English 195 Final Project: Leaders in Medicine and Public Health

LEADERS IN MEDICINE AND P U B L I C H E A LT H

FINAL PROJECT FOR ENGLISH 195: L I T E R AT U R E A N D M E D I C I N E (IN CONJUNCTION WITH BIOLOGY 130:BIOETHICS) HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE FA L L 2 0 2 1

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BRAINSTORMING A GOOD LEADER

CHAPTER 1: GOOD LEADERS

Jr: I would never listen to him

Jr: What if they're imbeciles?

Sr: Remember to treat everyone with respect!!!

Sr: It doesn't matter. I'm your father.

Sr: With great power comes great responsibility.

Jr: Yeah yeah yeah why should I listen.

Jr: I'm gonna be on the Supreme Court one day.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. •

Walt Whitman •

Elizabeth Catte •

CHAPTER 2: BAD LEADERS

Jason (W;t) •

The Mayor (One of These Days) •

CHAPTER THREE: I T ' S C O M P L I C AT E D

Jr: I would never listen to him

Jr: What if they're imbeciles?

Sr: Remember to treat everyone with respect!!!

Sr: It doesn't matter. I'm your father.

Sr: With great power comes great responsibility.

Jr: Yeah yeah yeah why should I listen.

Jr: I'm gonna be on the Supreme Court one day.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. •

Doctor from Williams’ story “The Use of Force” •

George Soper •

Course Reading List

Hawthorne, “The Birthmark” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Valedictory Address Walt Whitman, “The Wound Dresser” Anton Chekhov, "Malingers” “The Head Gardener’s Story” "Anyuta" "A Nervous Breakdown" "Enemies" "A Doctor's Visit" "The Examining Magistrate” William Carlos Williams, "A Night in June” “The Paid Nurse” "The Girl with a Pimply Face" "Old Doc Rivers" "A Face of Stone" “The Practice” "The Use of Force" assorted poems "Jean Beicke" Franz Kafka, "A Country Doctor" Gabriel García Márquez, “One of These Days” Hart Crane, "Episode of Hands" Oliver Sacks, "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" n Richard Selzer, "The Knife" Zuger, "Defining a Doctor" Klass, "Work and Life"

Seneca, “Asthma”​ Dickinson, “After great pain, “There is a pain—so utter,” “Pain—has an element of Blank,” “Pain—expands the Time”​ Donne, “Thou hast made me, and shall they work decay?"​ Virginia Woolf, “On Being Ill”​ Patient Bill of Rights​ Molly McCully Brown, “The Central Virginia Training Center” “Psalm”​ “Grand Mal Seizure” “A Dictionary of Hereditary Defects”​ “Labor” “The Cleaving”​ “Where You Are (II)” “While Under”​ “Where You Are (V)”​ Margaret Edson, W;t Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay Hemingway, "Indian Camp," "In Another Country," "Hills like White Elephants"​ Heidi Julavits, "Diagnose This!"

Contributors Jordan Akerson

William Gallagher

Anderson Reames

WIlliam Anderson

Dr. Sarah Hardy

William Shepardson

Markell Brothers

Charles Hassett

William Thomas

Jonah Brown

John Hutcheson

Henry Whitley

James Bugg

Charles Joyce

Dr. Michael Wolyniak

Seamus DeVol

Kyle Lafayette

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