John Cule, Ph.D. is the author and editor of many books, and the Head of the Medical History Unit at the University of Wales College of Medicine. He is also President of the International Society for the History of Medicine, an Emeritus Member of the American Osler Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Roy Porter is Professor of Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, and has taught at the University of Cambridge and UCLA. He has written and edited many influential books.