Poverty


Art Film Literature


Art


Eakins, Thomas     The Gross Clinic
Kollwitz, Käthe     At the Doctor's (Beim Arzt)
Neel, Alice     Investigation of Poverty, Russell Sage Foundation
    T.B., Harlem
    Well Baby Clinic
Picasso, Pablo     The Old Guitarist (The Blind Guitarist)
    The Tragedy
Salgado, Sebastiao     An Uncertain Grace


Film


    Alice Neel
    Bramwell
    Bringing Out the Dead
    Casa de los Babys
    Children Underground
    The Citadel
    Death in the Seine
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Half-Nelson
    A Midwife's Tale
    Million Dollar Baby
    Miss Evers' Boys
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    Of Hopscotch and Little Girls
    Pieces of April
    Red Beard (Akahige)
    Requiem for a Dream
    Ridicule
    Robert Coles, Teacher
    Seducing Dr. Lewis (La Grande Séduction)
    Seraphine
    Smoke Signals
    Something the Lord Made
    Stevie
    Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot)
    The Syringa Tree
    Tsotsi
    Vera Drake
    Who the Hell Is Juliette? [Quién diablos es Juliette?]
    Yesterday


Literature


Akhmatova, Anna     Requiem
Allison, Dorothy E.     Bastard Out of Carolina
Arcana, Judith     What if your mother
Atwood, Margaret     Alias Grace
Author, Unknown     Indian Poem
Baca, Jimmy Santiago     Black Mesa Poems
    Child of the Sun--Gabriel's Birth (Sun Prayer)
    A Place to Stand
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Balzac, Honore de     The Country Doctor
    The Wild Ass's Skin (Le Peau de Chagrin)
Bambara, Toni Cade     A Girl's Story
Bamforth, Iain     Open Workings
Barrett, Andrea     Ship Fever
Berger, John     A Fortunate Man
Bewell, Alan     Romanticism and Colonial Disease
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     The Road to Wellville
Brink, Andre     The Wall of the Plague
Brooks, Gwendolyn     The Bean Eaters
Brown, Rebecca     The Gifts of the Body
Brown, S., H., ed.     Echoes of War
Bryner, Jeanne     Eclipse
    Smoke: Poems
Chamoiseau, Patrick     Texaco
Chekhov, Anton P.     An Attack of Nerves (A Nervous Breakdown)
    The Beggar
    The Horse Stealers
    A Journey to Sakhalin
    The New Villa
    On Official Business
    Oysters
    Peasant Wives
    The Princess
    Rothschild's Fiddle
Chisholm, Brock     Can People Learn to Learn?: How to Know Each Other
Clark-Sayles, Catharine     One Breath
Clifton, Lucille     forgiving my father
    in the inner city
    the lost baby poem
    Miss Rosie
    Miss Rosie
Coetzee, J. M.     Disgrace
Cokal, Susann     Mirabilis
Coles, Robert     A Festering Sweetness
    Lives of Moral Leadership
    Rumors of Separate Worlds
Connelly, Joe     Bringing Out the Dead
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     Complications
    Shall Inherit
    The Worm: Elderside Clinic, Jamaica
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Cronin, A. J. (Archibald Joseph)     The Citadel
Cule, John     The Wreath on the Crown: The Story of Sarah Jacob the Welsh Fasting Girl
d'Arzo, Silvio (Ezio Comparoni)     The House of Others
Dangarembga, Tsitsi     Nervous Conditions
Danticat, Edwidge     Breath, Eyes, Memory
Davis, Cortney     The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
Day, Sarah     Free Will
de Hartog, Jan     The Hospital
Dickens, Charles     Bleak House
    A Christmas Carol
    The Cricket on the Hearth
    A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
    The Old Curiosity Shop
    Our Mutual Friend
Doerr, Harriet     Stones for Ibarra
Donley, C. & Buckley, S., eds.     What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
Dow, Unity     Far and Beyon'
Draper, Sharon M.     Forged by Fire
Dubus III, Andre     Townie
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Ehrenreich, Barbara     Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
Emecheta, Buchi     The Joys of Motherhood
Emling, Shelley     The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Erdrich, Louise     Love Medicine
Fadiman, Anne     The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Faulkner, William     As I Lay Dying
Federspiel, J. F.     The Ballad of Typhoid Mary
Flanagan, Richard     The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Flynn, Nick     Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Foucault, Michel     Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Frost, Robert     The Death of the Hired Man
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Gaines, Ernest J.     A Lesson Before Dying
Galgut, Damon     The Good Doctor
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Living to Tell the Tale
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gawande, Atul     Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Grant, Cynthia     The White Horse
Green, Gerald     The Last Angry Man
    To Brooklyn with Love
Grim, Pamela     Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER
Guillen, Nicolas     Man-making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen
Hacker, Marilyn     Wednesday I.D. Clinic
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Hamilton, Virginia     The Planet of Junior Brown
Harjo, Joy     Mourning Song
    The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window
Healy, Margaret     Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics
Helman, Cecil     Suburban Shaman
Hilfiker, David     Not All of Us Are Saints
Hill, Kathleen     Still Waters in Niger
Hill, Lawrence     The Book of Negroes
Hirshhorn, Norbert     A Cracked River
Holman, Sheri     The Dress Lodger
Hosseini, Khaled     The Kite Runner
Humes, Harry     Butterfly Effect
Hyde, Catherine Ryan     Becoming Chloe
Jones, Lloyd     Mr. Pip
Kadohata, Cynthia     Kira Kira
Kaplan, Jonathan     The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Karlawish, Jason     Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont
Kidder, Tracy     Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Kingsolver, Barbara     Animal Dreams
    Homeland
    The Poisonwood Bible
Kipling, Rudyard     Kim
Koch, Christopher     The Year of Living Dangerously
Krysl, Marilyn     Soulskin
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel     The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Lau, Alan Chong     My Ship Does Not Need a Helmsman
Lawson, Henry     Brighten's Sister-in-Law
    'Water Them Geraniums'
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Le Carré, John     The Constant Gardener
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Levi, Carlo     Christ Stopped at Eboli
Levine, Philip     Listen Carefully
    The Poem of Chalk
Lewis, Richard     The Killing Sea
Lobo Antunes, Antonio     The Land at the End of the World
Mason, Daniel     The Piano Tuner
Masson, Veneta     Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill
Mastretta, Ángeles     Lovesick
Matton, Sylvie     Rembrandt's Whore
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     Of Human Bondage
McConkey, James     To a Distant Island
McCourt, Frank     Angela's Ashes
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McKay, Ami     The Birth House
Millay, Edna St. Vincent     Love Is Not All; It Is Not Meat nor Drink
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Mohr, Jean     A Fortunate Man
Mokeddem, Malika     The Forbidden Woman
Moller, David Wendell     Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying Among Inner-City Poor
Moraga, Cherríe L.     Heroes and Saints
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Moss, Barbara Robinette     Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir
Mowry, Jess     Babylon Boyz
Munro, Alice     The Time of Death
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik     The Story of San Michele
Murray, John     Watson and the Shark
Naylor, Gloria     The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories
Neumayr, Anton     Music and Medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nuland, Sherwin B.     Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
O'Brien, Edna     The Creature
Oatley, Keith     A Natural History: A Novel
Offutt, Chris     Out of the Woods
Olsen, Sylvia     The Girl With a Baby
Olsen, Tillie     I Stand Here Ironing
Pasternak, Boris     Doctor Zhivago
Pears, Iain     An Instance of the Fingerpost
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Perkins, Fionna     The Changes
Perry, Anne     A Sudden, Fearful Death
Phi, Bao     Sông I Sing
Piercy, Marge     Out of Sight
Pollan, Michael     The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Pollitt, Katha     Why I Hate Family Values
Porter, Pamela     The Crazy Man
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Powers, Richard     Operation Wandering Soul
Proulx, E. Annie     Bedrock
    The Shipping News
Ray, David     The Endless Search: A Memoir
    The Progress of the Soul
Rich, Susan     The Cartographer's Tongue
Rios, Alberto     The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
Rothman, D. J.,et al., eds.     Medicine and Western Civilization
Sacks, Oliver     Oaxaca Journal
Salber, Eva J.     The Mind is Not the Heart
Sappol, Michael     A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Schnitzler, Arthur     Blind Geronimo and His Brother
Schweitzer, Albert     Out of My Life and Thought
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     Luis
    Toenails
Shawn, Wallace     The Fever
Sherwood, Joan     Infection of the Innocents: Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Simpson, Louis     Typhus
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Slocum, Milton Jonathan     Manhattan Country Doctor: A Memoir
Soto, Gary     Living up the Street
    TV in Black and White
Souljah, Sister     The Coldest Winter Ever
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Squiers, Carol     The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Stein, Gertrude     Three Lives
Steinbeck, John     The Pastures of Heaven
    Sweet Thursday
Sweet, Victoria     God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Takakuwa, K. M., et al., eds.     What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors
Toomer, Jean     Cane
Tsypkin, Leonid     Summer in Baden-Baden
Tucker, Neely     Love in the Driest Season
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Viramontes, Helena Maria     Under the Feet of Jesus: A Novel
Wait, Lea     Finest Kind
Walls, Jeannette     The Glass Castle
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Weldon, Fay     The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Wharton, Edith     Ethan Frome
Whelan, Gloria     A Time to Keep Silent
White, Kelley Jean     Late
    The Patient Presents
Wideman, John Edgar     newborn thrown in trash and dies
Williams, Lori Aurelia     Broken China
Williams, William Carlos     The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
    The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams
    Complaint
    The Girl with a Pimply Face
    The Girl with a Pimply Face
    Jean Beicke
    Portrait of a Woman in Bed
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Wright, James     In Terror of Hospital Bills
    The Minneapolis Poem
Wright, Richard     Black Boy
Young, Audrey     The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital
    What Patients Taught Me
Young, Ian     The Private Life of Islam
Yount, John     The Trapper's Last Shot