Hope and Truth in Narrative Oncology: Dr. Brian Quaranta Abstract Session - HippSoc Conference 2026

Recorded at the 2nd Annual Hippocratic Society Conference, this talk works through the question using two texts Dr. Quaranta teaches at Duke: Stephen Jay Gould's essay "The Median Isn't the Message," written after his own diagnosis with an incurable cancer, and Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film Ikiru, in which a Tokyo bureaucrat is lied to about his stomach cancer and must decide what to do with the months he has left.