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Contributors
- Literature and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 2, 1983
- p. iv
- 10.1353/lm.2011.0270
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CONTRIBUTORS Inci A. Bowman is Historian in the Department of History of Medicine and Archives of the Moody Medical Library at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. She is in charge of public services for the History of Medicine Collection and also edits the Library's publication, The Bookman. D. Heyward Brock is Professor of English and Life and Health Sciences (Center for Science and Culture) at the University of Delaware and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Essex in Colchester, England. The general editor of the annual series Studies in Science and Culture, he has published three books on Ben Jonson and numerous essays on literature, science, and culture. Larry R. Churchill is Associate 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. With Sandra W. Churchill, he co-authored "Storytelling in Medical Arenas: The Art of Self-Determination," which appeared in Volume One of Literature and Medicine. Leslie A. Fiedler is Samuel Clemens Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Among his many works of fiction and literary criticism are Love and Death in the American Novel and Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self. His two most recent books are What was Literature? Class Culture and Mass Society and Olaf Stapledon: A Man Divided. Miriam Fuchs is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Language and Literature at Elizabeth Seton College. Her essay "Djuna Barnes: Spillway Into Nightmare" appeared in The Hollins Critic in 1981. Peter W. Graham is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His latest essays on medicine and literature appeared in the first annual volume of Studies in Science and Culture. Theodora R. Graham, Associate Professor of Humanities and English at Pennsylvania State University's Capitol Campus, is the founder and editor of the William Carlos Williams Review. She is currently working on a book, The Wives of the Poets: A Biographic and Literary Study of Five Marriages, concerning Williams, Pound, Frost, Stevens, and Eliot. Kathryn Montgomery Hunter is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Nora Crow Jaffe is Associate Professor of English at Smith College. The author of a book and several articles about Jonathan Swift, she is also a co-editor of the anthology The Evil Image, Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry. Anne Hudson Jones is Associate Professor of Literature and Medicine at the Institute for the Medical Humanities of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Her latest essays on literature and medicine appeared in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine and Theoretical Medicine. Her book Medicine and the Physician in Popular Culture will be published by Greenwood Press in 1984. D. S. Neff is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His article "Love and Strife in 'Dover Beach' " appeared in the Victorian Newsletter in Spring 1978. Suzanne Poirier is Assistant Professor of Literature and Health Care and Assistant Director of the Humanistic Studies Program at the University of Illinois at the Medical Center in Chicago. Her most recent article is "The Weir Mitchell Rest Cure: Doctor and Patients," forthcoming in the Journal of Women's Studies. Richard Seher is a surgeon on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine and the author of Rituals of Surgery, Mortal Lessons, Confessions of a Knife, and Letters to a Young Doctor. Loudell F. Snow, Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University, teaches medical anthropology there and also instructs medical students in the College of Human Medicine and residents at a local hospital's pediatric clinic. Her most recent research is on how the early life experience in lower-class Black families influences the belief in Voodoo as a cause of misfortune. William Eric Williams, a pediatrician, continues the private practice at 9 Ridge Road, Rutherford, New Jersey, that was begun by his father, William Carlos Williams. ...