Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS William G. Bartfalome is a professor of pediatrics in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. He has published scholarly papers and lectured widely on topics in clinical ethics, particularly ethical issues in pediatrics. Peggy Carey Best is a sociologist who teaches courses on health, illness, and American society for the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Her current research centers on hospice as a medical subculture and on the social production of shared meanings in response to illness and death. Howard Brody is Professor of Family Practice and Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing. As indicated by his recent books, Stories of Sickness (1987) and The Healer's Power (1992), his research interests have included the importance of narrative and power as underexplored themes within medical ethics. Tod S. Chambers teaches in the Ethics and Human Values in Medicine Program at Northwestern University Medical School. His current work focuses on the literary nature of medical ethics and on cross-cultural issues in medicine. M. Pamela Fish is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Stanford University Medical Center. Her clinical time is spent supervising residents at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Medical Center. Her current research interests include the study of preoperative fears and anxiety levels in surgical patients. Arthur W. Frank is Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary. He is the author of At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness (1991) and currently editor of the "Case Stories" series for Second Opinion: Health, Faith, Ethics. His recent articles have appeared in Sociological Quarterly, Theory and Psychology, and the Christian Century. He lectures frequently to illness support groups and medical providers. Kathryn Montgomery Hunter, Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Ethics and Human Values Program at Northwestern University Medical School, is the author of Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge (1991). Elizabeth Layton's art work has been exhibited in more than 160 one-person shows in galleries all over the United States, including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and the Art 180 CONTRIBUTORS Institute of Chicago. More than thirty of her drawings are included in the permanent collections of American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Jan Marta is a literary scholar and an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She has published in English and in French on literature, Jacques Lacan, ethics, and psychiatry. She is an associate member of the Centre for Bioethics and a research associate of the Humanities and Psychoanalytic Thought Programme (Trinity College), University of Toronto. Audrey Shafer, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Stanford University Medical Center, supervises residents at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Medical Center. She also teaches a course in literature and medicine for medical students. She has published poetry in medical and literary journals. Kay Torney is Lecturer in English at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches courses in literature and medicine, and feminism and psychoanalysis. She is particularly interested in the representation of the maternal body in the writings of medicine, science, and technology. She is also a qualified Childbirth Educator. Daniel J. Wilson is Associate Professor of History and Head of the Department of History at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is working on a cultural history of the polio epidemics in the United States titled Summers of Fear. ...