Lester D. Friedman is Emeritus Professor of Media and Society from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His publications include: Cultural Sutures (ed.), Health Humanities Reader (co-editor) and The Picture of Health (co-editor). He has also written books on Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, American Jewish Cinema, genre theory, and Films of the 1970s. Currently, he is completing a book on Hollywood directors and composers.

Therese (Tess) Jones is Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities; Director of the Arts and Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; and Professor in the Department of Medicine. The editor of the Journal of Medical Humanities; lead editor of the Health Humanities Reader; and co-editor of the Handbook on Health and Media, she has published and presented extensively on HIV/AIDS and the arts; literature, film and medicine; and medical education.