Edited by Olivia Banner, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, Nathan Carlin, Associate Professor, McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and Thomas R. Cole, McGovern Chair in Medical Humanities and Director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Olivia Banner is Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her scholarship and teaching, grounded in critical race, disability, and feminist studies, encompass cultural studies of digital and data cultures, with a particular focus on medicine, health, and media.

Nathan Carlin is an Associate Professor and the holder of the Samuel Karff Chair in the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), where he directs the Medical Humanities and Ethics Certificate Program for medical students. Dr. Carlin has published over 100 chapters, articles, book reviews, and commentaries. He also is the author or the co-author of five previous books.

Thomas R. Cole is Professor and Director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. His body of work—in books, films and articles—ranges from the cultural history of aging and humanistic gerontology to civil rights history, life story writing, and medical/health humanities. His work has been featured at the United Nations, on NPR, and at the President's Council for Bioethics.

Michael Blackie, Ph.D., is Visiting Associate Professor of Health Humanities in the Department of Medical Education in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Marcia Brennan is Professor of Art History and Religious Studies at Rice University, and Artist in Residence in the Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Maria de Bruyn, a medical anthropologist, works on patient choice in medical care and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in developing countries.

Andrea Charise is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health & Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Sayantani DasGupta, M.D., M.P.H., teaches at the Master's Program in Narrative Medicine, the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Center for the Study and Ethnicity, all at Columbia University.

Lisa Diedrich is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University.

Rebecca Garden, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY.

Amy Marie Haddad is Professor and the Dr. C. C. and Mabel L. Criss Endowed Chair in the Health Sciences at Creighton University.

John Hoberman is a medical historian who works in two primary areas: the history
of male hormone therapies and human enhancements, and the racial dimension of
medicine, including medical racism.

Rachel Ingold is Curator of the History of Medicine Collections in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.

Therese (Tess) Jones is Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities (CBH) and Director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

David Kline is a lecturer in religious studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Arno Kumagai is Professor of Medicine and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Craig Klugman is Professor of Bioethics and Health Humanities in the Department of Health Sciences at DePaul University.

Alex Lubet is Morse Alumni/Graduate & Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music and an Affiliate Faculty member of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota.

Jarah Moesch is a postdoctoral scholar and Associate Director of Design Cultures and Creativity at the University of Maryland.

Kirsten Ostherr is the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Susan Pacheco is Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pulmonary Medicine in the McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.

Nicole Piemonte is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Education at Creighton University School of Medicine and Academic Consultant at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Arizona.

Keisha Ray is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University.

Kearsley A. Stewart is Professor of the Practice at Duke University with joint appointments in the Duke Global Health Institute and Department of Cultural Anthropology.

Kelley Swain works at the crossroads of literature and science, writing science poetry and literature reviews, and teaching medical humanities.

Melinda McGarrah Sharp is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia.

Delese Wear is Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Northeast Ohio Medical University.

Joseph Zarconi, M.D., is Professor and Chairman of Internal Medicine, Senior Associate Dean for Health Affairs, and Clinical Director for Health Humanities Education at the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) College of Medicine in Rootstown, Ohio.