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Ball, Tamara Dale Search for wholeness: the adventures of a doctor-patient
Berger, John A Fortunate Man
Bryant, Daniel A Roster of Twentieth Century Physicians Writing in English
Burrows, Adria The Man Who Didn't Know He Had Cancer
Charon, Rita To Render the Lives of Patients
Coles, Robert Medical Ethics and Living a Life
Cousins, Norman Anatomy of an Illness (As Perceived by the Patient)
Dickens, Charles A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Dillard, Annie Holy the Firm
Ehrenreich, Barbara The Sexual Politics of Sickness
Welcome to Cancerland
Fischer, Maribeth Stillborn
Fowles, John from The Pleasure of Reading
Gawande, Atul The Bell Curve
Whose Body is it Anyway?
Grealy, Lucy Mirrorings
Green, Jack Peter Physicians Practicing Other Occupations, Especially Literature
Hall, Donald Out the Window
Harrison, Kathryn Saint Catherine of Siena: Catherine Means Pure
Herschberger, Ruth josie takes the stand
Hilfiker, David Mistakes
Hornby, Nick Introduction to Talking with the Angel
Houston, Pam Out of Habit, I Start Apologizing
Hurston, Zora Neale My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience
Izes, Joseph K. Heartpains
Kass, Leon R. The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man's Estate?
Kovalchik, Michael T. Theo's Story
Krauser, Paula Tears
LeGuin, Ursula K. The Space Crone
Lifton, Robert J. Sterilization and the Nazi Biomedical Vision
Mairs, Nancy On Being a Cripple
Matuschka, Barbie Gets Breast Cancer
McCann, Richard The Resurrectionist
McPhee, John Heirs of General Practice
Mead, Rebecca Eggs for Sale
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
Montaigne, Michel de Of Experience
Moore, Breanndan S. Consoling Mrs. Byrne
Murray, T. Jock Reflections: Illness and Healing. The Art of Robert Pope
Osler, William Aequanimitas
Phelan, Peggy To Suffer a Sea Change
Potter, P. & Drotman, D.P., eds. Another Dimension
Radetsky, Michael Sudden Intimacies
Raeburn, Daniel Vessels
Rushdie, Salman Is Nothing Sacred? The Herbert Read Memorial Lecture
Scarlett, Earle What Is a Profession?
Schneider-Braus, Kathleen The Hypnotist
Schoemperlen, Diane The Spacious Chambers of Her Heart
On Looking Further into the Bodies of Men
Body Language
Forms of Devotion
Seaver, Anne Mae Halgram My World Now
Selzer, Richard Raising the Dead
An Absence of Windows
The Exact Location of the Soul
The Surgeon as Priest
Lessons from the Art
Shaykh, Hanan al- Inside a Moroccan Bath
Shem, Samuel (Stephen Bergman) Fiction as Resistance
Spark, Debra Last Things
Thomas, Lewis House Calls
Trillin, Alice Stewart Of Dragons and Garden Peas: A Cancer Patient Talks to Doctors
Verghese, Abraham The Physician as Storyteller
Weinberg, Richard B. Communion
Williams, William Carlos Of Medicine and Poetry
The Practice
Woolf, Virginia On Being Ill