Contributors
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Catherine Belling is Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Associate Director of the Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. Her doctorate is in English, and her present work concerns the roles of narrative and imagination in concepts and experiences of disease.
Tina Young Choi is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is completing a dissertation on representations of disease and anonymous social connection in nineteenth-century British novels, medical writings, and popular journalism.
Julia E. Connelly is Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Program of the Humanities in Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She specializes in primary care internal medicine and medical psychiatry and works in the rural community of Orange, Virginia.
Daniel M. Fox, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund since 1990, writes books and articles on the history and politics of health policy, has served in government in three federal agencies and two states, and was a faculty member and administrator at two universities.
Margaret Healy is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Richard II (Northcote House, 1998) and Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics (Palgrave, 2001). Her most recent contribution to the field of literature, medicine, and art is "Anxious and Fatal Contacts: Taming the Contagious Touch" in Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern Culture, ed. Elizabeth D. Harvey (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).
Roger D. Lund is the Francis Fallon Professor of English at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York. He has written widely on eighteenth-century English literature and teaches Literature and Medicine in the Le Moyne Physician Assistants program.
Robin Mookerjee is a New York-based poet and critic. He received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1999. He directs a writing program and teaches literature and writing at Eugene Lang College.
Louis F. Qualtiere is Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Pathology, University of Saskatchewan and Royal University Hospital, and past head of the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Royal University for eight years in the '90s. Professor Qualtiere has long-standing research interests in areas of microbial pathogenesis and the effects of viral infection on the human immune system, including HIV-1. [End Page 130]
William W. E. Slights, Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan, is the author of Ben Jonson and the Art of Secrecy (Toronto, 1994), Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Michigan, 2001), and numerous articles on Shakespeare's plays. He is at work on a book to be titled The Image and Icon of the Heart in Early Modern Literature.
Susan Squier is editor, most recently, of Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (with E. Ann Kaplan). She is Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, where she teaches cultural studies of science and medicine, feminist theory, and modernism. In the summer of 2002, she and Anne Hunsaker Hawkins co-directed a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar on "Medicine, Literature, and Culture" at Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey Medical Center.
Arnold Weinstein is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University, as well as an associate editor for Literature and Medicine. He has published extensively on narrative literature, and his two most recent books are The Fiction of Relationship (Princeton University Press, 1988) and Nobody's Home: Speech, Self and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo (Oxford University Press, 1993). His work on literature and medicine has appeared in this journal, and his forthcoming book on these matters, A Scream Goes Through the House, will be published by Random House this summer. [End Page 131]
