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Contributors

HARRY FRANCIS AKERS graduated Bachelor of Dental Science and Bachelor of Arts with majors in government and history from the University of Queensland. He is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons by examination and has two additional honorary fellowships via The International College of Dentists and The Pierre Fauchard Academy. He also has two post-graduate dental qualifications via the University of Adelaide and is currently an external, Doctor of Philosophy student at the University of Queensland. Until recently, Harry was a general dental practitioner at Bundaberg, a provincial city in Queensland.
MICHAEL ASHBY is director of the Centre for Palliative Care, and professor of palliative medicine, Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne. He has special interests in the pharmacological management of pain and symptoms, ethics and the use of the humanities as they apply to care and decision-making at the end of life, undergraduate medical education, specialist palliative medicine training and supervision. He is past president of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Palliative Medicine (ANZSPM) and current chairman of the Chapter of Palliative Medicine at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
HANS A. BAER is lecturer in the School of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Studies and the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. Hans has published eleven books including: Recreating Utopia in the Desert; African American Religion; Encounters with Biomedicine: Case Studies in Medical Anthropology; Critical Medical Anthropology (with Merrill Singer); Medical Anthropology and the World System: A Critical Perspective (with Merrill Singer and Ida Susser); Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, Toward an Integrative Medicine; and Introducing Medical Anthropology (forthcoming). He is presently working on a book about complementary medicine in Australia and another on naturopathy in various countries, including the U.S., Canada, and Australia.
DON BARRETT is a former dean of arts and reader in classics and ancient history at the University of Queensland, where he is currently an honorary research consultant and member of Senate. He is coordinator of ancient history studies at the University of New England's Brisbane campus and part-time teacher of Latin at Brisbane Grammar School. His main research interests are Latin language and literature and race relations in the ancient world.
ROBERT 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, 1945–1965.
BRONWYN LABRUM is senior lecturer in the School of Visual and Material Culture, Massey University, Wellington. She is co-editor of Fragments: New Zealand Social and Cultural History (2000) and has published widely on health, welfare, museums, and material culture. Her current projects include a chapter on welfare and society for the forthcoming New Oxford History of New Zealand and a co-edited collection of essays on the history of clothing in New Zealand.
SUZETTE PORTER is the Director of Clinical Placements and Coordinator of Community Dentistry at The University of Queensland School of Dentistry. Her research interests lie in rural and remote area dentistry, cross cultural interaction in dentistry, volunteer activities in dentistry and applied ethics.
ANNE MARIE RAFFERTY is the head of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at Kings College London. Her research interests combine history, health policy and health services research. She is the author of The Politics of Nursing Knowledge, which was published by Routledge in 1996.
RAYMOND RICHARDS is a New Zealander who gained his MA from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1994, Pennsylvania State University Press published his book Closing the Door to Destitution: The Shaping of the Social Security Acts of the United States and New Zealand. Dr. Richards is writing a biography of former New Zealand prime minister, Sir Geoffrey Palmer.
CERIDWEN SPARK works at Monash University where she is currently writing about international adoption. Her research interests include cross-cultural interaction in Australia and the Pacific, and gender and family studies. Ceridwen recently published in Continuum, the Journal of Sociology and the Journal of Pacific History.
EMMA SPOONER has recently completed her Masters Degree in History at the University of Waikato. Her thesis seeks to locate the families of patients in the Auckland Asylum archive, and investigates the nature of the family's presence and absence in the records. She is intending to complete a PhD at the University of Warwick, focusing on the records of asylums, prisons and workhouses.
JOHN C. WALLER is lecturer in the history of medicine and biology at the Centre for Health and Society and in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne. John has published four books, Fabulous Science (Oxford, 2002), The Discovery of the Germ (Columbia, 2003), Leaps in the Dark (Oxford, 2004) and The Real Oliver Twist: Robert Blincoe—A Life that Illuminates an Age (Icon Books, 2005). He is currently completing a book on ideas of heredity and reproduction in Britain and America, 1750–1875.
RAE WEAR is Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland where she teaches courses on Australian politics, political leadership, and democratic politics. She is the author of Johannes Bjelke-Petersen: The Lord's Premier. She has co-edited books on Queensland's Fitzgerald Enquiry and on Queensland premiers and has written chapters and articles on aspects of Australian state and federal politics. Her research interests lie in the area of right wing populism, rural politics, and political culture.
JILL WRAPSON is a postgraduate student in History at the University of Auckland. Her PhD thesis involves an investigation into societal attitudes and concerns relative to the fluoridation of public water supplies during the past fifty years. Concentrating predominantly on New Zealand, the study will include an investigation into the individuals and groups who, over the past half-century, have entered the fluoridation debate, a debate that has provided as a window on underlying society.

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