1. Charles D. Laughlin, Ph. D. is an emeritus professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6 (email: ). He received his doctorate in 1972 from the University of Oregon, and subsequently took training in neuroscience at the Institute of Neurological Science, University of Pennsylvania. He has carried out ethnographic fieldwork among the So people of Northeastern Uganda, Tibetan lamas in Nepal, and the Navajo of the American...
2. C. Jason Throop is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. His research interests are broadly aligned with phenomenological, psychocultural and medical anthropological investigations into the relationship between suffering, morality, subjectivity, and social action. He has conducted 15 non-consecutive months of research with chronic and acute pain sufferers in the island of Yap (Waqab), Federated States of Micronesia.