Healing arts in dialogue: medicine and literature

Meeting one: Dialogue

Meeting two: Madness and art; the body; literature vs. medicine: Suffering and art: a defense of sanity / Nancy C. Andreasen

The surgeon as priest / Richard Selzer

Dialogue

D.H. Lawrence and the resurrection of the body / James C. Cowan

Meeting three: The language of medical care; imagination and magic; unities and polarities: The place of language in medical science and practice / Ian Lawson

Artist to intellectual (poet to explainer) / Denise Levertov

Preliminary reflections on magic and medicine / Elizabeth Sewell

Dialogue

The Apollonian and the Dionysian / James C. Cowan

Letter from William B. Ober

Meeting four: Recollection; less madness and more art; the doctor-writer: Dialogue

Glances at madness and literature / Harold Gene Moss

Doctor Chekhov's prison / Joanne Trautmann

Meeting five: Necessary, unnecessary journeys; the concluding steps: Letter from Denise Levertov

Dialogue

Paper for literature and medicine symposium / Denise Levertov.