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May 24, 2002:
Hour Two: Medicine and
Literature
In this hour of Science Friday, Ira Flatow and guests discuss
the connection between writing and medicine. Why do doctors write? What
can be learned about illness and suffering from narrative or poetry?
And is it possible that writing might actually make patients feel better?
Call in with your comments and questions at 1-800-989-8255, and share
your opinions online in our Listeners' Lounge (registration required).
Guests:
Dr. Atul Gawande
Senior Surgical Resident at a Boston Hospital
Staff Writer on Medicine and Science for The
New Yorker
Author,
"Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science" (Metropolitan
Books, 2002)
Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Rafael Campo
Physician and Professor of Medicine at Harvard
Medical School and Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Author, "Landscape
with Human Figure" (Duke University Press, 2002) and "The
Desire to Heal: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry"
(WW Norton, 1998)
Boston, Massachusetts
Felice Aull , Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physiology
and Neuroscience
New York University School of Medicine
Founding Editor, Literature,
Arts, and Medicine Database
New York, New York
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
- Literature
and Medicine
The
Center for Literature, Medicine, and the Health Care Professions
Literature
& Medicine
msJAMA
- Oct 6 Interview: Where Poetry and Medicine Meet: A Conversation
with Rafael Campo
ACP-ASIM
Pressroom - ACP-ASIM Publishes On Being A Doctor 2
This segment produced by: Kristen Kresge
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