Member: PrinceLackadasia

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Favorite authorsM. T. Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, Samuel Beckett, Wendell Berry, Ray Bradbury, Albert Camus, John Dominic Crossan, Don DeLillo, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, Paul Farmer, David Halberstam, Langston Hughes, Ivan Illich, Robinson Jeffers, Tracy Kidder, Arthur Kleinman, Milan Kundera, Mark Kurlansky, Stanisław Lem, Denise Levertov, Philip Levine, Walter Mosley, Alice Munro, Tawni O'Dell, Terry Pratchett, J. D. Salinger, Jonathan Schell, Steven Shapin, Wisława Szymborska, Mark Twain (Shared favorites)

Favorite librariesCase Western Reserve University - Kelvin Smith Library, Cleveland Public Library - Main, Penn State University Libraries

Other favoritesJohns Hopkins - Homewood Campus

About meI am a historian of medicine, teaching in the Science, Technology and Society Program at Penn State University.

I also have a blog called "A Little Bit of Change" that focuses on social justice: http://faithjustice.wordpress.com/

Homepagehttp://www.engr.psu.edu/sts/Faculty/Ballenger.htm

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Real nameJesse F. Ballenger

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Member sinceAug 9, 2006

Currently readingJustice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
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