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Event Calendar
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April 2008, Wednesday
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Between Us: Reading the Experience of Illness
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Ogden: Weber County Library - 2464 Jefferson Ave
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Medical news increasingly makes the headlines, and specialists offer tips to prevent one disease or translate technological advances that promise a new cure for another. But media reports rarely discuss how illness impacts our relationships. Caring for an aging parent may arouse feelings of regret; confronting a cancer diagnosis, anger. Even our relationship with a trusted physician can be strained.
Using poems, stories, and visual arts, we’ll discuss the ways in which illness redefines our roles and reshapes our interactions with family members, friends, and health-care providers. Do these relationships affect the healing process? Can disease provide a healthier understanding of ourselves and others? Therese Jones and Susan Sample from the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah School of Medicine use literature, writing, and film to explore and enrich the doctor-patient relationship with medical students, physicians, patients, and their families. Applicants may choose from topics within the general theme of illness and literature.
Contact: 801-337-2639
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