Kelly Joyce is Associate Professor of Sociology at the
College of William and Mary. Her research on technology, science,
and health has been published in Science as Culture,
Social Studies of Science, and other academic journals. Dr
Joyce's book Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of
Transparency (2008) offers a sociological exploration of
magnetic resonance imaging technology. Her current research
examines medical knowledge about, and the experiences of people who
live with, autoimmune illnesses.

Meika Loe is Associate Professor of Sociology and
Women's Studies at Colgate University in New York. Her
critical scholarship on culture, age, medicine, technology, and
gender has appeared in a range of academic journals including
Contexts, Gender & Society, Feminism &
Psychology, Symbolic Interaction, Sexualities,
and Sociological Inquiry. She is the author of The Rise
of Viagra: How the Little Blue Pill Changed Sex in America
(2004), and a forthcoming book on the oldest old in America.