Using Literature to Understand the Human Side of Medicine (Audiobook) (Repost)
Using Literature to Understand the Human Side of Medicine (Audiobook) By Professor Arnold Weinstein
1995 | 7 hours and 31 mins | ISBN: n/a | MP3 64 kbps | 217 MB
1995 | 7 hours and 31 mins | ISBN: n/a | MP3 64 kbps | 217 MB
Literature and Medicine has heard from Arnold Weinstein before. He is the author of the opening essay in last year's issue on unruly texts, where he demonstrates definitively that all literature, properly read, is unruly, and that the farther we get from the so-called realistic text, the closer we come to life as it is actually -- i.e., unpredictably -- lived. In "Using Literature to Understand the Human Side of Medicine," however, Professor Weinstein addresses a wider audience. The Teaching Company envisions that audience as people who seek "a way to capture what [they] loved about university learning" by listening to a number of the country's "superstar teachers" on a variety of course subjects taught at the undergraduate level. The central question, then, is: what will the specialized readers of Literature and Medicine, already familiar with Weinstein's approach to their field, find valuable in these lectures? The answers begin close to home. For one thing, the tapes are selling very well, which tends to confirm the field's...