Facilitator: David Fedo
Hospital Liaisons: Christine Mitchell and Theresa Freis, Office of Ethics
Location: Gamble Seminar Room, Children's Hospital Library
Day and Time: Thursdays, 6:00 to 9:00 PM
Session 1: January 9, 2003 (snow date January 16)
Rafael Campo, "Like a Prayer," excerpt reprinted in A Life in Medicine (essay)
William Carlos Williams, "The Use of Force" (short story)*
Adam Haslett, "The Good Doctor" (short story)
Theodore Deppe, "Admission, Children's Unit" from Between the Heartbeats (poem)
Session 2: February 13, 2003 (snow date February 27)
Doris Betts, Souls Raised from the Dead (novel)
Jack Larkin, "No Force Can Death Resist: Reflections on Child and Infant Mortality in American History" (essay)*
Session 3: March 13, 2003 (snow date March 20)
Margaret Edson, Wit (play)
Carolyn Barber, "Nighthawks" in Between the Heartbeats (short story)
Courtney Davis, "The Body Flute" in Between the Heartbeats (poem)
Eric J. Cassel, "The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine", in A Life in Medicine (essay)
Session 4: April 10, 2003
Lucy Grealy, The Autobiography of a Face (memoir)
Session 5: May 8, 2003
Lorrie Moore, "People Like Us Are the Only People Here"
(short story)
Judy Schaefer, "Who Owns the Libretto?" (poem)
in Between the Heartbeats
Raymond Carver, "A Small, Good Thing" in A Life in Medicine
(short story)
Jeanne LeVasseur, "Danny Boy" in Between the Heartbeats (poem)
Session 6: June 12, 2003
Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
