Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Charles M. Anderson is an associate professor of EngUsh at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he teaches writing and rhetorical theory. He also teaches Uterature and medicine in the Division of Medical Humanities of the University of Arkansas for the Medical Sciences. Richard Selzer and the Rhetoric of Surgery, a study of Selzer's early essays, is his most recent book. Joanne Trautmann BanL· became the first full-time professor of Uterature at a medical school when she was appointed to the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in 1972. StiU an adjunct professor there, she now lives in Florida, where she continues her writing, lecturing, and consulting. Outside of medicine, she is known primarily as the American editor of Virginia Woolf 's letters. Howard Brody is Associate Professor of Family Practice and Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing. He teaches medical ethics and has been investigating the importance of narrative and story in understanding medical and ethical issues. He is the author of Stories of Sickness and The Healer's Power (forthcoming). Franklin Brooks is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of French and ItaUan at Vanderbilt University. His principal research is in seventeenth -century French literature and society, criticism, theater, and pageantry . His interest in plague Uterature is a response to the AIDS crisis. He is the Graduate School's representative on the Vanderbilt AIDS project. Joseph Cady is Assistant Professor of the Medical Humanities (Literature) at the University of Rochester Medical School. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere, and he has recent or forthcoming essays on AIDS in literature and on sexual orientation in Renaissance literature and culture. Albert Howard Carter III teaches literature at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, and serves on the cUnical faculty of the College of Medicine of the University of South Florida. In 1989-90, he was a Dana Fellow at Emory University, where he attended lectures and observed dissections in the human anatomy course for first-year medical students; he is now completing a book about that experience. Marilyn R. Chandler is an associate professor at Mills College, where she holds an endowed chair in American Uterature. This faU, Garland Press pubUshed her book The Healing Art: Regeneration through Autobiography; later this year, the University of CaUfornia Press wiU pubUsh Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction. Contributors 183 Julia E. Connelly, an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Virginia, practices medicine in a rural community with two other primarycare physicians. Her teaching interests include doctor-patient communication skiUs, Uterature written by physicians, and medical ethics. She also teaches Uterature and medicine as an elective for fourth-year medical students. John L. Coulehan is a physician, poet, and medical ethicist who teaches at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His poetry chapbook, The Knitted Glove, was recently pubUshed by Nightshade Press. Carol Donley is a professor of EngUsh at Hiram CoUege, Hiram, Ohio, where she codirects the newly created Center for Literature, Medicine, and Health Care Professions and has been instrumental in helping to establish an Institute for Humanities and Medicine. The Institute is scheduled to open during the 1991-92 academic year. Lilian R. Fürst is Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has pubUshed some ten books on nineteenth-century European Uterature and is now coediting a collection of essays titled Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment. Billy Howard is Director of University Photography at Emory University in Atlanta. Kathryn Montgomery Hunter is Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Ethics and Human Values in Medicine Program at Northwestern University Medical School. Her book Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge has just been pubUshed by Princeton University Press. 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 the editor of Images of Healers, volume 2 of Literature and Medicine, and of Images of Nurses: Perspectives...