McAllister

Hyperlinked schedule of readings and discussion questions
Pain

Th. 1/15	Scarry, "Introduction" to The Body in Pain (172-6). Set up your home page in Blackboard to help everyone learn names.

Tu.1/20	Gawande, "The Pain Perplex" (Complications 115-29)

Th. 1/22	Gawande, "The Itch" (71-8)

Tu. 1/27	Workshopping paper one.

Th. 1/29 *	Revision due. Sontag, from AIDS and Its Metaphors (187-92)

Tu. 2/3	Classic readings on plagues: Thucydides, Dekker, Hodges, Defoe (212-20)

Sickness

Th. 2/5	Klass, "Dying" (115-17); Lee, "Coming Home Again" (118-123)

Tu. 2/10	Moore, "People Like That are the Only People Here" (136-155)

Th. 2/12	Carver, "A Small, Good Thing" (2-13)

Tu. 2/17	Williams, "The Use of Force" (206-8); O. Henry, "A Ramble in Aphasia" (160-5)

Th. 2/19	 Workshopping paper two.

Rights, respect, and decision-making

Tu. 2/24 *	Revision due. Skloot, "A Measure of Acceptance" (179-86). Meet in Simpson Library second floor classroom.

Th. 2/26	Jauhar, from Intern (106-112); Gawande, "Whose Body Is It, Anyway?" (Complications 208-27)

break (read Crane)

Tu. 3/10	Crane, "The Monster" (14-40)

Medical mysteries

Th. 3/12	Rouéche, "Eleven Blue Men" (166-71)

Tu. 3/17	Gawande, "The Case of the Red Leg" (Complications 228-52)

Th. 3/19	Gawande, "Crimson Tide" (Complications 146-61)

Becoming a healer

Tu. 3/24	Ofri, "Torment" (156-9); Lee, "Five Points off for Going to Medical School" (124-6); Erdwinn, "Like Everyone Else" (41-45)

Th. 3/26 	Williams, "The Girl With a Pimply Face" and "The Insane" (197-205)

Tu. 3/31	Gawande, "Education of a Knife" (Complications 11-34)

Healing the healers

Th. 4/2	Gawande, "When Good Doctors Go Bad" (Complications 88-106)

Tu. 4/7	Workshopping paper three.

Improving practices

Th. 4/9 *	Revision due. Mclellan, "Medicine.com" (127-33)

Tu. 4/14	Groopman, "Gatekeepers" (93-105); Klass, "Nurses" (113-14)

Th. 4/16	Groopman, "Introduction" to How Doctors Think (79-92)

Tu. 4/21	Gawande, excerpt from "When Doctors Make Mistakes" (Complications 64-70); Gawande, "On Washing Hands" (62-70)

Th. 4/23	Gawande, "The Bell Curve" (46-61)