KAREN BUHLER-WILKERSON (1944-2010) was professor emerita, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and director emerita of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.
JULIE A. FAIRMAN, PhD, RN is the Nightingale Professor in honor of Nursing Veterans at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and chair of the Biobehavorial Health Sciences Department.
SUSAN M. REVERBY is the Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She is also an historian of American women, medicine and nursing.