Literature & Medicine: Blindness

A man is sitting at a traffic light one day waiting for the light to turn green and he suddenly goes blind. This is the "first blind man." Slowly this mysterious form of blindness, the like not known in the literature of modern medicine, spreads to the whole nation. As best we know, there is only one sighted person left in the realm. Thus begins Jose Saramago's "Blindness, the focus text for this discussion session of Literature and Medicine. Literature and Medicine is a series of reading/discussion programs that offers opportunities for health care professionals to reflect on the larger mission of medicine. Illinois' participation in the expansion of this Maine Humanities Council program is supported by a grant from the NEH. Developed by the Maine Humanities Council, this program brings the power of the humanities to the workplace, in this case the modern hospital, engaging health care professionals with humanistic perspectives and insights that help them do their work better. Based on participants' experiences in the Maine program, we believe Lit & Med helps to improve communications between patient and caregiver and between hospital staff.

This discussion session is limited to Central DuPage Hospital employees.

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