Research Methods in Health Humanities
Edited by Craig M. Klugman and Erin Gentry Lamb
Author Information
Craig Klugman, Ph.D., is Professor of Bioethics and Health Humanities at DePaul University. He serves on the ethics committee at Northwestern University Hospital. He is the author of over 450 articles, book chapters, op-eds, and blog posts on such topics as bioethics, digital medicine, professionalism, end-of-life issues, public health ethics, research ethics, education, health/medical humanities, ethics of execution, and health policy. He is the blog editor and frequent writer for bioethics.net as well as creator of the BioethicsTV column. Dr. Klugman is the editor of several books including Research Methods in the Health Humanities (Oxford University Press, 2019), Medical Ethics (Gale Cengage, 2016), and Ethical Issues in Rural Health (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013; 2008). He has been interviewed for The New York Times, AARP News, Nightline, Vice, and national radio. Besides numerous academic journals, his writing has appeared in Pacific Standard Magazine, Huffington Post, LifeMattersMedia, Chicago Tribune, Medium, Cato Unbound, The Hill, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Houston Chronicle.
Erin Gentry Lamb, Ph.D., is Herbert L. and Pauline Wentz Andrews Professor of Biomedical Humanities and Director of the Center for Literature and Medicine at Hiram College in Ohio. Her research interests focus on the social and ethical consequences of anti-aging consumer culture and medicine, ageism, the connections between age studies and disability studies, and the pedagogy of health humanities and age studies, including co-authoring a comprehensive report on Health Humanities Baccalaureate Programs in the United States and co-editing a special issue of The Journal of Medical Humanities focused on "Pre-Health Humanities" (2017). Her scholarly work has appeared in The Health and Humanities Reader, The Journal of Medical Humanities, The International Journal of Aging and Society, and Age, Culture, Humanities. A founding member of the North American Network in Aging Studies, she serves on the executive committee of the MLA's Forum on Medical Humanities and Health Studies.
Contributors:
Muna Al-Jawad, MBBS is a UK-based physician who specializes in the care of older people.
Eileen Anderson-Fye, Ph.D. is a medical and psychological anthropologist, and the founding director of the Medicine, Society, and Culture (MSC) Master's Degree track in Bioethics as Case Western Reserve University.
Dorene F. Balmer is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Director of Research on Pediatric Education at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Jay Baruch, MD is associate professor of emergency medicine at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University, where he serves as the director of the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Scholarly Concentration.
Sarah L. Berry, Ph.D. teaches at SUNY Oswego and has served as a curriculum developer and consultant in medical and pre-medical Health Humanities programs.
Claire D. Clark, Ph.D., MPH is an assistant professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky.
Siobhan M. Conaty, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Art History at La Salle University.
Allison Crawford, MD, Ph.D. is a psychiatrist and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, where she holds cross-appointments in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Department of English.
Jerome Crowder, Ph.D. is a medical and visual anthropologist who has worked in Bolivia, Peru, Houston, and Galveston, and is associate professor at the Institute for Medical Humanities, UTMB.
Tayla Curran, MS, serves as the program coordinator for the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.
MK Czerwiec, RN, MA is a US-based nurse and comics artist who specializes in hospice and palliative care, with a history in HIV/AIDS care.
Peggy L. Determeyer, Ph.D. MDiv, MBA, BCC, is the McGee Fellow and Director of the Community Bioethics and Aging Center at the Hope and Healing Center & Institute in Houston, Texas and is a retired critical care chaplain.
Rebecca Garden, Ph.D. is an associate professor of public health and preventive medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
Deepthiman Gowda, MD, MPH, MS is an associate professor of Medicine at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, practices general internal medicine and serves on the New York City Board of Health.
Vanessa M. Hildebrand, Ph.D. is a medical anthropologist, associate professor at Ohio Wesleyan University, and president of the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR).
Craig M. Klugman, Ph.D. is a professor of bioethics and health humanities in the department of Health Sciences at DePaul University, serves on the clinical ethics committee at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is the blog editor of the American Journal of Bioethics' bioethics.net.
Erin Gentry Lamb, Ph.D. is Herbert L. and Pauline Wentz Andrews Professor of Biomedical Humanities and Director of the Center for Literature and Medicine at Hiram College in Ohio.
Kirsten Ostherr, Ph.D., MPH is the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Sylvia Pamboukian, Ph.D. is a professor of English at Robert Morris University where she teaches courses in literature and medicine and in British literature.
Rose Richards, Ph.D. manages the research portfolio and the Writing Lab at the Language Centre at Stellenbosch University. She is the author of Writing The Other Self: Autoethnography and the Problem of Objectification in Writing About Illness and Disability.
Amy Rubens, Ph.D is associate professor of English and Assistant Director of Curriculum for the Virginia Residential Governor's School for the Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts at Radford University. She conducts research in medical humanities, business writing, and writing in digital environments.
Lise Saffran, MFA, MPH is the Director of the Master of Public Health program at the University of Missouri where she teaches Storytelling in Public Health and Policy. She is the author of literary and scholarly essays on imagination and narrative in public health and the novel Juno's Daughters (Penguin/Plume 2011).
Lorenzo Servitje, Ph.D. is assistant professor of literature and medicine in the department of English and the Health, Medicine, and Society program at Lehigh University. He is co-editor of The Walking Med: Zombies and the Medical Image, Endemic: Essays in Contagion Theory, and Syphilis and Subjectivity.
Stacey Springs, MS, Ph.D. is an Investigator in the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health at the Brown University School of Public Health and research integrity officer at Harvard University. She is an AHRQ K12 Scholar in Comparative Effectiveness/Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.
Anita Wohlmann, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Literature and Narrative Medicine at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
