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A P R I L 2 0 0 6
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Contributors
Dedicated to treating AIDS in Africa
"Science, medicine, and public health really fascinate me,"
says photographer David Colwell, who went to Africa with a
team from the Bloomberg
School of Public Health this winter
and shot the "Big Picture" at an
AIDS clinic in Rakai, Uganda. It was Colwell's first trip
to Africa, and he was amazed by the people he met —
both Africans and public health workers. "The Rakai project
was fascinating," he says. "They've been following some
15,000 individuals with AIDS there since 1988. It really
takes a special kind of individual to do this work."
Colwell's work has appeared in Baltimore Magazine,
Esquire, and National Geographic Traveler. He
lives in Frederick, Maryland.
Speaking out against a misguided movement
Melissa Hendricks, author of this issue's "Raymond Pearl's 'Mingled Mess,'"
was intrigued by the biologist's involvement in the
eugenics movement — not just because he was an early
proponent, but also because of his response to valid
scientific challenges to its assumptions. "He may have been
the first biologist of any rank to speak out against
eugenics," she says. That confirmed Hendricks' feeling that
knowing the history of a field is critical to understanding
it: "Read history. Know history. And try to be aware of
your biases because we all have them." Hendricks was
formerly science writer for Johns Hopkins Magazine.
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Illustrator Michael Austin
(Wholly Hopkins: "Improv Old
and New") lives in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Contact him at
808-325-1445 or visit his Web site at
www.jingandmike.com. |
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Freelance writer Karen Blum
(Wholly Hopkins: "Cancer
Patients Find Alternative Forms of Relief") lives in
Owings Mills, Maryland. She can be reached at 410-998-9525
or
[email protected]. |
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Photographer Bill Denison
("Your Other Life") lives and
works in Baltimore. Phone him at 410-823-0001. |
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Freelance writer Jim Duffy ("Shock Treatment") lives in
Cambridge, Maryland. He can be reached at
443-799-8627. |
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Illustrator Michael Gibbs ("Force of Nature") lives and works
in Clifton, Virginia. Contact him through his Web site at
www.michaelgibbs.com. |
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Will Kirk '99 (Wholly Hopkins: "Hopkins Team Unearths
3,400-Year-Old Queen";
"Finally, a Home for
Education",
"Vignette") is a
photographer for Homewood Photographic Services. E-mail him
at
[email protected]. |
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Photographer Sam Kittner ("Big Question") is based in Takoma
Park, Maryland. Visit his Web site, www.kittner.com. |
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Illustrator Michael Morgenstern ("Essay") is based in New Jersey. His
Web site is
www.mmorgenstern.com. Call him at 609-823-2420 or
e-mail him at
[email protected]. |
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Brian Simpson ("Big
Picture") is editorial director for the Bloomberg
School of Public Health's Office of Communications and
Public Affairs. He can be reached at
[email protected]. |
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Photographer Stephen Spartana ("Force of Nature") is based in
Sparks, Maryland. E-mail him at
[email protected]. |
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Cari Lynn Ugent resides in Chicago and is the author
(under Cari Lynn) of Leg the Spread: A Woman's
Adventures Inside the Trillion-Dollar Boys' Club of
Commodities Trading (Broadway Books/Doubleday). |
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Photographer Keith Weller ("Shock Treatment") is based in
Columbia, Maryland. He can be reached via e-mail at: [email protected]. |
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Illustrator Sandy Young ("Raymond Pearl's 'Mingled Mess'") of
Studio Y can be reached through her Web site,
www.studio-y.com, or
at 707-939-1131. |
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