Books, Films, and Medical Humanities
Films
50/50, 2011
Amour, 2012
And the Band Played On, 1993
Awakenings, 1990
Away From Her, 2006
A Beautiful Mind, 2001
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 2007
In The Family, 2011
The Intouchables, 2011
Iris, 2001
My Left Foot, 1989
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 1975
Philadelphia, 1993
Rain Man, 1988
Silver Linings Playbook, 2012
The Station Agent, 2003
Temple Grandin, 2010
21 grams, 2003
Patch Adams, 1998
Wit, 2001
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, 2009
Awake, 2007
Something the Lord Made, 2004
Medicine Man, 1992
The Doctor, 1991
The Good Doctor, 2011
Side Effects, 2013
Books
History/Biography
Elmer, Peter and Ole Peter Grell, eds. Health, disease and society in
Europe, 1500-1800: A Source Book. 2004.
Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical
Perception. 1963.
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--Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.
1964.
Gilman, Ernest B. Plague Writing in Early Modern England. 2009.
Harris, Jonathan Gil. Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic:
Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England. 1998.
Healy, Margaret. Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England:
Bodies, Plagues and Politics. 2001.
Lindemann, Mary. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe.
1999.
Markel, Howard. An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William
Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine. 2011.
Morris, David B. The Culture of Pain. 1991.
Moss, Stephanie and Kaara Peterson, eds. Disease, Diagnosis and
Cure on the Early Modern Stage. 2004.
Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of
Cancer. 2010.
Newman, Karen. Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality.
1996.
Porter, Roy. Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine. 2002.
Rey, Roselyne. The History of Pain. 1993.
Sawday, Jonathon. The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the
Human Body in Renaissance Culture. 1995.
Art History/Cultural History
Adams, Laurie Schneider. Art and Psychoanalysis. 1994.
Anderson, Barnes, and Shackleton, eds. The Art of Medicine: Over
Two Hundred Years of Images and Imagination. 2012.
Bergstein, Mary. Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Philosophy, and the
History of Art. 2010.
Donahue, M. Patricia. Nursing, The Finest Art: An Illustrated History.
2010.
Eakins, Thomas. Art, Medicine and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century
Philadelphia. 2007.
Givens, Jean. Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History,
1200-1500. 2006.
Greenspan, Robert. Medicine: Perspectives in History and Art. 2006.
Sheehan, Tanya. Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in
Nineteenth-Century America. 2011.
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Hansen, Julie. The Physician’s Art: Representations of Art and
Medicine. 1999.
Spivey, Nigel Jonathon. Enduring Creation: Art, Pain and Fortitude.
2001.
Stafford, Barbara Maria. Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in
Enlightenment Art and Medicine. 1993.
Gender
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the
Construction of Sexuality. 2000.
Foucault, Michel. Herculin Barbin. 1978.
Morris, Jan. Conundrum. 1974.
Global Health/Health Disparities
Abraham, Laurie. Mama Might be Better off Dead: The Failure of
Health Care in Urban America. 1993.
Fink, Sherri. Five Days at Memorial. 2013
Farmer, Paul. To Repair The World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next
Generation. Ed. Jonathon Weigel. 2013.
----, Aids and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. 1992.
----, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. 1999.
Kidder, Tracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains. 2004.
Knaul, Felicia Marie. Beauty Without the Breast. 2012.
Narrative, Health, Medicine
Charon, Rita. Narrative Medicine: Honoring Stories of Illness. 2006.
DasGupta, Sayantani and Marsha Hurst, eds. Stories of Illness and
Healing: Women Write Their Bodies. 2007.
Gilman, Sander L. Disease and Representation: Images of Illness
from Madness to AIDS. 1988.
Jurecic, Ann. Illness as Narrative. 2012.
Kleinman, Arthur. The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the
Human Condition. 1988.
Mattingly, Cheryl and Linda C. Garro, eds. Narrative and the Cultural
Construction of Illness and Healing. 2000.
Mitchell, David T. and Sharon L. Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis:
Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse. 2000.
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Morris, David B. The Culture of Pain. 1993.
Tanner, Laura E. Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and
Death. 2006.
Wald, Priscilla. Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak
Narrative. 2008.
Disability Studies
Berube, Michael. Life As We Know It.
Crutchfield, Susan and Nancy Epstein, eds. Points of Contact:
Disability, Art and Culture. 2000.
Davis, Lennard J., Ed. The Disability Studies Reader. 1997.
Dicks, Matthew. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend. 2012.
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring
Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. 1997.
Grosz, Elizabeth. Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism.
1994.
Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nighttime. 2003.
Linton, Simi. Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity. 1998.
Meyer, Don, Ed. The Sibling Slam Book: What It’s Really Like to Have
a Brother or Sister With Special Needs. 2005.
Mitchell, David and Sharon Snyder, eds. The Body and Physical
Difference: Discourses of Disability. 1997.
Safer, Jeanne. The Normal One: Life with a Difficult or Damaged
Sibling. 2002.
Snyder, Sharon. Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities. 2002.
Solomon, Andrew. Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the
Search for Identity. 2012.
Literature
Camus, Albert. The Plague. 1947.
Defoe, Daniel. Journal of the Plague Year. 1722.
Heaney, Seamus. The Cure at Troy. 1991.
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. 1963.
Bernard, Pomerance. The Elephant Man. 1977
Shakespeare. Richard III. 1597.
--. The Tempest. 1611.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. Cancer Ward. 1968.
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Sophocles. Philoctetes. 409 BCE.
Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilych. 1886.
Memoir
Boesky, Amy. What We Have (2010)
--The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics (ed), 2013.
Brown, Harriet. Brave Girl Eating: A Family’s Struggle with Anorexia.
2010.
Brown, Ian. The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Journey to Understand
his Extraordinary Son. 2009.
Broyard, Anatole. Intoxicated By My illness and Other Writings on
Life and Death. 1992.
Burroughs, Augustan. Dry. 2003.
Cody, Joshua. [sic]. 2011.
Cohen, Leah Hager. Train Go Sorry: Inside A Deaf World. 1994.
Corrigan, Kelly. The Middle Place. 2005.
Didion, Joan. Blue Nights. 2011.
--. The Year of Magical Thinking. 2005.
Doty, Mark. Dog Years: A Memoir. 2007.
Dunsford, Clare. Spelling Love with an X: A Mother, a Son, and the
Gene That Binds Them. 2008.
Fox, Michael J. Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable
Optimist. 2009.
Gabriel, Sarah. Eating Pomegranates: A Memoir of Mothers,
Daughters, and the BRCA Gene. 2009.
Gottlieb, Lori. Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self. 2000.
Grealy, Lucy. Autobiography of a Face. 1994.
Gubar, Susan. Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian
Cancer. 2012.
Henry, DeWitt, Ed. Sorrow’s Company: Writers on Loss and Grief.
2001.
Hood, Ann. Comfort: A Journey Through Grief. 2008.
--. Drinking: A Love Story. 1996.
Manguso, Sara. Two Kinds of Decay. 2008.
Norton, Meredith. Lopsided. 2008.
O’Rourke, Megan. The Long Goodbye: A Memoir. 2011.
Queller, Jessica. Pretty Is What Changes. 2008.
Rieff, David. Swimming In a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir. 2008.
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Simon, Rachel. Riding The Bus With My Sister: A True Life Journey.
2002.
Strayed, Cheryl. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.
2012.
Addiction
Burroughs, Augusten. Dry
Carr, David. The Night of the Gun. 2008.
Knapp, Caroline. Drinking: A Love Story. 1996.
-- Appetites: Why Women Want. 2003.
Markel, Howard. An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William
Halstead, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine. 2011.
Mental Health (memoir)
Casey, Nell. Unholy Ghost. 2002
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. 1892.
Hornbacher, Marya. Wasted. 1998.
Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind. 1995.
Kaysen, Susan. Girl, Interrupted. 1993.
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. 1963.
Spiro, Carolyn and Pamela Spiro Wagner. Divided Minds. 2006.
Styron, William. Darkness Visible. 1990.
Tracey, Patrick. Stalking Irish Madness. 2008.
Wickersham, Joan. The Suicide Index. 2008.
Wurtzel, Elizabeth. Prozac Nation. 1994.
Neurology
Ackerman, Diane. One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a
Marriage, and the Language of Healing. 2011.
Bauby, Jean-Dominique. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. 1997.
Bolte Taylor, Jill. My Stroke of Insight. 2006.
Genova, Lisa. Left Neglected. 2011.
Sacks, Oliver. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales.
1995.
--The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. 1985.
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--Seeing Voices. 1989.
Writing by Health Care Practitioners
Byock, Ira. The Best Possible Care: A Physician’s Quest to Transform
Care Through the End of Life. 2012.
Das Gupta, Sayantari. Her Own Medicine: A Woman’s Journey from
Student to Doctor. 1999.
Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal. 2014.
--The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right. 2011
--Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science. 2002.
--Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance. 2007.
Groopman, Jerome. How Doctors Think. 2007.
I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: Essays on Nursing
Klass, Perri. Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician’s Training. 1992.
Nuland, Sherwin B. The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside.
2010.
Sulmasy, Daniel P. The Rebirth of the Clinic: An Introduction to
Spirituality in Health Care. 2006.
Sulmasy, Daniel P. A Balm for Gilead: Meditations on Spirituality and
the Healing Arts. 2006.
Transue, Emily. On Call: A Doctor’s Days and Nights in Residency.
2004.
Williams, William Carlos. The Doctor Stories. 1932.
Verghese, Abraham. Cutting for Stone. 2009.
Verghese, Abraham. The Tennis Partner. 1998.
Williams, Carlos Williams. The Doctor Stories. 1984.
Culture, Health and Ethics
Becker, Howard, Blanche Geer, Everett C. Hughes, and Anselm L.
Strauss. Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School. 1976.
Burns Coleman, Elizabeth & Kevin White, eds. Medicine, Religion,
and the Body. 2009.
Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A
Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two
Cultures. 1997.
Fritz Cates, Diana & Paul Lauritzen, eds. Medicine and the Ethics of
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Care. 2002.
Katz, Jay. The Silent World of Doctor and Patient. 1984.
Kleinman, Arthur. Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture: An
Exploration of the Borderland between Anthropology, Medicine
and Psychiatry. 1981.
Martone, Marilyn. Over the Waterfall. 2011.
Ramsey, Paul et al. The Patient as Person, Second edition:
Exploration in Medical Ethics. 2002.
Skloot, Henrietta. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. 2010.
“Beauty” and Body
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and
the Body. 1993.
Woolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used
Against Women. 1991.
Poetry
Anya Silver, The 93rd Name of God
--I Watched You Disappear
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