HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Doctor of Narrative Medicine

An interview with Rita Charon, 2018 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

By Jon Parrish Peede

HUMANITIES, Fall 2018, Volume 39, Number 4

Rita Charon

Rita Charon, 2018 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities

–Vincent Ricardel

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