The Seventeenth Annual Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine Lecture

October 7, 2009, 5pm, MacMillan Hall, Room 117

"A CHILD'S BOOK OF SICKNESS AND DEATH"

by Chris Adrian, MD
Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Department
University of California, San Francisco

Chris Adrian is a Fellow in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University of California, San Francisco and a student at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of two novels, Gob's Grief and The Children's Hospital, and a collection of short stories, A Better Angel. His fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Esquire, and The New Yorker, and his work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

The Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine Lectureship began at Brown University in 1993 and was the first lectureship of its kind in a medical school in the United States. Each year, we have featured distinguished writers and literary scholars to foster a reflective dialogue with the community about the illness experience. The program has attracted local and national attention as a model for using literature to permit a shared experience of what is, more typically, a private journey.

A reception and book signing will follow.