All the authors are members of the Caledonian University Body and Social Theory research group (CUBiST). Philip Hancock has taught the sociology of work and organizations at several UK universities. He has published in a number of edited collections, as well as journals such as Organization and The Journal of Management Studies. Bill Hughes is head of the Division of Sociology. His current research focuses on the application of contemporary sociological theory to impairment and disability. He has published in Body & Society and Disability and Society. Elizabeth Jagger is a lecturer in sociology and Chair of CUBiST. She has published on professional and governmental responses to 'glue-sniffing' in leading policy journals and work from her ongoing research into dating has appeared in Sociology.

Kevin Paterson is a researcher interested in the development of a sociology of impairment and has had several articles published on this subject in both edited collections and the journal Disability and Society. Rachel Russell lectures in philosophy and the sociology of culture. Her research and publishing activities have recently focused on the interface between ethics and aesthetic experience, and its implication for social theory. Emmanuelle Tulle-Winton teaches in the field of old age and health, has published in a number of edited collections and journals on issues around the government of old age and old bodies as well as the organizational features of mental health services. Melissa Tyler lectures in sociology and has published work on gender, aesthetics, organization and the body in several edited collections as well as journals such as Sociology and Gender, Work and Organization.