Abandonment


Art Film Literature


Art


Kahlo, Frida     The Broken Column
    Henry Ford Hospital
    Without Hope
Neel, Alice     Loneliness
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Smith, Kiki     Josephine
Tooker, George     Corporate Decision
    The Waiting Room
Van Gogh, Vincent     A Corridor in the Asylum


Film


    About Schmidt
    American Beauty
    Antonia's Line
    Arrowsmith
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    Born on the Fourth of July
    Children Underground
    The Color of Paradise
    Common Threads
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    The Deep
    Departures (Okuribito)
    Dialogues with Madwomen
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Dust to Dust (Por la libre)
    The Eighth Day
    Good Will Hunting
    Half-Nelson
    The Horseman on the Roof (Le Hussard Sur le Toit)
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    Illness as Experience
    The Keys to the House (Le chiavi di casa)
    Midnight Cowboy
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    My Life as a Dog [Mitt liv som hund]
    Mystic River
    Nell
    Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika)
    Nurse Edith Cavell
    Opera Therapy
    Ordinary People
    Persona
    Pieces of April
    The Plague
    Requiem for a Dream
    Respiro
    The Savages
    The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)
    The Secret Garden
    Smoke Signals
    Stevie
    Talk to Her (hable con ella)
    Three Colors: Blue
    Tsotsi
    Twin Falls Idaho
    The Waterdance
    Who the Hell Is Juliette? [Quién diablos es Juliette?]
    You Can Count on Me


Literature


Adair, Virginia Hamilton     Exit Amor
    One Ordinary Evening
Akhmatova, Anna     Twenty-First. Night. Monday.
Allison, Dorothy E.     Cavedweller
Anderson, M. F., ed.     Reflections from a Mud Puddle: Helping Children Cope and Grow
Andersson, Claes     Poems in Our Absence
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
Atwood, Margaret     Alias Grace
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Axelrod, David B.     Consent
Axline, Virginia M.     Dibs: In Search of Self
Ayers, Mary Alice     The Infinite Dark
Baca, Jimmy Santiago     A Place to Stand
Baer, William     The Unfortunates
Bakker, Gerbrand     The Twin
Balzac, Honore de     The Country Doctor
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Bauby, Jean-Dominique     The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bertman, S. L., ed.     Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy
Bertman, Sandra L.     Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
Betjeman, John     The Cottage Hospital
Betts, Doris     Souls Raised from the Dead
Bolin, Robert B.     Unwanted Inheritance
Breznik, Melitta     Night Duty
Brown, S., H., ed.     Echoes of War
Bryner, Jeanne     Smoke: Poems
Bukowski, Charles     My Doctor
Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden
Burroughs, Augusten     Running with Scissors
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Callanan, Maggie     Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying
Cambor, Kathleen M.     The Book of Mercy
Campbell, Robert     Nibbled to Death by Ducks
Campo, Rafael     Towards Curing AIDS
Carey, Peter     The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Carver, Raymond     Little Things
    Where I'm Calling From
Cather, Willa     Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Charach, Ron     Dungenessque
Charon, Rita     Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness
Chekhov, Anton P.     About Love
    An Anonymous Story
    Ariadne
    The Cherry Orchard
    The Grasshopper
    The House with an Attic
    Intrigues: Nine Stories by Anton Chekhov
    Kashtanka
    Lights
    Neighbors
    Peasant Wives
    Terror
    Wild Honey
Cohen, Marion Deutsche     Chronic Progressive
    Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse
    Epsilon Country
Cokal, Susann     Mirabilis
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     Tumbleweed
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
Crutcher, Chris     Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Cunningham, Michael     The Hours
Danticat, Edwidge     Breath, Eyes, Memory
Davidson, Jenny     Heredity
Davis, C. & Schaefer, J., eds.     Intensive Care
Davis, Cortney     I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body
Day, Sarah     Free Will
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
Derrida, Jacques     The Work of Mourning
Dickens, Charles     Bleak House
Didion, Joan     Blue Nights
    The Year of Magical Thinking
Diedrich, Lisa     Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee     A Perfect Life
Dostoevski, Fyodor Mikhailovich     Notes from Underground
Douglas, Ellen     Apostles of Light
Dow, Unity     Far and Beyon'
Doyle, Roddy     Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
Draper, Sharon M.     Forged by Fire
Dubus III, Andre     Townie
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Edwards, Kim     The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Eggers, Dave     A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
Emmott, Kirsten     How Do You Feel?
Ferris, Jim     The Hospital Poems
Fincke, Gary     Sorry I Worried You
Findley, Timothy     Pilgrim
Fischer, Maribeth     Stillborn
Flanagan, Richard     The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Flynn, Nick     Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Foer, Jonathan Safran     Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)     Where Angels Fear to Tread
Fraser, Sylvia     My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing
Frayn, Michael     Wild Honey
Frost, Robert     The Death of the Hired Man
Fugard, Athol     A Lesson from Aloes
Gallagher, Tess     Woodcutting on Lost Mountain
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Of Love and Other Demons
Garcia Morales, Adelaida     The South
Getsi, Lucia Cordell     Letter from the Rehabilitation Institute
Goldstein, Melissa Anne     Travels with the Wolf
Goldsworthy, Peter     Wish
Gonzales, Laurence     Lucy
Grant, Cynthia     The White Horse
Gray, Andrew     Heart of the Land
Grenfell, Wilfred T.     Adrift on an Ice Pan
Gruen, Sara     Ape House
Guilfoile, Kevin     Cast of Shadows
Hall, Donald     The Painted Bed
Hamilton, Virginia     The Planet of Junior Brown
Harding, Paul     Tinkers
Harjo, Joy     The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window
Harrison, Jeffrey     Incomplete Knowledge
Harvor, Elisabeth     Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker     Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
    A Small, Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them
Head, Bessie     A Question of Power
Hecht, Anthony     The Transparent Man
Hemingway, Ernest     A Natural History of the Dead
Hempel, Amy     In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
Herling, Gustaw     The Island
Hodgson, Barbara     The Sensualist
Hospital, Janette Turner     The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
Hugo, Victor Marie     The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Hull, Jonathan     Losing Julia
Hyde, Catherine Ryan     Becoming Chloe
Irving, John     A Widow for One Year
Izes, Joseph K.     Heartpains
James, Thomas     Letters to a Stranger
Jarrell, D. & Sukrungruang, I., eds.     What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Jolley, Elizabeth     Dingle the Fool
Jones, Alice     Gorgeous Mourning
Kafka, Franz     A Hunger Artist
Keneally, Thomas     The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Kenyon, Jane     Cesarean
Keyes, Daniel     Flowers for Algernon
Kingsolver, Barbara     Animal Dreams
Kipling, Rudyard     Kim
Kovalchik, Michael T.     Theo's Story
Krauser, Paula     Tears
L'Heureux, John     The Shrine at Altimara
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel     The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Unaccustomed Earth
Lawson, Henry     'Water Them Geraniums'
Ledger, Kate     Remedies
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
Levi, Primo     The Drowned and the Saved
Lieberman, Michael     Remnant
Linton, Simi     My Body Politic
Lynch, Thomas     Apparition & Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Mann, Thomas     Doctor Faustus
Mantel, Hilary     The Giant, O'Brien
Marchetto, Marisa Acocella     Cancer Vixen
Martin, Kimbra     Snapshots
Matute, Ana Maria     School of the Sun
    Soldiers Cry by Night
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     The Painted Veil
Maupin, Armistead     The Night Listener
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCormick, Patricia     My Brother's Keeper
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McGrath, Patrick     Dr. Haggard's Disease
Melville, Herman     Moby-Dick
Merwin, W. S.     Good People
Mistry, Rohinton     Family Matters
Monette, Paul     Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Moolten, David N.     Especially Then
Moore, Brian     The Doctor's Wife
Moran, Thomas     The Man in the Box
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Moss, Barbara Robinette     Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir
Mowry, Jess     Babylon Boyz
Murphy, Robert F.     The Body Silent
Murray, Les     Burning Want
Murray, T. Jock     Reflections: Illness and Healing. The Art of Robert Pope
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nichols, Peter     Joe Egg
Nolan, Han     Dancing on the Edge
Norris, Helen     Mrs. Moonlight
Nuland, Sherwin B.     Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
O'Brien, Edna     The Creature
O'Connor, Flannery     The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Oe, Kenzaburo     Aghwee the Sky Monster
Oliver, Mary     The Black Snake
Orr, Gregory     If There's a God . . .
Otsuka, Julie     When the Emperor Was Divine
Ozick, Cynthia     The Shawl
Paley, Grace     A Conversation with My Father
Pastan, Linda     The Death of a Parent
Pasternak, Boris     Doctor Zhivago
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pensack, Robert     Raising Lazarus
Pies, Ronald     Creeping Thyme
Pinter, Harold     A Kind of Alaska
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Powers, Richard     Operation Wandering Soul
Ray, David     The Endless Search: A Memoir
    One Thousand Years: Poems about the Holocaust
Raymond, Linda     Rocking the Babies
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Rogoff, Marianne     Silvie's Life
Roth, Philip     Everyman
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Roy, Arundhati     The God of Small Things
Russell, Lori     One Last Time
Salzman, Mark     Lying Awake
Saramago, José     Blindness
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schreck, Karen Halvorsen     The Slaughterhouse
Schulz, Bruno     Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Scully, Julia     Outside Passage
Seaver, Anne Mae Halgram     My World Now
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     Four Appointments with the Discus Thrower
    Pipistrel
Shafer, Audrey     The Mailbox
Shawn, Allen     Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
Simonds, Merilyn     The Convict Lover: A True Story
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Slavitt, David R.     The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation
Smith, Larry     Leaning Together in the Storm
Soderberg, Hjalmar     Doctor Glas
Solwitz, Sharon     Mercy
Sophocles,     Philoctetes
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Stone, Robert     Absence of Mercy
Stone, Ruth     In the Next Galaxy
Studer, Constance     Body Language
Sweet, Victoria     God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart)     Geriatric
Tilghman, Christopher     Things Left Undone
Toomer, Jean     Cane
Trumbo, Dalton     Johnny Got His Gun
Tucker, Neely     Love in the Driest Season
Urquhart, Jane     Away
Vann, David     Legend of a Suicide
Vernon, John     A Book of Reasons
Wadler, Joyce     My Breast
Walls, Jeannette     The Glass Castle
Warfield, Frances     Cotton in My Ears, excerpt from
Waring, Belle     Dark Blonde
Weigl, Bruce     Archeology of the Circle. New and Selected Poems
Weinberg, Richard B.     Communion
Weldon, Fay     The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Whelan, Gloria     A Time to Keep Silent
White, Kelley Jean     Late
    The Patient Presents
Wideman, John Edgar     newborn thrown in trash and dies
Wiesel, Elie     Open Heart
Wilkomirski, Binjamin     Fragments
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Misgivings
Williams, Lori Aurelia     Broken China
Williams, Terry Tempest     The Village Watchman
Williams, William Carlos     Jean Beicke
    Jean Beicke
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Wolff, Tobias     This Boy's Life: A Memoir
Wright, James     In Terror of Hospital Bills
    The Minneapolis Poem
Wright, Richard     Black Boy
Wurtzel, Elizabeth     Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
Yalom, Irvin     Lying on the Couch
Yount, John     The Trapper's Last Shot
Zimmer, Paul     The Tenth Circle