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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 (with Marian MacCurdy) a collection of essays on writing and healing titled The Tekhne of Healing: Writing toward Wholeness.

James C. Cowan is the editor of D. H. Lawrence: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings about Him, 2 vols., and author of D. H. Lawrence and the Trembling Balance and other critical studies. In 1996 he completed a four-year academic program on psychoanalysis at the University of North Carolina-Duke University Psychoanalytic Institute. His current work in progress is a series of studies on psychoanalytic and sexual issues in Lawrence, several of which have appeared in Annual of Psychoanalysis, Literature and Medicine, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Mosaic, and elsewhere.

Daylanne English is Visiting Assistant Professor of African American Literature at Brown University, Rhode Island. A recipient of a dissertation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Professor English recently earned a doctoral degree in English from the University of Virginia. Her dissertation, “Eugenics, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance,” reflects her interests in African American and modern American literature, as well as in medicine. Her work in women’s health and health services research contributes to her interdisciplinary approach to scholarship.

Allen W. Grove is Assistant Professor of English at Alfred University, New York, where he teaches courses in writing and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fiction. He specializes in gothic literature and is currently working on a book-length manuscript titled Coming Out of the Castle: Renegotiating Gender and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Gothic Fiction.

Ernest B. Hook is Professor in the Division of Health and Medical Sciences, the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. He is collaborating with Bradley William Johnson on an investigation of the literary and historical perception and reception of individuals with congenital deformity. He is a pediatrician specializing in medical genetics and the epidemiology of birth defects, and also works in the history of medicine.

Bradley William Johnson is Research Associate in the Division of Health and Medical Sciences, the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. He is collaborating with Ernest B. Hook on an investigation of the literary and historical perception and reception of individuals with congenital deformity. His recent thesis, from the Department of English at Berkeley, is titled “Birthed Effects: Shakespeare’s Generation of Monsters.”

Joann P. Krieg, Associate Professor of English at Hofstra University, New York, currently publishes most often on Walt Whitman. Her article, “Walt Whitman and the Prostitutes,” appeared in Volume 14 (spring 1995) of Literature and Medicine. She has authored Epidemics in the Modern World (Twayne, 1992) and edited a number of volumes in both English and American Studies, among them Walt Whitman, Here and Now (Greenwood Press, 1986). Her most recently completed work is a detailed chronology of Whitman’s life.

Peter B. Martens practices rheumatology and internal medicine, and completed this article while a fellow at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He has an interest in the way physicians respond to literary works and how these responses are applied to medical practice.

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 about stories of family home caregiving.

Stephen Rachman is Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, where he teaches courses in English and American Studies. He also teaches in the Center for Medical Ethics and Humanities. He is the co-editor (with Shawn Rosenheim) of The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe (1995). The essay for this volume is part of a forthcoming study, Cultural Pathology...

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