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Contributors

WARWICK ANDERSON is research professor in the History Department and the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney. Until 2007 he was Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Population Health, Professor of the History of Science, and Chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia (2002, 2003, 2006) and Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (2006). His The Collectors of Lost Souls: Kuru and the Creation of Value in Science will appear in 2008. Warwick was recently awarded the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship (2005–06) and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2007–08). Grants from the National Science Foundation and the Australian Research Council support his new project on the history of scientific investigation of mixed race populations in the twentieth century.
JOHN T. ANDREWS is a nuclear medicine physician, now retired, and formerly director of nuclear medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. His research and written contributions are mainly on nuclear medicine but include other radiation related subjects such as the effects of atomic bomb testing in the Pacific and Australia. He was involved in the earlier development of nuclear medicine as a medical specialty in Australia and in the formation of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine and the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (Australia), and has a continuing membership of these organisations. He is an arts graduate in Italian and History.
JUDITH CORNELL was formerly Executive Director at the NSW College of Nursing. She now holds honorary positions as College of Nursing archivist, and curator of SPASM (Society for the Preservation of the Artefacts of Surgery & Medicine). She was inaugural chairman of the Lucy Osburn Nightingale Foundation, which manages the Sydney Hospital historical collection. Judith also moderates the CHAHM-discuss email discussion list for custodians of medical collections and is currently working on a history of the NSW Bush Nursing Association.
CHRIS DEGELING is near completion of a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science and is a practicing small animal veterinarian. His research interests include the philosophy of science and medicine, their relationship to practice, and comparative medicine.
KIRSTEN DUNN is a Research Fellow with the Discipline of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine of the University of Adelaide and the Hanson Institute. An early-career researcher, she was the recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award in 2004 and has recently graduated with a PhD in the field of health and social psychology. Her interests lie in the relationships between suicidal ideation, depression, and other health-related factors including chronic disease, obesity, mental health literacy, and use of alternative medicines.
ROBERT G. EVANS is a retired paediatrician who has, in training and associated posts, been connected with children's hospitals in Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney. More recently he was a staff specialist in paediatrics at the Royal Newcastle Hospital and other Newcastle hospitals. As Area Director of Paediatrics he developed an interest in the evolution of medical organisation and health service planning in Australia. In 2000, in the History Department of the University of Newcastle, he successfully completed a PhD thesis on a history of paediatrics in New South Wales, 1945–65.
ROBIN GAULD is Associate Professor of Health Policy, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He has degrees in politics and public administration from Victoria University of Wellington and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in comparative health policy, primary care reform, and health care quality. His books include Revolving Doors: New Zealand's Health Reforms (2001), The Hong Kong Health Sector: Development and Change (2002), Comparative Health Policy in the Asia Pacific (2005), and the forthcoming The New Health Policy (2009).
ROBERT GOLDNEY is Professor and Head of the Discipline of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine of the University of Adelaide. He has pursued research in suicide prevention, particularly focussing on the detection and management of depression. He has been the recipient of awards from the American Association for Suicidology and the International Association for Suicide Prevention, and he has been president of the latter organisation and also of the International Academy for Suicide Research.
JANET McCALMAN is Professor at the Centre for Health and Society and in the History and Philosophy program in the Faculty of Arts, both at the University of Melbourne. She has published three award-winning books: Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond (1984), Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation (1993), and most recently Sex and Suffering, Women's Health and a Women's Hospital, 1856–1996 (1998). Her work has included oral history, archival research, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and she has also published in labour history, education, politics, and social practices. She also was the second editor of Health & History.
ROSALIND McCLEAN lectures in History at the University of Waikato. Rosalind is currently part of an international team studying Scottish migration and legacies in New Zealand. The team is led by Dr. Brad Patterson of the Irish and Scottish Studies Programme, Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies and Research, Victoria University of Wellington. This project is funded by a Marsden Grant. She is the author of A Stockman's Gift: Daniel Vickery Bryant and the Bryant Charitable Trusts. A Legacy for Waikato (2007).
ROBERT MOORHEAD is Research Advisor, General Practice and Primary Care Research at Notre Dame University Australia, Fremantle. He is also a part-time general practitioner. He has an interest in medical education as well as the history of past remarkable British general practitioners who have demonstrated an interest in the human ecology of their patients.
JOHAN SCHIOLDANN is Clinical Professor in the Discipline of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine of the University of Adelaide. He is a Danish graduate who has conducted research in the field of psycho-biography of influential persons in history. He has written a number of books including The Life of D.G. Monrad; Famous and Very Important Persons; Wimmer's Concept of Psychogenic Psychoses; and his most recent is History of the Introduction of Lithium into Medicine and Psychiatry.
ELIZABETH SIEGEL WATKINS is Professor of History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America (2007) and On the Pill: A Social History of Oral Contraceptives (1998), and co-editor of Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History (2007). Dr. Watkins earned her BA in Biology and her PhD in the History of Science, both at Harvard University.
GEORGE M. WEISZ was, until his semi-retirement, an orthopaedic/ spinal surgeon, who received his medical training at the Hebrew University Medical school, Jerusalem. His orthopaedic training was in Israel, USA, and Canada and he has been practicing orthopaedic surgery in Sydney since 1975. He is a research fellow of the School of History at the University of New South Wales, where he also received a BA in History (1994). He also received an MA in Italian Renaissance from Sydney University (1996). He is an adjunct lecturer at the School of Humanities at the University of New England, Armidale.

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