Dr. Sayantani DasGupta
Thursday, April 24, 7:30 p.m., OSU Memorial Union Journey Room
Sayantani DasGupta, MD., MPH, is a faculty member in the Division of General Pediatrics and the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She teaches courses on illness narratives and narrative genetics at Sarah Lawrence College and is a prose faculty member in an intensive summer seminar on “Writing the Medical Experience.” Widely published in several genres, she is the author of a memoir of her time at Johns Hopkins Medical School, Her Own Medicine: A Woman’s Journey from Student to Doctor; and the coauthor of The Demon Slayers and Other Stories: Bengali Folktales. Her new collection of writing on illness is Stories of Illness and Healing, coedited with M. Hurst (Literature and Medicine Series, Kent State University Press, 2007). She is also on the editorial board of Literature and Medicine. Contact: Anita Helle
Dr. C. Dale Young
Friday, April 25, 7:30 p.m., OSU Valley Library Rotunda
Reading by C. Dale Young, an oncologist and the author of two books of poetry, The Day Underneath the Day and Second Person, and poetry editor of The New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including The Best American Poetry, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Q and A, book sale and signing. Contact: Karen Holmberg
Dr. Chris Adrian
Saturday, April 26, 9a.m. – 12:00 p.m., OSU Center for Humanities
How is the practice of writing useful to medicine? How is the practice of medicine useful to writing? Our workshop will make use of short exercises, readings, and discussion to respond to these questions in general and personal terms. Several forms of prose, such as journaling, fiction, and the personal essay, will be considered as avenues of reflection and insight, and we will spend some time discussing the uses of reflection in maintaining compassion and perspective when presented with patients and their attendant medical conditions and suffering. We will also consider some of the ethical issues that come into play when a writer uses medical practice to inform the writing, and vice versa, and discuss ways of bringing the concept and value of writing to patients.
Led by Chris Adrian, pediatrician and author of the novels Gob’s Grief
and The Children’s Hospital, whose work has appeared in such magazines
as The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Ploughshares, McSweeney's, and The New
Yorker.
This workshop is open to medical professionals and care providers, and does not presume extensive writing experience. Advance registration required. Contact: Marjorie Sandor
Dr. Chris Adrian
Saturday, April 26, 7:30 p.m., Valley Library Rotunda
Reading by Chris Adrian, a practicing pediatrician and the author of two novels, Gob's Grief and The Childrens' Hospital both of which have received critical acclaim for their inventive mix of realism and the fantastic. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, and McSweeneys, as well as in Best American Short Stories. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and University of Virginia Medical School, he recently completed a pediatric residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and is in his second year at Harvard Divinity School. While in Divinity School, he is also finishing up a collection of short stories, and serving as a pediatric emergency room doctor in Boston. Q and A, book sale and signing.
Mary Ann Wallace M.D., MA
Sunday, April 27, 1:00-3:30 p.m., Main Room - Corvallis Public Library
Coupling insight-oriented meditation with journal-writing is an exceptionally powerful way to give our illness the voice we need to hear, and helps us explore and resolve the dilemmas and challenges that lie beneath the symptoms we experience. In a safe and nurturing environment, Dr. Mary Ann Wallace will guide participants through a series of meditation and journaling exercises designed to explore and deepen our understanding of the powerful links between mind and body and create a more integrated approach to spiritual and physical health.
Mary Ann Wallace M.D., MA is Board certified in internal medicine with a specialty of complementary and integrative medicine. She currently directs Samaritan Health Services’ Division of Integrative Medicine serving Corvallis/ Albany. Over 25 years, she has given more than 300 lectures and workshops on spirituality in medicine, holistic health, and mind-body connections, drawing upon practices of writing, journaling, and allied arts. Her new book is The Heart of Healing (Inkwater Press, 2007).
This is workshop is free and open to the public Since space is limited
to 25, we ask that you make a reservation by phoning the
Corvallis-Benton Library Reference Desk, 541-766-6793. For more
information, see also The Literary Events Bulletin Board.
This workshop is co-sponsored by the OSU English Department, the Division of Integrative Medicine of Samaritan Health Services, and the Friends of the Corvallis-Benton County Library.