Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Lioness Ayres is a doctoral student in the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has received fellowships from the University of Illinois and the National Council for Nursing Research for her work on family caregivers and has published articles about caregiving and ethics. Joanne Trautmann Banks was for many years Professor of English and Humanities at The Pennsylvania State University Colleges of Liberal Arts and Medicine, where she remains an adjunct professor. She edited an earlier volume of this journal, Lise and Abuse of Literary Concepts in Medicine, which emphasized the functions of narrative in clinical life. David Barnard is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Humanities, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. He is interested in the religious and psychological dimensions of doctoring, particularly in the care of the chronically ill and disabled. Daniel J. Brauner is Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in geriatrics and rheumatology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and medical director of the university's affiliated nursing home. His research and teaching interests include language and medical practice, the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis , and medical ethics. Rita Charon is a general internist at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and a doctoral candidate in the Department of English of Columbia University. She is a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholar in General Internal Medicine. fane Todd Cooper's collection of poetry, Entering Pisces, was published by Pine Press in 1985. Recently, her poems have appeared in Footwork and Poets On. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson and a poet-in-the-schools in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Jack Coulehan is an internist and medical ethicist, currently Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His poetry chapbook , The Knitted Glove, and his textbook of interviewing, The Medical Interview (coauthored with Marian Block), were published in 1991. Jim Crane is a painter, teacher, and writer most widely known for his contributions to motive magazine and his books of cartoons and parables. He is Professor of Visual Arts and Artist in Residence at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. T. Hugh Crawford is Assistant Professor of Literature at Virginia Military Institute. He has published articles in Critical Texts, American Literature, and South Atlantic Review, and is currently completing a book-length study of William Carlos Williams and medical education. Contributors 181 Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner, has received a grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She has contributed poems to such periodicals as Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of Emergency Medicine , and Poet and Critic. Julia Epstein is Associate Professor of English and chairperson of the Major in Comparative Literature at Haverford College. In 1988-89, she was a Rockefeller Humanities Residency Fellow at the Francis C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. She is the author of The Iron Pen: Frances Burney and the Politics of Women's Writing and coauthor of Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity. David H. Flood is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. He has also written about literary and cultural perceptions of blood and transfusion and the smallpox antivaccination controversy. Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, who is now completing a book on pathographies, was recently appointed Associate Professor of Humanities at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. In 1989, she chaired a panel on the case history at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association. Marsha Cline Holleman is assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Her interests include medical ethics, provision of medical care to the underserved, and obstetrics. Her essays have appeared in such publications as Journal of the American Medical Association , Medical Care, and Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. Warren Lee Holleman's scholarly interests include medical ethics, human rights, and religious ethics. He is the author of The Human Rights Movement: Western Values and Theological Perspectives. He currently serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and in...