Technology


Art Film Literature


Art


Chartran, Theobold     Laennec Listening with his Ear Against the Chest of a Patient at the Necker Hospital
Gilbert and George,     A.D. (1987)
Goya, Francisco     Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, 3rd May 1808
Kapoor, Anish     Cloud Gate
Layton, Elizabeth     The Courtroom
Murakami, Takashi     Inochi
Picasso, Pablo     Guernica
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Scherer, Deidre     Surrounded by Family and Friends
Warhol, Andy     Red Disaster (one of two panels)
Worsham, Erin Brady     Breathtaking Metamorphosis
    Mind, Body, Spirit


Film


    Anatomy (Anatomie)
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    Battlestar Galactica (2003)
    Bethune: The Making of a Hero
    Brain Candy
    Dead Ringers
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Docteur Laennec
    Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
    Fantastic Voyage
    Gattaca
    Grave Words: Tools for Discussing End of Life Choices
    The Great Moment
    Innerspace
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Madame Curie
    Made in America
    Mind Talk: The Brain's New Story
    A Modern Affair
    Osmosis Jones
    Outbreak
    Puncture
    Road to Wellville
    Sicko
    Something the Lord Made
    Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy
    The Vanishing Line
    Vera Drake
    The Young Doctors


Literature


Aizley, Harlyn     Buying Dad
Alden, Paulette Bates     Crossing the Moon: A Journey Through Infertility
Anand, Geeta     The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million--and Bucked the Medical Establishment--in a Quest to Save His Children
Andrews, Tom     The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle
    A Language of Hemophilia
Atwood, Margaret     Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Auden, W. H.     The Art of Healing
Bérubé, Michael     Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
Barry, John M.     The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
Battin, Margaret Pabst     Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
Bauby, Jean-Dominique     The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bell, Marvin     Frankenstein's Monster
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Berry, Wendell     Fidelity
Biro, David     One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Booth, Philip     Outlook
Borges, Jorge Luis     The Immortals
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     The Road to Wellville
Brock, Pope     Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Brooks, Dorothy Howe     Life Support
Butler, Octavia     Imago
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Campo, Rafael     Technology and Medicine
Carmichael, A. G. & Ratzan, Richard M., eds.     Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature
Carter III, Albert Howard     Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned
Castillo, Ana     So Far from God
Chen, Pauline W.     Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Coulehan, Jack     The Dynamizer and the Oscilloclast: in memory of Albert Abrams, an American quack
    The Resurrection Trade: William Burke, grave robber, Edinborough 1792-1829
    To the Heart of Lazar Riverius, Galenist Physician
Cozzi, Phillip J.     Concerning Emma
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Davidson, Jenny     Heredity
DeLillo, Don     White Noise
DeMaine, Mary R.     Six Days
Didion, Joan     The Year of Magical Thinking
Downie, Glen     An X-Ray of Longing
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
    Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life
Edson, Margaret     Wit
Elliott, C. & Lantos, J., eds.     The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Estrin, Marc     Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
Faber, Michel     Under the Skin
Ferris, Jim     The Hospital Poems
Fishbein, Julie Deane     Katherine
Foerster, Richard     Isolation Ward
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)     The Machine Stops
Foster, P., ed.     Minding The Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
Friedland, Gerald W. Friedman, Meyer     Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Gawande, Atul     Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Gehrke, Steve     The Resurrection Machine
George, Sara     The Beekeeper's Pupil
Gerritsen, Tess     Life Support
Ghosh, Amitav     The Calcutta Chromosome
Glowney, John     Word of the Cure
Goldsmith, Ellen     No Pine Tree in this Forest is Perfect
Gonzales, Laurence     Lucy
Gray, Spalding     Gray's Anatomy
Groopman, Jerome E.     How Doctors Think
    Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
Gross, Alan G.     Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present
Guilfoile, Kevin     Cast of Shadows
Haddix, Margaret Peterson     Fine?
Hall, Stephen S.     Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension
Hansen, Bert     Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
Hansen, Julie V.     The Physician's Art: Representations of Art and Medicine
Harper, Michael S.     Nightmare Begins Responsibility
Hawking, Stephen     Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Helman, C., ed.     Doctors and Patients: An Anthology
Helman, Cecil     Suburban Shaman
Hollingshead, Greg     Spin Dry
Holub, Miroslav     Heart Transplant
Hopf, Ludwig     Electra: A Physical Diagnostic Tale of the Twentieth Century
Huxley, Aldous     Brave New World
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Ishiguro, Kazuo     Never Let Me Go
Jacobstein, Roy     Ripe
Jain, N., Coppock, D., & Clark, S. B., eds.     Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience
Johnson, Diane     Health and Happiness
Kass, Leon R.     The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man's Estate?
Katz, Robert I.     Edward Maret: A Novel of the Future
Khan, Jemshed A.     New Bridge over the Missouri
Kidder, Tracy     Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Kirchwey, Karl     Propofol
    Sonogram
Klass, Perri     Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training
    Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor
Kneale, Matthew     Sweet Thames
Kornbluth, Cyril M.     The Little Black Bag
Kovacic, Kristin, & Barrett, L., eds.     Birth: A Literary Companion
Krauser, Paula     Tears
Lam, Vincent     Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
LaScala, Susan     Small Wonder: The Story of a Child Born Too Soon
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Lightman, Alan     The Diagnosis
Lown, Bernard     The Lost Art of Healing
Lowry, Lois     The Giver
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Marlowe, Christopher     Doctor Faustus
Mars-Jones, Adam     The Waters of Thirst
Matthews, William     Recovery Room
McCaffrey, Anne     The Ship Who Sang
McClatchy, J. D. (Joseph Donald, Jr.)     My Mammogram
Mead, Rebecca     Eggs for Sale
Metcalf, Tim     Into the No Zone
Middlebrook, Christina     Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Millhauser, Steven     The Wizard of West Orange
Moffett, Shannon     The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries
Moraga, Cherríe L.     Heroes and Saints
Nadler, Spencer     The Language of Cells: Life as Seen Under the Microscope
Needleman, Jacob     The Way of the Physician
Nuland, Sherwin B.     How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
    The Wisdom of the Body
Ofri, Danielle     Singular Intimacies: On Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Oliver, Mary     University Hospital, Boston
Orient, Jane M.     Sutton's Law
Ott, Katherine     Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870
Papper, Emanuel M.     Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep: Literature Influences Medicine
Percy, Walker     Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
    Love in the Ruins
    The Thanatos Syndrome
Petro, Jane Arbuckle     Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned
Picoult, Jodi     My Sister's Keeper
Piercy, Marge     The Long Death
Pollan, Michael     The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Pollycove, Morton (H. J. Van Peenen)     The Literature
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Porter, Suzanne     The Physician's Art: Representations of Art and Medicine
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Powers, Richard     Gain
Prado, Carlos G.     Assisted Suicide: Theory and Practice in Elective Death
Preston, Richard     The Cobra Event
    Demon in the Freezer
Richter, Conrad Michael     Doctor Hanray's Second Chance
Rowe, Michael     The Book of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine.
Selzer, Richard     Whither Thou Goest
Shapshay, S., ed.     Bioethics at the Movies
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft     Frankenstein
Sherwood, Joan     Infection of the Innocents: Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France
Shorter, Edward     Bedside Manners
Silko, Leslie Marmon     Almanac of the Dead: A Novel
Simmons, Dan     The River Styx Runs Upstream
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Skloot, Floyd     Brain Scan
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
St. Andrews, B. A. (Bonnie)     The Healing Muse
    Oncological Cocktails
Starr, Paul     The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Sterling, Bruce     Holy Fire
Sweet, Victoria     God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Swift, Graham     Tomorrow
Taylor, Sandra J.     Assisted Suicide: Theory and Practice in Elective Death
Tayman, John     The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Thomas, Lewis     Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
    The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Updike, John     Endpoint and Other Poems
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     Fortitude
Weiner, Jonathan     His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine
Weldon, Fay     A Libation of Blood
    The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Whitman, Walt     When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Wiggins, Marianne     Evidence of Things Unseen
Yolen, Jane     The Radiation Sonnets
Young, C. Dale     August
Yount, Rena     Pursuit of Excellence
Zimmer, Paul     The Explanation