Notes on Contributors

Seth Allcorn, PhD, is a principal of DyAD, a company that specializes in health-care and business consulting. He has served as the Associate Dean for Fiscal Affairs at the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University—Chicago and as the administrator of the department of medicine at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester and the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Allcorn has published nine books on management and organizational life, several chapters, and more than 55 papers regarding hospital administration, medical group management, and the psychodynamics of organizations. Dr. Allcorn has received two degrees in business administration and a PhD in Higher and Adult Education.

Ron Aviram is a research scientist at the NYS Psychiatric Institute—Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, where he works in a treatment study with borderline patients.

Michael Benton is currently working on his PhD in English at Illinois State University. He is also the assistant editor of the Journal of Management Education. His research interests are narratives of globalization, gender/terror, masochistic masculinity, performance theory, world literature, cultural theory, and film.

John Bird is Co-Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies and Reader in Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England. He teaches courses on race and ethnicity, sociologies of belief and culture, and relationships between psychoanalytic ideas and the social and cultural. He is currently researching the psycho-social consequences of computer-mediated communication.

Mary Caputi is Associate Professor of political science at California State University, Long Beach. She specializes in contemporary political theory, focusing on feminist thought, critical theory, postmodernism, and psychoanalysis. Her book Voluptuous Yearnings: A Feminist Theory of the Obscene offers a reading of obscenity that combines these critical venues. She is currently workin