Kenneth Collins MPhil, PhD, FRCGP
Kenneth Collins is a general practitioner with a special interest in medical
history. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine
at the University of Glasgow and has written widely on medical ethics, the
medical aspects of Jewish immigration, and the medical practice of the great
mediaeval physician and philosopher Rabbi Moses Maimonides.
Blanca Margarita Vargas de Corredor
Blanca Margarita Vargas de Corredor has spent over 30 years working on
traditional medicine and conservation projects with different indigenous
groups such as Uitotos, Muinanes, Andokes, Yukuna-Matapi, Tikuna,
Cocama in the Caquetá medio region of the Colombian Amazon rain forest.
Professor Vargas continues to co-direct the project ‘Sabedores–sabedoras
(wisemen/wisewomen) of the tropical rainforest’ and is an associate
researcher at the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP),
University of St Andrews. She is cofounder of the Colombian ‘Asociación
para la Investigación Científica, Sociocultural y Ecológica (AICSE)’.
John K Crellin MSc, LRCP, MRCS, PhD
John Crellin’s career spans three countries: the Wellcome Institute for the
History of Medicine in the UK, Southern Illinois and Duke Universities in
the USA, and Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, where he
was John Clinch Professor of Medical History from 1988 until 2002. He
currently teaches complementary and alternative medicine at the Faculty of
Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland. His papers and books
span a variety of topics, but with a sustained interest in the history of
therapy from the eighteenth century onward, both conventional and
complementary/alternative.
Owen Davies PhD
Owen Davies is Professor of Social History and Associate Head of School
(Research) at the University of Hertfordshire, England. Much of his research
has concerned the belief in the supernatural in the early modern and modern
periods, which has led to work on popular medicine and interdisciplinary
research applying anthropological and biomedical knowledge to historical
topics. He has written chapters in several books and his latest book, published
by Oxford University Press, is Grimoires: A history of magic books. His
teaching specialisms include popular religion in Reformation Europe, crime
and society in early modern England, landscape history and the history of
European witchcraft, and custom and community in nineteenth-century
England.
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