CONTRIBUTORS

Michael Ackerman is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. He is currently working on a Ph.D. dissertation on the contested and fluid reception given to the newer knowledge of nutrition in the United States between the 1910s and the 1970s. Amy Sue Bix is an associate professor in the History Department at Iowa State University and assistant director of ISU’s Center for Historical Studies of Technology and Science. Her book Inventing Ourselves out of Jobs?: America’s Debate over Technological Unemployment, 1929-1981 was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2000. She has also published on the history of breast cancer and AIDS research, on the history of eugenics, on the history of home economics, and on post-World War II physics and engineering, among other subjects. She is currently finishing a book entitled Engineering Education for American Women: An Intellectual, Institutional, and Social History. Barbara Clow is a social historian of medicine, specializing in twentieth-century North America. She has published on various aspects of the history of medicine, including the history of cancer, doctor-patient relations, alternative medicine, and illness metaphors. Her book Negotiating Disease: Power and Cancer Care, 1900-1950 was published in 2001 by McGill-Queen’s University Press, and she is currently working on a history of thalidomide in North America. Dr. Clow is director of the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Nadav Davidovitch, M.D., M.P.H., is a lecturer in the Department of Health Systems Management, Ben Gurion University. He has recently submitted his Ph.D. dissertation to the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University. His thesis, on the relationship between homeopathy and scientific medicine, is titled “Framing Scientific Medicine: American Homeopaths Quest for Professional Identity, 1870-1930.” His current research is on the social history of resistance to vaccination and on health and immigration in Israel. Wade Davies is an assistant professor of Native American studies at the University of Montana in Missoula. He earned a B.A. from Indiana University and then studied American Indian history at Arizona State University, where he earned a Ph.D. After completing his book Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century (2001), Davies spent three years teaching at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico, near the Navajo Nation. Otniel E.Dror, M.D., Ph.D., is lecturer and head of the Section for the History of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He received his M.D. from Ben-Gurion University (1989) and his Ph.D. in history from Princeton University (1998). His contribution to this

collection is part of a new project on the cultural history of modern excitement and death. His book The Science of Passion: Modernity, Excitement, and the Study of Emotions, 1880-1950 is forthcoming with Stanford University Press. Recent publications have appeared in Isis (1999), Configurations (1999), Social Research (2001), and Science in Context (2001). Georgina Feldberg is an associate professor of social science at York University, Toronto, where she teaches in health and society, women’s studies, and history. Her book Disease and Class: Tuberculosis and the Shaping of Modern North American Society (1995) received the Hannah Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. Her recent work explores the history of women and health in late-twentieth-century North America. She is co-author of Women, Health and Nation (2003). From 1992 to 2001 she was director of the York University Centre for Health Studies and academic director of the National Network on Environments and Women’s Health. Jonathan David Geczik was a professor of political science at the Community College of Allegheny County. Along with Matthew Schneirov he is the author of A Diagnosis for Our Times: Alternative Health-From Lifeworld to Politics (2003). David J.Hess is professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has published a dozen books and numerous articles that make contributions to social studies of medicine, the environment, science, and technology. Among his projects is research on the movement for less toxic and more efficacious cancer therapies in the United States, which resulted in books such as Women Confront Cancer (with Margaret Wooddell, New York University Press), Can Bacteria Course Cancer? and Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies. He is currently working on issues of health, sustainability, and social movements, for which some publications are available at his Web site, https://home.earthlink.net/~davidhesshomepage. Hess is the recipient of the Diana Forsythe Prize for his work in the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine, and his recent work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and Fulbright Commission. Velana Huntington is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Her research has focused on notions of embodiment, health, and healing within Orisha, a Yoruba-derived religion, as it is encountered in the midwestern United States. Her current research interests include health and healing, feminist medical anthropology, embodiment, and the narratives of homeless children and families. Robert D.Johnston is associate professor and director of the Teaching of History Program in the History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His book The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (2003), which contains a section on anti-vaccination movements, won the 2002 President’s Book Award of the Social Science History Association. He has taught at Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa, and in the history department at Yale University, where he was also an associate fellow in the History of Medicine Program at Yale Medical School. During 2001-2002, he was a visiting lecturer in the American Studies program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Johnston delivered a paper at the National Vaccine Information Center’s Second International Public Conference on Vaccination in 2000, and he is a member of the Centers for Disease Control’s Vaccine Risk Communication workgroup. He is also co-editor of The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class (Routledge, 2001, with Burton J.Bledstein) and The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America (2001, with Catherine McNicol Stock).