Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars

• Browne C. Lewis, M.P.A., J.D., LL.M. (April 23-June 23, 2013

  Browne Lewis is the Leon & Gloria Plevin Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Health Law & Policy at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.  Professor Lewis graduated number one in her class with a degree in Political Science from Grambling State University. Prior to attending law school, Professor Lewis received summer fellowships to study at Carnegie-Mellon University, the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.  Professor received her J.D. from the University of Minnesota, her M.P.P. from the Humphrey Institute and her L.L.M. from the University of Houston.  Professor Lewis started her professional career as a statistician and ADR trainer at the Conflict and Change Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, she clerked for the Honorable Daniel Wozniak, Chief Judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Professor Lewis practiced in the areas of environmental, elder, family, housing and probate law. In the summer of 2012, Professor Lewis was a visiting researcher at the Fondation Brocher in Geneva, Switzerland. In the summer of 2013, Professor Lewis will be a visiting Scholar at the Hasting Center and at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.  Professor Lewis writes in the areas of bioethics, family and reproductive law. Professor Lewis has published in the George Mason Law Review, the Cardozo Law Review and the Lewis & Clark Law Review. Her most recent article on physician-facilitated suicide was published in the Oregon Law Review.   In July 2012, New York University Press published Professor Lewis' book entitled Papa's Baby: Paternity and Artificial Insemination. 

• Heidi Powell Mullins, M.A., Ed.D. (January 1-September 30, 2013)

  Heidi Powell Mullins is currently pursuing research at the IMH on the confluence of arts practice in the medical humanities and medical education.  After completing her Ed.D. in Art Education at the University of Houston in 2006, she has served as an Assistant Professor of Art Education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Eastern Washington University.

  In 2011 she served as a delegate to Cuba with the National Art Education Association focusing on global arts education initiatives; she was an invited scholar to the Atelier-Schaumbad in Austria (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq199DNXIiE ); and in 2010 she served as an National Endowment for the Humanities fellow in Alaska (UAS) and British Columbia (UBC).  In 2009 Dr. Powell-Mullins served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Iceland Academy for the Arts-Listahaskoli Islands lecturing and pursuing creative research in interdisciplinary approaches to arts education.  She exhibits nationally and internationally and has exhibited work at the Atelier Schaumbad and remix: galerie in Graz, Austria, The Lost Horse Gallery in Reykjavik, Iceland, Salon Izidor Krsnjavi, in Zagreb, Croatia, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation in Morrilton, Arkansas, the Arkansas Studies Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas, as well as the Seattle Trade Center in Seattle, Washington, Eastern Oregon University, and Florida International University to name a few.  Her sculptural work “Voices of Our Ancestors,” is on permanent loan to the Depot Museum in Morrilton, Arkansas, and tells the story of her great, great grandmother Diodema born on the Trail of Tears.

   As a scholar and artist of Native American (Eastern Oklahoma Delaware-Lenni Lenape) and Norwegian descent, her scholarly work includes national and regional publications in arts education, speaks at conferences, workshops, and public forums both internationally and nationally about art making, visual storytelling, cultural identity, and her current academic scholarship here at the IMH focuses on Narrative Inquiry and Experienced-Based research methods addressing pedagogy in the medical humanities and medical education integrating the arts, which encompasses art making as curriculum, museum/medical education, art historical contexts, the anthropology of art (art cultures), and research in art practice, exploring the theoretical and practical ideas of how the arts disrupt pre-conceived notions in learning environments.  These methodologies are by nature interdisciplinary and re-exam claims of plurality, viability, and cannon as a form of cultural positioning in the arts and arts pedagogy and practice especially when related to the medical humanities.

  Her creative work focuses on indigenous and isolated histories and ideas and their relationship to contemporary society as landscape.  Her art making involves a variety of mixed methods (encaustic, printmaking, ceramics, and sculpture), exploring indigenous Native American and transcultural conceptions of place and space and the feminine.  These conceptions reference the intersecting points of life between and in diverse cultures, involving both the past and the present.  She believes her creative scholarship becomes a present day artifact of integrated diversity, a cultural innovation of artistic expression.   Foundational to her creative work is the notion of “story” which re-emphasizes the conflictual and the consensual in society, constructing and de-constructing daily identity where the personal, collective, and cultural converge.  She says, “for me, art making is a way of adding original dialogue and new ideas, to artistic narratives of knowledge that demonstrate how individual truth, imagination, and experience work together.” 

• Sara van den Berg, Ph.D. (September 1 - December 17, 2012)

  Sara van den Berg completed twelve years as Chair of the English Department at Saint Louis University last June, and is spending this semester at IMH working on two research projects: a study of pain and narrative, and a book on the cultural meanings of the dwarf in Western culture since the Renaissance.  After completing her Ph.D. at Yale, she taught at Fordham University and Fairfield University before joining the faculty at Ohio State, where she designed and team-taught a large lecture course on Medicine and the Humanities—one of the first in the country.  She then became a faculty member at the University of Washington-Seattle, where she taught Early Modern English literature and also developed a year-long undergraduate sequence in Medicine and Society.  At Saint Louis University, she worked with Mark Clark (now of IMH) and other colleagues to design a successful Interdisciplinary Minor in Medical Humanities.  She has published three books, as well as essays on Milton, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Freud, including essays on Freud’s dreams, on the motif of reading and writing in the Dora case, and on the case narratives in Studies in Hysteria.  That essay was written for a conference at IMH, and was published in The Good Body: Asceticism in Modern Culture (edited by Mary Winkler and Letha Cole of IMH).    Her work on pain began with an essay, “Narrative as Measurement of Pain,” presented at a meeting of the International Society for the Study of Narrative two years ago.   Her research has been supported by a 2011-12 Presidential Research Fund Grant from Saint Louis University, and she discussed her current project at a recent Pain and Wellbeing Conference in St. Louis.  After leaving Galveston in December, she’ll spending the spring semester teaching at the SLU campus in Madrid, and in April will be a Visiting Fellow at the History of Pain Project at Birkbeck College-University of London.  Both her research on pain and her study of dwarfism are linked to her teaching and research in Disability Studies.  She currently chairs the MLA Committee on Disability Issues, and at SLU-Madrid will teach a graduate seminar on “Disability and the Problem of Perception.”  The course will focus on three different forms of disability: blindness, dwarfism, and pain.  Blindness is a deficit of perception (and that part of the course will focus on Milton); dwarfism both is and is not perceived as disability; and pain is an “invisible” disability that cannot be objectively measured.

• Paula Summerly, Ph.D. (August 1, 2012-January 31, 2013)

   Paula Summerly’s academic background is in the history of medicine (PhD, University of Glasgow), palaeopathology (MSc, University of Sheffield), and fine art photography (BA, Sheffield Hallam University). Her doctorate entitled Visual Pathology: A Case Study in Late-Nineteenth Century Clinical Photography in Glasgow, Scotland was funded through a Wellcome Trust scholarship. Subsequently, she was a researcher on the Forensic Medicine Archives Project at the University of Glasgow, http://www.fmap.archives.gla.ac.uk/

  From 2010 to 2011, Dr. Summerly was a Fellow in Medical Humanities and Bioethics at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago. She undertook research on the history of pediatric clinical photography and the history of forensic photography in conjunction with the Chicago Police Department.

  In 2007, Dr. Summerly was awarded a scholarship from the Friends of the Dittrick Medical Museum, Cleveland, Ohio. She researched the dermatological photographs taken by Dr. William Thomas Corlett (1854-1948) and the dissection photographs published in Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 by John Harley Warner and James Edmonson (Blast Books, 2009).

  Dr. Summerly has published papers on a range of subjects including: Sir William Macewen (1848-1924), pioneer of aseptic surgery; photographic evidence; and clinical photography. She has curated temporary and permanent exhibitions including: Photographing Pediatrics: Northwestern University, circa 1900-1940 at the Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University, Chicago (2011); and A Healing Passion: Medicine in Glasgow Past and Present at the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow (2006). Dr. Summerly has also acted as a freelance consultant for the temporary exhibitions team at the Wellcome Trust, London.

  During her time at IMH, Dr. Summerly will research the role of visual knowledge in medicine and the humanities, with a special emphasis on photography. Her interests include the art of clinical observation and patient anonymity. She will also explore and utilize local visual archival sources including the anatomical drawings by  Dr. William Keiller (1861-1931) held in the Blocker History of Medicine Collections at the Moody Medical Library.

• Richard Armstrong, M. Phil., Ph. D. (July 1-December 31, 2012)

  

  Richard H. Armstrong (BA, University of Chicago; M. Phil. and Ph. D., Yale University) is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the Honors College, University of Houston. His particular field is the reception of classical culture, with a special focus on its role in the development of psychoanalysis.  His publications include: A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World (Cornell UP, 2005); “The Schliemann of the Mind:  Sigmund Freud and Archaeology”;   “Urorte und Urszenen.  Freud und die Figuren der Archäologie”;  “Last Words: Said, Freud, and Traveling Theory”;   “Being Mr. Somebody: Freud and Classical Education”; “Marooned Mandarins: Freud, Classical Education, and the Jews of Vienna”;   “Quid Berolinum Vindobonae? Die Antike und das Freudsche Netzwerk”; “Psychoanalysis and the Wellsprings of Myth”;  and “Freud and the Drama of Oedipal Truth.”  He is co-editor with Paul Allen Miller of the Ohio State University Press series Ancient Memories / Modern Identities and a contributing editor of American Imago.  He is also a contributor to Engines of Our Ingenuity on KUHF.

   

  Prof. Armstrong will be at the IMH from July through December 2012, and will be working a good deal in the Moody Library Rare Books Room’s excellent collection of materials by Jean Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud. He is working on a book titled Theory and Theatricality: Classical Drama and The Culture of Early Psychoanalysis for the Oxford UP series Classics and Theory. He particularly interested in Charcot’s Theater of Hysteria, and his photographic repertoire Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière, held here in the Moody Library, which represents one of the first scientific uses of photography.

• Joan Paluzzi, Ph.D. (July 1-August 31, 2012)

  Jo Paluzzi is a medical anthropologist with over twenty years of experience in critical care nursing prior to returning to school for her doctorate in anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.  After completing her degree, she worked with the internationally respected NGO, Partners In Health based in Boston where, in addition to her engagement with the work of PIH, she also served as a Senior Fellow and administrative coordinator of the largest task Force within the United Nations Millennium Project: the Task Force on HIV, TB, Malaria and Access to Essential Medicines (PIH served as the sub-Secretariat for the task force.) The project established the Millennium Development Goals and developed the indicators to measure progress towards their attainment which continue to be widely used in international health and development. She served as one of the lead authors on two of the final reports (Tuberculosis and Access to Medicines).  Following the completion of the Millennium Project, Dr. Paluzzi taught cultural and medical anthropology for six years at a university in North Carolina. From 2002 to 2006 she also served as a member of the Advocacy, Communications, and Social Mobilization Working Group within STOP TB, based at WHO in Geneva.

  Dr. Paluzzi’s research and publications address various topics all of which deal with the related themes of access to health services and medicines, local-to-global health and healthcare disparities and social justice. Her dissertation research, funded by Fulbright explored the experience of tuberculosis in southern Chile and its intersections with economic inequalities and the ongoing privatization of the Chilean health system.  In addition to her work in Chile, she has done fieldwork in Venezuela that examined the rapid scale-up of their free, public health primary care system and in North Carolina where she examined systems of healthcare recourse for immigrants in the Piedmont Triad. Recent publications have explored the ethical dimensions and relational dynamics that characterize multinational pharmaceutical industry practices.

  While at the Institute, she will complete a book project, Tuberculosis and the Consumption of People that moves beyond conventional attributions to poverty (where most discussions of the social determinants of TB begin and end) to identify the ‘causes of the causes’: the larger socio-economic contexts in which TB occurs and the forces that have shaped them. Crossing time and space, the book utilizes specific case studies to situate tuberculosis as the axis joining human experience during three distinct eras, in three distinct locations and within societal contexts dominated by three distinct socio-economic institutions: slavery and segregation (United States), imperial colonialism (American Samoa), and neoliberalism (Chile).  This book illustrates lives lived within personal and social environments that have been constrained, at times violated, by these State-sanctioned, socially-enforced socio-economic institutions and in doing so, clearly demonstrates the fundamentally social roots of health and illness

• Terence Wright, PhD (May 1-July 31, 2012)

  Terence Wright is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland where he is Course Director for the MFA Photography program. He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute; board member of the Anthropological Association of Ireland; and affiliated member/visiting researcher at DIGIS (Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualisation & Communication), University of Cambridge. He received a Master’s degree in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art; a Master’s in Ethnology, University of Oxford and a PhD from the University London (1986) for his work on photography and visual perception. He worked as a freelance photographer for BBC News and Current Affairs, programs such as That’s Life, Rough Justice and Crimewatch, as well as editorial photography forCosmopolitan, Company and New Scientist.  Among his assignments for the BBC he covered the Libyan People’s Bureau siege in London and the Iranian Airline hijack in Paris in 1984.  In 1998 he returned to Oxford University to establish the research project  ‘Moving Images – the Media Representation of Refugees’ at the university’s Refugee Studies Centre. He was also a Visiting Professor at Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen (Bergen Academy of Art) in Norway (2001-3). 
  In 2003 he joined the University of Ulster where he produced and directed The Interactive Village (2004-7): a digital ethnography of Dolní Roveň a village in Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic in collaboration with anthropologists from the University of Pardubice as part of ‘NM2’ (New Millennium, New Media EU-funded research project: www.ist-nm2.org). He also produced a FUSION cross-border creative & digital media economic development project forming part of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. The project developed prototype pilot demonstrators providing interactive mobile media guides to Irish history with the overall aim of enabling visitors to access multi-perspective, contested or contradictory histories as well as myth, legend and conjecture. In 2008 he held a Visiting Research Fellowship at CRASSH (Centre for Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities) at the University of Cambridge. His current research project “The Memory Game” is a visual media iPad-based system for reminiscing, supporting memories of people with dementia. During his visit to IMH he will be working in this area of study conducting further research into the theoretical dimensions of reminiscing and memory.
  Publications include: The Photography Handbook (2nd ed). London: Taylor & Francis, 2004; Visual Impact: culture and the meaning of Images. Oxford: Berg, 2008;  ‘Drawn from Memory: reminiscing, narrative and the visual image’ International Journal Computers in Healthcare, 2010; ‘Photography and Visual Rhetoric’ in The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods. London: Sage, 2011; “Visual Culture, Ethnography and Interactive Media” in A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012. 

• Sue Gena Lurie, PhD (January 1-June 30, 2012)

  Sue Gena Lurie is a medical anthropologist and recently retired faculty member in Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health, and Medical Humanities, at the University of North Texas Health Science Center – Fort Worth, and Anthropology at the University of North Texas. She received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma (1983) and was a National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellow in “Ethnography and Public Policy” at Northwestern University’s Anthropology Department (1984-85). From 1987 to 2012, she taught social and behavioral theory and community health; social justice, human rights and ethics; medical and psychological anthropology; and qualitative research methods. At the school of public health she co-directed the M.P.H./M.S. Applied Anthropology program, and directed Dr. P.H. dissertations. In 2005 she received a public health education award, and from the Fall of 2009 to the Spring of 2010 she was a Fulbright Fellow lecturing in Bioethics, and Medical Anthropology at the Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, Hungary.
  
  Dr. Lurie’s research and writing have been on comparative health and medical systems; and  professionalization and professions - from her dissertation on the professionalization of nursing during Hong Kong’s reform era (1967-1980); to the comparative development of HK’s nursing and social work professions; and the professionalization of Physician Assistants in the United States. In addition she has studied: community mental health care; the needs of elderly and homeless people; tuberculosis education with Hispanic organizations for the Centers for Disease Control; and conducted health needs assessments for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. She co-authored Health-Seeking Behavior in Ethnic Populations with Tyson Gibbs, and has, in addition, published journal articles and chapters on public health policy, research ethics, mental health care systems, urban homelessness, and comparative health planning with non-governmental organizations.
  
  At the Institute, she is expanding on her historical research (with Gordon Lurie) developing a “transnational analysis” of medicine, professionalization, and public health which joined  Central Europe, the U. S., and the developing world throughout the twentieth century. Her current work focuses on the development and transformation of a key organization – the American Medical Association of Vienna (1904-1938) and its post-war successor, the American Medical Society of Vienna (1952-1990). This organization is part of a complex of similar groups such as the Anglo-American Medical Association of Berlin (1903-1938), and others in Paris and London. This study, which began in 2009, uses Hong Kong’s transnational experience on professionalization and its network-city urban program as a template for reconsidering health and professionalization in Vienna and Central Europe during both the interwar years and the Cold War era. A preliminary paper was presented at the American Anthropological Association Meetings in 2010. Drawing on the extant archives of the AMA of Vienna and the AMS of Vienna which were gathered in 2009-2010, and access received to the American Medical Association archives in Chicago, she hopes to develop grant funding to pursue research in Europe, the United States, and (for the Cold War era) South Asia and the Middle East.
  

• Jane Chance, PhD (September 2011-April 2012)

  E-mail:  jchance@rice.edu or jachance@utmb.edu

  Jane Chance, the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor Emerita in English at Rice University, has taught medieval literature for forty years, first, at the University of Saskatchewan-Saskatoon, after receiving her Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois (1971), and then at Rice University (1973). She has also published twenty-one books and nearly a hundred articles and reviews, on mythography and classical influence on medieval literature; Old and Middle English literature, especially Chaucer; medieval women; and modern medievalism (Tolkien in particular). Her most recent book, The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), was awarded the 2008 SCMLA Book Prize. General editor of the Library of Medieval Women (published by Boydell & Brewer), with twenty-three titles in print, she has also edited the Greenwood series Historic Events in the Medieval World, with twelve titles published in 2004-5, and the newer Praeger Series on the Middle Ages, with five titles as of 2011.

  Dr. Chance has been an NEH and Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton,a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, Eccles Fellow at the University of Utah Humanities Center, and director of both an NEH Summer Seminar  and an Institute for College Teachers. She has also enjoyed a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio on Lake Como. In spring, 2003, she held NEH and Mellon Fellowships at St. Louis University. She has delivered many guest and keynote lectures in the U.S. and around the world. Recently, she served as the chair of the Modern Language Association Roth Committee for the Best Literary Translation (and was asked to return this summer unexpectedly); she is currently a member of the PMLA Advisory Committee.

  Her major project at the IMH is a guest-edited issue of the new journal Postmedieval: a Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies, on Cognitive Alterities/Neuromedievalism. This subject involves the ways in which the findings of neuroscientific research can be used to better understand the rise in the later Middle Ages of affective piety and mysticism, particularly by women, literary dream allegory, and other forms of embodied cognition in philosophy and theology. She also hopes to complete the third volume of Medieval Mythography, on The Emergence of Italian Humanism, in which myth interpretation by fourteenth and fifteenth-century poet-scholars becomes a vehicle for projections of self and the personal.

  She has recently taken up photography and has shown in many juried competitions in Galveston, Clear Lake, and Houston. She is proud of her Galveston and Texas Landmark house, which, through research at the Rosenberg Library, she discovered was originally owned by one of the first settlers of Galveston, a Norwegian sea-captain; the daughter of Henry Fisher, coauthor of the 1842 land grant act that brought northern Europeans to the Hill Country; and Sam Houston’s grandnephew—all in its first four years.

• Kirsten Ostherr, PhD (September 2011-December 2011)

  E-mail:  kiosther@utmb.edu or kostherr@rice.edu

  

  Kirsten Ostherr, PhD is Associate Professor of English at Rice University in Houston, TX, where she teaches film and media studies, with a special emphasis on historical and contemporary representations of health and disease in photography, film, television, animation, advertising, and medical imaging. She is also a Fellow in The John P. McGovern, M.D. Center for Humanities and Ethics, at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX.

  Ostherr’s most recent work focuses on networked patients and hospitals, social media and health movements, and the age of bioinformatics. She is author of Cinematic Prophylaxis: Globalization and Contagion in the Discourse of World Health (Duke, 2005), and during her time at the Institute for Medical Humanities, she will be completing Medical Visions: Producing the Patient through Film, Television and Imaging Technologies  (Oxford). Ostherr has recently published or has forthcoming articles on medical animation in the 1920s, health education films of the postwar period, narrative medicine and biocultures, ethical issues in the film Philadelphia, and corporate publicity films. She has also published on art film, documentary, and science fiction film. Professor Ostherr lectures widely and has recently given invited talks in Geneva, Chicago, San Diego, Galveston, Houston, Philadelphia, and New York. Her work has been supported by a variety of grants and fellowships.

  Kirsten is currently developing the Medical Futures Initiative, an institute for training the medical media innovators of the future through creative, hands-on critical thinking and design. This project will foster a creative environment for imagining what the future of medicine should be; create media and other tools for improving healthcare and medical education; and teach pre-med students to think analytically and historically about medicine, science, and technology. A cornerstone of Medical Futures is “Project TMC,” a pilot program that joins Rice undergraduates with Texas Medical Center physician-researchers to develop videos and other communications media that translate their work for patients and the wider health community. Kirsten looks forward to discussing this project and her research with the UTMB Institute for the Medical Humanities community. 

• Erma Lawson, PhD (August 2011-November 2011)

  Erma.Lawson@unt.edu or erlawson@utmb.edu
  
  Erma Lawson combines Nursing and Medical Sociology to focus on health and illness among underserved populations.  She earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing; and her clinical positions include; Assistant Director of Nursing, Kentucky State Hospital, Charge Nurse at Grady Memorial Hospital, Obstetrics /Gynecology, Atlanta, Georgia. She has also held clinical positions in the emergency room, neonatal intensive care, cardiac intensive care, and home health nursing.  She earned a Doctoral Degree in Medical Sociology from the University of Kentucky, Departments of Sociology and Behavioral Science. Her dissertation combined qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the meaning of smoking among Appalachian pregnant adolescents.
  
  To develop an in-depth understanding of grounded theory, Dr. Lawson studied with the late Dr. Anselm Strauss, University of California, Berkeley, CA.  Also she lived in Zimbabwe, Africa, for two years, exploring stress, birth outcomes, and family stability using narrative methodology.  As a post-doctoral scholar at Harvard University, Department of Public Health Practice, she explored, violence, heart disease, stress, among young inner city adolescents. Her international scholarly presentations include; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Havana, Cuba; Auckland, Zealand; Sydney Australia; and Johannesburg, South African.  In 2005, Dr. Lawson was awarded the American Sociology Congressional Fellowship in the office of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (30th district) Texas in which she wrote several bills debated in the U.S. House of Representatives, and passed to the U.S. Senate. Dr. Lawson’s publications have centered on health disparities; Katrina survivors and Spirituality; and family instability. She is the first author of Black Men and Divorce (Sage, publications). She was appointed to the Panel of Minority Women health expert to advise The Department Women’s Health at DHHS. Currently, her research focuses on the medicalization of race through organ transplantation. At IMH, she plans to complete a book on the experience of minority heart transplant recipients and health disparities. She is an Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.   
  

• David Brenner, MA, PhD (June 2011-July 2011)

  E-mail:  thedavidbrenner@gmail.com
  
  David Brenner teaches Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of two books, Marketing Identities: The Invention of Jewish Ethnicity (Wayne State University Press, 1998) and German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust (Routledge, 2008). His current book project, Schindler's Shoah: Teaching the Holocaust in the Age of Globalization, focuses on the pedagogy of genocide education. While interacting with students and faculty at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at UTMB, he will be specifically examining the challenges and opportunities of using the Holocaust as a paradigmatic case study for medical ethics.

• Sefik Gorkey, PhD (April 2011-August 2011)

  E-mail:  gorkey@superonline.com 

  Sefik Gorkey graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Dentistry in 1985 and received his doctoral degree in 1989. He started lecturing in Marmara University Faculty of Medicine in 1993 as a founder of the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine. He was appointed as a Professor in 1999 and has been Chair of the department since 1994. Dr. Gorkey has published in the field of medical ethics, history of medicine, and ethical issues in dental practice and research. He has teaching experience in medical ethics, dental ethics, and history of medicine. He has taken responsibility as a member in REC's in medical and dental schools, some research hospitals in Istanbul, Istanbul Chamber of Physicians Ethics Committee and Ministery of Health, Stem Cell Adhoc Ethics Committee in Turkey. He is also a founding and current board member of the International Dental Ethics and Law Society (IDEALS). He is now visiting IMH as a visiting scholar for a project of “Medicine in Art: In western painting tradition” and an elective course model / proposal for medical humanities curriculum on the same topic. The subtopics related for the project are; diseases (hormonal anomalies, dermatological diseases, eye diseases, rheumatism, leprosy, blindness, etc.) epidemics (specifically plague), birth scenes, patient physician relationship, disable people, treatment methods through centuries in paintings, dentistry, charlatans, dissection scenes, medical education in western paintings (specifically Italian and Dutch art).

• Rolf Ahlzen, MD, PhD (February 2011 - March 2011)

  E-mail:   rolf.ahlzen@kau.se 
  
  

  My project may be seen as the outflow of a long standing interest in the borderlands between medicine and the humanities. I have long been a member of two communities and I have had one foot solidly anchored in each of them. The one is the academic community of researchers and teachers, in areas more or less clearly related to medicine. The other is the field of medical and health care practitioners, who are more or less (usually the latter) interested in theories and abstractions concerning the philosophical and ethical foundations of their practice. And, somewhat like C.P. Snow's vision of “the two cultures” – they do not really seem to meet each other.
  
  My interests are wide ranging and my recent PhD work concerns the potential of literature to contribute to clinical skills. This is the line I would like to pursue during a stay in Galveston. I am intrigued and indeed worried, by the gap that far too often seems to exist between medical practitioners and scholars of medical humanities. Indeed, there are many encouraging exceptions. But why, may we ask, do clinicians so relatively seldom approach and learn from the undoubtedly often very practically relevant research done in medical humanities? And even more so: Why do those engaged in medical humanities so relatively seldom, if ever, try the idea that medicine, clinical medicine in particular, has something to contribute to their understanding of their fields of the humanities? That we are indeed dealing with a reciprocal relationship, where both parties could and should approach each other with humility and openness, prepared to learn from each other?
  
  Some twenty years ago, Leon Kass asked, in the Hastings Centre Review, worrying questions about the booming medical ethics business and its probably relatively small impact on actual clinical conduct. Should we ask the same question to what was, in a sense, a reply to Kass' questions: the medical humanities movement? How do we make a difference? The recent debate in Academic Medicine (2010) illuminates many of the core questions that I would like to raise and pursue. These questions of course concern medical education on all levels, but also the role of humanities in general in an era of consumerism and hard economic winds blowing in most countries' health care systems.
  
  We do need medical humanites. Urgently, more than ever. But we must - without falling into the trap of only accepting one basic kind of proof in this field, the one copied on medical evidence – find ways of reaching right into practice and show that MH makes a difference. This must mean that MH scholars are prepared to learn from practitioners and to be acquainted with their ways of thinking and acting. Medical humanities must be founded on a richer and more truthful understanding of what practical knowledge is.  This is what I plan to discuss, learn and write about during a stay in Galveston.

• Ben A. Rich, JD, PhD (November 2010 - November 2010)

  E-mail:  barich@ucdavis.edu 

   

  

  Ben A. Rich is School of Medicine Alumni Association Endowed Chair of Bioethics at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. Prior to becoming an academic bioethicist he was an attorney specializing in health care and higher education law in North Carolina and then Colorado. His academic work has been primarily in the area of end of life care, with a special focus on advance care planning, decisions to withhold and withdraw life-sustaining interventions, and the ethical, legal, and policy issues in pain management and palliative care. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Pain Foundation and the Council on Ethics of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. The working title for his sabbatical leave project, on which he will be working while at UTMB is “Suffering, Healing, and Palliative Options of Last Resort: The Clinician's Responsibility To Patients at the End of Life.” Of special interest and concern to Professor Rich in this project are contemporary controversies over the nature of human suffering in the context of advanced terminal illness, and the circumstances under which patients should be provided access to palliative sedation or, where legal, a lethal prescription. Among the related questions which he plans to explore through engagement with UTMB faculty, graduate, and professional students are: 

  • Is “existential suffering” a legitimately distinct category of human suffering that can be diagnosed and that calls for its own distinct approach to palliative interventions, or is all human suffering by its very nature existential?

  • Are there legitimate and realistic restorative goals that dying patients should be admonished to and supported in pursuing, and how should clinicians respond when patients decline to pursue or fail to achieve such restorative goals?

  • What is the role and significance of meaning and dignity in the context of terminal illness and the process of dying?

  • Is a patient's concept of a medical fate worse than death one which palliative care professionals ought to embrace and accommodate?

  • What are the proper roles for causation and intent in ascertaining the ethical valence of acts or omissions in the care of the terminally ill or imminently dying patient?

  • What is the relevance of the proximity of death to the availability of palliative options?

• Graeme Harper, Ph.D. (October 2010 - December 2010)

  E-mail:  graeme@graemeharper.com

  Graeme Harper is Professor of Creative Writing and Honorary Research Professor in the Creative Arts, in Wales and England respectively. He has been foundation Chair of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries, and was Director of Research in the College of Arts and Humanities at Bangor University, UK, from 2007-2010. Most recently he has been Research Fellow in MARBL at Emory University and prior to that Paschal P. Vacca Distinguished Chair of Liberal Arts at the University of Montevallo, Alabama. He is currently undertaking his “creative habitats” project, an investigation of the creation of personal and cultural domains that support human creativity and “creative benefaction”, while also completing his new novel, Medicine (Parlor, 2011). Both of these he will be developing at UTMB. His previous work includes such works as Signs of Life: Cinema and Medicine (2005), edited with A.Moor and, as Brooke Biaz, Moon Dance (2010), a novel about birth and the space race. He holds doctorates from the University of East Anglia, UK, and the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

• Frances Rapport, Ph.D., M.Phil., B.A. (July 2009 - November 2009 and September 2010 - October 2010)

  E-mail:  rappaport@tarleton.edu

  Frances Rapport is a social scientist with a background in the Arts. She is Professor of Qualitative Health Research at the School of Medicine, Swansea University, UK, and Head of the Qualitative Research Unit. Frances also holds the position of Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University, UK, is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her research interests include: innovative methodological approaches to qualitative health research, advances in the field of qualitative methodology in healthcare and the social sciences and Assisted Reproductive Technology Medicine. Frances has written extensively about the scope of New Qualitative Methodologies for research in the health services and is currently exploring ‘within-method' approaches to health professionals' and patients' reflections on inhabited workspaces and patient-centred professionalism. Frances is also working on developing ethnographic poetic representations of Holocaust survivors' testimonials to present their views on health and wellbeing in relation to this extraordinary event. 
  
  Whilst at the Institute of Medical Humanities at UTMB, Galveston, Frances will be developing a joint research application around comparisons between UK and US family practitioners in terms of patient-professional communication in the workplace and practitioners' sense of self in relation to patient-centred care and professionalism.

• Charles McClelland, PhD (September 2010 - April 2011)

  E-mail:  cemcc@unm.edu 

  Charles E. McClelland comes to the Institute as a continuation of his extensive research interests. Since becoming Professor Emeritus (History) at the University of New Mexico (UNM), during the last decade he served as a Fellow of the Fulbright program and then of the German Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation in Berlin. He has also been a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the (Princeton) Institute for Advanced Study. He was a cofounder of the German Studies Association of the United States, Director of European Studies at UNM and President of the American Association of University Professors in New Mexico for many years, among other professional activities. 
  
  Having grown up in Galveston, Dr. McClelland went on to earn his bachelor's degree from Princeton and his doctorate from Yale before teaching history at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, UNM and the (Humboldt) University of Berlin. He speaks and reads 12 modern languages and has traveled extensively in Latin America and Europe. 
  
  Published by major American and European academic presses and journals, Dr. McClelland's numerous books and articles have often pursued questions about the sociology of knowledge: how do scientists, scholars and other modern professional leaders know what they claim they know? Much of his work has focused on the rise of “professional” and “expert” knowledge in modern European and North American societies. His books include the (now classic) study of the rise of the modern German university system (a leading model for America), as well as a unique study of the professionalization struggles of German and other European artists in the past two centuries. His contribution to the massive bicentennial history of the University of Berlin is appearing along with five companion volumes during 2010-11. 
  
  Dr. McClelland will bring his experience with European universities, medical schools and museums to bear as a member of the task force designing a medical-history museum in UTMB's original (1891) Ashbel Smith Building, “Old Red.” He will also lead an advanced seminar (Spring 2011) on the comparative history of medical professionalization and ethics in the Institute for the Medical Humanities. He is looking forward to interacting with members of the IMH faculty and with graduate students and his fellow visiting scholars.

• Michael Collins, PhD (June 2010 - August 2010)

  E-mail:  mikecollins3000@msn.com

  Michael Collins, an Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University, will be working during his stay at UTMB on two books. The first (under contract with the University of South Carolina Press) explores the challenge to American conceptions of deviance and criminality posed by the work of the late Etheridge Knight, an African American poet who published his first book while serving an eight-year prison sentence. The subject of the second book is the “God Point,” which Collins defines as the limit of human cognition--the limit of the human capacity to separate information from noise. (Noise in turn is defined to include misinformation). The authors Collins focuses on in the second book are those who depict the ways and means of misinformation and other noise production--and the ways and means of progress away from noise toward the “God Point.” Essays that are the basis for the two books have appeared in PMLA, Modern Philology, and other journals.

   

• Mahala Yates Stripling, PhD (May 2010 - May 2010)

  E-Mail:  DrRhetoric@aol.com 
  URL:  www.medicalhumanities.net

  Mahala Yates Stripling is an independent scholar with a background in rhetoric who is writing Imagine a Man: the Surgeon Storyteller, a literary biography of Richard Selzer, M.D. She has finished Part I, “Reinventing his Life,” and while in residence at The Institute for the Medical Humanities will do extensive research in the Selzer Archive, Truman G. Blocker, Jr., History of Medicine Collections, Moody Medical Library, for Part II, “Living by his Wits Alone.” Her work examines the life and writings of one of the finest writers of short prose in English. First as a surgeon, he confronted the vast expanse of illness and disease; then as a writer, beginning full-time in 1985, he flowered in an entirely new way, describing the profound humanity of his patients in fictional stories. He is giving the evolving canon of literature and medicine a new language for our time. Stripling is the author of Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature, Greenwood Press, 2005. 

   

• Jerome Crowder, PhD (January 2010 - August 2010)

  E-mail:  jecrowde@utmb.edu

  Dr. Crowder comes to the Institute for Medical Humanities as an Assistant Research Professor in Anthropology and Assistant Dean for Technology and Communication in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. He has been a Principal Investigator with the Abramson Center for the Future of Health as well as Associate Director of Visual Studies at the University of Houston. He is trained as a medical anthropologist (PhD Anthropology, Pitt 1998) and has ongoing research projects in east Houston, studying the use of technology in underserved communities, as well as in La Paz, Bolivia, investigating the processes of migration and urbanization on health decision making strategies. While at the Institute Crowder will complete several articles that are “in the works” regarding medical and visual anthropology in Perú and Bolivia as well as continue writing his book on using technology in qualitative inquiry. He offered a class over the summer on this theme while in residence.

• Sabine Arnaud, PhD (January 2010 - May 2010)

  E-mail:  sarnaud75@googlemail.com

  

  Sabine Arnaud is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of French Studies at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on the production and diffusion of medical knowledge between 1670 and 1820 and intertwines methodologies of literary criticism, history of medicine, and epistemology. Her interest in tracing the circulation of medical categories has been informed by an academic background in Aesthetics, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and History and Civilizations.

  While in residence at The Institute for the Medical Humanities, she is working on a monograph entitled "Narratives and Politics of a Diagnosis: The Construction and Circulation of the Category of Hysteria in France and England 1730-1820." This work examines how perceptions of hysteria are displaced and recalled across literary, medical and political texts a century before the advent of psychoanalysis. It analyzes the use of imaginings and writing techniques in the production and the diffusion of knowledge. The monograph will further an approach developed while editing and writing the introduction for La Philosophie des Vapeurs, released by Mercure de France, and preparing articles published by journals including Gesnerus, Annales, and Dix-Huitième Siècle.

• Leah DeVun, PhD (September 2008- December 2008)

  E-mail:  devun@tamu.edu

  Leah DeVun focuses on the history of science and the history of gender, sex, and sexuality in medieval and early modern Europe. She also studies the legacy of these concepts in the modern world. Her current project is Enter Sex: Science, Hermaphrodites, and the Demands of Difference, which examines the history of sex difference by looking at how scientists and physicians have conceived of biological sex -- particularly through their approaches to intersex -- in the past and present. During her fellowship period at the IMH (fall semester of 2008), she is completing an article entitled “Cures and Closures: Surgery, Intersex, and the Demands of Difference,” which is drawn from a chapter of her book project. She is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University, and she is the author of Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time (forthcoming from Columbia University Press). She also writes about feminism and culture for a number of popular magazines.

• Kenneth Kipnis, PhD (September 2008 - May 2009)

  E-mail:  kkipnis@hawaii.edu

  Kenneth Kipnis is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has written extensively on ethics in health care, including disaster medicine, the treatment of low-birthweight infants, breaching confidentiality, the surgical "normalization" of infants with ambiguous genitalia and the foundations of professional ethics. He has taught medical ethics for over 30 years and has done clinical ethics consultation and expert ethics testimony.

• David Michael Adams, PhD MLS (September 2007 - November 2007)

  E-mail:  dmadams@csupomona.edu

  During his stay at the Institute, Dr. Adams worked on several projects in the area of clinical ethics, each one exploring the role and purpose of “ethicists” and of ethics consultation in the clinical setting. One project investigated the role of consensus formation as a way of imparting moral authority to the process of ethics consultation, while another critically examined claims that philosophical methods of analysis have a distinctive role to play in resolving moral dilemmas at the bedside; a third project in the history of bioethics argued for a revised understanding of the moral demands in medical practice which brought philosophers, theologians, and other “outsiders” into the clinic, and from which contemporary “bioethics” is said to have emerged. Dr. Adams is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington, and Stanford University. He is currently doing graduate work in bioethics and health policy at Loyola University of Chicago.

• Rebecca Laroche, PhD (January 2007 - August 2007)

  E-mail:  rlaroche@uccs.edu

  During her time with the Institute, Dr. Rebecca Laroche completed her current book manuscript, Herbal Rhetoric: Englishwomen's Texts and Medical Authority, 1550-1650, and submitted it for possible publication. Her research in part demonstrates that women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries owned large and expensive volumes of medical texts and wrote on and about these texts with authority. In addition to UTMB's support of this portion of her work, the entire project on women's writing in the context of herbal practice has received support from the Huntington, Folger Shakespeare, and Yale Beinecke Libraries. Along with working with graduate students in their research interests, she also presented two papers, "'Helpes in their own fieldes and gardens': Women's ownership of English herbals, 1550-1700" and "Rosemary, Roses, and Borage: One woman's herbalism in seventeenth-century England."

• Jurate Sakalys, Ph.D., R.N. (March 2006 - April 2006)

  E-mail:  Jurate.Sakalys@ucdenver.edu

  Dr. Sakalys is a professor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing in Colorado. During her stay with the Insitute, Dr. Sakalys studied the concept of patient autonomy and presented a lecture to the UTMB community titled "Being in right relationship with our patients: Paradoxes and questions." She also participated in courses related to literature and medicine.

  
  Dr. Sakalys has taught at all levels of nursing education, directed curriculum/ program development and evaluation projects, conducted educational research, and held positions in higher education administration. Her nursing scholarship has focused on the human experiences of health-illness, theory development, narrative therapeutics and narrative inquiry. 
  
  PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION: 
  Ph.D. - University of Denver, Higher Education Administration and Clinical Psychology, 1982 
  
  M.S. - University of California–San Francisco Medical-Surgical Nursing, 1965 
  
  B.S. - University of Illinois – Chicago Nursing, 1964 
  
  SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS: 
  Visiting Scholar-University of Texas Medical Branch, Institute for the Medical Humanities Spring, 2006 
  
  Dean's Award for Faculty Leadership UCHSC College of Nursing, 1996, 2000, 2004 
  
  Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching UCHSC College of Nursing, 1972, 1995 
  
  Chancellor's Teaching Recognition Award UCHSC, 1992

• Meredith Raimondo, Ph.D. (September 2005 - January 2006)

  E-mail:   meredith.raimondo@oberlin.edu

  Meredith is an Assistant Professor of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. She is working on a manuscript which uses theoretical frameworks from media studies, cultural geography, and the history of public health explore representations of the geography of the AIDS epidemic in the United States. It traces the contours and shifting scale of narratives that track the gendered and racialized movement of HIV around the globe and within the nation, from research into its “origin” to its movement in rural areas. In addition, Dr. Raimondo is working on an essay which analyzes photographs of President Bush's 2002 trip to five African nations to think through human rights and the militarization of global health discourse.

• Kimberley Green Weathers, Ph.D. (July 2005 - September 2005)

  E-mail:  bwkw@ev1.net

  Kimberley Green Weathers is an adjunct member of the University of Maryland-University College faculty. The focus of her work at the Institute is a history of national health insurance in the United States. This study will bring together the social and political elements of the story and provide historical perspective for the current debate. Dr. Weathers holds degrees from Stephen F. Austin State University (BA) and the University of Houston (MA, PhD).

  
  

• Laura Hermer, JD, LLM (September 2004 - August 2005)

  E-mail:  ldhermer@utmb.edu

  Ms. Hermer is a health care attorney and policy analyst who specializes in issues impacting access to health care in the United States. While at the Institute, Ms. Hermer is completing a study of U.S. health care access from a patient-centered perspective. The study provides an overview and analysis of the different legal and economic means by which most Americans obtain access to medical care. It offers suggestions for improving each while maintaining the present system largely intact, as well as a proposal for modifying the system to provide cost-effective primary care access for all U.S. residents. Ms. Hermer is additionally an adjunct member of the Institute. In this capacity, she is working with both the graduate students and medical students in fall 2004, co-teaching bioethics and Texas health policy, respectively, and teaching a seminar on health policy in the spring.

• Hannah Landecker, PhD (January 2004 - June 2004)

  E-mail:  landecker@soc.ucla.edu

  While at the institute, she is working on a project that examines the changing human relationship to living matter in an age of biotechnology. Through a history of the technical manipulation of living cells, she looks at how biological things, including those made with human tissues, have been turned into tools and commercial objects. She is also working on developing new methods and curricula for teaching the history and social study of biotechnology to undergraduates. Dr. Landecker has degrees from the Program in Science, Technology and Society at MIT (PhD), and the University of British Columbia (BSc).  Dr. Landecker is an Associate Professor at UCLA.

• Stephen Pemberton, PhD (January 2004 - March 2004)

  E-mail:  stephen.pemberton@njit.edu

  Dr. Pemberton is a historian of medicine and Assistant Professor in the Federated Department of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology - Rutgers University, Newark. He is writing a book about the history of hemophilia in the United States, entitled Passport to Normality: Hemophilia and the Ironies of Biomedical Progress in the Twentieth Century. As an IMH visiting scholar, Dr. Pemberton investigated hemophilia's history as a sex-linked disorder, and how that history has impacted efforts by hematologists and other medical professionals to manage this disease. His training in history (MA/PhD) and philosophy (MA) informs his work, as does his past professional experience working at the Medical School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 

• Jean Brink, PhD (September 2003 - November 2003)

   

  E-mail:  Unknown

  Dr. Brink came to the Institute from the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, where she is a research scholar. Her project, "Death Watch: The ‘Good Death' Reconsidered," examines the ars moriendi (arts of dying) historically and as a contemporary cultural phenomenon. At the Institute her research has focused on a cost/benefit analysis of hospice as a social movement and has included personal narratives and interviews with hospice workers. Dr. Brink has degrees from Northwestern (BA), Harvard (MA), and Wisconsin (PhD). She formerly taught Shakespeare and Milton at Arizona State University (1974-2002) where she founded and directed the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She is the author of Michael Drayton Revisited (1990) and has published biographical articles on Edmund Spenser as well as studies of Elizabethan culture.

• Lun Li, PhD (July 2003 - June 2004)

  E-mail:  Unknown

  Dr. Lun Li is associate professor at the Institute of Ethics, Hunan Normal University, China. Before he came to us, he is research ethics fellow of Harvard School of Public Health. He taught at Central South University Xiang-Ya School of Medicine (then Hunan Medical University) in 1991-1999. He launched Chinese Bioethics Website (http://www.chinaethics.net) in 1999 and co-launched a bioethics library project in 2000. His current interest includes bioethics and cyberethics. In 2002-2004, he is doing a research project entitled "Influence of Japanese Criminal Human Experiments in China 1931-1945 and the American Cover-up on Postwar Research Ethics in China." His project at IMH is "Ethical Responsibilities in Biomedical Research in the Context of Immoral Societies: Reflections on Japanese Medical Atrocity in China 1932-45."

• Alex Lubet, PhD (July 2003 - August 2003)

  E-mail:  lubet001@umn.edu

  Dr. Lubet came to us from Minneapolis, Minnesota where he is the Morse Alumni distinguished Teaching Professor of Music and an Adjunct Professor of American and Jewish Studies . His work here involved Disability Studies and Performing Arts Medicine.
  
  
  
  

• Albin Eser, JD, PhD (January 2002 - March 2002)

  Professor Dr.Albin Eser came to the Institute from Freiburg, Germany. He was born in Bavaria and studied law at the University of Berlin. The practice of law was his work from 1958 - 1964, during which time he spen a year as a Fellow at the Institute of Comparative Law of New York University, conculding with the M.C.M. degree. Now, Professor Dr. Eser is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, a member of the Board of Directors of the Centre for Ethics and Law in Medicine, University of Freiburg, and Chairman of Committee on Investigating Manipulations of Research Papers and Medical Publications. His project was "Misconduct in Medical Research" while he was at IMH. We were honored to have Profesor Dr. Eser and his wife visit us for 2 months in 2002. He also presented a Colloquium, totled "Misconduct in Science: A German Lesson" while he was with us.

• E. Haavi Morreim, PhD (October 2002 - November 2002)

  Dr. Morreim is a professor of bioethics at the College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Much of her work has been interdisciplinary, and she has written a number of articles at the intersection of law, medicine, economics, and ethics. Her project at IMH was "Emerging Litigation Issues in Human Clinical Research Trials," an exploration of the ways in which courts and the common law are ill-prepared to address the distinctive issues that arise in clinical research.
  
  

• Ivan Crozier, Ph.D. (October 2001 - November 2001)

  Dr. Crozier came to the Institute from London, England. He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at Unvsity College, London. While visiting at the Institute, he worked on his project titled: "Pillow Talk: Some Issues of Trust and Credibility in Sexology." 
  
  UPDATE 12/04/03: 
  Dr.Crozier is now a lecturer in the Science Studies Unit at Edinburgh University. He has finished the book manuscript he was researching for during his visit to the Institute.
  
  
  

• Susanna Gilbert, PhD (January 2002 - April 2002)

  Dr. Gilbert came to us from Berkeley, California. She received her BA at Yale University and her MA ang PhD at UC, Santa Barbara - all degrees in English. She presented a Colloquium during her stay at the Institute titled "I Scream the Body Electric": Mark O'Brien's Cyborg Voice. Her topic of research during her stay at IMH was "In Your Face: Figuring the Disfigured Face in American Culture and Literature."

• Jean Maria Arrigo, Ph.D. (April 2003 - April 2003)

  Dr. Arrigo is a social psychologist who focuses on epistemology and ethics of military intelligence. She presented to IMH "A Consequentialist Argument against Torture Interrogation of Terrorist Suspects" and a critique of the Final Report of the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. Cheryl Kaplan, Director of UTMB Theatre Outreach and Education, directed Arrigo's play, The People Who Disappeared Twice—a Cold War tale of weapons experiments in testimony, myth, and song—with music by John Crigler.

• Amy Fairchild, PhD, MPH

  E-mail:  alf4@columbia.edu

   Fairchild's project while at IMH was “Community and Confinement: The Evolving Experience of Isolation for Leprosy in Carville, Louisiana,” which considered patients' role in shaping a federal institution from 1920 through 1950 as their sense of themselves as a community grew and then faded.
  
  Dr. Fairchild is Department Chair, Sociomedical Sciences, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, and Assistant Director for Scholarly and Academic Affairs,Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
  
  Dr. Fairchild is a historian researching the broad social forces that produce disease and shape public health policy and a public health policy analyst focused on dilemmas in the ethics and politics of contemporary debates. Guided by the understanding that history and policy do not simply represent two different worlds, she fuses these frameworks of analysis, crafting a new, historically grounded way of thinking critically about problems in a professional field. Her work's central intellectual theme has been to explore the functions and limits of the State, particularly when it seeks to address health issues that touch on groups marginalized by virtue of disease, class, and race. Fairchild's book, Science at the Borders is a revisionist history uncovering the ways that the machinery of processing unskilled immigrant laborers at the nation's borders in the early 1900's helped to define inclusion into industrial citizenship, the state, and social power. Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State and Disease Surveillance in America focuses on policy challenges that arise when it becomes necessary to report the names of individuals with disease. Written with Ronald Bayer and James Colgrove, Searching Eyes sets controversies over surveillance for diseases and conditions, including tuberculosis, venereal disease, birth defects, occupational disease, cancer, vaccination status, and HIV against the backdrop of the changing social, political, and personal meanings of privacy. Dr. Fairchild teaches a History and Policy seminar and co-teaches the Department's core course. In 2003, she was the recipient of Columbia University's Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.

• Danna Drori, J.D., M.St. (October 2001 - November 2001)

  Danna Drori came to Galveston from New York, after completing a clerkship for the Honorable Denise Cote in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and prior to commencing employment as an Assistant United States Attorney, also in the Southern District of NewYork. She received her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University in New Haven and a Masters in Women's Health from St. John's College at Oxford University in England. Her project while at the Institute was entitled: "Embattled Bodies: Finding Voice in the Medical Context."

• Carroll Parrott Blue, MFA (May 2001 - June 2001)

  Biography 
  Professor Blue came to us from the Schol of Communication at San Diego State University, San Diego, California. She is an artist that has produced, directed, and written many short films and documentary films. Her project for her stay here was "Grief Recycled: An Exploration into Death's Impact and The Subsequent Healing of Grief" 
  
  Update 12/03/03: 
  The Dawn At My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing, a 21st Century Book Prototype, premieres at the January 15 - 24, 2004 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
  The book is available through the University of Texas Press' Constructs Series; the DVD-ROM through the University of Southern California/Annenberg Center for Communication's Labyrinth Project; and the Website will come from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Center for Reflective Community Practice's StoryLink Project and Picture Projects in March 2004. Dawn's Website will host and archive mother-and-daughter dialogues for community use. The Website premieres March 2004 at www.dawnatmyback.com. 
  
  Carroll Parrott Blue is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, writer and San Diego State University professor. Her award-winning films include Nigerian Art-Kindred Spirits, Mystery of the Senses: Vision, Varnette's World: A Study of a Young Artist, and Conversations with Roy DeCarava. She also worked with the late filmmaker Marlon Riggs on Black Is & Black Ain't and on the PBS-TV series, "Eyes on the Prize". The Dawn At My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing, a 21st Century Book Prototype, is her first book.

• Ruth Cecire, PhD (June 2002 - November 2002)

  Dr. Cecire received her PhD in Religion and Social Ethics from the University of Southern California. Before returning to academe, she served as Director of the Office of Special Projects for Correctional Health at the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Her current projects include an examination of the meanings and implications of the health/punishment interface, a feminist analysis of the specific implications of punishment-linked beneficence for women, and an exploration of the ethics of inmate participation in clinical research focusing on issues of equity and coercion.
  
  

• Monica Maillet, PhD (September 1999 - December 1999)

  "Nearing the End of Life Through Performance" was the topic of Dr. Maillet's proposal. She presented a special workshop titled, "Medicine, Metaphor, and MacBeth." This workshop looked at at the subtle ways in which values about health, illness, and the body can often be articulated in cultural texts.

• Jennifer Greene, PhD (June 2001 - July 2001)

  Dr. Greene came to us from Austin, Texas, where she teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas. Her dissertation was on "Coercion, Choice and Constraint" which she completed in 1994. Jennifer Greene's areas of specialization are ethics, applied ethics, social and political philosophy, and history of philosophy. Her project was "Privacy in the Twenty-First Century."

• Chris Hackler, PhD (February 2001 - May 2001)

  E-mail:  hacklerchris@uams.edu

  Dr. Chris Hacklet came to us from the University of Arkansas College of Medicine, Division of Medical Humanities and is studying the social implications of genetically altering the rate of human aging. His goal for the residency period here is to publish a paper establishing the importance of this topic in the medical humanities and a possible grant proposal to fund a multidisciplinary conference on the subject.

  Chris Hackler joined the faculty of the UAMS College of Medicine in 1982 as the first director of the new Division of Medical Humanities. He came from East Tennessee State University, where he chaired the Department of Philosophy and taught in the Department of Family Practice. After graduating with High Honors from Hendrix College and studying in Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship, he received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina. He has also received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (Brown University) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (Indiana University). He was Sealy & Smith/NEH Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 2001.

  Dr. Hackler was active in the Society for Health and Human Values until it merged in 1998 with two other organizations to form the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). He was elected Chair of the Association of Faculty in the Medical Humanities in 1991. He served on the governing board of the Society and edited its newsletter Of Value from 1992 to 1998. He received the Society's Distinguished Service Award in 1996.   After the merger, he served as the first editor of ASBH Exchange, a quarterly publication.

  Dr. Hackler has lectured at medical schools and college campuses around the country and abroad. From 1996-2008 he was a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow of the Council of Independent Colleges, spending a week each year in residence at participating liberal arts colleges teaching classes in various departments and meeting with faculty and student groups.

  Recent publications include an edited book and articles in various medical and legal journals on the topic of advance directives and end-of-life decisions, and a second edited book and set of articles on rationing and health care reform in the context of an aging population. He is currently working on social issues in the use of genetic and reproductive technologies. Of special interest is the possibility of genetically extending the human life span.

• Eunice Pollack, PhD (January 2001 - April 2001)

  E-mail: 

  Received her PhD in American History from Columbia University in 1999 and is working on turning her dissertation into a book. Dr. Pollack is using her time here to work on this book, which explores the psychodynamics of American working-class and lower-middle-class families in the twentieth century. Dr. Pollack's project was "Haunted Households: Angst, Anger, and Eros in American Working-Class and Lower Middle-Class Families, 1900-1970."

• Julie Reichert, PhD (December 1999 - April 2000)

  E-mail:  julia.reichert@wright.edu

  While at the IMH as a Visiting Scholar, Dr. Reichert taught a course in the Medical Humanities graduate program titled "Creativity, Meaning, and the End of Life."  She is a published writer and teacher of creative writing, Dr. Reichert feels strongly that "it is important for the medical community to recognize and support ill and dying people as whole persons rather than as cases or diagnoses."

   

  Reichert is a two-time Academy Award Nominee for Best Feature Documentary for Seeing Red and Union Maids. These films and two others, Growing Up Female and Methadone - An American Way Of Dealing, all screened nationally in the U.S. on PBS. Reichert wrote, produced and directed the feature film Emma & Elvis (which screened at numerous international film festivals), and produced (with Steven Bognar) The Dream Catcher, a feature film directed by Ed Radtke. The Dream Catcher has screened in over 20 international film festivals, won numerous awards and is seen on the Sundance Channel.

  Parallel to her filmmaking career, Julia Reichert has worked for years building the independent film community. Filmmaker Magazine recently named her one of the godmothers of American Independent film. On a national level, Reichert co-founded New Day Films, a distribution co-operative for independent films, and The Film Fund, a foundation that supported the making of social issue media, and which led to the creation of the Independent Feature Project. Reichert is also Professor of Motion Pictures at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

  Reichert has written for the Independent Film & Video Monthly, authored the classic Doing It Yourself, A Handbook on Independent Film Distribution, and a chapter of With Both Eyes Open, Seeing Beyond Gender, edited by Johnson and Kalvern.

  Reichert's work has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the American Film Institute, ITVS and several corporations. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship and with Steven Bognar is a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, and has received support from the Ohio Arts Council and the MacDowell Colony.

   

• Leigh Turner, PhD (September 1999 - December 1999)

   E-mail:  turne462@umn.edu

  While a Visiting Scholar, Dr. Turner worked on his research concerning "Cultural Diversity, Practical Moral Reasoning, and the Care of the Dying."

  Leigh Turner is currently a Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics, School of Public Health, and College of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota. In addition, he is a Member of the Global Health concentration within the Consortium for the Study of the Asias. Before arriving at the University of Minnesota in July 2008 Turner was Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Biomedical Ethics Unit and Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. From 1998-2000 Turner was Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and clinical ethicist at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre. From 1996-1997 Turner was Research Associate at The Hastings Center. In 1996 Turner received his PhD from the School of Religion & Social Ethics at the University of Southern California. His doctoral dissertation explored ethical issues and health policy challenges in multicultural societies.

  Turner has held visiting appointments at several institutions. In 2006-2007 Turner was Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Comparative Program on Health and Society, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. From 2003 to 2004 Turner was a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. In 1999 Turner was Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas.

  With Raymond De Vries, Kristina Orfali, and Charles Bosk, Turner edited The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). His articles have appeared in such publications as BioSocieties, British Medical Journal, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, and Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. He has also contributed to the Chronicle of Higher Education and The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and Jerusalem Post.

  Turner’s current research is situated at the intersection of global health ethics and transnational health policy. In particular, Turner is examining ethical issues related to medical travel and the emergence of a global marketplace in health services. His research program includes ethical and social analysis of cross-border commercial organ transplantation, international medical travel, "stem cell tourism", “dental tourism", the establishment of bioeconomies in India and Singapore, cross-border shopping for medications, global migration of health care providers, and international trade in health services. Many of these topics are addressed in courses Turner offers through the Center for Bioethics and School of Public Health.

  Books

  De Vries, R., Turner, L, Orfali, K., Bosk, C. (Eds.), 2007. The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.  

  Selected Articles

  Crooks, V. Turner, L., Snyder, J., Johnston, R, Kingsbury, P. 2011. “Promoting Medical Tourism to India: Messages, Images and the Marketing of International Patient Travel.” Social Science and Medicine 72: 726-732.

  Turner, L. 2011.“Quality in health care and globalization of health services: accreditation and regulatory oversight of medical tourism companies.” International Journal for Quality in Health Care 23: 1-7.

  Runnels, V., Turner, L. 2011. “Bioethics and Transnational Medical Travel: India, ‘Medical Tourism’, and the Globalization of Health Care.” Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 1: 42-44.