Contributors
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Betty Bednarski is Professor of French and the Coordinator of Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has published widely in the field of French Canadian literature and is well known for her English translations of works by Quebec physician-writer Jacques Ferron. The author of numerous critical studies on Ferron, including an award-winning book, Autour de Ferron: littérature, traduction, altérité (Toronto: GREF, 1989), she spent the 2001 fall term as Hannah Millennium Visitor in the Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine.
Sarah Brophy is Assistant Professor of English at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. She specializes in contemporary autobiography and fiction, cultural studies, and gender theory. Her book on AIDS testimonial writing is forthcoming from University of Toronto Press, and she has published articles in PMLA, Victorian Poetry, and Essays on Canadian Writing.
Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the author, among other books, of The Real American Dream. He is currently a senior fellow at the National Humanities Center, where he is working on a book about Herman Melville.
Tom Delbanco is the Richard and Florence Koplow-James Tullis Professor of General Medicine and Primary Care at Harvard Medical School. A founder and past president of the Society of General Internal Medicine, he practices, teaches, and conducts research in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care that he founded in 1971 at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital.
Kimberly Engdahl Coates is currently a full-time lecturer in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. She has led a Literature and Medicine reading group for residents at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City. She is in the final stages of completing her doctoral dissertation entitled The Art of Being Ill: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Aesthetics in Early Twentieth-Century Britain at the University of Utah.
Vivian McAlister is a transplant surgeon in London, Ontario, with an interest in the history of medicine. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, he practiced as a family physician in Canada for several years before returning to his native Ireland for training in surgery. He received his specialist training in transplantation from the University of Western Ontario, to which he returned in 2001, after a decade as a transplant surgeon in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Cóilín Parsons is a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway and Syracuse University. He is currently a graduate student in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He has taught at Syracuse University, Waterford Institute of Technology, and Columbia University.
Michael Rowe is Associate Clinical Professor of sociology at the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Yale Program on Poverty, Disability, and Urban Health. He is the author of Crossing the Border: Encounters Between Homeless People and Outreach Workers; The Book of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine; and a number of articles on homelessness and mental illness and community behavioral health services.
Carol Schilling earned a degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches and writes about the relationships of literature, science, medicine, and ethics. She is finishing a manuscript on creative and ethical agency in representations of science and is beginning articles on narrative and medical ethics.
Martha Stoddard Holmes is Assistant Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Literature and Writing Studies, at California State University, San Marcos. She is also Voluntary Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD Medical School. Her book Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disabilities in Victorian Culture is forthcoming in 2003 from University of Michigan Press.
Martin Winckler was born Marc Zaffran in Algiers in 1955. As a general practitioner, he works in a hospital-based planned-parenthood clinic in Le Mans, France. A fiction and nonfiction writer, he was awarded the celebrated French Livre Inter Book Award in 1998 for The Case of Dr. Sachs (published in the United States by Seven Stories Press), an account of a family doctor' s relationship with his patients. He is also a cultural critic and is especially fond of American television medical dramas such as St. Elsewhere, ER, Gideon's...
