The Prerogative of Confinement: Social, Cultural, Political, and Administrative Aspects of the History of Hospitals and Carceral and Penal Institutions in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1900

Participants: Lynne M. Adrian, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa; Martina Althoff, University of Münster; Neithard Bulst, University of Bielefeld; Luigi Cajani, University of Rome; Joan E. Crowley, New Mexico State University; Martin Dinges, Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart; Robert J. Gellately, Huron College, University of London, Ontario; Jean-Pierre Goubert, University of Paris; Colin Jones, University of Exeter; Hartmut Lehmann, GHI; Monika Leppelt, University of Hamburg; Otto Marx, Heidelberg; Patricia O'Brien, University of California at Irvine; Guenter B. Risse, University of California at San Francisco; Sebastian Scheerer, University of Hamburg; Gerlinda Smaus, University of Saarbrücken; Pieter Spierenburg, Erasmus University, Rotterdam; Christine Vanja, Kassel; Morris J. Vogel, Temple University; Renate Wilson, Johns Hopkins University; Karl Tilman Winkler, University of Göttingen; Jörn Henning Wolf, Kiel.