LOLA ROMANUCCI-ROSS is Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego.
A pioneer in the field of medical anthropology, she has written widely on the subject. She is the author of several other books, including One Hundred Towers: An Italian Odyssey of Cultural Survival (Bergin & Garvey, 1991) and Mead's Other Manus (Bergin & Garvey, 1985).
DANIEL E. MOERMAN is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Dearborn.
He is the author of numerous articles on ethnobotany and the definitive work on the medicinal use of plants by native Americans.
LAURENCE R. TANCREDI is Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Service Center at Houston.
He is the author of numerous articles and books on these topics as well as ethics.