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To See the Suffering: Equipment for Healing
A Lecture by Rita Charon
The Medical Humanities, Arts, and Ethics Series

Reception to follow in the Hoyt Gallery. 

ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations requested. RSVP beginning  Monday, March 2, at 9 a.m.

DESCRIPTION:
Rita Charon is a general internist, literary scholar, and the originator of the field of narrative medicine. In an engaging lecture, Charon will reflect on her pioneering work in researching and demonstrating the value of storytelling in the healing of physical, emotional, and social wounds. Her message and practice of narrative medicine will fascinate and inspire physicians, nurses, social workers, mental-health professionals, chaplains, academics, and all those interested in the intersection between narrative and medicine and how to improve the effectiveness of healthcare.



Bio:
Rita Charon is a professor and founding chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and professor of medicine at Columbia University. She completed her MD at Harvard in 1978 and a PhD in English at Columbia in 1999, concentrating on the works of Henry James. Her research focuses on the consequences of narrative-medicine practice, reflective clinical practice, and healthcare team effectiveness. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Rockefeller Bellagio residency, and recognition from many medical and literary societies. Her most recent book, co-authored with seven narrative-medicine colleagues, is The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford 2017).

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Thursday, September 26, 2019, at 3:30 p.m.
Mayer Auditorium, Health Sciences Campus
For more info, click here.

Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by Pamela Schaff (Family Medicine and Pediatrics), Alexander Capron (Law and Medicine), Ron Ben-Ari (Internal Medicine), and Erika Wright (Medical Education and English). Co-sponsored by the Keck School of Medicine’s HEAL Program (Humanities, Ethics/Economics, Art, and the Law) and the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics.

Photo: Vincent Ricardel