Amelia DeFalco is University Academic Fellow in Medical Humanities in the School of English, University of Leeds and co-director of the Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities. She is author of Uncanny Subjects: Aging in Contemporary Narrative (Ohio State University Press 2010), Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature (University of Toronto Press 2016), along with essays on contemporary cultural representations of ageing, disability, gender, care and the posthuman. Her current book project, Curious Kin: Fictions of Posthuman Care, investigates representations of nonhuman care in literature, film, and television.
                

India Morrison is an Associate Professor at the Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience, in the Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine at Linköping University, Sweden. She has published numerous scientific research articles on the brain correlates of “affective somatosensation”—the emotional aspects of pain and touch and their extensions in the social realm. Her current experimental research focuses on the multiple, interacting brain mechanisms which give rise to unified subjective experiences of emotion during social touch.