Healthcare and Humanity Reading Series

Abstract: Inspired by interviews with female critical care physicians on the frontlines of the COVID pandemic, and by Ernest Hemingway’s groundbreaking World War I novel set against the backdrop of a pandemic nearly 100 years earlier, this new play weaves together Hemingway’s In Our Time with firsthand accounts of women ICU doctors. It presents a moving, poetic account of two pandemic eras echoing with parallel themes of loss, grief, and alienation. Hiawatha Project will present a reading of this new play as part of the Healthcare and Humanity Reading Series, with a talkback led by Theresa Brown.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Bioethics & Health Law and City of Asylum, this series is curated by Theresa Brown, RN, author of The Shift and Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient, and features works that explore experiences of health, healthcare, and embodiment.