TTC - Using Literature To Understand The Human Side Of Medicine (audio) (1995)
Ten 45 min lectures - 64kbps/24khz
Professor Arnold Weinstein (Brown University)
Course Lecture Titles
1. Why literature and medicine?
2. The doctor in literature: impostor or superman?
3. Dealing with patients: power game or humane care?
4. Disease as cure: from antiquity to AIDS
5. Representing disease in 19th & 20th-century literature
6. The history of trauma: physical, mental or cultural?
7. Madness, psychosis, and addiction
8. Dealing with death: art as witness
9. The feeling of death: art as experience
10. What have we learned: applications and vistas