Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Roland F. Anderson is Professor of English at the University of Alberta. He has published widely on George Eliot and the literature of New Zealand. Samuel A. Banks is President of Dickinson College and Adjunct Professor of Behavioral Science, the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine at Hershey. He is an active researcher in health-related affairs and the principal author of The Health of a Rural County: Perspectives and Problems. Ronald A. Carson is Professor and Director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He is President-Elect of the Society for Health and Human Values. A frequent lecturer and writer on humanistic issues in medicine, he is also the author of Jean-Paul Sartre. Larry R. Churchill is Assistant Professor of Social and Administrative Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1981 he was President of the Society for Health and Human Values. Sandra W. Churchill has recently completed a year as Research Associate on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, "Primitive and Civilized in the History of Religions," directed by Charles H. Long. Robert Coles is Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities at Harvard Medical School. Author of numerous highly acclaimed books, he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for volumes 2 and 3 of Children of Crisis. Robert W. Daly is Professor of Psychiatry and Administrative Medicine at the College of Medicine of the State University of New York in Syracuse. Author of numerous articles and monographs, he has most recently written The Reality of Madness: An Inquiry Concerning Human Agency and Psychiatry. Peter W. Graham is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His most recent article is "A Mirror for Medicine : Images of the Physician in Selzer, Crichton, and Percy," forthcoming in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. David Jaymes is Associate Professor of French at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. A specialist in seventeenth-century French literature, he has written numerous articles on Pascal. Edmund D. Pellegrino is President and Professor of Biology and Philosophy at the Catholic University and Professor of Clinical Medicine and Community Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Recipient of numerous honorary degrees and member of national boards in medical, humanistic , and educational fields, he is one of the few physicians ever to serve as president of a major university. 118 CONTRIBUTORS Richard Penrose Schmidt is President of Upstate Medical Center and Professor of Neurology at the College of Medicine of the State University of New York in Syracuse. Noted locally for his photographs of wildflowers, he is in frequent demand as a lecturer on that subject. Lawrence J. Schneiderman is Associate Professor of Community Medicine at the University of California in San Diego. In addition to numerous medical articles, has written a novel, a play, and four short stories. Richard Selzer is a surgeon on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine and the author of Rituals of Surgery, Mortal Lessons, and Confessions of a Knife. Letters to a Young Doctor will be published next year. Elizabeth Sewell combines the roles of novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. Recipient of multiple honorary degrees and author of numerous books and articles, she has been visiting professor at Mount Saint Mary's, Vassar, Fordham, and Princeton. Michael W. Sexson is Associate Professor of English at Montana State University . He coedits Corona, a new national journal, and he has just written The Quest of Self in the Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. Thomas Szasz is Professor of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine of the State University of New York in Syracuse. A holder of numerous lectureships , he has written over twenty books, including The Myth of Mental Illness, The Manufacture of Madness, and The Theology of Medicine. M. Teresa Tavormina is Assistant Professor of English at Michigan State University . One of her most recent publications is "The Healer's Art: An Interview with Richard Selzer," in Centennial Review, Winter 1981. Joanne Trautmann is Professor of Humanities and English at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine at Hershey. Author of numerous articles and several books, she...