Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

595. Narrative and Medicine: Interventions into the Life Cycle

7:15–8:30 p.m., 307, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Literature and Science

Presiding: Martha Stoddard Holmes, California State Univ., San Marcos

1. “Reimagining the Lifespan at the Frontiers of Biomedicine,” Susan Merrill Squier, Penn State Univ., University Park

2. “Beginning in the Luteal Phase: Narrative Knowledge and Conception,” Catherine Francis Belling, State Univ. of New York, School of Medicine

3. “Diagnostic Bracket Creep: SSRIs and the Pathologization of the Woman’s Life Cycle,” Jonathan M. Metzl, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Respondent: Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Brandeis Univ.

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