Book Group: Lawrence White - Medicine & Literature Book Group CANCELED

09/16/2010 6:30 pm

End: 09/16/2010 8:30 pm

This book group is canceled. We will look forward to a future book group with Lawrence White.

Book Passage Book Group
Five Thursdays: Sept. 16, Oct. 14, Nov. 11, Dec. 9 & Jan. 13
6:30-8:30 pm, $105
Corte Madera store
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This book group uses literature to explore aspects of medicine, bioethics, and philosophy. The contemporary issues examined will include death and dying, euthanasia, doctor-patient relationships, stem cell research, aging, morality in medicine, and health care policy. Lawrence White is a medical doctor, bioethicist, writer and pharmacologist. Reading list: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag ($14.00); Everyman by Philip Roth ($13.00); The House of God by Samuel Shem ($16.00); The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy ($6.95); The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot ($26.00).

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Street:: Book Passage
Additional:: 51 Tamal Vista Blvd
City:: Corte Madera
Province:: California
Postal Code:: 94925
Country:: United States

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