How can I meet you? Knowing each other through poetry and medicine

2017-11-08

University of Virginia. School of Medicine

We live in times when empathy—the ability to imagine how it feels to be inside the skin of another—seems to be in short supply. As a writer of poetry and memoir, Mark Doty believes that literature is one of the most powerful tools we have to come close to the subjectivity of another person. The practice of medicine, too, is a work of knowing—of learning who someone is, what they need, and how they might be healed. In this Medical Center Hour, Mr. Doty explores these ideas through writings that grew out of the crisis years of the AIDS epidemic in this country and in recent work concerned with love, time, and citizenship in the human community. 

A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Co-presented with the Creative Writing Program, Department of English

Doty, Mark (Speaker); Childress, Marcia Day (Moderator); University of Virginia. School of Medicine

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

Filmed lectures

American poetry; Doty, Mark; Compassion

Medical Center Hour

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

English

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