Medical Humanities Reading Group welcomes participants

Corinna Treitel, associate professor of history, and Anya Plutynski, associate professor of philosophy, are co-leading the Medical Humanities Reading Group for 2015–16. The group, supported by the Center for the Humanities, convenes two to three times each semester to connect and discuss readings.

Last year, co-conveners Corinna Treitel and Rebecca Messbarger hosted several medical humanities scholars: philosopher Anya Plutynski (Washington University), discussing her current book project on the philosophy of cancer; French professor Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University), writing on blood transfusion in early modern France; physician-historian Ken Ludmerer (Washington University), talking about his new book on the history of medical residency training; and English professor Priscilla Wald (Duke University), analyzing today’s rhetoric of medical genetics.

All are welcome. If interested in participating in the group, contact Corinna Treitel.