The Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine Lectureship and Forum, Brown University School of Medicine

Special Feature The Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine Lectureship and Forum, Brown University School of Medicine Harriet Waltzer Sheridan was Professor of English and Dean of the College (1979-1987) at Brown University. Her experience with cancer and lengthy hospitalizations, however, brought her into the realm of literature and medicine, where she also became a valued teacher and colleague in the College of Medicine. To honor her contribution to Brown University, an annual lectureship and forum has been created in her name—the first such endowment for literature and medicine. We join the celebration of this tribute to Harriet Sheridan by printing an introduction to Professor Sheridan's life by Associate Dean Lynn C. Epstein, a poem commemorating Sheridan by Michael S. Harper, a drawing by Sheridan herself that appears on the plaque for the lectureship, and the inaugural lecture by Anne Hudson Jones. Harriet Sheridan was a gifted and generous woman, whose contribution to literature and medicine will continue to be felt by the colleagues and friends she leaves behind and by those she will bring together through these annual lectures. We thank Brown University School of Medicine for the opportunity to print the inaugural lecture in these pages. —Ed. Literature and Medicine 13, no. 2 (Fall 1994) 183 © 1994 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ...