Stories by Nortin M. Hadler and Janet Schwartz

Dr. Hadler joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina in 1973 and was promoted to Professor of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology in 1985. Much of his scholarship has focused on issues in employee health and safety. The third edition of Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders (LW&W 2005) provides a ready resource as to his thinking in this regard. In the past decade, he has broadened the scope of this work beyond the workplace. His assaults on medicalization and overtreatment appear in many editorials and commentaries and 5 recent monographs: The Last Well Person (MQUP 2004) and UNC Press' Worried Sick (2008), Stabbed in the Back (2009), Rethinking Aging (2011), and Citizen Patient. (2013).
Dr. Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Marketing in the A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a well published cognitive psychologist whose post-doctoral career path included appointments at the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Her current research is at the intersection of marketing and public policy where she uses insights from psychology and behavioral economics to investigate how consumers navigate the healthcare marketplace.