Contributors
- Contributors
Charles Anderson teaches writing, rhetoric, literature and medicine, and he conducts workshops on writing and healing and narrative ethics at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He was recently awarded the University Outstanding Teacher award for 1996. His publications include Richard Selzer and the Rhetoric of Surgery. He is currently editing a collection of essays on writing and healing titled The Tekhne of Healing: Writing toward Wholeness (with Marian MacCurdy).
Raymond A. Anselment, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, has recently published The Realms of Apollo: Literature and Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England. He is author of Loyalist Resolve: Patient Fortitude in the English Civil War as well as “Betwixt Jest and Earnest”: Marprelate, Milton, Marvell, Swift and the Decorum of Religious Ridicule, and editor of Thomas Taylor’s Christ Revealed and a collection of essays on George Farquhar.
Joseph Cady teaches Literature and Medicine in the Division of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester Medical School. Among his most recent publications are seven essays in The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage, including the essay “AIDS Literature.”
Brian H. Childs is Professor of Pastoral Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary, Decauter, Georgia, and Clinical Bioethicist at Georgia Baptist Medical Center, Atlanta. A former fellow of the NEH Institute of Humanities and Medicine, he is currently chair of the National Commission for Biomedical Ethics and Book Review editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities.
Jack Coulehan is Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine at SUNY at Stony Brook, where he co-directs the curriculum in medical humanities, and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society. He has written extensively in the fields of epidemiology, medical anthropology, and patient-physician communication, including (with Marian Block) The Medical Interview: A Primer for Students of the Art. His poems have appeared in numerous literary and medical magazines, several anthologies, and two collections, The Knitted Glove and First Photographs of Heaven.
Russell P. Gollard is a senior clinical fellow in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, Calif. He holds a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.
Timothy F. Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Medical Humanities Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He is the author of Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research and Ethics in an Epidemic: AIDS, Morality, and Culture. With Suzanne Poirier, he edited Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis.
Brenda R. Pfannenstiel, M.A. (Library Science, University of Chicago), M.A. (English, University of Texas-Austin), is a Clinical Medical Librarian at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She is currently working on an article on the use of the famous persons index term in the Medline database. She is also seeking information about nineteenth-century hugging parties for another writing project.
Suzanne Poirier, editor of Literature and Medicine, is Associate Professor of Literature and Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine-Chicago. She is author of Chicago’s War on Syphilis 1937–1940: The Times, the “Trib,” and the Clap Doctor and co-editor (with Timothy F. Murphy) of Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis. She is currently working with nurse Lioness Ayres on a book on stories of family home caregiving.
Douglas Reifler is Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. He was Associate Editor of Scientific American MEDICINE before entering medical school, and he has published articles describing his own or his students’ stories about medical training in JAMA and Pharos. He is currently working on descriptions of students’ stories from clinical phases of medical training, including junior-year hospital clerkships and internal medicine residency.
Andrew J. Scheiber is an Associate Professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century American literature and critical theory. In addition to work on Henry James, he has published articles on William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Henry Adams, among others...
