International Health Humanities Network Membership

Catherine Belling is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University’s medical school. Her research concerns contemporary fears of health care, and relationships between anxiety, narration, and interpretation in fiction, medicine, and bioethics. A Condition of Doubt: On the Meanings of Hypochondria (Oxford, 2012), won the 2013 Kendrick Book Prize (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts). Her essay, “Narrative Oncogenesis” (Literature and Medicine (published by Johns Hopkins U Press).