Syllabus (Updated January 3, 2010)

 To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights’ entertainment…
Osler, Nurse and Patient, Chapter IX, Aequanimitas

Humane Medicine & the Medical Humanities

Winter Study 2010  (Mondays and Thursdays from 1:00 – 4:00 pm)

(More Detailed Syllabus available from DJE)

Week 1:  January 4 - 8
January 4:   
Introduction:  You can't get the news from poems…
The Canon Project
Poetry Project
Nicholas Davies - Reading Binges
WS Merwin on Bill Moyers (June 26, 2009)

January 7:    
Emily Dickinson Selections
Why Read? by Mark Edmundson
Tagore's Gitanjali led by Shirish Poudyal

Week 2:  January 11 - 15
January 11      
Guest Lecturer:  Michael LaCombe
Fiction  (Readings from Les Miserables and Dr. LaCombe's Stories)
January 11 - Evening - Dr. Mike LaCombe: The Mayo Tapes
Basement Hopkins Hall
January 14       
Conversations with Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd
See North Hill Web Site
       
Week 3:  January 18 - 22
January 18    
Peggy Rambach:  Reading and Writing Workshop
January 19  Evening - TBA
January 20  Brian Maurer:  Patients are a Virtue  (Note: Wednesday)
       
Week 4:  January 25 - 28
January 25       
Pathographies
Deborah Alecson: Lost Lullaby

January 27     Student Presentations


Assigned Readings

January 7
Edmundson, M.  Why Read?       
Tagore.  Gitanjali
Selections from Emily Dickinson

January 11: Hugo, V.  Les Miserables  Fantine (300 pages)

January 20: Maurer:  Patients are a Virtue      

January 25: Alecson:  Lost Lullaby

Lagniappe:     Hass:  The Essential Haiku (Optional)

Copies are available for those who want them