Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease

Peter L. Twohig and Vera Kalizkus co-edited Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease (Rodopi, 2004), a companion volume to this collection.
Dr Twohig is Canada Research Chair, Saint Mary's University (Halifax, NS, Canada) where he specializes in studies of health and medicine. His research explores changing ideas of professional identity and clinical practice, focusing recently on the rise of evidence-based medicine. He has published two other books and his recent work has been published in Family Medicine, American Journal of Bioethics, British Medical Journal and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Dr Kalitzkus is a medical anthropologist. Her fields of interest are cultural conceptions of body and self; anthropology of death; biomedicine and doctor-patient-communication.She published a study on organtransplantation in Germany ("Leben durch den Tod. Die zwei Seiten der Organtransplantation in Deutschland. Eine medizinethnologische Studie. Frankfurt/New York: Campus).