HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Watch for: Imagine a Man:  the Surgeon Storyteller, a literary biography of Richard Selzer, M.D., in two parts: reinventing his life and living by his wits alone. 

See Book Chapter for Table of Contents, Chapter IX excerpt, and an essay on interviewing Dr. Selzer.

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Abraham Verghese, in The Wall Street Journal  10 July 2010, says Richard Selzer's Mortal Lessons is among the five best books on doctor's lives.

 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704535004575348833407184048.html?KEYWORDS=verghese

Jerome Groopman, in The New York Times 13 May 2007, says Richard Selzer’s Letters to a Young Doctor  is “prescribed reading” in his Harvard Class.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/books/review/Groopman-t.html

Joy Dockendorf, in the Yale Daily News 3 March, 2011, writes:  “Whereas Emerson thought, ‘the poet is the only true doctor,’ Selzer complicates matters a bit, being one of the only true physician-writers writing today worthy of Rabelais, Keats, Chekhov, and William Carlos Williams.”

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     For more information on Dr. Stripling's Medical Humanities work, see “The Diagnostic Embrace” [full text of WSSA talk] and Lectures [full text of Yale Medical School lecture]. Speaking Schedule lists current events.

     In Publications her printed work is detailed, including Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature (Greenwood Press, 2005), which is a valuable resource for teaching the Medical Humanities.

     At last, get more teaching ideas at Medical Humanities Curricula, Student Papers, and What the Students Say.  
     

 Remember,

Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.  —Constitution, The World Health Organization

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© 2011 Mahala Yates Stripling, PhD