curator of Prints and Photographic Materials, F.A. Countway Library of Medicine; trustee and former president of the Boston Medical Library; president of Totts Gap Institute, Bangor, Pennsylvania; and biomedical consultant, Office of Naval Research, Boston. He was in the Harvard Medical School class of 1932. His last book was The Hypovolemic Anemia of Trauma (with C.R. Valeri). His next is a history of clinical medicine.

ANDREWS, MARGARET W., is an Assistant Professor in the History Department of Washington State University. She received the Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1979; her dissertation, supervised by John M. Norris, was on medical services in Vancouver, B.C., 1886-1920. Her work has appeared in BC Studies and the Journal ofCanadian Studies. She is currently working on the early history of public health services in B.C. and the northwestern U.S. and on the background and professional reaction to health insurance.

BINET, JACQUES-LOUIS, ne a Paris 1932; maitre de conferences agrege d'hematologie, medecin des Hopitaux 1964; Professeur a Ia Faculte de medecine 1973; Chef du Departement d'Hematologie du Centre Hospitalier U niversitaire de Ia Faculte de Medecine Pitie-Salpetriere 1974; Redacteur en chef de Ia Nouvelle Revue Franr;aise d' Hematologie 1981.

BREEDEN, JAMES 0., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. His research specialty is the history of science and medicine in the American South. He is currently preparing a social history of southern science.

DIECKHOFER, KLEMENS, Prof. Dr. med., assoc. prof.; b.: Bonn, 1938. EDUC.: studied med., psychology, and Latin philology at Univs. of Bonn and Munster/Westphalia. Qual.: 1968, doctorate; 1974, habil. in neurology and psychiatry (Prof. Weitbrecht); 1975, habil. in hist. ofmed. (Prof. Mani) and permanent collaborator in the Institute ofHist. ofMed. Bonn. Univ. Car.: asst., RWTH Aachen, dept. of neurology and Clinic for Nervous Diseases, Bonn Univ.; 1972, med. specialist; since 1974 sen. psychiatrist, Clinic for Nervous Diseases, Bonn Univ.; 1979, assoc. prof., Bonn. PUBL.: some 50 pubis. in trade journals on psychopathological and medico-hist. problems, 4 book contbns. and mono• graph: El desarollo de Ia psiquiatria en Espaiia. Madrid, 1980. MEM.: Dtsch. Ges.f.Geschichte der Medizin (hist. ofmed.); Allg. Arztl.Ges.f.Psychotherapie (psychotherapy).

ENGLISH, PETER C., AB Chemistry, Duke 1969; Ph.D. History, Duke 1975; M.D. Duke 1975, is assistant professor of History and of Pediatrics. His special area of teaching focuses on the role of epidemic diseases and public health in the history of racial groups that have come to comprise the Western Hemisphere. Past research has centered on the history of surgery, and he has recently published Shock, Physiological Surgery, and George Washington Crile: Medica/Innovation in the Progressive Era, Greenwood Press 1980. He has shifted research interests to study the history of children, concentrating on the foundling homes and orphanages as precursors both to children's hospitals and to foster care. 190 Contributors to this issue

FYE, W. BRUCE, Chairman, Department of Cardiology, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Center for Health Sciences, Madison, Wisconsin. He is working on a major study of the professionalization of physiology in America and serves as the President of the Marshfield Medical History Club.

GLICK, THOMAS F., is professor of history at Boston University. He is the editor of The Comparative Reception of Darwinism (1974) and Science and Revolution (forthcoming) and is interested in the impact of modem scientific ideas in Spain and Spanish America.

HALL, THOMAS S., is an historian of physiology whose chief publications have been a history of the scientific effort to distinguish living from nonliving things, ca 700BC- 1990AD, an annoted first English edition of /'Homme, the major medical treatise of Rene Descartes; and several journal articles on these and related topics. He is currently University Professor Emeritus of Biology and the History of Science, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri 63130 and engaged on a planned book-lenght assessment of the importance of Descartes to the history of medical thought.

HUDSON, ROBERT, M.D., is Professor and Chairman, Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. He has just completed work on a conceptual history of disease.

LEDERER, SUSAN EYRICH, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin, Department of the History of Science, where she is currently working on a dissertation on the American anti• vivisectionists and the controversy over human experimentation.

LIBBRECHT, ULRICH, Ph.D., Professor in Classical Sinology at the university of Leuven, Belgium. Licenciate of the unjversity of Ghent, Ph.D. of the university of Leiden, Netherlands. Specialisation: history of Chinese science, Chinese logical thinking. Author of Chinese Mathematics in the 13th century, M.I.T. Press, 1973, and of several books and articles on the history of mathematics and philosophy.

LINDEBOOM, GERRIT A., Prof. Dr., (b. 1905), emeritus-professor of Internal Medicine and Medical Encyclopedia at the Free University in Amsterdam (195~75), published, apart from many medical articles and several books, and also medico-historical articles, several biographies (of K.F. Wenckebach (1965), Reinierde Graaf(l973), Florentius Schuyl (1974), and A. van den Spiegel (1978), all in Dutch; in English of Herman Boerhaave (1%8, London)). Furthermore, he published, inter alia, 3 volumes Boerhaave' s Correspondence (1%2, 1964, 1979, Leiden), Bibliographia Boerhaaviana (1959) and Iconographia Boerhaavii (1%3), and The Letters of Jan Swammerdam to Melchisedec Thevenot (1975, Amsterdam).

LOUX, FRAN<;OISE, Chargee de recherches au Centre national de Ia recherche scientifique, Centre d'ethnologie fran'

MCGEHEE HARVEY, A., M.D., is the Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. He is the author of Science at the Bedside: Clinical Research in American Medicine 1905-1945 just published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.