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Exhibit combines medicine, literature

By Whitney Harris
On March 3, 2010

Prairie View A&M University students, faculty and friends had the opportunity to experience medicine and literature during the Literature of Prescription showcase of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "The Yellow Wallpaper" hosted by the Undergraduate Medical Academy during the last month.

Ola Riley, UMA librarian, submitted a request to the National Library of Medicine for the exhibit in an effort to show how all of the academic disciplines are related.



"'The Yellow Wallpaper," is a literary work but it has a lot of medicine issues in it," Riley said.



Gilman credits her success with her writing to her doctor who diagnosed her with depression, and recommended that she became domestic.



Riley hopes that students will also be able to recognize how much the culture has changed since the 1800s yet Gilman's goals for herself are similar to students at Prairie View.



"The fact that the author talks about where she was, her ability to succeed, and her independence for a woman at that time is fascinating," Riley said.


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