Spirituality


Art Film Literature


Art


Bak, Samuel     The Family
    The Ghetto
Bartley, Mary Anne     Aerobics of the Spirit
Böcklin, Arnold     Island of the Dead
Duccio di Buoninsegna,     Jesus Opens the Eyes of a Man Born Blind
Garcia, Emanuel E.     Aerobics of the Spirit
Gauguin, Paul     Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Goya, Francisco     Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, 3rd May 1808
Kahlo, Frida     Frida and the Miscarriage
Klimt, Gustav     Hope, II
Michelangelo,     Creation of Adam
Neel, Alice     Loneliness
Picasso, Pablo     Guernica
    Science and Charity
    The Tragedy
Ryder, Albert Pinkham     The Race Track or Death on a Pale Horse
Salgado, Sebastiao     An Uncertain Grace
Scherer, Deidre     Surrounded by Family and Friends
Sendak, Maurice     Dear Mili: An Old Tale (Wilhelm Karl Grimm)
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
Simberg, Hugo     The Garden of Death
Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon     Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph
Worsham, Erin Brady     Headturner


Film


    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    The Barbarian Invasions
    Creation: How Darwin Saw the World and Changed It Forever
    Departures (Okuribito)
    Dialogues with Madwomen
    The Green Mile
    Holding Our Own: Embracing the End of Life
    Indestructible
    The Kingdom
    Opera Therapy
    Robert Coles, Teacher
    The Secret Garden
    Smoke Signals
    Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy
    The Syringa Tree


Literature


Adrian, Chris     A Better Angel
Anaya, Rudolfo     Bless Me, Ultima
    Tortuga
Andrews, Tom     The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle
Ariès, Philippe     The Hour of Our Death
Armstrong, Lance     Every Second Counts
Arvigo, Rosita     Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander     Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800
Bakan, David     Disease, Pain, & Sacrifice
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Bass, Rick     The Lives of Rocks
Bentley, James     Albert Schweitzer. The Enigma
Biguenet, John     The Vulgar Soul
Brooks, Geraldine     Year of Wonders
Brown, Jeanette     How to Visit a Healer
Brown, Karen McCarthy     Moma Lola: A Voodou Priestess in Brooklyn
Bryner, Jeanne     Smoke: Poems
Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden
Butler, Sandra     Cancer in Two Voices
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     A Stone Woman
Cameron, Sharon     Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain
Campo, Rafael     El Curandero
Carter III, Albert Howard     Our Human Hearts: A Medical and Cultural Journey
Cecil, Richard     Miracles
Chekhov, Anton P.     Happiness
    On Easter Eve
    The Student
Clark-Sayles, Catharine     One Breath
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Cogan, Nancy Adams     In Strange Places
Coles, Robert     Lives of Moral Leadership
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock     Olive
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Darling, J. & Fuller, C., eds.     The Poetry Cure
Davies, Robertson     The Cunning Man
Davis, Cortney     The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
Davis, Heather Choate     Baptism by Fire
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
Defoe, Daniel     Robinson Crusoe
DeLillo, Don     White Noise
Dickens, Charles     A Christmas Carol
    The Old Curiosity Shop
Dillard, Annie     Holy the Firm
Dodd, Susan     The Mourner's Bench
Donne, John     Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Dow, Unity     Far and Beyon'
Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock), ed.     The Healing Arts
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan     Conan Doyle's Tales of Medical Humanism and Values
Dubus, Andre     Meditations from a Movable Chair
Duffin, Jacalyn     Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
Elliott, C. & Lantos, J., eds.     The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Enright, D. J., ed.     Ill at Ease: Writers on Ailments Real and Imagined
Findley, Timothy     Pilgrim
Fiser, Karen     Losing and Finding
Forman, Vicki     This Lovely Life
Foster, P. & Swander, M., eds.     The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery
Fox, John     Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Freeman, Jerome W.     Starting from Here: Dakota Poetry, Pottery, and Caring
Frey, James     A Million Little Pieces
Fugard, Athol     The Road to Mecca
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Gaines, Ernest J.     A Lesson Before Dying
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gilbert, S. M., ed.     Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
Gilbert, Sandra     Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Graboys, Thomas     Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia
Grace, Maggi Ann     State of the Heart: A Medical Tourist's True Story of Lifesaving Surgery in India
Grimm, Wilhelm Karl     Dear Mili: An Old Tale
Groopman, Jerome E.     The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
Grover, Lorie Ann     Loose Threads
Guista, Michael     The Year of Release
Hall, Donald     Life Work
Hall, Rodney     The Grisly Wife
Harjo, Joy     The Dawn Appears with Butterflies
Hauerwas, Stanley     God, Medicine, and Suffering
Healy, Margaret     Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics
Henley, Patricia     Hummingbird House
Hirshhorn, Norbert     A Cracked River
Hoagland, Tony     Arrows
Hopkins, Gerard Manley     Felix Randal
    Spring and Fall
Hsun, Lu     Medicine
Hurston, Zora Neale     Their Eyes Were Watching God
Hyde, Catherine Ryan     Becoming Chloe
Ihimaera, Witi     Tangi
Irving, John     A Prayer for Owen Meany
Jones, Alice     Gorgeous Mourning
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Kearney, Michael     Mortally Wounded. Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing
Keizer, Bert     Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
Kenyon, Jane     Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
Kingsolver, Barbara     The Poisonwood Bible
Kinnell, Galway     Neverland
    St. Francis and the Sow
Kipling, Rudyard     Kim
Kis, Danilo     The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Klein, M., ed.     Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS
Koch, Christopher     The Doubleman
Kocher, Philomene     Signs of Spring: Haiku Poems by Persons with Dementia
Kovacic, Kristin, & Barrett, L., eds.     Birth: A Literary Companion
Kovner, Abba     Sloan-Kettering
Lamott, Anne     Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Lang, James M.     Learning Sickness
Larsen, Nella     Quicksand
Levertov, Denise     Death Psalm: O Lord of Mysteries
Lieberman, Michael     Remnant
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
Lynch, Thomas     Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
    The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
MacLeod, Anne     Standing by Thistles
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Mann, Thomas     Doctor Faustus
Manning, Margaret     Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression
Masson, Veneta     Clinician's Guide to the Soul
    Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     The Painted Veil
McFarland, Dennis     A Face at the Window
    Singing Boy
McKay, Claude     The Lynching
McKeithen, Madge     Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
McMahon, Ted     The Uses of Imperfection
Melville, Herman     Moby-Dick
Miles, Miska     Annie and the Old One
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Soon: Tales from Hospice
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik     The Story of San Michele
Murch, Muriel     Journey in the Middle of the Road
Neuhaus, Richard John     As I Lay Dying
Neumayr, Anton     Music and Medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
Nolan, Han     Dancing on the Edge
Norris, Kathleen     Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Nuland, Sherwin B.     Maimonides
O'Connor, Flannery     Greenleaf
Parrado, Nando     Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Pate, Alexs D.     Losing Absalom
Percy, Walker     Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
    Love in the Ruins
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Peterson, Margaret Kim     Sing Me to Heaven: The Story of a Marriage
Pies, Ronald     Zimmerman's Tefillin
Polacco, Patricia     The Keeping Quilt
Price, Reynolds     The Good Priest's Son
    A Whole New Life
Querry, Ron     Bad Medicine
Ramondetta, Lois     The Light Within: The Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and Patient Brought Together by Cancer
Rilke, Rainer Maria     The Swan
Robinson, Elizabeth Ann     The Soul of the Nurse
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Roethke, Theodore     Epidermal Macabre
Rosen, David     The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Rosenblum, Barbara     Cancer in Two Voices
Rudd, A. & Taylor, D., eds.     Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS
Sacks, Oliver     Rebecca
Salzman, Mark     Lying Awake
Sappol, Michael     A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Schoemperlen, Diane     Forms of Devotion
    Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel
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
Selzer, Richard     An Absence of Windows
    The Exact Location of the Soul
    The Surgeon as Priest
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Sergi, P. & Gorman, G., eds.     A Call to Nursing: Nurses' Stories about Challenge and Commitment
Shapiro, Alan     Vigil
Shapiro, Johanna     The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry
Shin, Nan     Diary of a Zen Nun: Every Day Living
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Simmons, Philip     Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
Slatkin, Marcia     I Kidnap My Mother: Alzheimer's Poems
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
Spann, C., ed.     Poet Healer: Contemporary Poems for Health & Healing
Stephenson, Lynda     Dancing with Elvis
Stone, John     Music From Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems
Swander, Mary     The Desert Pilgrim: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles
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
Taylor, Jill Bolte     My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Toomer, Jean     Cane
Updike, John     Giving Blood
vanMeenan, K. & Rossiter, C., eds.     Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace
Viorst, Judith     The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Watts, H. David     The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
Weishaus, Joel     The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)     Under the Knife
Whitman, Walt     The Wound Dresser
Wiesel, Elie     Open Heart
Wilber, Ken     Grace and Grit
Williams, William Carlos     The Mental Hospital Garden
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Winter, Alison     Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Wright, John     As Though Praying: Poems from Decatur Island
Yang, Belle     Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders
Zivkovic, Zoran     The Violinist