Sander L. Gilman

A literary and cultural historian, Sander Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University and the author or editor of over eighty books. His Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity appeared in 2008; his most recent edited volume, Race and Contemporary Medicine: Biological Facts and Fictions, was published in the same year. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane.