Acknowledgments

For the many valuable suggestions they made as we were working on this book, we wish to express our deepest gratitude to Staige D. Blackford, Diana Festa-McCormick, Robert J. Glaser, M.D., Helen H. Glaser, M.D., Laurence Goldstein, Raymond C. La Charité, Paul E. Molumphy, M. D., Henri Peyre, Sharon Romm, M. D., Nathan N. Rosen, and Richard Selzer, M D. We also wish to thank Bettyann Kevles, our editor at the University of California Press, for her enthusiasm, support, and very sensitive and helpful advice.

Some chapters of this book first appeared in somewhat different form in the following journals: chapter 2, "My Cadaver: Case History, Literary Histories," Medical Heritage in press; chap-

ter 3, "'But What If She Should Die?'—Case Histories, Literary Histories—A Discussion of Maternal Death in Childbirth," The Pharos 44, no. 1 (Winter 1981); chapter 4, "Ritual and the Death Certificate: Case Histories, Literary Histories," The Pharos 46, no. 2 (Spring 1983); chapter 5, The Tubercular Patient in Art and in Life: Literary History, Case History," Medical Heritage I, no. 6 (Nov—Dec. 1985); chapter 6, "Aberrant Medical Humor: Case Histories, Literary Histories," The Pharos 48, no. 1 (Winter 1985); chapter 7, "When a Doctor Hates a Patient: Case History, Literary Histories," Michigan Quarterly Review XXIII, no. 3 (Summer 1984); chapter 9, "'Am I in Heaven Now?': Case History, Literary Histories," Soundings LXVI, no. 4 (Winter 1983); chapter 10, "The Survivor: Case History, Literary Histories," Medical Heritage I, no. 1 (Jan—Feb. 1985).