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SYLLABUS Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 2013 Facilitator: Gregory A. Abel, MD, MPH, MFA Program Liaison: Kristofer Earles (617-582-7396; [email protected]) Location: Dana Building 11th Floor Conference Center Date & Time: The third Thursday of the Month, 5:30-7:30 pm Books will be on loan from Mass Humanities and will be used for future programs. Please treat them with care, refrain from writing in them, and return them to Earles by the end of the seminar series. You will be charged the replacement cost of any book you fail to return, plus a service charge of $10. Other materials, marked with an asterisk* are available to program participants online. Session 1, January 17 (snow date January 24) Tony Judt, “Night” (essay)* Anne Sexton “You, Doctor Martin” (poem)* Adam Haslett, “Notes to my Biographer” (short story)* Marie Howe “What the Living Do” (poem)* Session 2, February 21 (snow date February 28) Susan Sontag “Illness as Metaphor” (book/essay) William Carlos Williams “The Use of Force” (short story)* Sharon Olds “The Death of Marilyn Monroe” (poem)* James Lasdun “The Incalculable Life Gesture” (short story)* Session 3, March 21 (snow date April 4) Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar (book) Raymond Carver “Cathedral” (short story)* Linda McCarriston “Hotel Nights with my Mother (poem)* Dan Chaon, “Stay Awake” (short story)* Session 4, April 18 (rain date April 25) C.S. Lewis A Grief Observed (book) Jane Kenyon “Having It Out with Melancholy,” “Otherwise,” and “Eating the Cookies” (poems)* Donald Hall “Last Days,” “Without,” “The Gallery” (poems)* Juan José Millas, “Aceite de Ricino y Mística,” “La Mejor Tarde de Mi Vida” and “El Tío Emilio” (short stories, English translations will be provided)* Session 5, May 16 (rain date May 23) C. K. Williams Repair (book) Atul Gawande “Letting Go” (essay)* Carolyn Forche “The Colonel” (poem)* Anton Chekov “Swan Song” (play)* Session 6, June 20 (rain date June 27) Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Frank Stack Our Cancer Year (graphic novel) Santiago Ramón y Cajal “Beginner’s Traps” (essay)* Stephen Jay Gould “The Median Isn’t the Message” (essay)* Kay Ryan “Patience” (poem)* .

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