International Health Humanities Network Membership

Thomas Lawrence Long, associate professor-in-residence in the School of Nursing at the University of Connecticut, is the author of The Meaning Management Challenge: Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease (2010). He has contributed chapters to the edited collections The Meaning Management Challenge: Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease (2010), Inner Space, Outer Space: Humanities, Technology, and the Postmodern World (1993). His chapters or articles on topics in medical humanities have been included in African American National Biography (2010), Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (2006), Encyclopedia of Religious Rituals (2004), including articles on Cotton Mather and William Byrd II. Forthcoming publications include an article on medical dissent in the writing of Samuel R. Delany and an article on the AIDS apocalypticism of Diamanda Galas and David Wojnarowicz. He is a founding member of the Humanities and Medicine Faculty Study Group of the UConn Humanities Institute.