[Yale-readings] October 14: Ordinary Evening Reading Series -- Lisa Sanders and Jonathan Spence

[Kuhl, Nancy]

ORDINARY EVENING READING SERIES MERGES WEST AND EAST:

 DRS. LISA SANDERS AND JONATHAN SPENCE READ OF MEDICINE AND CHINA
Tuesday, October 14, 7pm





New Haven, CT: September 23, 2008: West meets East when the Ordinary Evening Reading Series presents medical doctor Lisa Sanders and noted China scholar Jonathan Spence for tales of medical mysteries and 17th century China at 7 PM on Tuesday, October 14 in the Mermaid Room, downstairs at The Anchor Bar, 272 College St. in New Haven.



..."What's amazing to me," the patient told me recently, "is that I went to dozens of doctors, had hundreds of tests, had gallons of blood taken, and Dr. Ichord made this diagnosis with just one question and a blood-pressure cuff. I couldn't believe it." The difference was that, unlike the other doctors who had seen this patient, Ichord knew what she was looking for."

- Lisa Sanders, "Diagnosis: Strange Spells", New York Times, June 15, 2008





"Zhang Dai lived a parade when the moon came out and the lanterns shone...Cost was no object in such a world. So Zhang Dai savored the sights and sounds of excess, the decorated boats that swirled around each other on the waterways crisscrossing the pleasure quarters of Nanjing, while flutes and drums played..."

                        - Jonathan Spence, Return to Dragon Mountain





Lisa Sanders, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine and a clinician educator in Yale's Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency program. She writes the popular "Diagnosis" column, which appears monthly in The New York Times Magazine. The popular Fox television show "House M.D." was inspired by her column and she now serves as a technical advisor for the show. At Yale, Dr. Sanders' research and practice focus on the treatment of overweight and obese patients and she is the author of The Perfect Fit Diet: How to Lose Weight, Keep it Off And Still Eat the Foods You Love.

Before entering medical school, Lisa was an Emmy Award-winning producer at CBS News, where she covered medicine and health. She is currently writing a book, titled Diagnosis, in which she looks at how doctors make, and sometimes don't make, the right diagnosis.

Professor Jonathan Spence teaches at Yale in the field of Chinese history from 1600 to the present, and on Western images of China since the middle ages. His most recent book is Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man (2007).

A past president of the American Historical Association, Jonathan is recognized as one of the foremost scholars of Chinese civilization from the 16th century to the present. His critically acclaimed book, The Search for Modern China, has become one of the standard texts on the last several hundred years of Chinese history. He has written and published extensively.

A native of England, Spence holds a bachelor's degree from Cambridge University and master's and doctoral degrees from Yale. His many honors include the Los Angeles Times History Prize in 1982, fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and membership to the Council of Scholars at the Library of Congress. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1988, and has been made a Companion of the Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, an honor given by the Queen of England for outstanding achievement.

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Ordinary Evening's Fall 2008 season promises a wide diversity of excellent writers: novelist Martha Southgate and fiction writer Liz Edelglass (11/18), and novelist Patricia Volk and non-fiction writer Charles Barber (12/16). We welcome drinkers and teetotalers alike and hope you can join us for what the New Haven Independent called "one of those unofficial civic ventures that make New Haven such a vibrant place."

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