Coming in 2008:

A Cruel Wind: Pandemic Flu in America, 1918-1920

by Dorothy A. Pettit, Ph.D. and Janice Bailie, Ph.D.

Authors

Dorothy A. Pettit, Ph.D.

After a thirteen-year career as a registered Medical Technologist (A.S.C.P.)—including nine as the Chief Medical Technologist in the Clinical Diagnostic Laboratories of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center—Dorothy Pettit made the decision to switch careers to fulfill her dream of pursuing a career in the academic world.

Focusing on early 20th century American History, she earned her B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa), M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of New Hampshire where she was a recipient of the Newcomen Society in North America Award in Business History for historical research. While her M.A. thesis focused on the 1916 Presidential election in New Hampshire, her doctoral dissertation, “A Cruel Wind: America Experiences Pandemic Influenza, 1918-1920,” explored the social history of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States and lends much of its content to this present book.

After overseeing school volunteer programs for the New Hampshire Council for Better Schools, Dr. Pettit taught history at New Hampshire College and at the University of New Hampshire. She is now retired and lives in Connecticut.

Janice Bailie, Ph.D.

Awarded a B.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Queen’s University, Belfast, Janice Bailie’s doctoral thesis was titled, “Synthesis and Biological Actvity of Synthetic Peptide Analogues of Epidermal Growth Factor and Transforming Growth Factor-alpha.”

Currently serving as Program Manager in the Research and Development Office for the Northern Ireland Health and Personal Social Services (H.P.S.S.), she is presently helping to manage the distribution of research funds and promote quality research in the health service and local universities. Before taking up this present post, she spent seven years as Divisional R&D Manager in Molecular Biology at Randox Laboratories Ltd., a manufacturer of in vitro diagnostic products and microarrays.

Dr. Bailie’s earlier research focused largely on the molecular biology of the microvasculature, as she held the position of Research Officer at the University of Ulster, looking at blood flow in tumor microvessels. Previously, with the award of a Sir Thomas Pocklington Trust Research Fellowship, she spent a number of years in the Department of Ophthalmology, Queen’s University, Belfast, examining factors controlling blood flow in the retina.

In December, 2005, Dr. Bailie and two colleagues, Dr. Heather Anderson and Mr. Keith Wilson, set up the ongoing Sciencewrite consulting group. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland.