Notes on Contributors

Linda H. Aiken is Trustee Professor of Nursing and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also serves as associate director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Health services and policy research, labor economics in health care, and medical sociology constitute her primary professional interests. Dr. Aiken is the author of the forthcoming volume Nursing and Health Policy: Issues of the 1990s.

Ronald Bayer is associate professor and A. Sheldon Andelson Am-FAR scholar in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences of the School of Public Health at Columbia University. He has written widely on the AIDS epidemic, the ethics of public health, and political controversies in health, science, and technology. Dr. Bayer is the author of Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the Politics of Public Health.

Charles L. Bosk is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to the sociology of medicine, his professional concerns focus on the sociology of public problems, and law and society. He is the author of several works on the social management of medical practice and physicians’ attitudes in sociological perspective, including Forgive and Remember.

Renée C. Fox is Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the Department of Sociology, the Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, and the School of Nursing. An eminent medical sociologist, her professional interests include the sociology of culture and science. Last year Dr. Fox published The Sociology of Medicine: A Participant-Observer’s View.

Joel E. Frader is associate director of the Center for Medical Ethics at the University of Pittsburgh and teaches in the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. A physician, he works in the fields of medical sociology, pediatrics, and medical ethics. Dr. Frader is completing a study of the evolution of clinical medical ethics teaching, and the ethical issues surrounding the critically ill newborn.

Richard Goldstein is arts editor of the Village Voice. He has written about popular culture, sexual politics, and the arts for the past two decades; in recent years, he has investigated and published numerous articles on the social, cultural, political, and medical aspects of the AIDS epidemic. His collection of essays on the 1960s, Reporting the Counter-culture, appeared last year.

Suzanne C. Ouellette Kobasa is professor of psychology at the Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York. A specialist in personality and social psychology, she works on is- sues of health psychology, adulthood, and individual difference. Dr. Ouellette Kobasa is currently directing a multi-year study of volunteers at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City.

Carla M. Messikomer is a dissertation fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She works on the sociology of medicine, aging, and the relations between family, kinship, and ethnicity. Ms. Messikomer is the coauthor of an article on the role of family in geriatric rehabilitation.

Thomas H. Murray is director and professor in the Center for Bio- medical Ethics at the School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University. His professional interests focus on ethical issues in genetic engineering, the relation among moral judgments, theories, and traditions, and the idea of community. Dr. Murray is the coauthor of a report on ethics and genetic engineering for the British Medical Association.

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Volume 68, Issue S2 (pages 321–322)
Published in 1990