Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 20-27, 1999

Volume 28, Number 5

Talk and dedication open fall
Humanities in Medicine series

The Humanities in Medicine Program at the School of Medicine will open its fall program on Thursday, Sept. 23, with a talk and the dedication of a new collection at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Medical Library.

Dr. Alan C. Mermann, medical school chaplain and clinical professor of pediatrics, will present a lecture titled "Do No Harm -- Caring for the Seriously Ill" at 5 p.m. that day in the Beaumont Room of the Sterling Hall of Medicine, 333 Cedar St.

His talk will examine the ways people experience serious life-threatening illnesses, the types of suffering they endure and how others can learn to understand their lives. Mermann is the author of the book "To Do No Harm: Learning to Care for the Seriously Ill," in which he describes a course at the Yale medical school in which patients serve as teachers for medical students, helping them learn the impact of disease on the whole person. The book also discusses how professional health-care providers can achieve fully realized lives through compassionate care of the sick.

The event will also include the dedication of the Kennedy-Wald Collection at the medical library. The collection and associated website are devoted to training clinicians on care for patients at the end of life.

The program is open to the public free of charge.

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Taste-test to top tribute to insects

Soderstrom to carry on work of his predecessors in OCR

Artist's depictions of Victorian-era Britain featured in show

Cutting dollars for mental health care increased medical costs, study shows

'Seminars help medical students learn how to become 'culturally competent'

Conference to explore diverse topics in women's health

Study shows affect of long-term abuse of cocaine lingers in brain even after years of abstinence

Blacks undermined by lack of wealth, sociologist argues

Kenneth Starr says post of independent counsel is ineffectual

Biblical figure of Eve is theme of works in Slifka Center exhibit

Staged reading of Shaw's 'Philanderer' to include little-known fourth act

Gerstein's work for Human Genome Project gets $1 million boost from Keck Foundation

New laboratories will seek a cure for spinal cord injuries

Research offers insights into enzyme that makes cancer cells grow

Dr. Harvey Kaetz dies; was internist and oncologist

Memorial service to be held Oct. 1 for Dr. Robert Byck

Benefit will kick off Dr. Mel Goldstein Fund for research on bone marrow cancer

1999-2000 University Directory arriving soon

Peabody Museum hosting open house for would-be volunteers

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