April 8 symposium on medicine, muse features Gladwell of New Yorker
Malcolm Gladwell
Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell will be the featured speaker at this year’s “Medicine and the Muse” symposium, which will also include art and music presentations by students from the School of Medicine.
The event is planned to take place at 5 p.m. April 8 in the Hewlett Auditorium on the main university campus (370 Serra Mall). The event is free and open to the public; however, seating is limited.
Gladwell, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1996, is known for exploring the reasons behind everyday phenomena. For instance, his 2009 book, What the Dog Saw, is a collection of essays on such topics as why some people choke while others panic, and the idea that genius is linked to precocity.
His other books include Outliers, which examines people who are extraordinarily accomplished; Blink, which probes the snap judgments we make; and The Tipping Point, which delves into the reasons behind social change.
The annual “Medicine and the Muse” symposium is sponsored by the Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration, and the Arts, Humanities and Medicine Program, which are both part of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. The event is supported by grants from the Vera M. Wall Center and the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Funds.
For more information about the symposium, please call 723-5760 or visit http://bioethics.stanford.edu/arts/.
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