Why Literature-and-Medicine?
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Comparative literature professor Arnold Weinstein spoke to the Brown Club of Rhode Island on August 21, 2010 about using literature to diagnose, explore and treat diseases. He thinks about medicine and the role of a doctor from a narrative point of view as opposed to just a scientific one, and examines the role that literature plays in medicine and the world.
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