Facilitator: Lucy Honig
Hospital Liaison: Benny Gavi, M.D. (office phone 983-7373; page 983-7100)
Location: Atrium 2 Conference Room
Day and Time: Wednesdays, 5:00 to 8:00 PM
Session 1: January 21 (snow date January 28)
Science, medicine, and healing: human costs, human triumphs
Andrea Barrett, “Servants of the Map” and “The Cure,” both in Andrea Barrett, Servants of the Map
Jack Coulehan, “The Man With Stars Inside Him” (poem)
Session 2: February 18 (snow date February 25)
In the name of healing: the Tuskegee syphilis study
David Feldshuh, Miss Evers’ Boys (play)
Evelynn M. Hammonds, “Your Silence Will Not Protect You” (essay)
Susan L. Smith, “Neither Victim nor Villain” (essay)
Sadiq, “Tuskegee Experiment” (poem)
(Plus segments from the film Miss Evers’ Boys and Don Byron CD, “Tuskegee Experiment”)
Session 3: March 17 (snow date March 24)
Unexpected healing: The blind leading the blind
Anthony Doerr, “The Shell Collector” (short story)
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (short story)
Jhumpa Lahiri, “The Third and Final Continent” (short story)
Session 4: April 21
Illness, transformation and the family
Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother (memoir; pp. 1-96 will suffice, but complete book highly recommended)
Franz Kafka, “The Metamorphosis” (story)
Rafael Campo, “Her Final Show” (poem)*
Session 5: May 19
Caregiver: humanity and empathy
Susan Onthank Mates, “Laundry” (short story)
Richard Selzer, “Fetishes” (story)
Louisa May Alcott, “A Night,” from Hospital Sketches
Veneta Masson, “Occupational Therapy” (poem)
Walt Whitman, poems from Leaves of Grass
“The Wound Dresser”
“A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown”
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”
“The Dalliance of the Eagles”
“There Was a Child Went Forth”
Session 6: June 16
Moving from pain and grief to recovery and affirmation
Dennis McFarland, Singing Boy (novel)
