Co-Editors
- Sandra Bertman , PhD
- Dustin Brinker , MD, MHPE
- Albert Howard Carter, III
- Mark Clark , PhD
- Cortney Davis , BA, MA
- Carol Donley , PhD, MA
- Jacalyn Duffin , MD, PhD
- Steven Field , M.D.
- Sebastian Galbo, MA, MILS
- Rebecca Garden , PhD
- Guy Glass , MD, MFA
- Schuyler Henderson , MD
- Martha Stoddard Holmes , PhD, MA
- Joshua Jiang
- Therese Jones , PhD
- Martin Kohn , PhD
- Gretl Lam, MD
- Barron Lerner , MD, PhD
- Spencer McClelland
- Marilyn McEntyre , PhD
- Tony Miksanek , MD
- Michael Natter , MD
- Lois LaCivita Nixon , PhD, MPH, MLitt, MAT
- David Oshinsky , PhD
- Richard M. Ratzan
- Gabriel Redel-Traub, MD
- Mona Saleh , MD
- Carol Schilling
- Audrey Shafer , MD
- Maura Spiegel , PhD
- J. Russell Teagarden , DMH,MA
- Shawn Thomas
- Howard Trachtman , MD
- Delese Wear , PhD
- Janice Willms , MD, PhD
- Devon Zander
Annotators
- Felice Aull , Ph.D.
- Catherine Belling
- Stacy Bodziak
- Louis Borgenicht
- Kate Brown
- Gerard Brungardt , MD
- Katherine Burke
- Tod Chambers
- Irene Chen
- Stephanie Brown Clark
- Lucas Cofer
- Jack Coulehan
- Susan Daiss
- Kristen Dammeyer , MD
- Olivia DiLeonardo
- Lisa Dittrich
- Stanley Fefferman
- Katie Grogan
- Nishanth Iyengar
- Meegan Kennedy
- Danielle Madsen
- Evan Mahl
- Jan Marta
- Rachel Martel
- Richard Martinez
- Helle Mathiasen
- Lindsay McNair
- Jonathan Metzl
- Pamela Moore
- Christine Olagun-Samuel
- Vincent Palusci , MD, MS
- Sam Perkins
- Suzanne Poirier
- Akbar Salman
- Amanda Schaffer
- Marian Gray Secundy
- Daren Simkin
- Marjorie Sirridge
- Shefali Sood , MD
- Harriet Squier
- Ann Folwell Stanford
- Jerko Steiner
- Nancy Taylor
- James Terry
- Mary Winkler
- John Woodcock
- Ellen Yin
Jacalyn Duffin is a Canadian, a hematologist (Toronto MD, FRCPC), a historian (PhD Sorbonne), mother and grandmother. She has worked as a physician in Quebec, Newfoundland, and several Ontario cities, including Toronto, London, Thunder Bay, and Ottawa before accepting the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at Queen's University in 1988. At Queen's until her retirement as Professor Emerita in 2017, she taught graduates and undergraduates in the medical school and in the departments of Philosophy and History, and the Faculty of Law.
Her research focuses on the history of modern medicine, disease concepts, medical technology, and religion. She is the author or editor of eight books: Langstaff, A 19th Century Medical Life (U Toronto P 1993); To See With a Better Eye: A Life of RTH Laennec (Princeton U P 1998); History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction (U Toronto P 1999, 2nd edition 2010), Lovers and Livers: Disease Concepts in History (U Toronto P 2005); as editor, Clio in the Clinic (Oxford U P 2005); as editor, SARS in Context: Memory, History, Policy (McGill Queens UP 2006); Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints and Healing in the Modern World (Oxford U P 2009); Medical Saints: Cosmas and Damian in a Postmodern World (Oxford U P 2013); Stanley's Dream, the Medical Expedition to Easter Island, 1964-65 (McGill Queens UP 2019). Her most recent book is COVID-19: A History (McGill-Queens UP, September 2022).
Her research interests are in disease concepts, medical technology, health policy, and religion and medicine. She runs an information website about the generic drug shortage http://www.canadadrugshortage.com and a collaborative translation project of an early modern Latin author. For a CV and more information about her projects visit her website at https://jacalynduffin.ca
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