Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS D. Heyward Brock, Senior Associate Dean of the CoUege of Arts and Science at the University of Delaware, is the author or editor of eight books. He has also published numerous scholarly papers and lectured widely on topics dealing with the interrelations between the sciences and the humanities. He is currently working on a book on Ben Jonson and science and another one on the doctor in drama. Anne Burson-Tolpin is a folklorist whose research interests include the occupational humor and folklore of American physicians. She has pubUshed articles on the topic in Journal of American Folklore and Medical Anthropology Quarterly and is working on a book on medical language and humor. She teaches cultural anthropology at Essex County College, West Essex Campus, West Caldwell, New Jersey. 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. 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 about the smallpox antivaccination controversy. David Jaymes is an associate professor of French at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where he has served as Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and Director of the Center for Community and Human Development. A specialist in seventeenth-century French Uterature, he has written extensively about Pascal and is currently completing a study of Pascal's invention of the adding machine. Kevin Kerrane, a professor of EngUsh at the University of Delaware, is the author of numerous essays, and author or editor of studies deaUng with subjects ranging from Uterary criticism, to biology and literature, to sports. Winner of two University Excellence-in-Teaching Awards, he teaches courses on American Studies, drama, Victorian prose, literary theory, journaUsm, and Uterature and medicine. Estelle Manette Raben, an assistant professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, wrote Major Strategies in Twentieth Century Drama (1989) and teaches modern drama, graduate and undergraduate. She is working on a book about doctors and drama and has lectured on the shifting image of doctors in drama and film. She is active in the Mount Sinai Medical Center/CUNY Seminar on Medical Ethics. 134 CONTRIBUTORS Rivers Singleton, Jr., an associate professor in the School of Life and Health Sciences and the English Department, also serves as Director of the Center for Science and Culture at the University of Delaware. He has published widely on interdisciplinary topics dealing with the interrelations between the sciences and humanities. In 1988-89 he was an American Society of Microbiology Congressional Science Fellow. Rhonda L. Soricelli is Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Hahnemann University, where she directs the Standardized Patient Program and programs in ethics and the humanities for the Department of Medicine. She formerly directed the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course and continues as interviewing skills coordinator. James M. Welsh, an associate professor of English at Sahsbury State University , Maryland, is the editor of Literature/Film Quarterly. He also served as East Coast editor of American Classic Screen and is a regular contributor to Films in Review. His work has also appeared in Film Comment, American Film, Sight and Sound, Cinema Journal, Wide Angle, and other publications. Mary G. Winkler is Assistant Professor of Art and Medicine, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She is currently editing a book, The Good Body: Asceticism in Contemporary Culture. Her other areas of interest are aging and visual perception. ...