Love that you quote Richard Selzer in one of your epigraphs. Such a powerful essayist. I've never taught his work, because I don't think it plays well with undergraduates. But if I ever have a chance to teach a medical humanities course to med students or a more diverse group of adults, I'll have to include Mortal Lessons or The Exact Location of the Soul.
Totally agree, he was a peer to pioneers like Oliver Sacks and paved the way for the new breed of medico-literary writers like Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Abraham Verghese, Danielle Ofri, etc
Love that you quote Richard Selzer in one of your epigraphs. Such a powerful essayist. I've never taught his work, because I don't think it plays well with undergraduates. But if I ever have a chance to teach a medical humanities course to med students or a more diverse group of adults, I'll have to include Mortal Lessons or The Exact Location of the Soul.
Totally agree, he was a peer to pioneers like Oliver Sacks and paved the way for the new breed of medico-literary writers like Atul Gawande, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Abraham Verghese, Danielle Ofri, etc