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Contributors

CATHARINE COLEBORNE is Associate Professor in History at the University of Waikato, where she has taught since 1999. Her book 'Madness' in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World 1860s–1914 will appear with Palgrave Macmillan in 2010.
SEAN DYDE is currently completing a Masters thesis on nineteenth-century responses to postwar psychosomatic illnesses with the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. His interests include the history and philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, as well as the history of the relationship between science and religion.
MARK FINNANE is the director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), professor of History at Griffith University and an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow. He has a particular interest in the history of policing, criminal justice, responses to violence, Irish history, the social history of medicine, and psychiatry.
STEPHEN GARTON is Challis Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Medicine and Madness (1988) and other monographs and articles in areas such as the history of incarceration, insanity, crime, eugenics, social policy, masculinity, and war.
PATRICIA GRIMSHAW is a Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests have included family and women's history in Australia. She is co-editor of Families in Colonial Australia (1985), Women's Rights and Human Rights: International Historical Perspectives (2001) and Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, (2007); and co-author of Creating a Nation (1994/2006) and Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous Peoples in Britain's Settler Colonies, 1830–1910 (2003).
PETER HOBBINS is a pharmacology graduate who has recently completed a Master of Medical Humanities at Sydney University. His historical interests include medical research and military medicine. In addition to co-convening a conference on the history of Australian medical research, Peter is currently writing a biography of the pioneering local medical scientist, Charles Kellaway. Once that is completed he aims to commence a PhD on the history of venom research in Australia.
PETER A. LEGGAT is Professor and Head of the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville. He has published more than 350 papers in peer reviewed journals and presented more than 225 papers at national and international conferences. He has published more than a dozen papers and book reviews related to medical history. He is Immediate Past President of The Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and holds Fellowship in a number of professional organisations, including the Royal Geographical Society.
MILTON LEWIS is an historian of medicine and public health at the University of Sydney. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of thirteen books, the most recent of which is Public Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (2008) (with K.L. MacPherson). He is currently located at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney.
DOLLY MACKINNON is Senior Fellow, School of Historical Studies, and the Career Enhancement Fellow, Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne. Her interdisciplinary research, in the areas of British and Australian history, medical history, the history of psychiatry, and musicology, is published in international edited collections, journals, historical guides, and web resources. Dolly co-edited 'Madness' in Australia (2003) with Catharine Coleborne, and the special issue of the journal Health & History: Histories of Psychiatry after Deinstitutionalisation 5, no. 2 (2003). She also co-edited with Ros Bandt and Michelle Duffy, Hearing Places: Sound, Place, Time and Culture (2007).
ELIZABETH MALCOLM is Gerry Higgins Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of a history of Ireland's oldest psychiatric hospital, St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin, founded in 1746 under the will of Jonathan Swift. She has also published articles on Irish asylums, migration, and mental illness, and co-edited Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650–1940 (1999). Currently she is working on an ARC-funded project on the history of mental hospitals and community care in Australia.
CORINNE MANNING is a Research Fellow at Victoria University who specialises in oral and digital histories. Her publications explore issues of human rights, identity, and diversity in Australia and include: Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages (2008) and the co-authored book, A Man of all Tribes: The Life of Alick Jackomos (2006). She is currently working on an oral history of Australian Peacekeeping in Somalia, Timor-Leste, and the Solomon Islands.
LEE-ANN MONK is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Associate at the University of Melbourne and an Honorary Associate at La Trobe University, where she is writing a history of Kew Cottages, Australia's first specialised institution for people with intellectual disability, as part of an ARC Linkage-Grant between La Trobe University and Victoria's Department of Human Services. Her history of asylum attendants, Attending Madness: At Work in the Australian Colonial Asylum, was published in 2008 as a volume in Clio Medica: The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine.
FIONA PAISLEY teaches cultural history at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She has published on empire and settler colonialism in transnational context, as well as on race, gender, and modernity. Her books are Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific (forthcoming 2009) and Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights, 1919–1939 (2000). She co-edited Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History in 2005.
ELIZABETH TODD is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. She is currently completing her thesis on gender, anaesthesia and the clinical encounter in the nineteenth century.
JOHN WEAVER is University Professor at McMaster University and author of A Sadly Troubled History: The Meanings of Suicide in the Modern Age (2009). That book involved a study of roughly seven thousand suicide inquests from Queensland and New Zealand from 1890 to 1950. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Australian National University and at Griffith University. His book The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650–1900 (2003) received the best book award for 2003 from the North American Conference on British Studies and the Ferguson Award of the Canadian Historical Association.
STEVEN WELCH is Senior Lecturer in Modern German History at the University of Melbourne. His current research focuses on the military and social history of the Third Reich. He is presently completing a book on German deserters in World War II as well as a book on Germans prosecuted for the crime of 'subversion' in the Third Reich.
ANN WESTMORE completed her PhD titled 'Mind, Mania and Science; Psychiatry and the Culture of Experiment in Mid-Twentieth Century Victoria' in 2002. Her subsequent research has included aspects of the history of psychiatry and mental health service provision in Victoria and Australia, and the history of attempts to integrate clinical teaching, medical practice, and research in Melbourne.
DAVID WRIGHT holds the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine and is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences and the Department of History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He is the author and co-editor of seven books on the history of mental health and psychiatry including, with John Weaver (eds), Histories of Suicide: International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World (2009). He is currently writing a history of Down's Syndrome for Oxford University Press.

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