International Network for the History of Hospitals

Advisory Board

CONVENERS
Dr John Henderson (University Of Cambridge)
Professor Olwen Hufton (Merton College, Oxford)
Professor Guenter Risse (University of California, San Francisco)

SECRETARIAT
Dr Louise Gray (Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine)

ADVISORY BOARD
Professor Annmarie Adams (McGill University)
Professor Harm Beukers (University of Leiden)
Professor Anders Brandstrom (Umea Universtitet)
Dr Linda Bryder (University of Auckland)
Dr Steve Cherry (University of East Anglia)
Mr. Peregrine Horden (University of London)
Professor Joel Howell (University of Michigan)
Professor Colin Jones (University of Warwick)
Professor Alfons Labisch (Heinrich Heine Universitat Dusseldorf)
Dr Sagrario Munoz
Professor Alessandro Pastore (Universita' degli Studie di Verona)
Dr Carole Rawcliffe (University of East Anglia)
Professor Francois-Olivier Touati (Universite de Paris XII)
Dr Keir Waddington (Cardiff University)
Professor John H. Warner (Yale)
Dr John Woodward (University of Sheffield)

CONVENERS
Dr John Henderson (University Of Cambridge)
Dr John Henderson, Senior Research Fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Stucture, is a specialist in late medieval and early modern Italy. His main areas of interest are in the religious, social, and medical history of central Italy, and in particular Florence. His book Piety and Charity in Late Medieval Florence published by Oxford University Press in 1994 (paperbacked by Chicago University Press in 1997 and translated in Italian by Casa Editrice Le Lettere, Florence, 1998) dealt with both popular piety and welfare provision for the poor. In the past few years he has concentrated his interests on the general field of the social history of medicine and in particular the history of the reactions of Italian renaissance society to epidemic and endemic disease. His second book is a co-authored work (with Jon Arrizabalaga and Roger French) called The Great Pox. The French Disease in Renaissance Europe (Yale University Press, 1997), which deals with lay and medical reaction to the appearance of syphilis in Europe. His latest book, The Renaissance Hospital in Florence and Italy, will be published by Yale University Press in 2001. He is now working on a new project which examines the medical world of early modern Tuscany, including official practitioners, such a physicians and barber-surgeons, to more unofficial healers, including wise women and herbalists, to travelling empirics and charlatans selling miraculous recipes.
E-mail: JH101@hermes.cam.ac.uk

Professor Olwen Hufton (Merton College, Oxford)
E-Mail: olwen.hufton@merton.ac.uk

Professor Guenter Risse (University of California, San Francisco)
E-mail: risse@itsa.ucsf.edu

SECRETARIAT
Dr Louise Gray (Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine)
E-mail: grayinhh@hotmail.com

ADVISORY BOARD
Professor Annmarie Adams (McGill University)

Professor Harm Beukers (University of Leiden)
E-mail: h.beukers@metamedica.MedFac.LeidenUniv.NL

Professor Anders Brandstrom (Umea Universtitet)
E-mail: ABR@ddb.umu.se

Dr Linda Bryder (University of Auckland)
E-Mail: l.bryder@auckland.ac.nz

Dr Steve Cherry (University of East Anglia)
E-mail: s.cherry@uea.ac.uk

Mr. Peregrine Horden (University of London)
E-mail: p.horden@rhbnc.ac.ul

Professor Joel Howell (University of Michigan)
Joel D. Howell, MD, PhD, is a Professor at the University of Michigan in the Departments of Internal Medicine (Medical School), Health Services Management and Policy (School of Public Health), and History (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts).  He received his MD at the University of Chicago, and stayed at that institution for his internship and residency in internal medicine.  At the University of Pennsylvania he was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and received his PhD in the History and Sociology of Science.  Dr. Howell has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 1984.  He is Co-Director of the University of Michigan Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Director of the University of Michigan Program in Society and Medicine.  He has written widely on the use of medical technology, examining the social and contextual factors relevant to its clinical application and diffusion, analyzing why American medicine has become obsessed with the use of medical technology. His current research is an attempt to analyze the implication for health policy of factors that have both contributed to and slowed the diffusion of medical technology into clinical practice.  His most recent book is Technology in the Hospital Transforming Patient Care in the Early Twentieth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).  Dr. Howell's current research is supported by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and by a Burroughs Welcome Foundation Award in the History of Medicine.
E-mail: jhowell@umich.edu

Professor Colin Jones (University of Warwick)
E-mail: c.d.h.jones@warwick.ac.uk

Professor Alfons Labisch (Heinrich Heine Universitat Dusseldorf)
E-mail: histmed@uni-duesseldorf.de

Dr Sagrario Munoz
E-mail: tsagrariom@gmx.net

Professor Alessandro Pastore (Universita' degli Studie di Verona)
E-mail: pastore@chiostro.inivr.it

Dr Carole Rawcliffe (University of East Anglia)
Carole Rawcliffe is Reader in the History of Medicine at the University of East Anglia, and a member of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine there.  She is the author of Medicine for the Soul: The Life, Death and Resurrection of an English Medieval Hospital (Sutton Publishing, 1999), and of other books and articles on hospitals and medical provision in medieval England, and especially East Anglia.  She is currently writing a history of leprosy and leper hospitals in medieval England.
E-mail: c.rawcliffe@uea.ac.uk

Professor Francois-Olivier Touati (Universite de Paris XII)

Dr Keir Waddington (Cardiff University)
Keir Waddington is a Lecturer in History in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University.  He received his PhD on nineteenth-century hospital charity from University College London having held the Royal Historical Society Centenary Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research.  After his PhD he moved to the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (UCL) to work with Roy Porter on the History of Bethlem and in 1997 started work on the history of medical education at St. Bartholomew's Hospital (forthcoming).  He has written on the professionalisation of hospital medicine, on outpatients, on Victorian charity, on hospital benevolent funds, and on the nature of hospital finance in London.  His most recent book is Charity and the London Hospitals 1850-1898 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2000).  Although maintaining his interest in hospitals, Keir Waddington is currently working on the science on bovine tuberculosis and the public's health.
E-mail: WaddingtonK@Cardiff.ac.uk

Professor John H. Warner (Yale)
E-mail: john.warner@yale.edu

Dr John Woodward (University of Sheffield)
John Woodward is an economic and social historian who has research interests in the social history of medicine and in the responses to industrialisation. He is Co-Director of the Sheffield Centre for the History of Medicine, and has published on the British voluntary hospital system, the demography of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, and on occupational development within medicine.  He is President of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, and acts as co-ordinating editor of its publication section with Robert Jütte. His recent publications include three edited volumes on Coping with Sickness and a volume on Culture, Knowledge and Healing. Previous publications include To Do the Sick No Harm. A Study of the British Voluntary Hospital Movement to 1875 (1974).  He is currently working on aspects of the hospital system in the United States, and on the employment of doctors by the State in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
E-mail: j.woodward@sheffield.ac.uk