The Penn Memory Center hosted a Book Club meeting January 9 to discuss The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor, written by Harvard anthropologist and writer Arthur Kleinman, MD.
PMC Co-Director Jason Karlawish, MD, and PMC Scholar Emily Largent, RN, JD, PhD were joined by PMC and Penn Medicine faculty and staff, as well as caregivers of PMC patients. Discussion centered around the personal narrative of Kleinman’s caregiving experience in the book and drawing on the writings to apply to their own lives and careers in medicine.
The book club was a companion to Arthur Kleinman’s panel discussion and plenary lecture, “Caregiving As Moral Experience,” on Penn’s campus this past fall.