Contributors
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Tod Chambers is associate professor of bioethics, medical humanities, and medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. His areas of research include the rhetoric of bioethics and cross-cultural issues in clinical medicine. He is the author of the book The Fiction of Bioethics (Routledge) and co-editor of Prozac as a Way of Life (University of North Carolina Press). He is presently working on a second monograph on the rhetoric of bioethics.
J. Elizabeth Clark teaches at the City University of New York LaGuardia Community College. Her main areas of scholarly work are political literature, AIDS poetry, contemporary American poetry and Latino/a literature. She is the managing editor of Radical Teacher. Her scholarship has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Medical Humanities, Women's Studies Quarterly, and the Minnesota Review.
G. Thomas Couser is professor of English and director of Disability Studies at Hofstra University. His most recent books are Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (Wisconsin, 1997) and Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (Cornell, 2004). He is currently engaged in a study of narratives of filiation (i.e., memoirs of fathers) written in North America in the last twenty-five years.
James Dwyer is the associate director of education at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. He directs a required course on bioethics, teaches an elective on global health and ethics, and works on the ethics consultation service. His written work focuses on health, justice, and democracy. He always tries to make his practical work of intellectual interest, and his intellectual work of practical value.
Mindy Thompson Fullilove is a research psychiatrist at New York State Psychiatric Institute and a professor of clinical psychiatry and public health at Columbia University. She has conducted research on AIDS and other epidemics of poor communities, with a special interest in the relationship between the collapse of communities and decline in health. From her research, she has published Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It and The House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place. She has also published numerous articles, book chapters, and monographs and has received many awards including being named a National Associate by the National Academy of Science in 2003. Her work in AIDS is featured in Jacob Levenson's book, The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS in Black America. [End Page 149]
Barbara T. Gates is Alumni Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Delaware. She is author of Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (Princeton, 1988), Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World (Chicago, 1998), and numerous essays and reviews. Her edited works include Critical Essays on Charlotte Brontë (G. K. Hall, 1990); the Journal of Emily Shore (Virginia, 1991); Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science, coedited with Ann B. Shteir (Wisconsin, 1997); and an anthology of nature writing, In Nature's Name (Chicago, 2002). In 2000, Professor Gates was honored by the American Association of University Women and given their Founders' Distinguished Senior Scholar Award.
Robert Hemmings received his PhD from the University of Toronto. His research is concerned with memory and trauma in modernist culture in the first half of the twentieth century. He teaches in Toronto.
Martha Stoddard Holmes is associate professor of literature and writing studies at Cal State University, San Marcos, where she teaches courses in British literature, cultural studies/body studies, medical humanities, children's literature, and creative writing. She is also a voluntary assistant clinical professor at UCSD Medical School, Department of Family and Preventative Medicine. Stoddard Holmes is also an associate editor of Journal of Medical Humanities. Her book Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture was published by University of Michigan Press in 2004.
Craig A. Irvine is the director of education of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and investigator for the National Endowment of the Humanities project Narrative Medicine: Teaching Humanities to Health Professionals. Dr. Irvine has over twenty years of experience teaching ethics and humanities. For the past seven years, he has been designing and teaching...
