Facilitator: Joseph Cady
Hospital Liaisons: Alyce Getler (591-6148); agetler@challiance.org
Location: Learning Center A/B, Cambridge Hospital
Day and Time: Wednesdays, 6:00-8:00 pm
Session 1: January 18 (snow date January 25)
Clinician, Society, Epidemic
Abraham Verghese, My Own Country (memoir)
Read the whole book if possible. If not, chapters 1, 4, 6-7, 9, 13-15, 17-19, 21, 24-31.
Session 2: February 8 (snow date February 15)
Confronting Mortality
Leo Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilych” (title story in collection)
Tillie Olsen, “Tell Me a Riddle” (title story in collection)
John Stone, “Angor Animi” (poem)
Paul Monette, “No Goodbyes” (poem)*
Session 3: March 8 (snow date March 15)
Flights of the Mind I
Stephen Seager, selections from Psychward (nonfiction)
Session 4: April 5
Flights of the Mind II
John Clare, “Written in a Thunderstorm, 15 July 1841,” “Song,” “I Am,” “Come Hither” (poems)
Nancy Mairs, “On Living Behind Bars” (essay)
William Styron, Darkness Visible (memoir)
Session 5: May 10
Medicine and the Other America
William Carlos Williams, “Jean Beicke” (short story)
Zora Neale Hurston, “My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience” (nonfiction)
Gayl Jones, “Asylum” (short story)
Sterling Brown, “Parish Doctor” (poem)
Veneta Masson, from Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill: “The Promise,” “Boutique,” “The Screamer in Room 4,” “Admission,” “Home Remedies for the Blues,” “Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill,” “Litany of Dolores,” “Another Case of Chronic Pelvic Pain” (poems)
David Hilfiker, from Not All of Us Are Saints : “Avoidance” (nonfiction)
Session 6: May 10
Medicine and the Other America
John Stone, “He Makes a House Call” (poem)
Raymond Carver, “A Small, Good Thing” (story)
_____________, “What the Doctor Said,” “Proposal,” “No Need,” “Afterglow” (poems)
Paul Monette, “Brother of the Mount of Olives” (poem)
Rebecca Brown, from The Gifts of the Body: “The Gift of Wholeness,” “The Gift of Hunger,” “The Gift of Mourning” (fiction)
