Dr. Brandy Schillace writes about culture, the history of medicine, and the intersections of medicine and literature. She is the Managing Editor of the international health journal Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry and teaches at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Brandy has lectured at the New York Academy of Medicine and is the author of Death's Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Teaches Us About Life and Living.
“Schillace recounts the fascinating history of the real scientists
and inventors who laid the foundations for our modern-day
technology (such as Edison, Tesla and Volta), along with such
fictional practitioners as Dr. Victor Frankenstein and Sherlock
Holmes. In a way, the book stands as a companion to Richard
Holmes’s popular history The Age of Wonder. Entertaining and
illuminating. It answers some questions I never even thought to
ask.”
*The Wall Street Journal*
“A wide-ranging narrative. Those not yet immersed in the steampunk
ethos will get a sweeping introduction to the heroes, outlaws, and
automatons populating the subgenre and their real-life progenitors.
An engaging social history of technology and invention that offers
a great nonfiction crossover for steampunk fans.”
*Library Journal*
“Schillace examines rituals of bereavement across cultures and
across time. She points toward the confusion that has emerged in a
technological age when brain death, heart death and other
definitions becloud our understanding of expiry itself. We don't
know what death means or even what it is.”
*Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review (Praise for DEATH'S
SUMMER COAT)*
“Schillace perceives the forces behind our misaligned contemporary
attitudes about mortality.”
*The New Yorker [Praise for Death's Summer Coat]*
“A thoughtful and wide-ranging examination. Schillace looks at how
cultures worldwide have dealt with death, both in the past and
present.”
*The Boston Globe [Praise for Death's Summer Coat]*
“Schillace writers glowingly of a growing movement to counter the
death-denying attitude of Western society. Wide-ranging and
surprisingly easy reading. ”
*Kirkus Reviews [Praise for Death's Summer Coat]*
“Schillace’s explorations are extensive and interdisciplinary,
drawing on research in the sciences but also valuing the many
expressions of death in the arts. With her personable voice, she is
able to breathe compassion into what might otherwise be a
depressing topic. Endlessly fascinating. This vibrant window to
other lives also creates a deeper understanding of one’s own.”
*Publishers Weekly [Praise for Death's Summer Coat]*
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