Scarry, Elaine (Margaret)

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SCARRY, Elaine (Margaret)

SCARRY, Elaine (Margaret). American, b. 1946. Genres: Medicine/ Health, Psychology. Career: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, assistant professor, 1974-79, associate professor of English, 1979-; writer. Member of the Institute of Sociology, Ethics, and the Life Sciences, 1980-82. Publications: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, 1985; (ed.) Literature and the Body: Essays on Populations and Persons, 1988; Dreaming by the Book, 1999. Contributor to books and periodicals. Address: Department of English, Harvard University, Warren House, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.