Chronic Illness/Chronic Disease


Art Film Literature


Art


Bartley, Mary Anne     Aerobics of the Spirit
Ferguson, Laura     The Visible Skeleton Series
Garcia, Emanuel E.     Aerobics of the Spirit
Goya, Francisco     Deaf Man
Kahlo, Frida     The Broken Column
    Without Hope
Munch, Edvard     Death in the Sickroom (Ein Tod)
    The Sick Child
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
Worsham, Erin Brady     Headturner
    Mind, Body, Spirit


Film


    Article 99
    Awakenings
    Battlestar Galactica (2003)
    Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
    Creation: How Darwin Saw the World and Changed It Forever
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    Extraordinary Measures
    Illness as Experience
    The Keys to the House (Le chiavi di casa)
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Marvin's Room
    Maze
    Miss Evers' Boys
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    The Odds of Recovery
    Pauline & Paulette
    Requiem for a Dream
    Respiro
    The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    Smoke Signals
    Theory of Flight
    What's Eating Gilbert Grape
    Worlds Apart: A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare


Literature


Abrahams, Lionel     The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan
Anand, Geeta     The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million--and Bucked the Medical Establishment--in a Quest to Save His Children
Anonymous,     Hurricane Zone
Ansay, A. Manette     Limbo: A Memoir
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
B., David     Epileptic
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova     The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Balzac, Honore de     The Country Doctor
Banks, Russell     The Sweet Hereafter
Barber, Charles     Songs from the Black Chair
Barker, Pat     Regeneration
Bartlett, J., Black, S. & Northen, M., eds.     Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
Bauby, Jean-Dominique     The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Berlin, R. M., ed.     Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process
Betts, Doris     Souls Raised from the Dead
Bloch, Chana     Mrs. Dumpty
Brand, Paul     The Gift Nobody Wants
Breslin, Rosemary     Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
Breznik, Melitta     Night Duty
Burack-Weiss, Ann     The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Butler, Susan Woldenberg     Black Bag Moon
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     A Stone Woman
Byer, Kathryn Stripling     My Beautiful Grandmother
Carr, Caleb     The Alienist
Carruth, Hayden     Notes on Emphysema
Carver, Raymond     Where I'm Calling From
Chaikin, Joseph     Struck Dumb
Cisneros, Sandra     Arturro Burro
Clifton, Lucille     dialysis
    donor
Cohen, Marion Deutsche     Chronic Progressive
    Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse
    Epsilon Country
Collins, Wilkie     Poor Miss Finch
Coulehan, Jack     Irene
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
Crimmins, Cathy     Where is the Mango Princess?
Cromer, Janet M.     Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Dangarembga, Tsitsi     Nervous Conditions
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Daudet, Alphonse     In the Land of Pain
DeSalvo, Louise     Breathless: An Asthma Journal
Dickey, James     Diabetes
Donley, C. & Buckley, S., eds.     The Tyranny of the Normal
Durcan, Liam     Blood
Engel, Howard     Memory Book: A Benny Cooperman Mystery
Estrin, Marc     Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
Farrington, Carolyn G.     Sea of Glass
Feldshuh, David     Miss Evers' Boys
Ferris, Joshua     The Unnamed
Fiser, Karen     Across the Border
    Losing and Finding
    Pointing to the Place of the Pain
    Words Like Fate and Pain
Flynn, Nick     Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Ford, Ford Madox     The Good Soldier
Forman, Vicki     This Lovely Life
Foster, P., ed.     Minding The Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
Frank, Arthur W.     The Wounded Storyteller
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Getsi, Lucia Cordell     Letter from the Rehabilitation Institute
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins     The Yellow Wallpaper
    The Yellow Wallpaper
Glass, Julia     Three Junes
Graboys, Thomas     Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia
Grealy, Lucy     Autobiography of a Face
Greenberg, Michael     Hurry Down Sunshine
Gross, P., & Guernsey, D., eds.     Pulse: The First Year
Guista, Michael     The Year of Release
Haddix, Margaret Peterson     Because of Anya
Haigh, Jennifer     The Condition
Harding, Paul     Tinkers
Harleman, Ann     Thoreau's Laundry
Harr, Jonathan     A Civil Action
Hauerwas, Stanley     God, Medicine, and Suffering
Helman, C., ed.     Doctors and Patients: An Anthology
Helman, Cecil     Suburban Shaman
Herling, Gustaw     The Island
Heymann, Jody     Equal Partners
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler     Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
Hollinghurst, Alan     The Line of Beauty
Hornbacher, Marya     Madness
    Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Hutcheon, Linda Hutcheon, Michael     Opera: Desire, Disease, Death
Hutner, Elizabeth Hall     Life with Sam
Ibsen, Henrik     Ghosts
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Itani, Frances     Deafening
Jamison, Kay Redfield     An Unquiet Mind
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Jones, Thom     Ooh Baby Baby
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Kafka, Franz     The Metamorphosis
Kenney, Susan     In Another Country
Kenyon, Jane     Having it Out with Melancholy
    Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
Knapp, Caroline     Drinking: A Love Story
Knighton, Ryan     Cockeyed: A Memoir
Kocher, Philomene     Signs of Spring: Haiku Poems by Persons with Dementia
Kushner, Tony     Angels in America
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Only Goodness
Lamb, Wally     I Know This Much is True
Landvik, Lorna     The Great Mysterious
Lang, James M.     Learning Sickness
Larkin, Joan     The Blackout Sonnets
Ledger, Kate     Remedies
Lightman, Alan     The Diagnosis
Livesey, Margot     Banishing Verona
Lowell, Robert     Skunk Hour
Luria, A. R. (Aleksandr Romanovich)     The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
Mairs, Nancy     On Being a Cripple
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mann, Thomas     The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)
Mansfield, Katherine     The Man Without a Temperament
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     Sanatorium
McCann, Richard     The Resurrectionist
McDermott, Alice     Charming Billy
McFarlane, Donna     Division of Surgery
McKeithen, Madge     Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
McPherson, Scott     Marvin's Room
Middlebrook, Christina     Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying
Miller, Sue     The Distinguished Guest
Mistry, Rohinton     Family Matters
Morris, Winifred     Secret Numbers
Mukherjee, Siddhartha     The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Munro, Alice     The Bear Came Over the Mountain
Murphy, Robert F.     The Body Silent
Myers, K. R. & Schweizer, H., eds.     The Patient
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nichols, Peter     Joe Egg
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
O'Connell, Mary     Saint Ursula and Her Maidens
Ott, Katherine     Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870
Pastan, Linda     Migraine
Percy, Walker     Love in the Ruins
Perillo, Lucia     I've Heard the Vultures Singing
Phelan, Peggy     To Suffer a Sea Change
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
    My Sister's Keeper
Piercy, Marge     The Long Death
Powers, Richard     The Echo Maker
Price, Jill     The Woman Who Can't Forget
Price, Margaret     Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Price Herndl, Diane     Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Rasebotsa, N., Samuelson, M. & Thomas, K., eds.     Nobody Ever Said AIDS: Poems and Stories from Southern Africa
Reiss, Benjamin     Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Remen, Rachel Naomi     My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
Richler, Mordecai     Barney's Version
Rinaldi, David     Let's Talk About It
Rivard, Ken     Bottle Talk
Roberts, Willo Davis     Sugar Isn't Everything
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Robinson, Roxana     The Treatment
Roethke, Theodore     In a Dark Time
    Meditation in Hydrotherapy
Roney, Lisa     Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes
Rothman, Sheila     Living in the Shadow of Death
Rowe, Michael     The Book of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine.
Rudd, A. & Taylor, D., eds.     Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS
Saltzman, Joan     Mr. Right and My Left Kidney
Sapphire,     Push
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Sheppard, Gordon     HA! A Self Murder Mystery
Simmons, Philip     Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
Sissman, L. E. (Louis Edward)     A Deathplace
    A Deathplace
    Homage to Clotho: A Hospital Suite
    Homage to Clotho: A Hospital Suite
Skloot, Floyd     A World of Light
Slatkin, Marcia     I Kidnap My Mother: Alzheimer's Poems
Smith, Larry     Leaning Together in the Storm
Sontag, Susan     Alice in Bed
Sophocles,     Philoctetes
St. Andrews, B. A. (Bonnie)     Alzheimer's
Styron, William     Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Surawicz, Borys     Doctors in Fiction: Lessons from Literature
Sweet, Victoria     God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Tan, Amy     The Bonesetter's Daughter
Tanielian, T. & Jaycox, L. H., eds.     Invisible Wounds of War
Tayman, John     The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Updike, John     Metamorphosis
van Itallie, Jean-Claude     Struck Dumb
Verghese, Abraham     The Tennis Partner
Vernon, John     A Book of Reasons
Vrettos, Athena     Somatic Fictions
Wagner, Pamela Spiro     We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
Wait, Lea     Finest Kind
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Weisman, Jamie     As I Live and Breathe
Wendell, Susan     The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Wharton, Edith     Ethan Frome
Wurtzel, Elizabeth     Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America