Literature and Medicine

1 Credit · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Open to both undergraduates and med students, the course explores themes in medicine through non-medical fiction. Each class, the students explore a new work. Examples of works used in prior terms include Christy Lefteri's The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Ayad Akhtar's Homeland Elegies, Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, and Louise Eldrich's The Night Watchman.