Contributors

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anne-emanuelle birn is Professor and Canada Research Chair in International Health at the University of Toronto. Her research explores the history of public health in Latin America and the history and politics of international health. She has published widely in North American, Latin American, African, and European journals, and is the author of Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico (University of Rochester Press, 2006); Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World, 3rd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2009) with Yogan Pillay and Timothy Holtz; and the forthcoming Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home (Rutgers University Press) with coeditor Theodore Brown. Her current work examines the history of the international child health and rights movement from the perspective of Uruguay.gilberto hochman is Researcher and Professor of History of Science and Health at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He has published A era do saneamento — As bases da política de saúde pública no Brasil (Hucitec, 1998), Cuidar, curar, controlar (Editora Fiocruz, 2004), and Políticas públicas no Brasil (Editora Fiocruz, 2007). He coedited special issues of Ciência & Saúde Coletiva (“History of Health Workers,” 2008; “Vaccines, Immunization: Past and Future,” 2011), Canadian Bulletin of Medical History (“Latin American and International Health,” 2007), and História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos (“Science, Health, and Power in Latin America and the Caribbean,” 2002; “History of International Health: Latin American Perspectives,” 2006). His current research is on the relations between health agenda and development projects in 1950s Brazil.simone petraglia kropf is Researcher and Professor of History of Science at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Her recent book, Doença de Chagas, doença do Brasil: Ciência, saúde e nação, 1909 – 1962 (Editora Fiocruz, 2009), examines research and public health initiatives on Chagas disease. She also has published a book on Carlos Chagas’s biography (Carlos Chagas, Scientist of Brazil, with Aline Lopes de Lacerda, Editora Fiocruz, 2009) and articles in the Social History of Medicine, História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, and Dynamis on the social construction of disease concepts, the history of tropical medicine, and controversies within medical knowledge in Brazil. She is currently researching the history of cardiology in Brazil.raúl necochea lópez obtained his PhD in History from McGill University. He is Assistant Professor in the department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is broadly interested in the history of medicine and science, sexual and reproductive health, and the relations between developed and developing regions. His articles have been published in the Latin American Research Review, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and Salud Colectiva, among others. He is currently writing a book about the history of family planning in his home country of Peru during the Cold War.steven palmer, Canada Research Chair in History of International Health at the University of Windsor, is the author of Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation (University of Michigan Press, 2010); coeditor with Claudia Agostoni of “Landscapes of Latin American Health,” a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (vol. 35, no. 69, 2010); and coeditor with María Silvia Di Liscia and Gilberto Hochman of Patologías de la patria: Enfermedades, enfermos y nación en América Latina (Buenos Aires: Lugar Editorial, forthcoming 2011).julia rodriguez is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Civilizing Argentina: Science, Medicine, and the Modern State (University of North Carolina Press, 2006), and has published articles in the American Historical Review, Science in Context, and other journals. She is editor of the open-source teaching website HOSLAC: History of Science in Latin America and the Caribbean (www.hoslac.org). Recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award, Rodriguez has also received fellowships from the ACLS, the American Association for the History of Medicine, and other agencies. She is currently researching the intersection of science and law in Latin America and the Caribbean.nancy leys stepan has been a professor of history at Columbia University and the University of Oxford. Her books include Beginnings of Brazilian Science: Oswaldo Cruz, Medical Research and Policy, 1890 – 1920 (Science History Publications, 1976; reissued 1981); The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain, 1800 – 1960 (Archon Books, 1982); “The Hour of Eugenics”: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America (Cornell University Press, 1991); and Picturing Tropical Nature (Cornell University Press, 2001). Her new book Eradication! Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? will appear in 2011.alexandra minna stern is the Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. Her research has focused on both the history of the uses and misuses of genetics and the history of infectious diseases in the United States and Latin America. She is the author of Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (University of California Press, 2005), which won the American Public Health Association’s Arthur Viseltear Award for outstanding contributions to the history of public health. Her forthcoming book Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America examines how the medical, social, and cultural landscape of reproductive and genetic technologies has changed since the 1950s and what these mean for Americans navigating genetic medicine today.