Through a rich mix of personal narrative and professional insight, authors Rachel Kolb, Jonathan Gleason and Dr. Melody Glenn will untangle the assumptions modern medicine makes about people with disabilities and illnesses. How can we see and deal with these challenges?
| Where: | Student Union Santa Rita (Seats 110)  |
| When: | Sat, Mar 14, 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm |
| Signing area: | UA Campus Store Book Sales (Mall) (following presentation)
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| Genre: | Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction |
| Moderator: | Evan Davies |
Jonathan Gleason is author of "Field Guide to Falling Ill," a collection of essays exploring the human lives behind the corporate, legal and cultural practices of medicine. It has been described as a layered, reflective, and unusually poised debut and was the inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize....
Dr. Melody Glenn is a physician and the author of "Mother of Methadone," a hybrid memoir/biography that weaves her own story with that of Dr. Marie Nyswander, the radical physician who developed methadone maintenance in the 1960s....
Rachel Kolb is a writer whose work explores communication, language, and disability as central components of human experience. A graduate of Stanford University, she was the first signing deaf Rhodes Scholar at Oxford before receiving her Ph....
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