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Catharine Coleborne is an associate professor in history at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. She has published Reading ‘Madness’: Gender and Difference in the Colonial Asylum in Victoria, Australia, 1848–1880s (Perth: Network Books, 2007). She is the co-editor (with Dolly MacKinnon) of ‘Madness’ in Australia (Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 2003). Her key research interests are in histories of , and institutions, and histories of gender, law and colonialism.

Sanjeev Jain is a professor at the Department of Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, . In addition to being an active researcher exploring the molecular genetics of psychiatric and neurological disorders, he has been documenting the history of mental health services in India, from the colonial to the contemporary period. He has authored several papers, and edited an issue of the International Review of Psychiatry devoted to the history of psychiatry. He has also used molecular approaches to understand the cultural and historical aspects of population admixture and consequent gene flow as part of the Portuguese and British interactions with the Indian population. This has helped understand the interface between science, and social responses to mental illness in India.

Bruce Lindsay is based at the School of and Midwifery, University of East Anglia, Norwich, where he is a senior lecturer. His PhD thesis was on the development of children’s care in the UK and he has published a variety of papers on the history of children’s , child health care and hospital visiting. He is a child care nurse and also undertakes clinically-focused research, particularly in the field of epilepsy. He is a member of the Cochrane Collaboration of health care researchers.

Dolly MacKinnon is a senior fellow at the School of Historical Studies, and a career enhancement fellow, Faculty of Music, both at the University of Melbourne. An interdisciplinary historian, Dolly co-edited with 309

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Catharine Coleborne, ‘Madness’ in Australia (Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 2003) and a special issue of the journal Health and History: Histories of Psychiatry after Deinstitutionalisation, 5, 2 (2003). She co-edited with Ros Bandt and Michelle Duffy, Hearing Places (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007). She is also the author of Revealing the Early Modern Landscape: Earls Colne, Essex (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming). With Professor Elizabeth Malcolm and Dr John Waller, Dolly holds an Australian Research Council Grant for a project entitled ‘A History of Psychiatric Institutions and Community Care in Australia, 1830s–1990s’.

James H. Mills is currently senior lecturer in modern history at the University of Strathclyde and was the founding director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, Glasgow. His publications include the monographs Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibitions, c.1800–1928 (Oxford: 2005) and Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism: The ‘Native-Only’ Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857–1900 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000) and the edited collections (with Satadru Sen) Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India (: Anthem Press, 2004) and (with Patricia Barton) Drugs and Empires: Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Janet Miron is an assistant professor in the History Department at Trent University. Her PhD dissertation at the University of York, 2004, examines prison and asylum visiting in Canada and the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has published a chapter on asylum visiting in James E. Moran and David Wright’s Mental Health and Canadian Society (London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006) and a monograph based on her doctoral research is forthcoming with University of Toronto Press. Also, she has edited a forthcoming collection of articles, A History of Human Rights in Canada: Essential Issues (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2009). Her current research explores the history of firearms cultures and regulation in Canada.

Graham Mooney is an assistant professor in the Institute of the , Johns Hopkins University. He has published widely on the history of , historical demography and historical epidemiology and is currently writing a book on infectious surveillance in Victorian Britain.

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Jonathan Reinarz is the director of the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham. His research addresses the history of hospitals and , and he also continues to undertake research on the social and economic history of from 1750 to 1950, with a particular interest in the history of alcohol. He has authored The Birth of a Provincial Hospital: the early years of the General Hospital, Birmingham, 1765-1790 (Stratford-upon-Avon: Dugdale Society, 2003) and edited Medicine and Society in the Midlands: 1750-1950 (Birmingham: Midland History Occasional Publications, 2007). His latest monograph is Health Care in Birmingham: The Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779–1939 (Rochester: Boydell Press, 2009).

Michelle Renshaw is a visiting research fellow at Adelaide University in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Public Health. Her earlier academic associations were with the Centre for Asian Studies at Adelaide University, the School of Aboriginal Administration at University of South Australia and Politics and Accounting Schools at Flinders University. Research interests include the comparative history of medicine and its institutions, particularly in the United States and China. She is currently writing a book exploring the cultural, political, legal and medical reasons for the extraordinary surgical success of the first American medical missionary to China, Peter Parker. She is the author of Accommodating the Chinese: The American Hospital in China 1880-1920 (London: Routledge, 2005).

Robin L. Rohrer is a professor of history at Seton Hill University in Greensburg Pennsylvania where she teaches history of western medicine and American medicine and culture. She received her PhD from the Catholic University of America and her research focus is on the history of childhood cancer, particularly since 1970. Her current projects include a monograph on the development of for children with leukaemia and a longitudinal study of the family experience of childhood cancer at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh from 1970 to the present. Dr Rohrer has received a Pisano Grant from the National Institutes of Health and Wellcome Travel Grants to support this research.

Kevin Siena is associate professor of history at Trent University, Canada. He has authored Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London’s ‘Foul Wards 1600-1800 (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2004) and edited Sins of the Flesh: Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern Europe (Toronto: Centre for and Renaissance Studies,

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2005). His current research explores poverty and illness in London during the long eighteenth century.

Leonard Smith is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Birmingham. He trained as a psychiatric social worker in the 1970s and currently works in a community mental health team. He has researched and written extensively on the historical development of lunatic asylum provision in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His publications include, ‘Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody’; Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century England (London: Leicester University Press 1999) and Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830 (London: Routledge, 2007).

Andrea Tanner works at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and at Kingston University. Most recently, she has helped create an online database of the pre-1914 admission registers at the hospital (http://www.smallandspecial.org), and is involved in extending this to other London children’s hospital registers, with a view to applying the same techniques to Scottish children’s hospitals. Research interests include the health of the poor urban child in Victorian Britain, social and economic philanthropic networks and (thanks to a post as honorary archivist at Fortnum and Mason), the history of shopping.

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