Cancer


Art Film Literature


Art


Coe, Sue     At the Hospice (July 20)
Eakins, Thomas     The Agnew Clinic
Hodler, Ferdinand     The Dying Valentine Godé-Darel
Matuschka,     Matuschka Archive
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Sigler, Hollis     Hoping to Bring Her Life Together...It's Not Hard, It Just Takes Time
    To Kiss the Spirits: Now, This Is What It Is Really Like
Spence, Jo     Jo Spence Archive


Film


    Battlestar Galactica (2003)
    The Belly of an Architect
    The Body Beautiful
    The Brood
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    The Doctor
    God Said, Ha!
    Grave Words: Tools for Discussing End of Life Choices
    The Green Mile
    Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    Ikiru
    Madame Curie
    Marvin's Room
    My Life Without Me
    Opera Therapy
    Pieces of April
    Shadowlands
    Soft Fruit
    The Son's Room
    Terms of Endearment
    The Vanishing Line
    Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself)
    A Woman's Tale
    Worlds Apart: A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare
    Y Tu Mamá También (And your mother too)
    The Young Doctors


Literature


Abse, Dannie     In the Theatre (A true incident)
    The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas
Adolphsen, Peter     Machine
Adrian, Chris     A Better Angel
Aizley, Harlyn     Buying Dad
Appleman, Philip     Alive
Ariyoshi, Sawako     The Doctor's Wife
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Armstrong, Lance     Every Second Counts
    It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
Atwood, Margaret     Bodily Harm
Auden, W. H.     Miss Gee
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Ayers, Mary Alice     The Infinite Dark
Bach, Alice     Waiting for Johnny Miracle
Barker, Pat     Another World
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Barry, John M.     The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer
Barth, John     On with the Story
Bascom, George     Medicine Circle
Bass, Rick     The Lives of Rocks
Bazell, Josh     Beat the Reaper
Beauvoir, Simone de     A Very Easy Death
Beernink, K. D. (Kenneth Dale)     Ward Rounds
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Benn, Gottfried     Man and Woman Go through the Cancer Ward
Bennett, Cherie     Zink
Berg, Elizabeth     Talk Before Sleep
Berlin, Richard M.     Code Blue
    How JFK Killed My Father
Bertman, Sandra L.     Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
Bloch, Chana     In the Land of the Body
Bolton, Gillie     The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing: Writing Myself
Booth, Philip     Outlook
Brabner, Joyce     Our Cancer Year
Breast Cancer Fund, American Cancer Society     Art. Rage. Us.: Art and Writing by Women with Breast Cancer
Brown, John     Rab and His Friends
Broyard, Anatole     Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
Bryner, Jeanne     Eclipse
Bukowski, Charles     My Doctor
Burack-Weiss, Ann     The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Burney, Fanny     A Mastectomy: Letter to Esther Burney
Burrows, Adria     The Man Who Didn't Know He Had Cancer
Butler, Octavia     Imago
Butler, Sandra     Cancer in Two Voices
Campo, Rafael     Diva
Carmichael, A. G. & Ratzan, Richard M., eds.     Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature
Carroll, Robert     Amazing Change
Carruth, Hayden     Doctor Jazz: Poems 1996-2000
Carter, Alden R.     Sheila's Dying
Carver, Raymond     Gravy
    What the Doctor Said
    What the Doctor Said
    Where I'm Calling From
Caston, Anne     Flying Out with the Wounded
Chekhov, Anton P.     The Doctor
Chen, Pauline W.     Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Clary, Patrick     Dying for Beginners
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Clifton, Lucille     Amazons
    scar
Clyde, Mary     Survival Rates
Coetzee, J. M.     Age of Iron
    Slow Man
Cogan, Nancy Adams     In Strange Places
Conley, Frances K.     Walking Out on the Boys
Cook, Karin     What Girls Learn
Cooper, Bernard     The House of the Future
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     D Day, 1994
    The Man with Stars Inside Him
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Cumming, Deborah     Recovering from Mortality
Dark, Alice Elliott     In the Gloaming
Darling, J. & Fuller, C., eds.     The Poetry Cure
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Davis, C. & Schaefer, J., eds.     Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses
    Intensive Care
Davis, Cortney     The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
    I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body
Davis, Heather Choate     Baptism by Fire
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
DeMaine, Mary R.     Six Days
Dickey, James     The Cancer Match
Diedrich, Lisa     Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness
Dodd, Susan     The Mourner's Bench
Downie, Glen     Wishbone Dance
    An X-Ray of Longing
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan     Conan Doyle's Tales of Medical Humanism and Values
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Dunmore, Helen     The Betrayal
Dyak, Miriam     Dying
Dyer, Eric L.     Telling Him He Has Cancer of the Lung
Edson, Margaret     Wit
Eggers, Dave     A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Ehrenreich, Barbara     Welcome to Cancerland
Faber, Michel     Finesse
Ferris, Jean     Invincible Summer
Fies, Brian     Mom's Cancer
Fincke, Gary     Sorry I Worried You
Firlick, Katrina     Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Foster, P. & Swander, M., eds.     The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery
Foster, P., ed.     Minding The Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
Frick, Marlena     All the Days of His Dying
Fromm, Pete     The Topic of Cancer
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie     Staring: How We Look
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gawande, Atul     Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Gehrke, Steve     The Resurrection Machine
Gilbert, S. M., ed.     Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
Gilbert, Sandra     Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
Glass, Julia     Three Junes
Godwin, Gail     The Good Husband
Goedicke, Patricia     In the Hospital
Goldsmith, Barbara     Obsessive Genius. The Inner World of Marie Curie
Goldsmith, Ellen     No Pine Tree in this Forest is Perfect
Gordimer, Nadine     Get a Life
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Grace, Maggi Ann     Her Hair
Graham-Pole, John     Quick: A Pediatrician's Illustrated Poetry
Gray, Andrew     Heart of the Land
Grealy, Lucy     Autobiography of a Face
    Mirrorings
Groopman, Jerome E.     The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
    How Doctors Think
    Kirk
    The Last Deal
    Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
Gross, P., & Guernsey, D., eds.     Pulse: The First Year
Grover, Lorie Ann     Loose Threads
Guterson, David     East of the Mountains
Hacker, Marilyn     Cancer Winter
Hall, Donald     Life Work
    The Ship Pounding
    Without
Hall, Judith     St. Peregrinus' Cancer
Hamilton, Jane     The Short History of a Prince
Handler, Evan     Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors
Handler, Jessica     Invisible Sisters: A Memoir
Harr, Jonathan     A Civil Action
Harrington, Kent     The Good Physician
Haskell, Dennis     The Recognition
Hass, Robert     A Story about the Body
Hauerwas, Stanley     God, Medicine, and Suffering
Hawkins, A. H. & Ballard, J. O., eds.     Time to Go: Three Plays on Death and Dying, with Commentary on End-of-Life Issues
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker     Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
Heaney, Seamus     Out of the Bag
Hecht, Anthony     The Transparent Man
Helman, C., ed.     Doctors and Patients: An Anthology
Henderson-Holmes, Safiya     Snapshots of Grace
Hermann, Nellie     The Cure for Grief
Hermes, Patricia     You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye
Herwaldt, Loreen     Patient Listening: A Doctor's Guide
Holub, Miroslav     Intensive Care: Selected and New Poems
Hull, Jonathan     Losing Julia
Hurwin, Davida Wills     A Time for Dancing
Hutner, Elizabeth Hall     Life with Sam
Huxley, Aldous     Island
Huyler, Frank     The Laws of Invisible Things
Jablonski, Nina G.     Skin: A Natural History
Jacobstein, Roy     Ripe
Jauhar, Sandeep     Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
Johnson, Hillary     My Mother Dying
Jones, Alice     The Biopsy
    Gorgeous Mourning
Jones, Thom     40, Still at Home
    I Want to Live!
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Kadohata, Cynthia     Kira Kira
Kearney, Michael     Mortally Wounded. Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing
Keizer, Bert     Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
Kendrick, Leatha     Science in Your Own Back Yard
    Second Opinion
Kenney, Susan     In Another Country
    Sailing
Kenyon, Jane     Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
Kidder, Tracy     Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Kirklin, D. & Richardson, R., eds.     Medical Humanities: A Practical Introduction
Kis, Danilo     The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Klíma, Ivan     Rich Men Tend to Be Strange
Klawans, Harold     Defending the Cavewoman and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Kovner, Abba     Sloan-Kettering
Krauser, Paula     Tears
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Unaccustomed Earth
Lamott, Anne     Hard Laughter
    Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Leavitt, David     Equal Affections
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Lifshitz, L. H., ed.     Her Soul beneath the Bone: Women's Poetry on Breast Cancer
Livesey, Margot     Eva Moves the Furniture
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
    What Counts
Lodge, David     Thinks . . .
Lord, Catherine     The Summer of Her Baldness
Lorde, Audre     The Cancer Journals
Maddox, Brenda     Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Mann, Thomas     The Black Swan
Marchetto, Marisa Acocella     Cancer Vixen
Massad, Stewart     Casualties
Matthews, William     Dire Cure
    Dire Cure
Matuschka,     Barbie Gets Breast Cancer
McCabe, Eugene     Cancer
McClatchy, J. D. (Joseph Donald, Jr.)     My Mammogram
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McEwan, Ian     The Diagnosis
McLoughlin, J., ed.     On the Death of a Parent
McNally, Terrence     Lips Together, Teeth Apart
McPherson, Scott     Marvin's Room
Menick, Stephen     Dr. Rapallo
Metcalf, Tim     Cut to the Word
Middlebrook, Christina     Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Minot, Susan     Evening
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Soon: Tales from Hospice
Moller, David Wendell     Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying Among Inner-City Poor
Moore, Breanndan S.     Consoling Mrs. Byrne
Moore, Lorrie     People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk
Moraczewski, Thomas     Birth Sounds. Tales from Labor & Delivery
Moraga, Cherríe L.     Heroes and Saints
Morley, John David     The Anatomy Lesson
Mukand, Jon Arun     First Payment
Mukherjee, Siddhartha     The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Munro, Alice     Floating Bridge
Murray, Les     The Last Hellos
Murray, T. Jock     Reflections: Illness and Healing. The Art of Robert Pope
Myers, Art     Winged Victory, Altered Images: Transcending Breast Cancer
Myers, K. R., ed.     Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics
Nadler, Spencer     The Language of Cells: Life as Seen Under the Microscope
Neuhaus, Richard John     As I Lay Dying
Nielsen, Jerri     Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
Nuland, Sherwin B.     How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
    The Wisdom of the Body
O'Brien, Tim     The Lives of the Dead
O'Connell, Mary     Saint Ursula and Her Maidens
O'Connor, Mary Bradish     Say Yes Quickly
Ofri, D., et al., eds.     The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
Ofri, Danielle     Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
    Singular Intimacies: On Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Olsen, Tillie     Tell Me a Riddle
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin     The Mastectomy Poems
Pastan, Linda     Routine Mammogram
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Peck, Richard E.     Something for Joey
Pekar, Harvey     Our Cancer Year
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Picardie, Ruth     Before I Say Goodbye
Picoult, Jodi     My Sister's Keeper
Piercy, Marge     The Long Death
Pies, Ronald     Creeping Thyme
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Powers, Richard     Gain
    Operation Wandering Soul
Price, Reynolds     A Whole New Life
Pym, Barbara     Quartet in Autumn
Quindlen, Anna     One True Thing
Ramondetta, Lois     The Light Within: The Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and Patient Brought Together by Cancer
Raz, H., ed.     Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer
Raz, Hilda     Divine Honors
Remen, Rachel Naomi     My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
Rhett, K., ed.     Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis
Ribman, Ronald     Cold Storage, A Play in Two Acts
Rich, Adrienne     A Woman Dead In Her Forties
Robinson, Elizabeth Ann     The Soul of the Nurse
Rollin, Betty     First, You Cry, excerpt from
Rosenberg, Steven A.     The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer
Rosenblum, Barbara     Cancer in Two Voices
Roth, Philip     Patrimony, A True Story
Russell, Lori     One Last Time
Sarton, May     Recovering
Schaefer, Judy     Harvesting the Dew
Schaefer, Judy, ed.     The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-Poets
Schiedermayer, David L.     House Calls, Rounds, and Healings
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schneider-Braus, Kathleen     The Hypnotist
Schneiderman, Henry     Breast Cancer in the Family
    Father, Doctor, and the Great City: Poems and Drawings 1964-2003
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Balancing Acts
    So You're Going to Have a New Body !
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Selzer, Richard     Atrium: October 2001
    The Consultation
    The Doctor Stories
    The Exact Location of the Soul
    Lessons from the Art
    Letters to a Young Doctor
    Mercy
    Sarcophagus
    The Surgeon as Priest
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Sexton, Anne     The Operation
Shapiro, Alan     The Dead Alive and Busy
    Song and Dance
    Vigil
Shapiro, Dan     Mom's Marijuana
Shapiro, Johanna     The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry
Shapshay, S., ed.     Bioethics at the Movies
Sheed, Wilfrid     In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery
Shin, Nan     Diary of a Zen Nun: Every Day Living
Silbert, Layle     Losses
    Losses
Simpson, Helen     If I'm Spared
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Sissman, L. E. (Louis Edward)     A Deathplace
    Dying: A Resurrection, 1969
    Dying: An Introduction
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Smiley, Jane G.     A Thousand Acres
Smith, Larry     Leaning Together in the Storm
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr     The Cancer Ward
Sonnenblick, Jordan     Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Sontag, Susan     AIDS and Its Metaphors
    Illness as Metaphor
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Spark, Debra     Last Things
St. Andrews, B. A. (Bonnie)     The Healing Muse
    Oncological Cocktails
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Stein, Garth     The Art of Racing in the Rain
Stone, John     Two Dreams of Leukemia
Straus, Marc J.     Dr. Gold & Dr. Green
    Not God: A Play in Verse
    One Word
    One Word
    The Size of the Lesion
Studer, Constance     Prayer to a Purple God
Styron, William     A Tidewater Morning
Swanson, Julie A.     Going for the Record
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Tougaw, Jason Daniel     Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel
Trillin, Alice Stewart     Of Dragons and Garden Peas: A Cancer Patient Talks to Doctors
Trillin, Calvin     About Alice
Tyszka, Alberto Barrera     The Sickness
Updike, John     Endpoint and Other Poems
    Metamorphosis
vanMeenan, K. & Rossiter, C., eds.     Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Vivante, Arturo     By the Bedside
    Last Rites
Wadler, Joyce     My Breast
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Watts, H. David     Bedside Manners
    The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
    Taking the History
Weinberger, Florence     Carnal Fragrance
Wharton, Edith     Diagnosis
Wiggins, Marianne     Evidence of Things Unseen
Wilber, Ken     Grace and Grit
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Misgivings
    When
Williams, Miller     A Day in the Death
Williams, Terry Tempest     Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Williams, William Carlos     The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
Winawer, Sidney J.     Healing Lessons
Winckler, Martin     The Case of Dr. Sachs
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Winter, Alison     Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Yalom, Marilyn     A History of the Breast
Yolen, Jane     The Radiation Sonnets
Young, Audrey     What Patients Taught Me
Young, C. Dale     August