Sander L. Gilman es catedrático en Emory University (Atlanta, EE.UU.). Entre sus cerca de ochenta libros, destacan: Health and Illness: Images of Difference (Reaktion Books, 1995); Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS (Cornell University Press, 1988); Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery (Princeton University Press, 1999); Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery (Duke University Press, 1998).