Facilitator: Ruth Smith
Hospital Liaisons: Emily Ferrara (856-5134; emily.ferrara@umassmed.edu)
David Hatem, M.D. (856-5972; hatemd@ummhc.org)
Location: Chancellor's Board Room, Lamar Soutter Library, UMass Medical School
Day and Time: Thursdays, 5:30-8:00
Session 1: January 22 (snow date January 29)
Abraham Verghese, My Own Country (memoir)
Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room” (poem)
Session 2: February 12 (snow date February 26)
Pat Barker, Regeneration (novel)
Siegfried Sassoon, poems: “The Effect”; “Does It Matter”; “Aftermath”; “Alone”; “A Local Train of Thought”; “Thoughts in 1938”
Selections from Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War (sketches)
Ellen N. LaMotte, “The Interval” and “Pour la Patrie”
Mary Borden, “Moonlight” and “Conspiracy”
Session 3: March 18 (snow date March 25)
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals (memoir)
“Today Is Not the Day” (poem)
“The Electric Slide Boogie” (poem)
Anatole Broyard, “The Patient Examines the Doctor” (essay) from Intoxicated by My Illness
Session 4: April 15
Sophocles, Philoctetes (play)
Selections from Seamus Heaney’s translation of Philoctetes, entitled The Cure at Troy
Session 5: May 20
Lorrie Moore, “People Like That are the Only People Here” (short story)*
Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” (short story)
Alice Elliott Dark, “Watch the Animals” (short story)
William Carlos Williams, “The Use of Force” (short story)
Helena Maria Viramontes, “The Moths” (short story)
Session 6: June 17
David Feldshuh, Miss Evers’ Boys (play)
from Susan M. Reverby, ed., Tuskegee’s Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Allan Brandt, “Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment” (essay)
Evelynn M. Hammonds, “Your Silence Will Not Protect You” (essay)
Susan M. Reverby, “Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study” (essay)
Sadiq, “Tuskegee Experiment” (poem)
James A. Jones, “AIDS: Is It Genocide?” (chapter from Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment)
