Humanities and Medicine Lecture Series, 2001-2002

THE PROGRAM FOR HUMANITIES IN MEDICINE

2003-2004 LECTURES Lectures at 5 PM on Thursdays in the Beaumont Room, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., New Haven. The lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, e-mail or call Clara Gyorgyey at (203) 785-6102 or 785-4744.

September October November December January February March April May

September 25 PUTTING LIFE ON STAGE The Robert Penn Warren Lecture Donald Margulies, BFA Playwright Yale School of Drama
October 9 SPIRITUALITY, POLITICS & PUBLIC HEALTH The Dobihal Lecture Howard Koh, MD Professor of Public Health Harvard School of Public Health
October 23 AGRESSION & RELIGION; CLINICAL APPROACH The Howard Spiro Lecture Reverend John Young, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine
November 6 TELLING THE TRUTH WHILE SUSTAINING HOPE The Iris Fischer Lecture Jerome Groopman, MD Professor of Oncology Harvard Institutes of Medicine
November 13 PREGNANT PICTURES; PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS Laura Wexler, PhD Professor of American Studies Yale University & Sandra Matthews, MFA Associate Professor of Film & Photography Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
November 20 HOW CITIES REMEMBER; THE ROLE OF MONUMENTS IN CIVIC IDENTITY Alan Plattus, PhD Professor of Architecture New York University School of Architecture
December 4 PERSPECTIVES FROM A WHEELCHAIR: INDEPENDENCE WITH DIGNITY Gretchen Berland, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Yale University School of Medicine
December 18 THE MUSES; HEALTH AND ILLNESS Vivian Shipley, PhD Professor of English Editor of Connecticut Review Southern CT State University
January 15 PHYSICIANS AND WRITERS Abraham Verghese, MD, DSc. (Hon) Director, Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, Texas
January 22 TATTOOS REVISITED: SKEWED MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE? Andres Martin, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry Yale Child Study Center
February 12 ALMOST HEAVEN; STORY OF WOMEN IN SPACE Betty Holtzmann Kevles, PhD Lecturer, Department of History Yale University
February 26 STORIES FROM AFRICA Majid Sadigh, MD Associate Clinical Professor, Dept of Medicine Yale University School of Medicine
March 18 ACCURATE EYE - TRUTHFUL EAR The McGovern Lecture Howard Spiro, MD Professor Emeritus Yale University School of Medicine
April 1 TO BE ANNOUNCED The Multicultural Lecture
April 15 ARTISTS PAINT THE BLACK PLAGUE The James D. Kenny Lecture John T. Paoletti, PhD Professor of Art and the History of Art Wesleyan University
April 29
RELIGION & CARE FOR THE DYING David Smith, PhD Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies & Medicine Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana
May 6 STUDENT PRESENTATION OF WRITING Richard Selzer, MD Author Yale University School of Medicine

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