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A medical interpreter turned essayist examines the gap between clinical care and human experience. Gleason's Yale Prize-winning debut weaves personal illness, the AIDS crisis, and organ donation into a call for medicine that sees the whole person.
Literary event
Medical humanities
Award-winning author
Debut collection
Jonathan Gleason: Field Guide to Falling Ill
Old Fourth Ward


A medical interpreter turned essayist examines the gap between clinical care and human experience. Gleason's Yale Prize-winning debut weaves personal illness, the AIDS crisis, and organ donation into a call for medicine that sees the whole person.
Literary event
Medical humanities
Award-winning author
Debut collection
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