LAURENCE BROCKLISS is Professor of Early Modern French History at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Magdalen College Oxford. Since 2003 he has also been a Co-Director of the Oxford University Centre for the History of Childhood His publications include French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford, 1987); [with Colin Jones], The Medical World of Early Modern France (Oxford, 1997); Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford, 2002); [with Michael Moss and John Cardwell], Nelson’s Surgeon: William Beatty, Naval Medicine and the Battle of Trafalgar (Oxford, 2005) ; (multi-authored), Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions, and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790-1850 (2006)'; and (ed.), Magdalen College, Oxford: A History (2008), as well as many articles dealing wit the history of education, the history of medicine, and studies on the European Enlightenment. He has been the editor of the journal, History of Universities, and was awarded the George Sarton medal by the University of Ghent in 1997 for his contribution to the history of science, medicine and education.

GEORGE ROUSSEAU has been Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at UCLA and Regius Professor of English at King's College Aberdeen in Scotland. He is currently a member of the Faculty of Modern History at Oxford University and Co-Director of the Oxford University Centre for the History of Childhood. He was the holder of a Leverhulme Trust Award 1999-2001. Among his recent books are a trilogy of works about the European enlightenment published in 1991: Perilous Enlightenment: Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses--Sexual, Historical; Enlightenment Crossings: Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses—Anthropological; Enlightenment Borders: Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses--Medical, Scientific; Hysteria Beyond Freud (written withElaine Showalter, Sander Gilman, Roy Porter, and Helen King, 1993), Gout - The Patrician Malady: Culture and Medicine(written with Roy Porter, 1998; paperback 2000); Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History (2003), Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility (2004), and a biography of Marguerite Yourcenar (2004) and Children and Sexuality: The Greeks to the Great War (2007). His primary interest lies in the interface of literature and medicine, for which his work has been acclaimed, most recently in the award of a three-year Leverhulme Trust Fellowship in 1999-2001 for research on the cultural understanding of disease conditions cholera, nostalgia, and tuberculosis. His often-cited 1981 article, “Literature and Medicine: The State of the Field” Isis, 72 (September, 1981): 406 - 424, is often said to have charted a new academic field, and his article on configurations of same-sex arrangements in the Enlightenment won the James L. Clifford Prize for the best article of the year in the USA.

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