FARRELL, Amy | Fat Studies

Amy Farrell is Professor of American Studies and Women’s Studies at Dickinson College. She is currently working on a manuscript, Fat Shame (forthcoming 2009, New York University Press), which explores the history of fat stigma, the way that it permeates contemporary policy regarding fatness, and the myriad responses of those in the fat activist movement. She is also the author of Yours in Sisterhood: Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism (1998, University of North Carolina Press.)

HIRSH, Sharon | Tuberculosis & Body Image at the Fin-de-siecle

Prof. Hirsh is an internationally recognized scholar of turn of the century art in western Europe. She has served as a visiting curator at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and at the Schweizerische Institut für Kunstwissenschaft in Zurich. In 1998, she has served as a visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC) and as a visiting scholar at the Art Institute of Chicago. Prof. Hirsh is the author of numerous scholarly articles and exhibition catalogues and five books, including Symbolism and Modern Urban Society, Cambridge University Press (2004), and has served as president of Rosemont College since 2006.

HOEFLER, Jim | Making Right-To-Die Policy: A Special Case of Judicial Activism

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LYNN, Joanne | Living Long in Fragile Health: The New Demographics Shape End-of-Life Care

Joanne Lynn serves as a Medical Officer in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Office of Clinical Standards and Quality. Prior to this position, she was a Senior Natural Scientist with RAND and a Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth and at George Washington University. Her work focuses on improving the quality and value of care for persons facing serious, eventually fatal, chronic illness. She has published more than 250 articles and her dozen books include The Handbook for Mortals, an information and counseling guide for the public; The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care, a new self-directed instruction manual for clinicians and managers seeking to improve quality of care; and Sick to Death and Not Going to
Take it Any More! ,an action guide for policymakers and advocates seeking better ways to structure public policy for health care affecting the last years of life.

ROSE, Susan | The Sexual Politics of Abstinence-Only Programs | Violence Against Women: Global Health Issues & Trauma Narratives

Susan Rose is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Community Studies Center at Dickinson College. She received her PhD (1984) and M.A. (1982) from Cornell University, and B.A. from Dickinson College. She is author of two books: Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism (1998) and Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan: Evangelical Schooling in America (1986), as well as several articles on gender, violence, education and family.

WINTERICH, Julie | From Cure-all to Carcinogen

Julie Winterich worked as an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Dickinson College from 2002-2007. Currently she is an Assistant Professor at the Community and Family Health Department of the Medical School at Wake Forest University, where she is working on a research project based on in-depth interviews with men about prostate and colon cancer. She is working on a paper from this data on masculinity, the body, and cancer screening tests. She is also completing a book manuscript: Menopause Matters: The Politics of Hormone Drugs, Midlife Sex and Women’s Bodies, which is based on in-depth interviews with a diverse group of women by race, class, and sexual identity.