Notes on Contributors

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is senior research scientist in the Education Policy Research Division of the Educational Testing Service. A develop- mental psychologist, she is interested in reproductive issues in adolescence and patterns of continuity and change in the context of poverty. Dr. Brooks-Gunn has published widely on adolescent sexual behavior and teenage pregnancy prevention programs.

Don C. Des Jarlais is director of research for the Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center, and director for AIDS research with Narcotic and Drug Research, Inc. He has written or been the coauthor of over fifty articles on intravenous drug use and AIDS in the past several years. Dr. Des Jarlais is currently a member of the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

Harold Edgar is professor of law at Columbia University School of Law. The subjects of health law, law and science, and biotechnology figure prominently among his professional interests, along with analysis of regulatory oversight of medical innovations. Professor Edgar is the author of a forthcoming article on AIDS legislation and medical privacy.

Samuel R. Friedman is senior principal investigator of Narcotic and Drug Research, Inc. in New York City. A sociologist, his extensive published work on AIDS and intravenous drug users focuses on racial and ethnic differences, social organization, health risk factors, and substance change in the drug-using population. Dr. Friedman recently was the coauthor of a study of the adjustment to AIDS in treatment systems.

Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. is Max and Heidi Berry Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. His fields of work include sociology of the family, fertility, and social policy and the family. Dr. Furstenberg has written extensively on teenage sexuality, pregnancy, childbearing, and their social consequences, and last year was the coauthor of an article on the effects of marital dissolution on children.

Carol Levine is executive director of the Citizens Commission on AIDS for New York City and Northern New Jersey. AIDS, biomedical ethics, and human subjects research are her major fields of professional interest. Ms. Levine is the editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues, and the author of numerous articles on ethics and the AIDS epidemic.

Dorthy Nelkin is professor of sociology and affiliated professor on the Faculty of Law at New York University. She has examined the interactions of science, technology, and society from numerous perspectives, in recent years focusing on the social construction of risk perception and on science communication. Professor Nelkin is the coauthor of Dangerous Diagnostics: The Social Power of Biological Information with Laurence Tancredi.

Scott V. Parris is associate editor of The Milbank Quarterly and serves as a program officer of the Milbank Memorial Fund.

Walter Rieman is engaged in the private practice of law in New York City.

David J. Rothman is Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Society and Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Among his current professional interests are analyses of innovations in medicine and their handling in regulatory processes. Dr. Rothman is the author of the forthcoming volume Ruling Medicine: From Bedside Ethics to Bioethics.

Claire E. Sterk is research sociologist/visiting scientist in the Division of STD/HIV Prevention, Center for Prevention Services of the federal Centers for Disease Control. Her professional work focuses on AIDS prevention among hard-to-reach populations. Dr. Sterk is currently completing the study “Living the Life: Prostitutes and Their Health.”

Thomas B. Stoddard is executive director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., and Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at New York University. An attorney, his professional concerns focus on civil liberties and civil rights and AIDS. Mr. Stoddard is the coauthor of The Rights of Gay People, an ACLU handbook now in its third edition, and has recently published an overview of the American response to AIDS.

Etienne van de Walle is professor of demography in the Population Studies Center of the Department of Sociololgy of the University of Pennsylvania. His professional interests center on Africa, demography, fertility, and mortality. Dr. van de Walle recently coedited the volume The State of African Demography.

David P. Willis is editor of The Milbank Quarterly and vice president of the Milbank Memorial Fund. A lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology at Yale Medical School, he has been active in the demographic, social, and epidemiologic aspects of health planning and policy. Mr. Willis coedited the volume AIDS: The Public Context of an Epidemic with Ronald Bayer and Daniel M. Fox.

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Volume 68, Issue S1 (pages 175–177)
Published in 1990