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LAWRENCE HALL OF SCIENCE BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720
A RESEARCH CENTER IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
(415-642-4193)

January 5, 1979

Professor Joshua Lederberg
Department of Genetics

Stanford University Medical School
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Professor Lederberg:

A few years ago we had corresponded about your interest in the image
of the scientist and of the physician in literature. At the Modern
Language Association's meeting in New York last week, I came across a
whole group of people interested in exactly those topics. The occasion
was an organizing meeting for what may become a society on medicine and
literature. They discussed mostly the role of literature in medical
education. Much reference was made to the Society for Health and Human
Values based in Philadelphia.

One of the panelists, James C. Cowan, University of Arkansas, had as
a special interest the image of the physician in literature. Panelist
Joanne Trautmann, Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University,
seemed the best informed on the Society for Health and Human Values, and
she had an extensive bibliography. Harold Gene Moss, Division of Education
Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities, described
programs in medicine and literature that he was supporting and would like
to support.

I hope at least a few of these references are new and useful to you.
My own work has continued in the use of physical sciences in literature,
but I have not looked much at the image of the scientist himself, One
project this year, however, is an examination of the image of Albert Einstein.

Sincerely,

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Alan J. Friedman eens ieee
Lawrence Hall of Science

 

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P.S. Did I send you this? Millon Millhauser, Nineteenth-Century Fiction,
December 28, 1973, pp. 287-304, 'Dr. Newton and Mr. Hyde: Scientists
in Fiction from Swift to Stevenson,"

 

 

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