Graham Mooney is an assistant professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. He has published widely on the history of public health, historical demography and historical epidemiology and is currently writing a book on infectious disease surveillance in Victorian Britain.

Jonathan Reinarz is the director of the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham. His research addresses the history of hospitals and medical education, and he also continues to undertake research on the social and economic history of England from 1750 to 1950, with a particular interest in the history of alcohol. He has authored The Birth of a Provincial Hospital: the early years of the General Hospital, Birmingham, 1765-1790 (Stratford-upon-Avon: Dugdale Society, 2003) and edited Medicine and Society in the Midlands: 1750-1950 (Birmingham: Midland History Occasional Publications, 2007). His latest monograph is Health Care in Birmingham: The Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779-1939 (Rochester: Boydell Press, 2009).