The papers contained in these proceedings from the 1996 Society for Literature and Science Conference are organized into sections based on theme. Some of these themes are: (1) Secularizing Enlightenment; (2) Eugenics and the Politics of Knowledge; (3) Reading the Discourses of Psychology; (4) Women and Medicine; (5) The Rhetoric of Public Health; (6) Cyberpunk and Popular Culture; (7) The Cultural Work of Cognitive Science; (8) Scientist's Lives and Writings; (9) Disease and Literature; (10) Narratives and Epistemology of Science; (11) Print and Its Discontents; (12) The Rhetoric of Science; (13) Complexity and Chaos; (14) Science and Religion; (15) Aspects of Science and Culture; (16) Cultural Studies of Technoscience; (17) Environment and Nature; (18) Science and Opera; (19) Postmodern Poetics; (20) Late 19th Century Science; and (21) Shakespeare Studies. (DDR)