Home

  • facebook
  • twitter
  • rss feed
  • contact
  • Home
  • Books
    • Open Wound
    • Treating Dementia
  • Blog
  • Biography
  • Events
    • The Tragic Obsession Tour
    • Talks & Lectures
  • Gallery
  • Other People & Places

The Tragic Obsession Tour.....

A photodiary of the Tour.

Alexis St. Martin -- The Subject/Object of Beaumont's Obsession
Detail from the plaque near the Beaumont Homestead in Lebanon, CT
The house that William Beaumont grew up in. After he departed to make his fortune, he returned just once. The Tour will return.
Reading at The New School. October 11th, 2011.....
.... events got out of hand.
Reading at the NY Academy of Medicine. Discussions about how context and culture shape science. Dinner at Swifty's.
We gathered beneath the turret of Castle Hyatt for the 2011 GLiBA Trade Show
We followed strict etiquette.
We learned the wisdom of giving a dog a donut....
.... and signed stacks of books and met fascinating independent bookstore owners. OW is selected for GLiBA's Holiday catalogue!
A double header in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Look closely at the interior of the Traverwood library. Columns are trees.
Another double header - this time in Richmond, Virginia.
After Richmond, flew west to Santa Fe Institute to talk about Desktop Medicine.
Met these two pretty horses.
In Washington, DC, for two events, I did some work at the Library of Congress. Perhaps, WB did so too in year in DC ...
... and watched the Supreme Court hear the Mayo v Prometheus case -- gods of medicine versus the gods of industry.
I was browsing the "new books" table at the UClub's Library and discovered a friend!
Me and some of the attendees at Mount Sinai READS event in NYC this March.
Detail from one of Beaumont's desperate letters to get Alexis back with him, taken at Beaumont Archives in St. Louis.
Beaumont's book and my book together - strange marriage.
Detail from one of the woodcut prints of Alexis' wound as printed in Beaumont's book.
A club in Saint Louis.
Jack Truten shows me his notes on OPEN WOUND
Signing books and talking to readers at Saturn Books in Gaylord, Michigan. Awesome store!

Latest Blogs

  • Remarks delivered at the April 24, 2013 conference "Finding Humanity in Advanced Dementia," sponsored by the PNP Program at Washington University in St. Louis
  • A diary of The Tragic Obsession Tour
  • Prometheus v. Mayo -- how a supreme court ruling has freed biomarkers of the tyranny of private ownership. Now we await SCOTUS & The Myriad Case....
  • True or False: The US Constitution includes among our rights, the right to vote. Or, what is the Bauer-Ginsburg Commission going to do about those long lines at the polls?
  • Many thanks to Louise Aronson for “tagging” me in the Next Big Thing blog book tour.
  • Book Tour
  • Contact Jason Karlawish

Upcoming Events

  • St. Jude Clinical Research Book Club, Annual Book Club Special Event
  • A reading and lecture at the Historic Indian Agency House at Fort Winnebago in Portage, Wisconsin
  • Home
  • Books
  • Blog
  • Biography
  • Events
  • Gallery
  • Other People & Places

© Jason Karlawish San Diego Website Design by Gaslamp Media