International Health Humanities Network Membership

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Erin Gentry Lamb, Ph.D. is Herbert L. and Pauline Wentz Andrews Professor of Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College in Ohio. An associate professor and chair of the Biomedical Humanities department, she also serves as Director of the Center for Literature and Medicine. Her research and teaching interests include aging, death and dying, disability, bioethics, health care and social justice, and new biotechnologies, with a particular focus on the social and ethical consequences of anti-aging consumer culture and medicine and the connections between age studies and disability studies. She also works on the pedagogy of health humanities and age studies, including co-authoring a comprehensive report on Baccalaureate Health Humanities Programs in the United States, co-editing a textbook on Research Methods in the Health Humanities (Oxford, 2019), and co-editing two special issues of The Journal of Medical Humanities, one focused on “Pre-Health Humanities” (2017) and one on “Exploring the Why, What and How of Medical Humanities Pedagogy” (2013). Her scholarly work has appeared in The Journal of Medical Humanities, The Health and Humanities Reader, The International Journal of Aging and Society, and Age, Culture, Humanities. A founding member and past-chair of the North American Network in Aging Studies (NANAS), she has chaired the executive committee of the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Forum on Age Studies and the National Women’s Studies Association’s (NWSA) Aging and Ageism Caucus, and serves on the executive committee of the MLA’s Forum on Medical Humanities and Health Studies.