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PROGRAM
for 2006 RICHARD SELZER Mortal Lessons COMMUNITY READS Purchase Mortal
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"When I put down the scalpel
and picked up a pen, I reveled in letting go." Richard Selzer Richard Selzer Please join us for AASU's third annual City-wide Read, April 3-6, 2006, when we will be reading and discussing Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery (1976), by acclaimed surgeon and writer Richard Selzer. Faculty and students in various disciplines will be meeting to explore Selzer's essays, which consider not only the workings and misworkings of the human body but also the meaning of life and death. In addition, a variety of events related to Selzer's writings will be held throughout the Savannah community. The son of a family doctor, Richard Selzer was born in Troy, New York in 1928. He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, and earned an M.D. at Albany Medical College in 1953. An accomplished surgeon and professor of surgery, he published a collection of short stories, Rituals of Surgery, in 1974, and he subsequently published numerous essays and stories in such magazines as Redbook, Esquire, New American Review, and Harper's. These he collected in two volumes of essays, Mortal Lessons (1977) and Confessions of a Knife (1979), and a volume of essays and fiction, Letters to a Young Doctor (1982). In 1991, he contracted Legionnaire's disease but went on to document his recovery in Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter with His Own Mortality (1994). Most recently, he has published The Doctor Stories (1999), The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays (2001) and The Whistler's Room: Stories and Essays (2004). Selzer has been the recipient of dozens of awards and honors, including a National Magazine Award, an American Medical Writer's Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. In his writing, he draws upon his experience as a surgeon, and, as one critic points out, he "forces physicians to think about the morality of medicine." Join a discussion of Richard Selzer's Mortal Lessons hosted by Sigma Tau Delta at the Sentient Bean (13 E. Park Ave.) Wednesday, March 29th at 7 p.m. Contact Karen White at bigmanlybelt@yahoo.com for more information. Richard Selzer's Mortal
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Wednesday, April 5. Student-led
Discussion of Mortal Lessons.
See also COMMUNITY EVENTS for Savannah Reads Selzer. Sponsored by the Campus Union Board, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Health Professions, the Office of Academic Affairs, the LLP Dept., the AASU Foundation, the AASU Masquers, Memorial Health, the Savannah Morning News, and The Gilmer Lecture Series. |
