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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 , 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.

1 --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.

2 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.

3 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.

4 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.

5 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.

6 --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

7 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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