Many of those teaching at the intersection of medicine and the humanities are siloed within institutional spaces. This essay recounts the teaching of Sarah Manguso’s The Two Kinds of Decay to students across different academic contexts and considers what we can learn when we put classrooms in conversation with each other. This essay argues for the value of texts like Manguso’s, which explicitly hold the narrating subject and form of illness narrative up for critical examination. The authors call for more collaborative teaching, which has special resonance in the health humanities, where conversations already depend on bridging disciplines and listening to the stories others can tell.

许多在医学和人文学科交叉领域的教学都被孤立在机构空间内。这篇文章讲述了莎拉·曼古索 (Sarah Manguso) 对不同学术背景的学生的两种衰变的教学，并思考了当我们让课堂相互对话时我们可以学到什么。这篇文章论证了像 Manguso 这样的文本的价值，这些文本明确地将叙事主题和疾病叙事形式置于批判性检验之下。作者呼吁更多的协作教学，这在健康人文学科中引起了特殊的共鸣，其中的对话已经依赖于桥接学科和倾听其他人可以讲述的故事。