Catastrophe


Art Film Literature


Art


Bacon, Francis     Painting
Bak, Samuel     The Family
    The Ghetto
Blake, William     The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve
    Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils
Chapman, Jake and Dinos     Great Deeds against the Dead
David, Jacques-Louis     Death of Marat
Euphronios,     Death of Sarpedon
Goldstein, Barry M.     Being There: Medical Student Morgue Volunteers Following 9-11--Portraits and Interviews
Goya, Francisco     Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, 3rd May 1808
Kahlo, Frida     The Broken Column
    El suicidio de Dorothy Hale (Suicide of Dorothy Hale)
    Frida and the Miscarriage
    Henry Ford Hospital
    Tree of Hope
    Without Hope
Kollwitz, Käthe     Woman with Dead Child
Munch, Edvard     Compassion
    The Scream
Picasso, Pablo     Guernica
    The Tragedy
Salgado, Sebastiao     An Uncertain Grace
Sargent, John Singer     Gassed
Sugimoto, Henry     Jerome Camp
    Nisei Babies in Concentration Camp
    Reverend Yamazaki Was Beaten in Camp Jerome
    Send Off Husband at Jerome Camp
    When Can We Go Home?


Film


    Alice Neel
    American Beauty
    Battlestar Galactica (2003)
    Bethune: The Making of a Hero
    Born on the Fourth of July
    Brain Candy
    The Color of Paradise
    Dax's Case
    The Deep
    Dust to Dust (Por la libre)
    Frankie Starlight
    Frida
    The HeART of Empathy: Using the Visual Arts in Medical Eduation
    The Horseman on the Roof (Le Hussard Sur le Toit)
    Kandahar-Journey into the Heart of Afghanistan
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Madame Curie
    Magnificent Obsession
    Melancholia
    Monsoon Wedding
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    Murderball
    Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika)
    The Official Story (La Historia oficia)
    Opera Therapy
    Ordinary People
    Outbreak
    Pieces of April
    Please Let Me Die
    Puncture
    Regeneration
    Respiro
    The Secret Garden
    Sicko
    The Sweet Hereafter
    The Syringa Tree
    Three Colors: Blue
    Tsotsi
    Vera Drake
    The Waterdance
    Whose Life Is It Anyway?
    World's Greatest Dad


Literature


Abe, Kobo     Inter Ice Age 4
Akhmatova, Anna     In Memory of Mikhail Bulgakov
    Requiem
Alexie, Sherman     How to Write the Great American Indian Novel
Alvarez, Julia     How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Anderson, Laurie Halse     Fever 1793
Armstrong, Lance     It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
Astley, Thea     The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow
Atwood, Margaret     Alias Grace
    Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Auden, W. H.     Musee des Beaux Arts
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Bérubé, Michael     Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
Bacon, Katherine Jay     Finn
Baer, William     The Unfortunates
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander     Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800
Banks, Russell     The Sweet Hereafter
Barker, Pat     The Ghost Road
    Regeneration
Barrett, Andrea     Ship Fever
Barry, John M.     The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
Bauby, Jean-Dominique     The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bazell, Josh     Beat the Reaper
Berger, Suzanne E.     Horizontal Woman
Bernieres, Louis de     Corelli's Mandolin
Birney, (Alfred) Earle     David
Bly, R. , et al., eds.     The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     After the Plague
Brodkey, Harold     Dying: An Update
Brown, Carrie     Miniature Man
Brown, Rebecca     The Gifts of the Body
Brown, Rosellen     Tender Mercies
Bulgakov, Mikhail     The Blizzard
    The Embroidered Towel
Burnham, Gregory     By That I Mean Angina Pectoris
Burroughs, Augusten     Running with Scissors
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron     Lord Byron's Don Juan
Calvert, Patricia     Picking Up the Pieces
Carrell, Jennifer Lee     The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
Carver, Raymond     A Small, Good Thing
Chabon, Michael     The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Chekhov, Anton P.     The Cherry Orchard
    The Head Gardener's Story
    The Horse Stealers
Chisholm, Brock     Can People Learn to Learn?: How to Know Each Other
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Clyde, Mary     Survival Rates
Cohen, Marion Deutsche     Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse
    Epsilon Country
Cohen, Matt     The Spanish Doctor
Cokal, Susann     Mirabilis
Collins, Anne     In the Sleep Room: The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Coulehan, Jack     My Uganda--for Sister Concepta Najjemba
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock     Olive
Crimmins, Cathy     Where is the Mango Princess?
Culkin, Jennifer     A Final Arc of Sky: a Memoir of Critical Care
DeBaggio, Thomas     Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's
Defoe, Daniel     Robinson Crusoe
DeLillo, Don     White Noise
Dessaix, Robert     Night Letters
Dickens, Charles     Our Mutual Friend
Didion, Joan     Blue Nights
    The Year of Magical Thinking
Diedrich, Lisa     Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness
Dillard, Annie     Holy the Firm
Dow, Unity     Far and Beyon'
Dubus, Andre     Dancing After Hours
    Meditations from a Movable Chair
Dunant, Sarah     In the Company of the Courtesan
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Durcan, Liam     Blood
Eggers, Dave     A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     The Lifted Veil
Elliott, C. & Lantos, J., eds.     The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Engel, Howard     Memory Book: A Benny Cooperman Mystery
Faust, Drew Gilpin     This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Finger, Anne     Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth
Fiser, Karen     The Short Song of What Befalls
Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott     Family in the Wind
Foden, Giles     Ladysmith
Foer, Jonathan Safran     Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)     The Machine Stops
Foster, P. & Swander, M., eds.     The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery
Frazier, Charles     Cold Mountain
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Leaf Storm
Gawande, Atul     Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Gilbert, S. M., ed.     Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
Gordon, Mary     The Shadow Man
Graham-Pole, John     Quick: A Pediatrician's Illustrated Poetry
Grealy, Lucy     Autobiography of a Face
Grenfell, Wilfred T.     Adrift on an Ice Pan
Gruen, Sara     Ape House
Hadas, R., ed.     Unending Dialogue: Voices from an AIDS Poetry Workshop
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Harr, Jonathan     A Civil Action
Harrison, Jeffrey     Incomplete Knowledge
Hauerwas, Stanley     God, Medicine, and Suffering
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker     Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
Hemingway, Ernest     A Natural History of the Dead
Hempel, Amy     In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
Herling, Gustaw     The Island
Hermann, Nellie     The Cure for Grief
Highsmith, Patricia     Strangers on a Train
Hill, Susan     In the Springtime of the Year
Hirsch, Edward     And Who Will Look upon Our Testimony
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler     Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
Hoagland, Tony     Emigration
Hogan, Linda     Tear
Holub, Miroslav     Intensive Care: Selected and New Poems
    Parasite
Hosseini, Khaled     The Kite Runner
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward)     A Shropshire Lad
Hull, Jonathan     Losing Julia
Hurston, Zora Neale     Their Eyes Were Watching God
Irving, John     A Widow for One Year
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Köepf, Michael     The Fisherman's Son
Kaplan, Jonathan     The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Kingsolver, Barbara     The Poisonwood Bible
Kopit, Arthur     Wings
Kovalchik, Michael T.     Theo's Story
Kumin, Maxine     Inside the Halo and Beyond
Kurten, Bjorn     Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age
L'Heureux, John     The Shrine at Altimara
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Unaccustomed Earth
Lang, James M.     Learning Sickness
Larkin, Philip     Ambulances
Lee, Chang-rae     A Gesture Life
Lee, Li-Young     Water
Levi, Carlo     Christ Stopped at Eboli
Levi, Primo     The Drowned and the Saved
Lewis, Richard     The Killing Sea
Lieberman, Michael     Remnant
Livesey, Margot     Homework
London, Jack     The Scarlet Plague
Luria, A. R. (Aleksandr Romanovich)     The Man with a Shattered World
Lux, Thomas     Hospital View
MacLeod, Anne     The Dark Ship
Mahy, Margaret     Memory
Mairs, Nancy     On Being a Cripple
    A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malamud, Bernard     God's Grace
Marani, Diego     New Finnish Grammar
Marchetto, Marisa Acocella     Cancer Vixen
Matthews, William     Dire Cure
    Dire Cure
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     The Painted Veil
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCarthy, Cormac     The Road
McEwan, Ian     Saturday
Mda, Zakes     The Heart of Redness
Merwin, W. S.     Good People
Metcalf, Tim     Into the No Zone
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     Ode on a Lycian Tomb
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Called Out
Moolten, David N.     Motorcycle Ward
Moore, Lorrie     People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk
Moraga, Cherríe L.     Heroes and Saints
Moran, Thomas     The Man in the Box
Munro, Alice     The Time of Death
Murphy, Robert F.     The Body Silent
Murray, John     Watson and the Shark
Mysko, Madeleine     Bringing Vincent Home
Nafisi, Azar     Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nemirovsky, Irene     Fire in the Blood
    Suite Francaise
Newman, Richard     Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz
Nyiszli, Miklos     Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
O'Nan, Stewart     A Prayer for the Dying
Oliver, Mary     The Black Snake
Ondaatje, Michael     The English Patient
Otsuka, Julie     When the Emperor Was Divine
Owen, Wilfred     Dulce et Decorum Est
    Futility
Parrado, Nando     Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Parry, Richard     Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition
Pasternak, Boris     Doctor Zhivago
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pears, Iain     The Dream of Scipio
Penfield, Wilder Graves     The Torch
Pennie, Ross     Tainted
Pensack, Robert     Raising Lazarus
Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis     Riding the Flume
Poe, Edgar Allan     William Wilson
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Powers, Richard     Operation Wandering Soul
Preston, Richard     The Cobra Event
    Demon in the Freezer
Price, Reynolds     The Good Priest's Son
Ragula, Boris     Against the Current: The Memoirs of Boris Ragula (as told to Dr. Inge Sanmiya)
Ray, David     One Thousand Years: Poems about the Holocaust
Rhett, K., ed.     Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis
Rich, Susan     The Cartographer's Tongue
Rilke, Rainer Maria     The Blindman's Song
Rogoff, Marianne     Silvie's Life
Roth, Philip     Nemesis
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Roy, Arundhati     The God of Small Things
Sachs, Albie     The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
Saramago, José     Blindness
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schneider, Robert     Brother of Sleep
Scully, Julia     Outside Passage
Sebold, Alice     Lucky
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Sedgwick, Marcus     The Foreshadowing
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     Avalanche
    Imelda
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
    Whither Thou Goest
Service, Robert     Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Shapiro, Dan     Delivering Doctor Amelia
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Shumaker, Peggy     Just Breathe Normally
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Simmons, Philip     Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
Simpson, Helen     If I'm Spared
Skloot, Floyd     In the Shadow of Memory
Slavitt, David R.     The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation
Sophocles,     Philoctetes
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Stafford, William     At the Bomb Testing Site
Steinbeck, John     The Pastures of Heaven
Stone, Ruth     In the Next Galaxy
Strauss, Ken     La Tendresse
Szwajger, Adina Blady     I Remember Nothing More
Tan, Amy     The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
Taylor, Jill Bolte     My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Thomas, Dylan     A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
Thomas, Lewis     Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Tomey, Ingrid     Nobody Else Has to Know
Tucker, Neely     Love in the Driest Season
Urquhart, Jane     The Underpainter
Van Duyn, Mona     The Accusation
vanMeenan, K. & Rossiter, C., eds.     Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace
Vargas Llosa, Mario     The War of the End of the World
Verghese, Abraham     The Tennis Partner
Voigt, Ellen Bryant     Kyrie
Vowell, Sarah     Assassination Vacation
Wagner, Shelly     The Andrew Poems
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Wallace, David Foster     Incarnations of Burned Children
Walls, Jeannette     The Glass Castle
Weigl, Bruce     Archeology of the Circle. New and Selected Poems
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Weisman, Jamie     As I Live and Breathe
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Wharton, Edith     Ethan Frome
Whelan, Gloria     Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky
Whitman, Walt     Walt Whitman's Civil War
    The Wound Dresser
Wiesel, Elie     Open Heart
Wilkomirski, Binjamin     Fragments
Williams, William Carlos     The Use of Force
Winter, Sarah     Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge
Zimmer, Paul     The Tenth Circle