Contributors

JAMES BENNETT is a lecturer in history at the University of is a lecturer in history at the University of Auckland. His research focuses on twentieth-century New Zealand and Australian history, trans-national histories, and history through film. He co-edited, with Josephine May, a special issue on gendered readings in history and film for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Four years earlier, he commenced a research project on the 1954 Parker–Hulme case and its filmic adaptation, Heavenly Creatures, which has also yielded an article in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of New Zealand Studies.	1
BARBARA BROOKES teaches history at the University of Otago. She has published widely on the history of gender relations in the twentieth century and, in particular, where the history of women and the history of medicine intersect. Her most recent book, co-edited with Annabel Cooper and Robin Law, is entitled Sites of Gender: Women, Men and Modernity in Southern Dunedin, 1890–1939. Her most recent article is entitled “‘The Glands of Destiny”: Hygiene, Hormones and English Women Doctors in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,’ which appeared in the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/ Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la medicine.	2
CAROLINE CLARK works at Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre in Melbourne where she teaches in its postgraduate program. She is also working on her PhD—constructing a social and medical history of alcoholism in Australia—at the Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne.	3
ANTHONY CORONES lectures in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales. His areas of interest include philosophy of science and medicine, and cognitive science. He also teaches in the history of medicine.	4
KYLLIE CRIPPS is an Indigenous (Pallawa) woman, was awarded her PhD in 2005 for her thesis Enough Family Fighting: Indigenous Community Responses to Addressing Family Violence Health & History in Australia & the United States. Her current work focuses on the social context of violence and how policy/programs can support Indigenous communities in responding to the problem.	5
GEOFFREY GRAY is a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Studies, Canberra, and an Honorary Research Associate at Monash University, Melbourne. He has published extensively on the history of Australian social anthropology and is keenly interested in the ways anthropologists sought to influence governments in the formulation and implementation of Indigenous policy and how they, paradoxically, represented the voice of Indigenous peoples in these arenas. He has published on a wide range of topics including academic freedom, race and racism (including whiteness studies), (post)colonialism, citizenship, expert witnesses, native title, anthropologists in World War II, and the pastoral industry in northern Australia. He is the author of the forthcoming, Controlling and Developing: A history of Australian Anthropology, 1920–1960, Aboriginal Studies Press (2007).	6
SUSAN HARDY lectures in the history of medicine in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales and at the University of Sydney. She has published on various aspects of colonial health and has been on the committees of both the New South Wales and Australian Societies of the History of Medicine.	7
CLAIRE HOOKER is the Sidney Sax Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Health, NHMRC, and studies contemporary and historical issues in health and medicine, specifically public and policy responses to uncertain health risks, particularly those of infectious disease. Her past work has examined the development of infection control policies such as sanitation, contact tracing, carrier detention, immunisation, pasteurisation, and quarantine as well as the development of health promotion and policy around late-twentieth-century ‘lifestyle’ diseases, especially tobacco control. She is presently researching relations between lay understandings of health risks and their trust in government management of health risk issues. She has another side as a humanistic biographer in science, and has begun work on Australia’s pioneer of radio astronomy, John Bolton.	8
LOUELLA MCCARTHY completed her PhD on medical women in nineteenth– and twentieth–century Australia through the School of History, University of New South Wales, in 2001. She has continued to work on issues of gender and medicine in a comparative context. She is currently employed with the Disability Initiative, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, where she is part of a project investigating the impact of values and beliefs on health care practices by people with disabilities.	9
HANS POLS is a senior lecturer in the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He is interested in the history of psychiatry (in particular mental hygiene) and is currently engaged in an ARC-funded research project on the history of war neurosis during World War II. He is also interested in the development of medicine in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia.	10
STEFANIA SIEDLECKY graduated from the University of Sydney Medical School in 1943. She received a Master in Medical Demography from the University of London in 1978. From 1975 to 1986 she was advisor in family planning and women’s health in the Commonwealth Department of Health. From 1989, she has been an honourary associate at the Department of Demography at Macquarie University.	11
ERIC A. STEIN is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Michigan’s Institute for Historical Studies. He completed his PhD in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan in 2005 and has taught at Oberlin College. He is currently working on a book that examines colonialism, nationalism, public health, and memory in Indonesia.	12
RICHARD TRAVERS graduated in Medicine from Monash University in 1970 and is a rheumatologist in provate and hospital practice. While training in London he did the Diploma in the History of Medicine at the Society of Apothecaries, and has maintained a particular interest in medical history ever since.	13
MERRILYN WALTON is Associate Professor of Ethical Practice, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney and is Chair of the Professional and Personal Development Theme in the Sydney Graduate Medical Program. Her particular interests include changing the work environment for junior doctors, educating health care workers about patient safety and advocating for patients. In addition to journal articles she is the author of three books: The Trouble with Medicine: Preserving the Trust Between Patients and Doctors (Allen and Unwin, 1998); Wellbeing: How to Get the Best Treatment From Your Doctor (Pluto Press, 2002); and Safety and Ethics in Health Care, co-authored with Professors Bill Runciman and Alan Merry and soon to be published by Ashgate Publishers.	14

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