Jonathan Andrews is a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow. He was the joint editor with Iain Smith of Let There be Light Again: A History of Gartnavel Royal Hospital (Glasgow: 1993). He is currently working on psychiatry in nineteenth-century Scotland, and in particular on the social and demographic profiles of patients admitted to Glasgow Royal Asylum, Gartnavel.
Pamela Cox is currently completing her doctoral thesis at the Department of Education in the University of Cambridge, where she also teaches. This research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and examines the experience of girls in the juvenile justice system in England and Wales in the early twentieth century.
Anne Digby is Professor of Social History at Oxford Brookes University and has published widely on the history of social policy and the social history of medicine, including Madness, Morality and Medicine (Cambridge University Press: 1985) and Making a Medical Living (Cambridge University Press: 1994). She is currently researching on general practitioners in Britain, 1850–1950.
David Gladstone is Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. A historian by training, his main interests are nineteenth-century and twentieth-century British social welfare. He has published widely on the history of social policy and has two books in press – British Social Welfare: Past, Present and Future (UCL Press: 1995) and (ed.) Thomas Chalmers on Poverty and Political Economy (Routledge: 1995). His current research is a study of the British Welfare State.
C.F. Goodey currently works at the Social Science Research Unit, University of London. He writes on contemporary issues concerning learning difficulties (see Culture, Kinship and Genes, edited by Angus Clarke, Macmillan: 1995), and has published early historical studies related to the present, one in History of Psychiatry (Royal College of Psychiatrists: 1994) and in A History of Clinical Psychiatry (G. Berrios and R. Porter (eds), 1995).
Mark Jackson is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine in the University of Manchester. His doctoral thesis on new-born child murder in the eighteenth century is soon to be published by Manchester University Press. His current research interests include the social history of mental deficiency in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and a new project on the history of immunology and related biomedical sciences in the twentieth century.
Richard Neugebauer is a Research Scientist in the Epidemiology of Developmental Brain Disorders Department of New York State Psychiatric Institute and in the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Faculty of Medicine, Columbia University. He has published articles on the history of mental illness as well as articles and books on psychiatric and perinatal epidemiology, neuroepidemiology and biostatistics.
Peter Rushton is Principal Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and International Studies, University of Sunderland. He has published widely on different aspects of early modern society in northeast England such as witchcraft, marriage and domestic relations, and the Poor Law, as well as on mental disabilities and social policy. He is currently working (with Gwenda Morgan) on a book on crime and punishment in north-east England in the eighteenth century.
Mathew Thomson is a lecturer and Wellcome University Award holder in the Department of History, University of Sheffield. He is currently revising his doctorate on mental deficiency for publication and researching mental hygiene in the first half of the twentieth century.
David Wright is a lecturer and Wellcome University Award holder at the University of Nottingham. His doctoral thesis, a study of the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, will shortly be published by Oxford University Press. He is currently working on the economic and demographic origins of the institutional committal of the insane in Victorian England.