Member: Leel

Hi Leel -- thanks for the note. Yes, we have recently begun an undergraduate medical humanities program at Penn State's University Park campus and are working on a graduate program in bioethics. Of course Penn State's College of Medicine at Hershey boasts having the first medical humanities department in a medical school.

The Medical Humanities is an exciting field and good to see it growing. Best of luck with your dissertation and beyond.

posted by PrinceLackadasia at 4:04 pm (EST) on Oct 14, 2008

Congratulations, and good luck on your dissertation defense!

Yes, I am a physician, practicing preventive medicine and public health as the director of a county health department, and am very interested in medical history. I was a history major in college, and am preparing to teach a class on the history of public health next semester at the new Colorado School of Public Health. Thus most of the books we share in common.

My other major interests are theology and law, which probably tend to include a number of books that you have read in your work on medical humanities. I also share your tendency to buy books that I intend to read some day, and haven't yet gotten to. This is a continual source of aggravation for my wife, who does not understand that we need to keep books, even if they haven't been used for what seems to be a great while to her!

Once again, best of luck with your dissertation!

posted by mbjohnsonmd at 10:40 am (EST) on Aug 26, 2008

You asked me about Toledot Charlap. Yes, I am a member of that family. (sorry, I hadn't logged on to Librarything in a while so I'm answering your question from May.

posted by megjobethamy at 11:48 am (EST) on Dec 23, 2007

Well, that sounds very interesting, both the discipline and the dissertation. Best of luck with it. nd God speed, too.

I am director of the Uncle Remus Regional Library System in Madison, Georgia. The system serves six counties. I went to library school to work in junior college libraries, but when I graduated (1976), there were no jobs in the Florida system, so I got a "temporary" job in a public library on the coast of Georgia. Then another, then another, then another---which was in Madison...which, incidently, is a very old (small) town, often used to film movies and TV shows. My wife is the school librarian right down the street. (Did I mention that we were one of those library school love affairs? There always were three or four of those in every class. How cliche!)

After we retire, we become part-time readers, and only being sixty minutes from Atlanta, part-time theater goers. Also part-time movie goers; I write a weekly column on movies. My brother-in-law and I own a condo in St. Augustine, Florida. So we will spend time on the beach and eating fried shrimp. By the way, my brother-in-law works for the pharmaceutical company - Takeda.

Oh, and I almost forgot, I will spend a lot of time, combing the Internet and book stores (used and new) for bargains.

Regards,

Steve W. Schaefer

posted by sws53 at 12:03 am (EST) on Sep 16, 2007

So I see we both have books on the history of disease. At least you have an excuse! What is (are?) medical humanities? What is your dissertation on?

I have to finish putting my wife's cook books in...sooner or later, but I am working on my Christmas Carol collection...but that is tedious because I have over 300 diferent editions. I probably will not finish until I am retired which is next August. I am counting the minutes.

Steve
posted by sws53 at 10:08 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2007 | reply | de-archive | delete

Steve:

posted by sws53 at 10:26 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2007