1. Ellen L. Idler is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and a member of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University. Her research interests stem from the impact of psychosocial factors on health, particularly in aging populations. Specific interests include religion and health, the self-reporting and perception of health status, and end of life experiences. Her current projects include a study of outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery, an...
2. Howard Leventhal is Board of Governors Professor of Health Psychology at Rutgers University, a member of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, and a member of the Department of Psychology. His research is focused on common-sense models of illness and treatment, the interaction of these models with beliefs about the self and the social context, and the effects of these processes on the management of chronic illness and quality of care.
3. Julie McLaughlin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her current research examines the relationship between the temporal composition of family transitions and psychological well-being.
4. Elaine Leventhal is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Gerontological Institute at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Her research, stimulated by her geriatric patients, is focused on how the biology of illness affects subjective experience and shapes patients' implicit models of their bodies and illnesses. Her current interest is on the practitioner's ability to detect and make...