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Medical History / Volume 44 / Supplement S20 / January 2000, pp xi - xiiDOI: 10.1017/S0025727300073233, Published online: 16 November 2012

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Contributors

WARWICK ANDERSON is Associate Professor in the History and Philosophy of ScienceDepartment and Director of the Centre for the Study of Health and Society at theUniversity of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include the developmentofpublic health and health promotion policy. He has published widely in internationaljournals, including Victorian Studies, the American Historical Review and SocialStudies of Science.

FRANK A BARRETT iS Chairman of the Department of Geography and Co-ordinatorof Urban Studies at Atkinson College, York University, Toronto, where he teachesthree courses in medical geography: the geography of disease, geography of nutrition,and the geography of health care systems. He has recently published a major studyon the origins and development of medical geography and geographical medicinefrom the mid-fifth century BC up to the mid-twentieth century AD. The book isentitled Disease and Geography: The History of an Idea (available from AtkinsonCollege, see: www.atkinson.yorku.ca/bfbarrett/).

RAINER BROMER is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. He is completing adoctoral dissertation (at Jena University) on the role of Haeckel's conception ofDarwinism in the Italian 'Kulturkampf'. Further interests include social Darwinismand the relationship between Western and "traditional" science in Islamic countriesfrom 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 GeographicalUnion. Her academic interests include the history and philosophy of geography,urban and social geography, environmental issues and human dimensions of globalchange. She has published widely and among her many books and monographs areThe practice of Geography (1983), Geography and the Human Spirit (1993) and, aseditor, 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 atthe University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published articles on biogeographicalfieldwork and mapping, with particular attention to the work of Alfred RusselWallace. Her book on the writings of Wallace is in preparation at the Johns HopkinsUniversity Press.

MARK HARRISON iS Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director at the WellcomeUnit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University. He is the author of PublicHealth in British India: Anglo-Indian Preventive Medicine 1859-1914 (1994) and

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ContributorsClimates and Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment and British Imperialism inIndia, 1600-1850 (1999). He is also co-editor with Roger Cooter and Steve Sturdyof War, Medicine and Modernity (1998) and Medicine and Modern Warfare (1999).ANNEMARIE DE KNECHT-VAN EEKELEN used to teach history of medicine in the medicalfaculty of the Free University of Amsterdam. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Naareen rationele zuigelingenvoeding. Voedingsleer en kindergeneeskunde in Nederland1840-1914 (Towards a Rational Infant Feeding. The Science of Nutrition andPaediatrics in the Netherlands 1840-1914) (1984). Her research concerned therelationship between medicine and science in the Netherlands and its colonies duringthe nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has been editor of Gewina, the Dutchjournal for the history of medicine, science, mathematics and technology.RONALD L NUMBERS is Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History ofScience and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches thehistory of American science and medicine. His many publications include, mostrecently, Darwinism Comes to America (1998). He is President of the History ofScience Society and co-editor of the forthcoming eight-volume Cambridge Historyof Science.

MICHAEL A OSBORNE is Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies atthe University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book was a study ofapplied 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 ofFrench military and tropical medicine in the nineteenth century.

NICOLAAS A RUPKE is Professor of the History of Science and Director of the Institutfur Wissenschaftsgeschichte at the Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen. His currentinterest concerns the impact of Alexander von Humboldt. Among his books areRichard Owen (1994) and the edited volume Vivisection in Historical Perspective(1987).

CONEVERY BOLTON VALENCIUS is Assistant Professor in the Department of History atWashington University in St Louis. She is at work on a book-length manuscript onnotions of health and place in the early-nineteenth-century settlement of regions inthe American West. Other projects include study of the perceived relationshipsbetween heat, rot, and "sickliness" in Southern nineteenth-century culture, and ofvisual 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 ofWilderness in Museums ofNatural History (1993). Her current interests include visualrepresentation in the Humboldtian tradition of exploration of the North AmericanWest.

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Introduction

European National Practices

Colonial Discourses

Cartographic Representations

Epilogues