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Maarten van Bottenburg was co-founder and managing partner of Research Bureau Diopter until 1998. He now is managing partner/director of Diopter - Janssens & Van Bottenburg. Among several books and many articles, he wrote: Verborgen competitie. Over de uiteenlopende populariteit van sporten [Hidden competition; On the differential popularities of sports] (Amsterdam 1994), Aan den arbeid! In de wandelgangen van de Stichting van de Arbeid [To work! Behind the scenes of the Labour Foundation] (Amsterdam, 1995) and Zorg tussen stoat en markt. De maatschappelijke betekenis van de Ziekenfondsraad 1949-1999 [Care between state and market. The social impact of the Sickness Fund Council 1949-1999] (Zutphen 1999, with Geert de Vries and Annet Mooij).
John Curnow is Director of Public Health and Chief Administrative Medical Officer, Orkney Health Board. He is also Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the University of Aberdeen and Senior Vice President of the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland. His professional interests include infectious diseases, in particular gut pathogens and E.coli 0157, medical aid for humanitarian crises, disaster medicine and military medicine. He is heavily involved in the development of remote and rural medicine particularly with new models of care being undertaken in Orkney.
Marguerite Dupree is a Senior Lecturer and a core staff member of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. She holds a Wellcome Trust University Award during which she plans to undertake the project outlined in this paper. She is the editor of Lancashire and Whitehall: the Diary of Sir Raymond Streat 1931-1958 and is the author of Family Structure in the Staffordshire Potteries 1840-1880. She is also the author of a number of articles in the social history of medicine particularly on the relationship of families and hospitals in nineteenth century British cities, on the use of computers in the history of medicine and on aspects of the development of the medical profession in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In addition to her work with Anne Crowther for their forthcoming book, Listers Men: Medical Lives in the Age of Surgical Revolution, she is currently working on a book, Hydropathy, Medicine and Society in Scotland 1840-1950 with James Bradley and Alastair Durie.
Rona Ferguson is a Research Assistant in Glasgow Caledonian University and is studying for a doctorate in the departments of Social Science and Nursing & Community Health. Her thesis is a history of district nursing in Scotland based largely on oral testimony. She has published on the history of women in medicine and on district nursing in Scotland most recently Nurse Jenny aThing. Recollections of life on the district in Johanna Bornat, Robert Perks & Paul Thompson (eds.) Oral History of Health and Welfare (Routledge, 1999).
Jacqueline Jenkinson is a Lecturer in History at the University of Stirling. Her current research, which was funded by the ESRC is on Scottish health policy 1918-1948. Her publications include a book on Scottish Medical Societies, and she co-authored the history of Glasgow Royal Infirmary. She has recently published a contribution on Scottish health policy and practice, 1918-1948, to the collection Improving the Public Health, 1998.
Ronald Johnston is a Research Fellow in Scottish History at the University Strathclyde. He has published extensively on the history of occupational health and safety and is currently writing a book with Arthur McIvor, Dust to Dust: the Asbestos Tragedy in Scotland (Tuckwell Press, 2001). He is the author of Clydeside Capital (Tuckwell Press 2000).
Susan McGann is the Archivist of the Royal College of Nursing based in Edinburgh. She is the author of The Battle of the Nurses: eight leaders in the development of professional nursing, 1880-1930, Scutari Press 1992, many articles on the history of the RCN and Archival sources for research into the history of nursing, Nurse Researcher, 5 (2), 1997/98.
Arthur McIvor is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde. He has published extensively on the history of occupational health and safety and is currently writing a book with Ronnie Johnston, Dust to Dust: the Asbestos Tragedy in Scotland (Tuckwell Press, 2000). His previous publications include Organised Capital (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and A History of Work in Britain 1880-1950 (Macmillan, 2000).
Hugh McLachlan is Reader in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University. He has published extensively in a range of areas in the philosophy of the social sciences. He is currently heavily involved in writing on issues of medical ethics, most notably on commercial surrogacy. He is a regular contributor to the Journal Of Medical Ethics.
Annet Mooij was co-founder and managing partner of Research Bureau Diopter until 1998. She is now owner and director of the Research Bureau Mooij Onderzoek. She has published numerous books and articles, such as Out of Otherness. Characters and narrators in the Dutch venereal disease debates, 1850-1990 (London 1998), Zorg tussen stoat en markt. De maatschappelijke betekenis van de Ziekenfondsraad 1949-1999 [Care between state and market. The social impact of the Sickness Fund Council 1949-1999] (Zutphen 1999, with Geert de Vries and Maarten van Bottenburg) and De polsslag van de stad. 350 jaar academische geneeskunde in Amsterdam [The citys pulse. 350 Years of academic medicine in Amsterdam] (Amsterdam, 1999).
Chris Nottingham is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Glasgow Caledonian University, and Visiting Research Fellow of the Contemporary History centre in the University of Amsterdam. He publishes mainly in the history of health and welfare politics. His book, The Pursuit of Serenity. Havelock Ellis and the New Politics