Facilitator: Judith Frank

Hospital Liaison: Andy Plager, M.D. (email: plager2000@aol.com)

Location:
Sessions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6: Classroom 2, Medical Arts Complex
Session 2: Classroom 1, Medical Arts Complex

Day and Time: Wednesdays, 6:00 to 9:00 PM

Session 1: January 21 (snow date January 28)

Rafael Campo, essays from The Desire to Heal: “The Desire to Heal” and “Like a Prayer”
Robert Coles, Introduction to The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams, “The Use of Force” (short story)
Cortney Davis, “Night Nurse” (poem)

Session 2: February 25 (snow date March 3)

Pat Barker, Regeneration (novel)

Session 3: March 24 (snow date March 31)

Margaret R. Higonnet, ed., Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War
(a reprint of two collections of sketches by American women who served as nurses on the Western Front: The Backwash of War by Ellen N. La Motte and The Forbidden Zone by Mary Borden, with a critical introduction)

Session 4: April 28

Papers from Susan M. Reverby, Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Allen M. Brandt: “Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment”
Susan E. Bell, “Events in the Tuskegee Syphilis Project: A Timeline”
Helen Dibble and Daniel Williams, “Interview with Nurse Rivers”
Susan M. Reverby, “Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study”
James A. Jones, “AIDS: Is It Genocide?” (chapter 14 of Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment)

Session 5: May 19

Greg Critser, Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the Worldl
Veneta Masson, “The Promise” (poem)
Jane Kenyon, “Fat” (poem)

Session 6: June 16

Lauren Slater, Lying (memoir)