Suzanne Poirier is professor emerita of literature and medical education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago. A past editor of Literature and Medicine, she is the author of Chicago’s War against Syphilis, 1937–1940: The Times, the “Trib,” and the Clap Doctor, coauthor with Lioness Ayres of Stories of Family Caregiving: Reconsiderations of Theory, Literature, and Life, and coeditor with Timothy F. Murphy of Writing AIDS: Language, Literature, and Analysis.