Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Online conversation with Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Bowdoin College’s McKeen Center for the Common Good will be hosting an online conversation with Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down.  For those of you who have not read it, this book is a wonderful treatment of the importance of cultural competency in medicine.

This will be a live event with viewer participation streamed on Bowdoin's website on Tuesday, April 1st at 8:00 p.m. (EST).   Professor Susan Bell (Sociology and Anthropology) and Professor Steve Loebs (Research Associate of McKeen Center and Professor Emeritus, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University)  will moderate a conversation on The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman.  Professors Bell and Loebs will be joined by the author to discuss the book and answer questions e-mailed in by viewers.  See flyer for more information.