In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Column

Suzanne Poirier
pp. vii-xii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0031
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Vassar Miller: A Retrospective

Vassar Miller: A Retrospective: Introduction

Joanne Trautmann Banks
p. 137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0015
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Vassar Miller, Swimming on Concrete

Bruce Kellner
pp. 138-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0026
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Selected Poems

Vassar Miller
pp. 152-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0016
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Bibliography of Works by and about Vassar Miller

Vassar Miller
p. 164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0028
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Articles

Proust's Prescription: Sickness as the Pre-condition for Writing

Lois Bragg, William Sayers
pp. 165-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0019
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Life Lessons from Untimely Death in James Joyce's Ulysses

Gregory M. Downing
pp. 182-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0022
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Might Zora Neale Hurston's Janie Woods Be Dying of Rabies? Considerations from Historical Medicine

Robert Haas
pp. 205-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0024
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Against Suffering: A Meditation on Literature

Harold Schweizer
pp. 229-240
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0032
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Cold War Science and the Body Politic: An Immuno/Virological Approach to Angels in America

Daryl Ogden
pp. 241-261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0030
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Identity and Compassion in Rafael Campo's "The Distant Moon"

S. W. Henderson
pp. 262-279
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0025
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Book Reviews

The Fiction of Bioethics: Cases as Literary Texts (review)

Martha Montello
pp. 280-284
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0029
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Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery, and: Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery (review)

Deborah Caslav Covino
pp. 284-288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0021
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Narrative Based Medicine: Dialogue and Discourse in Clinical Practice (review)

Ron Loewe
pp. 288-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0027
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Teaching Literature and Medicine (review)

Susan Merrill Squier
pp. 292-296
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0033
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Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics (review)

Paul Gorman Beidler
pp. 297-300
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0017
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The White Life (review)

Lynn C. Epstein
pp. 300-302
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0023
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Books Received

pp. 303-304
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0018
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Contributors

pp. 305-307
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2000.0020
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