Literature & Medicine

SYLLABUS

Lahey Clinic, 2007

Facilitator: Martin Newhouse

Hospital Liaisons: Jerry M. Blaine, M.D. (744-8096; voicemail 744-8097); jerry.m.blaine@lahey.org; and Jonathan M. Metcalf, MSW (273-8006); jonathan.m.metcalf@lahey.org

Location: 4th floor lobby conference room

Day and Time: Thursdays, 6:00-8:00 PM

Session 1:  January 25 (snow date February 1)

Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night (play)
Kathleen Finneran, The Tender Land: A Family Love Story (memoir)

Session 2:  February 22 (snow date March 1)

Katherine Anne Porter, “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” (novella)
William Maxwell, They Came Like Swallows (novel)

Session 3:  March 22, 2007 (snow date April 12)

Pat Barker, Regeneration (novel)
Siegfried Sassoon, poems: “The Effect”; “Does It Matter”; “Aftermath”; “Alone”; “A Local Train of Thought”; “Thoughts in 1938”
Wilfred Owen, poems: “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” “Dulce et Decorum Est,” “Mental Cases”

Session 4:  April 26

Leo Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilych” (title story in collection)
Tillie Olsen, “Tell Me a Riddle” (title story in collection)

Session 5:  May 24

Anton Chekhov, “Ward Six,” “Misery,” “Enemies” (stories)
Ernest Hemingway, “Indian Camp” (story)

Session 6:  June 28

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (novel)


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