Literature and Medicine HUMS 9404

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1 Literature and Medicine HUMS 9404 Course Director Todd Savitt, PhD Location Bioethics, Brody 2S-17 Contact Info Meeting Location & Contact Course Director prior to start date Time Course Contact Pat Harrington Course Availability for : 2 Weeks Longitudinal Learning Course Time: Room: Readings: Objectives: Six 2 ½ hour meetings scheduled February-April with specific dates TBA Brody Building, TBA All readings may be found on the Blackboard site for this course. Students completing this course will: 1) Identify themes in literary works related to the practice of medicine 2) Describe the experience of patients and physicians as reported in a variety of stories about medicine 3) Analyze themes found in literature about patients, health care providers, and the practice of medicine 4) Apply the insights offered by such literature to their future work as physicians Requirements: 1) Regular class attendance. 2) Thoughtful and informed (by the assigned readings) participation in classroom discussions. 3) Leadership of class discussion of two readings. You can sign up for which readings you would like to lead on the wiki page on Blackboard. In preparation to lead the discussion, you will need to read the work carefully and develop questions for the group to talk about. 4) A three-page (double-spaced) or more (don t limit yourself) paper reflecting on one of the course readings. What insight(s) does this piece of literature offer? How might this insight shape the way you practice medicine? You may use the paper to think carefully about an experience

2 in your clinical work or personal life that came to mind when you read that piece. Your paper will be confidential unless you wish to share it with the group. The paper is due by the last day of class in April. Schedule: Session 1 Being a Physician Invasions (Perri Klass) - Perri Klass, A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student, (Penguin Group USA, 1987), pp Intensive Care (Danielle Ofri) - Danielle Ofri, Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue (Boston: Beacon Press, 2003), pp The Case of the Red Leg (Atul Gawande) -Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon s Notes on an Imperfect Science (New York: Picador, 2002), pp The Steel Windpipe (Mikhail Bulgakov) - Mikhail Bulgakov, A Country Doctor s Notebook, reprinted in On Doctoring, (New, Revised and Expanded Third Edition) (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), pp The Use of Force (William Carlos Williams) - William Carlos Williams, reprinted in Robert Coles, comp., William Carlos Williams: The Doctor Stories (New York: New Directions, 1984), pp Brute (Richard Selzer) - Richard Selzer, Letters to a Young Doctor (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), pp The Girl With a Pimply Face (William Carlos Williams) - William Carlos Williams, reprinted in Robert Coles, comp., William Carlos Williams: The Doctor Stories (New York: New Directions, 1984), pp An Infected Heart (John Stone) - John Stone, Vital Lines: Contemporary Fiction About Medicine, Jon Mukand (ed.), (New York: St. Martin s Press, 1990), pp Session 2 Children 2

3 Our Firstborn Son (Jerome Groopman) - Jerome Groopman, Second Opinions (New York: Viking, Penguin Putnam Inc., 2000), pp A Small, Good Thing (Raymond Carver) - Raymond Carver, Cathedral: Stories (New York: Random House, Vintage Contemporaries Edition, 1989), pp People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk (Lorrie Moore) - Lorrie Moore, Birds of America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), pp Candor (John Graham-Pole) - Blood & Bone: Poems by Physicians, Angela Belli & Jack Coulehan (eds.), (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998), p 27. Admission, Children s Unit (Theodore Deppe) - Theodore Deppe, The Wanderer King (Alice James Books,1996). Session 3 Aging & Disability Breathing (Jay Baruch) - Jay Baruch, Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers (Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2007), pp We Are Nighttime Travelers (Ethan Canin) - Ethan Canin, We Are Nighttime Travelers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin), ), reprinted in On Doctoring, pp The Last Decision (Maya Angelou) - Maya Angelou, Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? (New York: Random House, 1983), reprinted in On Doctoring, p 234. Sunsets (Jack Coulehan) - Jack Coulehan, First Photographs of Heaven (Troy, ME: Nightshade Press, 1994). Cathedral (Raymond Carver) - Raymond Carver, Cathedral: Stories (New York: Random House, Vintage Contemporaries Edition, 1989), pp Dancing After Hours (Andre Dubus) - Andre Dubus, Dancing After Hours (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), reprinted in Suzanne Hunter Brown (ed.), Echoes of War: A Literature and Medicine Anthology (np: Maine Humanities Council, 2009), pp

4 Winthrop Cohen (Arthur Kleinman) - Arthur Kleinman, What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), reprinted in Suzanne Hunter Brown (ed.), Echoes of War: A Literature and Medicine Anthology (np: Maine Humanities Council, 2009), pp Session 4 The Body Fat Lady (Irvin D. Yalom) - Irvin D. Yalom, Love s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1989), pp A Story About the Body (Robert Hass) - Articulations: The Body and Illness in Poetry, John Mukand (ed.), (Iowa City: U of Iowa Press, 1994). A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (Amy Bloom) - Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (New York: Random House, 2000), pp Fetishes (Richard Selzer) - Richard Selzer, (1979), reprinted in The Doctor Stories (New York: Picador USA, 1998), pp Whither Thou Goest (Richard Selzer) - Richard Selzer (1990), reprinted in The Doctor Stories (New York: Picador USA, 1998), pp Session 5 Dying and Death Imelda (Richard Selzer) - Richard Selzer (1982), reprinted in The Doctor Stories (New York: Picador USA, 1998), pp Breathing (Cortney Davis) - Danielle Ofri (ed.), The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2008), pp Mercy (Richard Selzer) -Richard Selzer (1982), The Doctor Stories (New York: Picador USA, 1998), pp Talking to the Family (John Stone) 4

5 - John Stone, The Smell of Medicine (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972), reprinted in On Doctoring, p 285. What the Doctor Said and My Death (Raymond Carver) - Raymond Carver, A New Path to the Waterfall (New York: The Atlantic Monthly, 1989) and Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems (New York: Random House, 1985), reprinted in On Doctoring, pp Indian Camp (Ernest Hemingway) - (Paris: The Transatlantic Review, 1924), reprinted in The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966) and On Doctoring, pp Wisteria (Leslie Nyman) - Cortney Davis and Judy Schaefer (eds.), Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995), pp Session 6 The Experience of Illness Doctor, Talk to Me (Anatole Broyard) -reprinted from The New York Times Magazine in Richard Reynolds and John Stone, eds., On Doctoring, pp He Read to Her (Anne Brashler) - Vital Lines: Contemporary Fiction About Medicine, Jon Mukand (ed.), (New York: St. Martin s Press, 1990), pp Who Owns the Libretto? (Judy Schaefer) - Cortney Davis and Judy Schaefer (eds.), Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995), pp A Day s Wait (Ernest Hemingway) - Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition (New York: Scribner, 1987), pp Vision (Danielle Ofri) - Danielle Ofri, Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005), pp Milk (Eileen Pollack) 5

6 - Ploughshares, 20, #1 (Spring 1994), reprinted in Ruth Nadelhaft (ed.), Imagine What It s Like: A Literature and Medicine Anthology (Biographical Research Center: np, 2008), pp