Being Well: Life, Death, Medicine, & Inequality

An exhibit on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries at Rauner Special Collections Library and curated by members of the class of 2020.

May 15, 2017
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Location
Rauner Special Collections Library in Webster Hall
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Morgan Swan

“Illness is the night side of life,” writes Susan Sontag, “A more onerous citizenship. Sooner or later, each of us is obliged … to identify ourselves as citizens of the kingdom of the sick.” But what does it mean to be ill? How do individuals, families, communities, and health care practitioners navigate passages between wellness and illness? How does access to medicines and other therapies – be they “traditional” or “modern” – shape these decisions? What does socioeconomic inequality have to do with this? And what do we do when medicine can’t save our lives?

These student-curated exhibits speak to these questions. Explorations into good lives and good deaths; plants, people and medicines; and illness narratives as inflected by race in America, the work in these displays emerged from ANTH 7.02 The Values of Medicine. This First-Year Seminar taught by Prof. Sienna Craig is dedicated to exploring such questions through in-depth engagement with Rauner Special Collections.

The exhibit was curated by Michael Brown ’20, Zoë Brown ’20, Kyle Clampitt ’20, Racquel Lyn ’20, Matthew Parker ’20, and Becca Rosko ’20; it is on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries from May 5, 2017, to June 15, 2017.

To learn more, visit https://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/rauner/exhibits/being-well.html

Location
Rauner Special Collections Library in Webster Hall
Sponsored by
Library
Audience
Public
More information
Morgan Swan