Sublime

Zalmen Gradowski.

Quand le professeur de psychologie, David Rosenhan, partit en congé sabbatique, j’ai accepté de reprendre son cours de premier cycle sur la psychopathologie, mais ce fut le dernier de ce genre que j’ai donné. J’ai peu à peu délaissé la science médicale, mon affiliation d’origine, pour les sciences humaines. Ce fut une période de passion, mais aussi

What the book did at the time was to bring slavery out into the open and show it for what it was, in human terms. No writer had done that before. Slavery had been argued over in the abstract, preached against as a moral issue, its evils whispered about in polite company. But the book made people at that time feel what slavery was about.

These five main characters—Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, William Lloyd Garrison, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Angela Davis—were arguably the most consistently prominent or provocative racial theorists of their respective lifetimes, writing and speaking and teaching racial (and nonracial) ideas that were as fascinating as they were original, influential

Our patients’ lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins.

while supposedly holding up his hands in surrender. The reportedly unjustified nature of the shooting sparks violent riots, stokes the Black Lives Matter movement, and creates a new protest gesture known as “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” It’s followed by a rash of black men ambushing and murdering police officers around the nation. But in 2015, the U.S.

I traveled along the back roads of Indiana to speak before small country Methodist congregations, always the only black person in the room. On more than one occasion, children of the congregation would rub my hand as if they thought the black was going to come off.

Nuland was a renowned surgeon-philosopher whose seminal book about mortality, How We Die, had come out when I was in high school but made it into my hands only in medical school. Few books I had read so directly and wholly