Rima D. Apple is Professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the United States, and holds a doctorate in the History of Medicine from the same institution. Throughout her career, she has published extensively on women’s history and the history of medicine, nursing, and nutrition. She is the author of the books Perfect Motherhood: Science and Childrearing in America (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006) and Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996), which received the Kremers Prize in 1998 from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.