First-Year Seminars 110MN - Medical Narratives

A study of writing by and about physicians, patients, and the communities and cultures that shape their stories. Readings will be drawn from fiction, nonfiction, drama, and autobiography by Anatole Broyard, Willa Cather, Arthur Conan Doyle, Margaret Edson, Atul Gawande, Jhumpa Lahiri, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan, and William Carlos Williams.