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Medical History / Volume 44 / Supplement S20 / January 2000, pp xi - xii

DOI: 10.1017/S0025727300073233, Published online: 16 November 2012

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Contributors
WARWICK ANDERSON is Associate Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science
Department and Director of the Centre for the Study of Health and Society at the
University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include the development
of public health and health promotion policy. He has published widely in international
journals, including Victorian Studies, the American Historical Review and Social
Studies of Science.

FRANK A BARRETT iS Chairman of the Department of Geography and Co-ordinator

of Urban Studies at Atkinson College, York University, Toronto, where he teaches
three courses in medical geography: the geography of disease, geography of nutrition,
and the geography of health care systems. He has recently published a major study
on the origins and development of medical geography and geographical medicine
from the mid-fifth century BC up to the mid-twentieth century AD. The book is
entitled Disease and Geography: The History of an Idea (available from Atkinson
College, see: www.atkinson.yorku.ca/bfbarrett/).
RAINER BROMER is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. He is completing a
doctoral dissertation (at Jena University) on the role of Haeckel's conception of
Darwinism in the Italian 'Kulturkampf'. Further interests include social Darwinism
and the relationship between Western and "traditional" science in Islamic countries
from the eighteenth century to the present.
ANNE BUTTIMER is Professor of Geography and Head, Department of Geography,
University College, Dublin. She is also President of the International Geographical
Union. Her academic interests include the history and philosophy of geography,
urban and social geography, environmental issues and human dimensions of global
change. She has published widely and among her many books and monographs are
The practice of Geography (1983), Geography and the Human Spirit (1993) and, as
editor, Nature and Identity in Cross Cultural Perspective (1999), and Text and Image:
Social Construction of Regional Knowledges (1999).
JANE R CAMERINI is a faculty associate in the Department of the History of Science at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published articles on biogeographical
fieldwork and mapping, with particular attention to the work of Alfred Russel
Wallace. Her book on the writings of Wallace is in preparation at the Johns Hopkins
University Press.
MARK HARRISON iS Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director at the Wellcome
Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University. He is the author of Public
Health in British India: Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914 (1994) and

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Climates and Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment and British Imperialism in
India, 1600-1850 (1999). He is also co-editor with Roger Cooter and Steve Sturdy
of War, Medicine and Modernity (1998) and Medicine and Modern Warfare (1999).

ANNEMARIE DE KNECHT-VAN EEKELEN used to teach history of medicine in the medical

faculty of the Free University of Amsterdam. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Naar
een rationele zuigelingenvoeding. Voedingsleer en kindergeneeskunde in Nederland
1840-1914 (Towards a Rational Infant Feeding. The Science of Nutrition and
Paediatrics in the Netherlands 1840-1914) (1984). Her research concerned the
relationship between medicine and science in the Netherlands and its colonies during
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has been editor of Gewina, the Dutch
journal for the history of medicine, science, mathematics and technology.
RONALD L NUMBERS is Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of
Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches the
history of American science and medicine. His many publications include, most
recently, Darwinism Comes to America (1998). He is President of the History of
Science Society and co-editor of the forthcoming eight-volume Cambridge History
of Science.
MICHAEL A OSBORNE is Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies at
the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book was a study of
applied natural history in France and the French empire, entitled Nature, the Exotic,
and the Science of French Colonialism (1994). He is currently completing a study of
French military and tropical medicine in the nineteenth century.

NICOLAAS A RUPKE is Professor of the History of Science and Director of the Institut
fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte at the Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen. His current
interest concerns the impact of Alexander von Humboldt. Among his books are
Richard Owen (1994) and the edited volume Vivisection in Historical Perspective
(1987).
CONEVERY BOLTON VALENCIUS is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at
Washington University in St Louis. She is at work on a book-length manuscript on
notions of health and place in the early-nineteenth-century settlement of regions in
the American West. Other projects include study of the perceived relationships
between heat, rot, and "sickliness" in Southern nineteenth-century culture, and of
visual representation in American public health of the 1920s and 1930s.

KAREN E WONDERS was the recent recipient of a research fellowship at the Georg-

August-Universitat Gottingen. She is the author of Habitat Dioramas: Illusions of

Wilderness in Museums ofNatural History (1993). Her current interests include visual
representation in the Humboldtian tradition of exploration of the North American
West.
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Introduction

European National Practices

Colonial Discourses

Cartographic Representations

Epilogues