‘Slow Road to Healing’

JOHNSON CITY (Oct. 30, 2018) – “Slow Road to Healing” is the topic of a talk to be delivered by Dr. Victoria Sweet on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 6 p.m. in the Grand Soldiers Ballroom at the Carnegie Hotel on State of Franklin Road.

Sweet is a physician, Guggenheim Fellow of Medical History and author of two books, “God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine” and “Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing.”

Her free public talk, which will focus on the “slow medicine movement,” or “spending time to save money” in modern health care, will be followed by a book-signing and light reception.

The event is sponsored by East Tennessee State University’s Medical Professions Advisement, Culture and Health Minor Program in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Honors College, Academic Health Sciences Center deans, and departments of Biological Sciences, Appalachian Studies and Philosophy and Humanities.

For more information, contact Dr. Melissa Schrift, ETSU professor of Sociology and Anthropology, at schrift@etsu.edu.  For disability accommodations, call the ETSU Office of Disability Services at 423-439-8346.