This is a two week equivalent selective spread over one month. It must be taken with another two week equivalent selective (including research options).

Goals
Our goal is to provide the student with an opportunity to enjoy and learn from major literary works, especially those pertaining to medical humanities or written by physicians.

Objectives
The student will learn about human behavior using important literary works, and consider how medicine, disease and doctors are viewed.

Student Experience
The works of physician-writers will receive special attention (e.g., A. Chekov, A. Conan Doyle, William Carlos Williams, R. Seltzer, S. Maughan, J. Keats). We will examine how illness or medical settings have been used by authors to represent some general human condition. Students are encouraged to help select readings for the course.

Evaluation of Student's Performance
I. Attendance
II. Readings
III. Participation