Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Ellen Berman is a painter living in Houston, Texas. Recent exhibitions of her work include a solo show at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas and inclusion in an exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, as well as a one-person show at McMurtrey Gallery in Houston. Barbara /. Bono is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she teaches EngUsh Renaissance Uterature. She is the author of Literary Transvaluation: From Vergilian Epic to Shakespearean Tragicomedy (University of CaUfornia Press, 1984) and several articles on Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare. fames f. Bono teaches history and medical humanities at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He recently completed The "Word of God" and the "Languages of Man": Interpreting Nature and Texts in Early Modern Science and Medicine and is working on Medicine and the Life-Sciences in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1700. He is Vice-President of the Society for Literature and Science and coeditor of the Society's new journal, Configurations. Stephanie P. Browner is a doctoral student in English at Indiana University. She is currently completing her dissertation, which is titled "Imaging the Body: Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America." Bruce Clarke, an associate professor of English at Texas Tech University, specializes in romantic and modernist literature and theory. He has published articles on Lewis Thomas, Primo Levi, and literature and science. He is the editor of The Body and the Text: Comparative Essays in Literature and Medicine (Texas Tech University Press, 1990). Robert Leigh Davis is Assistant Professor of EngUsh and Director of Writing at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He has previously published essays in the American Transcendental Quarterly, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review , and Milton Quarterly. Marcia Day Finney is Special Assistant to the Vice-President and Provost for Health Sciences at the University of Virginia, and Assistant Professor of Medical Education (medical humanities). She teaches a fourth-year elective in literature and medicine. Her pubUcations include essays and book chapters on topics in modern literature, bioethics, and academic health-center leadership . Arthur W. Frank is Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary. He is author of At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness, a "pathography" of his own illness experiences. His recent articles have appeared in Second Opinion, the Sociological Quarterly, and Theory and Psychology, as well as in Toronto's Globe and Mail and the Christian Century. 278 CONTRIBUTORS Anne Hudson Jones is Professor of Literature and Medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She is a founding editor of Literature and Medicine and has been the journal's editor-in-chief since 1984. She has pubUshed widely on various aspects of Uterature and medicine and on narrative ethics. Heinz R. Kuehn wrote several books in Germany before he immigrated to the United States in 1951. He has spent his working Ufe in this country as a medical writer and editor and has contributed numerous essays and book reviews to journals such as the American Scholar, the Sewanee Review, and JAMA. His autobiography, Mixed Blessings: An Almost Ordinary Life in Hitler's Germany, appeared in 1989. Faith Mctellan is a doctoral student in the Institute for the Medical Humanities of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She is also Director of the Manuscript and Grant Preparation Service for the UTMB Department of Anesthesiology. She has a special interest in ethical issues in scientific publication. Helena Michie is a professor of EngUsh at Rice University. She has pubUshed The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures, Women's Bodies (Oxford, 1987) and Sororophobia : Differences among Women in Literature and Culture (Oxford, 1992). She is now at work, with Naomi R. Cahn, on a book about the poUcing of the reproductive female body in contemporary culture. David B. Morris is a writer and associate editor of Literature and Medicine. His prize-winning books The Religious Sublime (1972) and Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984) both deal with the Uterary culture of eighteenth-century England. The Culture of Pain (1991) won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award. He has just...