Faculty Bibliography

KW - Motion pictures [Motion Picture] -- Perri Klass comments on some of the criticisms about the death of a lion in the new Disney animated film 'The Lion King.' While some say the death of the character may be too traumatic for children, Klass warns that if children's entertainment is 'purged of the powerful, we risk homogenization, predictability and boredom.'

Perri Klass reviews the book 'Doctors and Patients: What We Feel About You' by Peter H. Berczeller

A physician describes receiving two new patients--a healthy eight-year-old and nine-year-old who were also brand-new immigrants. She knew that there was a phenomenal story floating just out of her reach--bits of history and human suffering, politics, family life and national upheavel--all of which would go unexamined

The doctor-patient relationship is discussed. Medical skill and diagnostic acumen aren't worth much if a doctor can't connect with his or her patient

In The Lion King, which opens today, Mufasa, the king of beasts, is trampled in a wildebeest stampede as he saves his little cub, Simba. Mufasa's evil brother, Scar, who provoked the stampede to kill his brother and take over the lion kingdom, convinces Simba that he killed his father. The distraught cub leaves home, nearly dies and wanders the veldt until he grows up enough to return and challenge his usurping uncle

Perri Klass reviews the children's books 'Persephone and the Pomegranate: A Myth From Greece,' written and illustrated by Kris Waldherr, and 'Persephone,' retold and illustrated by Warwick Hutton

In 'The Lion King,' now playing throughout the Triad, Mufasa, the king of beasts, is trampled in a wildebeest stampede as he saves his little cub, Simba. Mufasa's evil brother, Scar, who provoked the stampede to kill his brother and take over the lion kingdom, convinces Simba that he killed his father. The distraught cub leaves home, nearly dies and wanders the veldt until he grows up enough to return and challenge his usurping uncle. Yes, the cub is tortured by guilt, thinking that he started the wildebeests running and is therefore responsible for his father's death. But even small children will have no trouble identifying whose fault it really is; Jeremy Irons gives the evil uncle, Scar, a personality worthy of the long and distinguished line of Disney cartoon villains. And cartoon villains have always had a certain license to be evil, just because they are not real people, and children can see that they are not. Note it was Bambi's mother who was killed off. Most Disney cartoon features have not included mothers at all; the title character in 'The Little Mermaid' has only a father, as do Princess Jasmine in 'Aladdin' and Belle in 'Beauty and the Beast.' Snow White and Cinderella, of course, have evil stepmothers. Bambi has a mother, but she dies; Dumbo's mother spends most of the movie locked up

KW - Television programs [Television Program] -- The medical matchup between two new TV programs--'Chicago Hope,' airing on CBS, and 'ER,' airing on NBC--is examined. Both shows are about doctors with relationship problems and embattled personal lives, but who put themselves on the line between life and death. 'ER's' Anthony Edwards, 'Chicago Hope's' Mandy Patinkin and 'ER' creator Michael Crichton are also profiled

A little boy with an ear infection developed a potentially severe reaction to a sulfa drug he had been given for the infection. The incident reminds his pediatrician of the complexities of making a proper diagnosis and determining the best medicine to use for each child

A pediatrician describes a case in which parents complained that their baby was constantly spitting up. The case turned out to be more complicated than a simple case of first-time parents; the one-month-old infant was diagnosed with pyloric stenosis, a condition in which the muscle around the stomach passage becomes too tightly clenched