Mon 10.29.12 | Assisted Dying; Memory and the Greeks

Marcia Angell, May Doctors Help You to Die? New York Review of Books

Marcia Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies Random House, 2005

An Iliad, adapted from Homer by Lisa Peterson & Denis O'Hare, at Berkeley Rep

Essays by Julie McCormick in the Berkeley Rep Magazine

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Should a physician ever help a terminally ill patient to end his or her life? Marcia Angell weighs in on what's called physician-assisted dying, which Massachusetts residents will vote on next week. And Julie McCormick discusses memory in the context of oral storytelling and the ancient Greeks; she also describes a new adaptation of The Iliad at Berkeley Rep.

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