The Park Street Corporation Speaker Series Presents Rita Charon

About this event

Rita Charon: From Words to Healing: The Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Sciences of Narrative Medicine

Rita Charon is a general internist and literary scholar and one of the founders of

the field of narrative medicine. She completed the MD at Harvard Medical School and

the PhD in English at Columbia University. She is the Bernard Schoenberg Professor of

Social Medicine, Professor of Medicine, and founding chair of the Department of

Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians &

Surgeons. Her research in narrative medicine has been supported by the NIH, the NEH,

and many private foundations. She authored, co-authored, or co-edited four books on

narrative medicine. The NEH, the NIH, the Association of American Medical Colleges,

and multiple medical associations have honored her with awards and distinctions. She

lectures and teaches internationally and publishes extensively in leading medical and

literary journals, including T he New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Journal of the

American Medical Association, Academic Medicine, Narrative, Henry James Review,

Poetics Today , and SubStance .

This event is free and open to the public. Registration coming soon.