Contributors
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Wayne C. Booth is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Chicago, where he has taught for more than forty years. Of his many works related to this essay, the most significant are probably The Rhetoric of Fiction and The Company We Keep: An Ethic of Fiction. He is currently working on a book on how the rhetoric of the "best" scientific thinkers overlaps with the rhetoric of the "best" theologians.
Stephanie Browner is Associate Professor of English and Theatre at Berea College. She has published articles on the history of medicine and on medicine and literature in American Quarterly, PMLA, TSLL (Texas Studies in Literature and Language), Literature and Medicine, and the MLA publication Teaching Literature and Medicine. She is now completing a monograph on fiction and medicine in nineteenth-century American culture and is a co-author of Literature and the Internet (Routledge, 2000).
Connie Canam, R.N., Ph.D. candidate, is Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her research focuses on parents of children with chronic illness and disability and the interactional aspects of health care delivery, particularly the nurse-family caregiver relationship. Canam uses narrative approaches in her research.
Jack Coulehan directs the Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society in Stony Brook, New York, where he also teaches and practices medicine. He has published three collections of poems, most recently The Heavenly Ladder (Ginninderra Press, Canberra, Australia, 2001).
Martha J. Cutter is an associate professor of English at Kent State University. Her book, Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930, was recently published by the University Press of Mississippi. She has published articles in Women's Studies, American Literature, Criticism, Legacy, MELUS, American Literary Realism, and in several essay collections. She is currently completing a book on multiculturalism and multilingualism.
Lisa Diedrich is a lecturer in the Women's Studies Program at State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has recently finished her dissertation, "Treatments: Negotiating Bodies, Language and Death in Illness Narratives," at the Institute for Women's Studies at Emory University.
Jonathan Gil Harris, Associate Professor of English at Ithaca College, is the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1998) and co-editor, with Natasha Korda, of Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama (Cambridge, 2002, forthcoming). He is currently finishing a new project entitled "Etiologies of the Economy: Dramas of Mercantilism and Disease in Shakespeare's Age." [End Page 249]
Vivian Heller has published a book on James Joyce, which won the Choice Award for Books of Outstanding Academic Merit. Her short stories have appeared in BOMB Magazine and Confrontation. She has just completed a collection of short stories and is currently working on an historical novel. A professor of English literature for many years, she has taught at The New School for Social Research, Bennington, and Barnard, and is currently teaching at Bard College.
Mary Ann O'Farrell is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush (Duke University Press, 1997) and co-editor of Virtual Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment (University of Michigan Press, 1999).
Gloria Onyeoziri is an associate professor of French at the University of British Columbia. She is a specialist in African and Caribbean literatures and has published on Aimé Césaire, Aminata Sow Fall, Chinua Achebe, and Ahmadou Kourouma as well as such topics as literary semantics, irony, and African women's writing.
James Overboe is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of British Columbia. He is exploring how a normative bias that devalues some people informs the ethical framework of narratives. By examining how people read, write, or engage narratives he hopes to uncover the negative implications of writing narratives.
Carla Paterson is a lecturer at the University of British Columbia, where she teaches in the interdisciplinary Foundations Program and the Faculty of Applied Science. She is a historian of medicine, primarily interested in cultural constructions of disease. She is currently examining early twentieth-century perceptions of the effects...
