International Health Humanities Network Membership

An interdisciplinary, medical-humanist scholar, Dr. Schillace writes about cultural production, history of science, and intersections of medicine and literature. She is the managing editor of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, an international journal of cross-cultural health research and a guest curator and blogger for the Dittrick Medical History Museum. Dr. Schillace also manages the Fiction Reboot and Daily Dose blogs and is Chair of Communications for Death Salon, a conference featuring conversations on mortality and mourning. Her research and writing span these interests; in addition to multiple published research articles, she has recently been asked to write a book on mourning practices for a more general audience. Dr. Schillace was the keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of Health Sciences 2013, and is the recent recipient of the Chawton House Library Fellowship (for study of 18^th century women writers) and the Wood Institute travel grant from the Philadelphia College of Physicians. Dr. Schillace also leads medical humanities conferences for Inter-disciplinary.net, Making Sense of Pain and Probing the Boundaries of Reproduction.