RENATO D. ALARCON, MD, is Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, and Chief, Mental Health Service Line, VA Medical Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Alarcon is the author of more than 150 articles and coauthor of five books and several dozen book chapters. A Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and former president of the American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry, he is coeditor of the standard psychiatric textbook in Latin America and of the three-volume Ibero-American Encyclopedia of Psychiatry.

EDWARD F. FOULKS, PhD, MDCM, is Polchow-Sellars Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs and Graduate Medical Education, Tulane University School of Medicine. A psychiatrist, anthropologist, and a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, he is coauthor, with S. Klausner, of Eskimo Capitalists: Oil, Politics, and Alcohol, among many publications. He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania.

MARK VAKKUR, MD, is a staff psychiatrist at the VA Medical Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and an Assistant Professor at the Emory University School of Medicine, where he is co-coordinator of the human behavior course. He also serves as Site Director in charge of resident and medical school education at the VA Medical Center. A published novelist, he obtained his MD and completed his psychiatry residency at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.