Death and Dying


Art Film Literature


Art


Bacon, Francis     Painting
Bak, Samuel     The Ghetto
Bartley, Mary Anne     Aerobics of the Spirit
Blake, William     The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve
Bocklin, Arnold     Island of the Dead
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter     The Triumph of Death
Chapman, Jake and Dinos     Great Deeds against the Dead
Cole, Thomas     Voyage of Life: Childhood/Youth/Manhood/Old Age
Courbet, Gustave     A Burial at Ornans
David, Jacques-Louis     Death of Marat
    The Death of Socrates
Des Granges, David     The Saltonstall Family
Euphronios,     Death of Sarpedon
Garcia, Emanuel E.     Aerobics of the Spirit
Gauguin, Paul     Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao tupapau)
    Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Gilbert and George,     A.D. (1987)
Goldstein, Barry M.     Being There: Medical Student Morgue Volunteers Following 9-11--Portraits and Interviews
Goya, Francisco     De Que Mal Morira? (Of What Illness Will He Die?)
    Deaf Man
    Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, 3rd May 1808
    Las Viejas
Kahlo, Frida     Without Hope
Kashi, Ed     Aging in America
Klimt, Gustav     Hope, II
Kollwitz, Käthe     Death Giving Comfort
    Farewell (Abschied)
    Woman with Dead Child
Layton, Elizabeth     The Courtroom
Levin, Meryl     Anatomy of Anatomy in Images and Words
Munch, Edvard     The Dead Mother
    Death in the Sickroom (Ein Tod)
    Madonna
    Self-Portrait: Between the Clock and the Bed
    The Sick Child
Neel, Alice     City Hospital
    The Last Illness
Picasso, Pablo     Guernica
    The Old Guitarist (The Blind Guitarist)
    Science and Charity
    The Tragedy
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Ryder, Albert Pinkham     The Race Track or Death on a Pale Horse
Salgado, Sebastiao     An Uncertain Grace
Sargent, John Singer     Gassed
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
Titian (Tiziano Veccellio),     Three Ages of Man
Tooker, George     Corporate Decision
Valadon, Suzanne     The Abandoned Doll
Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon     Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph
Warhol, Andy     Red Disaster (one of two panels)
Wiertz, Antoine     Two Young Girls or the Beautiful Rosine
Willing, Victor     Self-portrait at 70
Winokur, Julie     Aging in America
Worsham, Erin Brady     Headturner


Film


    21 Grams
    American Beauty
    Anatomy (Anatomie)
    Antonia's Line
    Arrowsmith
    Article 99
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    The Barbarian Invasions
    The Belly of an Architect
    Bethune: The Making of a Hero
    The Bridge
    Bringing Out the Dead
    Common Threads
    Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
    Dark Victory
    Dax's Case
    Death in the Seine
    Death on Request
    Docteur Laennec
    Docteur Petiot
    The Doctor
    Dust to Dust (Por la libre)
    An Early Frost
    God Said, Ha!
    Grave Words: Tools for Discussing End of Life Choices
    The Green Mile
    Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
    Holding Our Own: Embracing the End of Life
    The Horseman on the Roof (Le Hussard Sur le Toit)
    The House of God
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    Ikiru
    Indestructible
    Infection (Kansen)
    Iris
    Jesus of Montréal
    Kandahar-Journey into the Heart of Afghanistan
    The Kingdom
    Longtime Companion
    Marvin's Room
    Memento
    Million Dollar Baby
    Mortal Coil: Voices from the Hospice
    Mother and Son
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    Mrs. Dalloway
    Mrs. Tucker, Her Daughter Emily and Dr. Duff
    My Life as a Dog [Mitt liv som hund]
    My Life Without Me
    Opera Therapy
    Out of the Ashes
    Outbreak
    Philadelphia
    Pieces of April
    The Plague
    Please Let Me Die
    Regeneration
    Robert Coles, Teacher
    The Savages
    The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)
    The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    Shadowlands
    She's Finally Free: Living with the Tragic Loss of Nancy Cruzan
    Singing Myself a Lullaby
    Soft Fruit
    Something the Lord Made
    Son of the Bride
    The Son's Room
    Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy
    Strangers in Good Company
    The Sweet Hereafter
    Sylvia
    Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot)
    The Syringa Tree
    Terms of Endearment
    Theory of Flight
    To Dance with the White Dog
    Twin Falls Idaho
    The Undertaking
    The Vanishing Line
    When Did You Last See Your Father?
    Whose Life Is It Anyway?
    Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself)
    Wild Strawberries
    A Woman's Tale
    World's Greatest Dad
    Y Tu Mamá También (And your mother too)
    Yesterday
    A Zed and Two Noughts


Literature


Abe, Kobo     Kangaroo Notebook
Abse, Dannie     Carnal Knowledge
    Exit
    Millie's Date
    Not Beautiful
    The Origin of Music
    Pathology of Colours
    The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas
    A Winter Visit
Adair, Gilbert     Buenos Noches, Buenos Aires
Adolphsen, Peter     Machine
Adrian, Chris     A Better Angel
Aizley, Harlyn     Buying Dad
Akhmatova, Anna     In Memory of Mikhail Bulgakov
    Requiem
Albee, Edward     Three Tall Women
Albom, Mitch     Tuesdays with Morrie
Alcott, Louisa May     Hospital Sketches
Alegria, Claribel     Sorrow/Saudade
Allende, Isabel     Paula
Ammons, A. R.     Burnout in the Overshoot
Anaya, Rudolfo     Bless Me, Ultima
Anderson, Laurie Halse     Fever 1793
Angelou, Maya     The Last Decision
Appignanesi, Lisa     Paris Requiem
Appleman, Philip     Alive
Ariès, Philippe     The Hour of Our Death
Ariyoshi, Sawako     The Doctor's Wife
    The Twilight Years
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Atwood, Margaret     Alias Grace
    Oryx and Crake: A Novel
    The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart
Auden, W. H.     The Art of Healing
    Musèe des Beaux Arts
Austin, Paul     Something for the Pain
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Axelrod, David B.     Consent
Ayers, Mary Alice     The Infinite Dark
Bach, Alice     Waiting for Johnny Miracle
Bacon, Katherine Jay     Finn
Baer, William     The Unfortunates
Bahr, Mary     If Nathan Were Here
Baida, Peter     A Nurses's Story
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander     Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800
Bakker, Gerbrand     The Twin
Balzac, Honore de     Cousin Bette
    Cousin Pons
    The Wild Ass's Skin (Le Peau de Chagrin)
Bamforth, I., ed.     The Body in the Library
Bang, Mary Jo     Elegy
Banks, C. & Rizzo, J., eds.     A Loving Voice: A Caregiver's Book of Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly
Banks, Russell     The Sweet Hereafter
Barker, Pat     Another World
    The Ghost Road
    Regeneration
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Barnes, Julian     Arthur and George
Barrett, Andrea     Ship Fever
Barry, John M.     The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
    The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer
Barth, John     On with the Story
Bascom, George     Medicine Circle
Battin, Margaret Pabst     Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
Bazell, Josh     Beat the Reaper
Beagle, Peter S.     Come Lady Death
Beauvoir, Simone de     A Very Easy Death
Beernink, K. D. (Kenneth Dale)     Ward Rounds
Begley, Louis     As Max Saw It
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Bellow, Saul     The Victim
Benn, Gottfried     Man and Woman Go through the Cancer Ward
Bennett, Arnold     Riceyman Steps
Bennett, Cherie     Zink
Berg, Elizabeth     Durable Goods
    Talk Before Sleep
Berger, John     A Fortunate Man
    Her Secrets
Berlin, Richard M.     Code Blue
    How JFK Killed My Father
Bernieres, Louis de     Corelli's Mandolin
Berry, Wendell     Fidelity
Bertman, S. L., ed.     Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy
Bertman, Sandra L.     Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
    One Breath Apart: Facing Dissection
Betjeman, John     The Cottage Hospital
    Death in Leamington
Betts, Doris     Souls Raised from the Dead
Birney, (Alfred) Earle     David
Biro, David     One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
Bishop, Elizabeth     First Death in Nova Scotia
Bissell, Tom     Death Defier
Bly, R. , et al., eds.     The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Boccaccio, Giovanni     Federigo's Falcon
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Bohjalian, Christopher A.     The Law of Similars
    Midwives
Boland, Eavan     The Journey
Bolin, Robert B.     Unwanted Inheritance
Bolton, Gillie     The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing: Writing Myself
Bontemps, Arna W.     A Summer Tragedy
Borden, Mary     The Forbidden Zone
Borges, Jorge Luis     Funes the Memorious (Funes el Memorioso)
    The Immortals
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     After the Plague
    Juliana Cloth
Bradbury, Ray     The Leave-Taking
Brecht, Bertolt     The Unseemly Old Lady
Breedlove, C., ed.     Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association
Brodkey, Harold     Dying: An Update
    This Wild Darkness
Bronson, Richard     Search for Oz
Brook, T., et.al., eds.     Death by a Thousand Cuts
Brooks, Dorothy Howe     Life Support
Brooks, Geraldine     Year of Wonders
Brooks, Gwendolyn     We Real Cool
Brown, John     Rab and His Friends
Brown, Rebecca     The Gifts of the Body
Broyard, Anatole     Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
Bryner, Jeanne     Blue Lace Socks
    Breathless
    Eclipse
Bulgakov, Mikhail     The Blizzard
    A Country Doctor's Notebook
    Morphine
    The Vanishing Eye
Burack-Weiss, Ann     The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden
Burnham, Gregory     By That I Mean Angina Pectoris
Burrows, Adria     The Man Who Didn't Know He Had Cancer
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Butler, Sandra     Cancer in Two Voices
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     A Stone Woman
Byer, Kathryn Stripling     My Beautiful Grandmother
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron     Lord Byron's Don Juan
Callanan, Maggie     Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying
Cameron, Sharon     Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain
Campo, Rafael     The Distant Moon
    Diva
    El Curandero
    The Enemy
    The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry
    Her Final Show
    Towards Curing AIDS
    What the Body Told
Canin, Ethan     We Are Nighttime Travelers
Capek, Karel     Vertigo
Carmichael, A. G. & Ratzan, Richard M., eds.     Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature
Carrell, Jennifer Lee     The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
Carroll, Robert     What Waiting Is
Carruth, Hayden     Notes on Emphysema
Carter, Alden R.     Sheila's Dying
Carter III, Albert Howard     First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab
Carver, Raymond     The Autopsy Room
    The Autopsy Room
    Gravy
    My Death
    A Small, Good Thing
    What the Doctor Said
    What the Doctor Said
    Where I'm Calling From
Caspers, Nona     Vegetative States
Cassell, Eric J.     The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
Caston, Anne     Flying Out with the Wounded
Cather, Willa     Neighbour Rosicky
    Old Mrs. Harris
Chabon, Michael     The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Chekhov, Anton P.     The Doctor
    The Examining Magistrate
    The Grasshopper
    Gusev
    Late-Blooming Flowers
    Misery
    Perpetuum Mobile
    Rothschild's Fiddle
    The Schoolmaster
    Typhus
Chen, Pauline W.     Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Ciardi, John     Washing Your Feet
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Clifton, Lucille     night sound
Clyde, Mary     Survival Rates
Coetzee, J. M.     Age of Iron
Cogan, Nancy Adams     In Strange Places
Cohen, Matt     The Spanish Doctor
Cokal, Susann     Mirabilis
Coles, R. & Testa, R., eds.     A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
Colfelt, Robert H.     Together in the Dark
Collins, Billy     Death Beds
Connelly, Joe     Bringing Out the Dead
Connor, Ralph     The Doctor: A Tale of the Rockies
Cook, Karin     What Girls Learn
Cooper, Bernard     The House of the Future
Corcoran, Barbara     Annie's Monster
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     Alabama
    Anatomy Lesson
    Complications
    D Day, 1994
    The Heavenly Ladder
    The Man with Stars Inside Him
    Poison
    The Resurrection Trade: William Burke, grave robber, Edinborough 1792-1829
    Sunsets
    Tumbleweed
Couloumbis, Audrey     Getting Near to Baby
Courtemanche, Gil     A Good Death
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Cozzi, Phillip J.     Concerning Emma
Crace, Jim     Being Dead
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock     Olive
Crandall, Rob Crandall, Walter H.     Borders of Time: Life in a Nursing Home
Cristofer, Michael     The Shadow Box
Csáth, Géza     Trepov on the Dissecting Table
Cule, John     The Wreath on the Crown: The Story of Sarah Jacob the Welsh Fasting Girl
Culkin, Jennifer     A Final Arc of Sky: a Memoir of Critical Care
Cumming, Deborah     Recovering from Mortality
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)     anyone lived in a pretty how town
Cunningham, Michael     The Hours
Dangarembga, Tsitsi     Nervous Conditions
Daniel, John     Looking After: A Son's Memoir
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Danticat, Edwidge     Breath, Eyes, Memory
Darby, Ann     Pity My Simplicity
Dark, Alice Elliott     In the Gloaming
Darling, J. & Fuller, C., eds.     The Poetry Cure
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Davis, C. & Schaefer, J., eds.     Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses
    Intensive Care
Davis, Cortney     The Body Flute
    Details of Flesh
    The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
    Leopold's Maneuvers
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
DeBaggio, Thomas     Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's
Defoe, Daniel     Robinson Crusoe
DeLillo, Don     White Noise
Delury, George E.     But What if She Wants to Die? A Husband's Diary
Dennis, Carl     Progressive Health
Derrida, Jacques     The Work of Mourning
Dessaix, Robert     Night Letters
Dickens, Charles     A Christmas Carol
    The Old Curiosity Shop
    Our Mutual Friend
Dickey, James     The Cancer Match
    The Hospital Window
Dickinson, Emily     After great pain, a formal feeling comes
    Because I could not stop for death
    Death is like the insect
    I heard a fly buzz when I died
    Just lost when I was saved
Didion, Joan     The Year of Magical Thinking
Diedrich, Lisa     Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness
Dittrich, Lisa R., ed.     Ten Years of Medicine and the Arts: 100 Selections from Academic Medicine, 1991-2001
Dixon, Paige     May I Cross Your Golden River?
Dodd, Susan     The Mourner's Bench
Doerr, Anthony     The Shell Collector
Doerr, Harriet     Stones for Ibarra
Donley, C. & Kohn, M., eds.     Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories
Donne, John     Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Doty, Mark     Atlantis
Douglas, Ellen     Apostles of Light
Dove, Rita     Old Folk's Home, Jerusalem
Dow, Unity     Far and Beyon'
Downie, Glen     Wishbone Dance
    An X-Ray of Longing
Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock), ed.     The Healing Arts
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan     The Black Doctor
Draper, Sharon M.     Forged by Fire
Dubus, Andre     The Doctor
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
    Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World
Dumas fils, Alexandre     Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Dunn, Stephen     Our Parents
    Turning Fifty
Durant, Penny Raife     When Heroes Die
Durcan, Liam     Blood
Dyak, Miriam     Dying
Dyer, Joyce     In a Tangled Wood
Edson, Margaret     Wit
Eggers, Dave     A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Eggleston, Edward     The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York
Ehrenreich, Barbara     Welcome to Cancerland
Eig, Jonathan     Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
    The Lifted Veil
Endo, Shusako     The Sea and Poison
    The Sea and Poison
Esterhazy, Peter     Helping Verbs of the Heart
Farley, Margaret A.     Compassionate Respect: A Feminist Approach to Medical Ethics and Other Questions
Faulkner, William     As I Lay Dying
    A Rose for Emily
Faust, Drew Gilpin     This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Federspiel, J. (Jürg) F.     The Ballad of Typhoid Mary
Ferrara, Emily     The Alchemy of Grief (Alchimia del dolore)
Ferris, Jean     Invincible Summer
Ferro, Robert     Second Son
Fies, Brian     Mom's Cancer
Fincke, Gary     Sorry I Worried You
Findley, Timothy     Dreams
    Pilgrim
    Pilgrim
Firlick, Katrina     Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Fischer, Maribeth     Stillborn
Fishbein, Julie Deane     Katherine
Fisher, Mary     Angels in Our Midst
Foerster, Richard     Isolation Ward
Ford, Ford Madox     The Good Soldier
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)     The Road from Colonus
Fox, John     Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making
Frazier, Charles     Cold Mountain
Freed, Lynn     Ma, a Memoir
Freeman, Jerome W.     Starting from Here: Dakota Poetry, Pottery, and Caring
Frick, Marlena     All the Days of His Dying
Fromm, Pete     The Topic of Cancer
Frost, Robert     The Death of the Hired Man
    Home Burial
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Gaines, Ernest J.     A Lesson Before Dying
Gallagher, Tess     Candle, Lamp and Firefly
    Woodcutting on Lost Mountain
Galvin, Brendan     Fear of Gray's Anatomy
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Leaf Storm
    Of Love and Other Demons
    The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow
Gardiner, John Rolfe     Somewhere in France
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gawande, Atul     Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Gehrke, Steve     The Resurrection Machine
Gilbert, S. M., ed.     Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
Gilbert, Sandra     Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
    Wrongful Death
Ginsberg, Allen     Kaddish
Giono, Jean     The Horseman on the Roof
Glasgow, Ellen     Jordan's End
Glass, Julia     Three Junes
Gloag, Julian     Only Yesterday
Godwin, Gail     The Good Husband
Goedicke, Patricia     As Earth Begins to End
    One More Time
Goellnicht, Donald C.     The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science
Goldberg, Myla     Wickett's Remedy
Gordimer, Nadine     Get a Life
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Graber, Richard     Doc
Grace, Maggi Ann     Her Hair
Graham-Pole, J. & Joy, C., eds.     On Wings of Spirit: Anthology of The American Physicians' Poetry Association
Graham-Pole, John     Quick: A Pediatrician's Illustrated Poetry
Grant, Cynthia     Shadow Man
Gray, Andrew     Heart of the Land
Greene, Graham     The End of the Party
Grim, Pamela     Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER
Grimm, Wilhelm Karl     Dear Mili: An Old Tale
Grogan, John     Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog
Groopman, Jerome E.     Kirk
    The Last Deal
    Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
Grover, Lorie Ann     Loose Threads
Grumbach, Doris     Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir
Guillevic, Eugene     Of My Death
Gunn, Thom     The Man with Night Sweats
Guterson, David     East of the Mountains
Høeg, Peter     Pity for the Children of Vaden Town
Hacker, Marilyn     Cancer Winter
    Grief
Hacker, Randi     Life As I Knew It
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Haddad, Amy Marie     Dehiscence
Haddon, Mark     A Spot of Bother
Hahn, Kimiko     The Unbearable Heart
Hall, Donald     The Painted Bed
    Without
Hall, Rodney     Captivity Captive
Hamilton, Jane     A Map of the World
Harding, Paul     Tinkers
Harjo, Joy     The Dawn Appears with Butterflies
Harper, Michael S.     Nightmare Begins Responsibility
    Reuben, Reuben
Harrington, Kent     The Good Physician
Harris, J. W., ed.     Remembrances and Celebrations: A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs
Haskell, Dennis     The Recognition
Hassler, Jon     The Love Hunter
Hauerwas, Stanley     God, Medicine, and Suffering
Hawkins, A. H. & Ballard, J. O., eds.     Time to Go: Three Plays on Death and Dying, with Commentary on End-of-Life Issues
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker     Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
Hayes, Bill     The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
Heaney, Seamus     Mid-Term Break
Hecht, Anthony     The Transparent Man
Helfand, William H.     Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books
Helman, C., ed.     Doctors and Patients: An Anthology
Hemingway, Ernest     A Farewell to Arms
    The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Hempel, Amy     In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
Henley, William Ernest     Enter Patient
Henry, O.     The Last Leaf
Herling, Gustaw     The Island
Hermann, Nellie     The Cure for Grief
Hermes, Patricia     You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye
Herwaldt, Loreen     Patient Listening: A Doctor's Guide
Hikmet, Nazim     My Funeral
Hill, Susan     In the Springtime of the Year
Hirsch, Edward     And Who Will Look upon Our Testimony
Hirschfield, Jane     It Is Easy to Be Fascinated with Death
Hoagland, Tony     Lucky
Hoffman, Amy     Hospital Time
Hollinghurst, Alan     The Line of Beauty
Holman, Sheri     The Dress Lodger
Holub, Miroslav     Death in the Evening
Hopkins, Gerard Manley     Felix Randal
    Spring and Fall
Hornby, Nick     A Long Way Down
Hosseini, Khaled     The Kite Runner
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward)     A Shropshire Lad
Howe, Marie     The Last Time
Hsun, Lu     Medicine
Hughes, Holly, J., ed.     Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease
Hugo, Richard     Graves at Elkhorn
    St. Ignatius Where the Salish Wail
Hull, Jonathan     Losing Julia
Humes, Harry     Butterfly Effect
Hurwin, Davida Wills     A Time for Dancing
Hutcheon, Linda Hutcheon, Michael     Opera: Desire, Disease, Death
Hutner, Elizabeth Hall     Life with Sam
Huxley, Aldous     Island
Huyler, Frank     The Dead Lake
    The Laws of Invisible Things
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Ignatow, David     First Coffin Poem
Ihimaera, Witi     Tangi
Irving, John     A Prayer for Owen Meany
Itani, Frances     Deafening
Jacobstein, Roy     Ripe
Jain, N., Coppock, D., & Clark, S. B., eds.     Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience
James, Henry     The Figure in the Carpet
    The Turn of the Screw
James, P. D.     The Children of Men
Jarrell, Randall     Nestus Gurley
Jauhar, Sandeep     Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
Johnson, Hillary     My Mother Dying
Jones, Alice     Gorgeous Mourning
    The Knot
Jones, Richard     For My Sister
    Leaving Town after the Funeral
Jones, Thom     40, Still at Home
    I Want to Live!
    Ooh Baby Baby
    Way Down Deep in the Jungle
Jonsen, Albert R.     The New Medicine and the Old Ethics
Jonson, Ben     On My First Sonne
Köepf, Michael     The Fisherman's Son
Kadohata, Cynthia     Kira Kira
Kanafani, Ghassan     Death of Bed 12
Kaplan, Jonathan     The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Kearney, Michael     Mortally Wounded. Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing
Keats, John     Ode on a Grecian Urn
    Ode on Melancholy
Keizer, Bert     Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
Kenyon, Jane     The Blue Bowl
    Coats
    Eating the Cookies
    In the Nursing Home
    Otherwise
    Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
Kidder, Tracy     Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Kingsolver, Barbara     Homeland
    The Poisonwood Bible
Kinnell, Galway     Neverland
    Parkinson's Disease
Kirklin, D. & Richardson, R., eds.     Medical Humanities: A Practical Introduction
Kis, Danilo     The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Klíma, Ivan     Rich Men Tend to Be Strange
Klass, David     California Blue
Klass, Perri     Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training
    A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student
    Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor
Klawans, Harold     Defending the Cavewoman and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Klein, M., ed.     Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS
Kooser, Ted     Father: May 19, 1999
Kovner, Abba     Sloan-Kettering
Krauser, Paula     Tears
Krysl, Marilyn     Soulskin
Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth     The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Kunitz, Stanley     Father and Son
    The Portrait
Kushner, Tony     Angels in America
Kusz, Natalie     Road Song
L'Engle, Madeleine     The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel     The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
Lagomarsino, Nancy     Light from an Eclipse
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Unaccustomed Earth
Lam, Vincent     Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Lamott, Anne     Blue Shoe
    Hard Laughter
    Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Laqueur, Thomas Walter     Clio among the Old Folks
Larkin, Joan     Cold River
Lau, Alan Chong     My Ship Does Not Need a Helmsman
Laurence, Margaret     The Stone Angel
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)     The Blind Man
    Odour of Chrysanthemums
    The Ship of Death
Lawson, Henry     'Water Them Geraniums'
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Le Carré, John     The Constant Gardener
Leavitt, David     Equal Affections
Lee, Li-Young     Mnemonic
    Water
Leffland, Ella     The Linden Tree
LeGuin, Ursula K.     May's Lion
Lehane, Dennis     ICU
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Levertov, Denise     Death Psalm: O Lord of Mysteries
Levi, Carlo     Christ Stopped at Eboli
Levi, Primo     The Drowned and the Saved
Levin, Dana     In the Surgical Theatre
Levin, Meryl     Anatomy of Anatomy in Images and Words
Levine, Philip     The Poem of Chalk
Lewis, Richard     The Killing Sea
Lieberman, Michael     Remnant
Lifshitz, L. H., ed.     Only Morning in Her Shoes: Poems About Old Women
Livesey, Margot     Eva Moves the Furniture
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
    What Counts
Livingstone, Douglas     The Visionary
Lodge, David     Deaf Sentence
    Paradise News
    Thinks . . .
London, Jack     The Law of Life
Long, David     The Inhabited World
Lown, Bernard     The Lost Art of Healing
Lowry, Lois     The Giver
    A Summer to Die
Lurie, Alison     Foreign Affairs
Lynch, Thomas     Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
    Still Life in Milford
    The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
MacLennan, Hugh     The Watch that Ends the Night
MacLeod, Anne     Standing by Thistles
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malamud, Bernard     The Silver Crown
Malcolm, Janet     Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey
Malouf, David     The Conversations at Curlow Creek
Mann, Thomas     The Black Swan
    Death in Venice
    The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)
    Tristan
Mantel, Hilary     The Giant, O'Brien
Marlowe, Christopher     Doctor Faustus
Mars-Jones, Adam     The Waters of Thirst
Massad, Stewart     Casualties
Mates, Susan Onthank     Ambulance
    The Good Doctor
    Laundry
Matthews, William     Dire Cure
Matton, Sylvie     Rembrandt's Whore
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     The Painted Veil
    Sanatorium
Maupassant, Guy de     The Devil
    The Marquis de Fumerol
    An Old Man
Maupin, Armistead     The Night Listener
Maxwell, William     They Came Like Swallows
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCabe, Eugene     Cancer
McCann, Richard     Ghost Letters
McCarthy, Cormac     The Road
McCourt, Frank     Angela's Ashes
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McDaniel, Lurlene     Time to Let Go
McEwan, Ian     Amsterdam
    Atonement
    Black Dogs
    Enduring Love
McFarland, Dennis     A Face at the Window
    Singing Boy
McGrath, Patrick     Asylum
McHugh, Heather     Unspeakable
    What Hell Is
McKay, Ami     The Birth House
McKay, Claude     The Lynching
McLoughlin, J., ed.     On the Death of a Parent
McPherson, Scott     Marvin's Room
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten     Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Menick, Stephen     Dr. Rapallo
Metcalf, Tim     Cut to the Word
Middlebrook, Christina     Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying
Miles, Miska     Annie and the Old One
Millay, Edna St. Vincent     Love Is Not All; It Is Not Meat nor Drink
Miller, Sue     The Distinguished Guest
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Minot, Susan     Evening
Mistry, Rohinton     Family Matters
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     The Grave of Keats
    Ode on a Lycian Tomb
Mohr, Jean     A Fortunate Man
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Called Out
    Soon: Tales from Hospice
Moller, David Wendell     Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying Among Inner-City Poor
Monette, Paul     Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
    Your Sightless Days
Montross, Christine     Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Moolten, David N.     Especially Then
    Motorcycle Ward
Moore, Breanndan S.     Consoling Mrs. Byrne
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
    The World I Made for Her
Morley, John David     The Anatomy Lesson
Mowry, Jess     Babylon Boyz
Mukand, Jon Arun     Lullaby
Mullen, Thomas     The Last Town on Earth
Munce, Alayna     When I Was Young and in My Prime
Munro, Alice     Comfort
    Comfort
    Floating Bridge
    The Time of Death
Murakami, Haruki     Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Murphy, T. F. & Poirier, S., eds.     Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis
Murray, John     A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
    Watson and the Shark
Murray, John F.     Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal
Murray, Les     The Last Hellos
Murray, T. Jock     Reflections: Illness and Healing. The Art of Robert Pope
Myers, K. R., ed.     Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics
Mysko, Madeleine     Bringing Vincent Home
Nafisi, Azar     Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nashe, Thomas     A Litany in the Time of Plague
Needleman, Jacob     The Way of the Physician
Nemirovksy, Irene     Suite Française
Neuhaus, Richard John     As I Lay Dying
Neumayr, Anton     Music and Medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Newman, Richard     Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz
Nigam, Sanjay     Transplanted Man
Nolan, Han     Dancing on the Edge
Norris, Kathleen     Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Nuland, Sherwin B.     The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis
    Medicine: The Art of Healing
O'Brien, Tim     The Lives of the Dead
O'Connor, Flannery     Everything That Rises Must Converge
    A Late Encounter With the Enemy
O'Connor, Mary Bradish     Say Yes Quickly
O'Nan, Stewart     A Prayer for the Dying
Offutt, Chris     Out of the Woods
Ofri, D., et al., eds.     The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
Ofri, Danielle     Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
    Singular Intimacies: On Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Olds, Sharon     35/10
    Beyond Harm
    The Dead Body
    Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once
    The Pulling
    The Waiting
Oliver, Mary     The Black Snake
    University Hospital, Boston
    When Death Comes
Olsen, Sylvia     The Girl With a Baby
Ondaatje, Michael     The English Patient
    The English Patient
Owen, Wilfred     Dulce et Decorum Est
    Futility
Pai, Ann     My Other Body: A Memoir of Love, Fat, Life, and Death
Paley, Grace     A Conversation with My Father
Palmer, Tom     Cracked Marbles: Life's Lessons for a Maine Surgeon
Parks, Tim     Destiny
Parrado, Nando     Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Pastan, Linda     The Death of a Parent
    An Early Afterlife
Pate, Alexs D.     Losing Absalom
Paterson, Katherine     Bridge to Terabethia
    Park's Quest
Patrick, John     The Hasty Heart
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pears, Iain     The Dream of Scipio
    An Instance of the Fingerpost
Peck, Richard E.     Something for Joey
Pensack, Robert     Raising Lazarus
Percy, Walker     The Thanatos Syndrome
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Peterson, Margaret Kim     Sing Me to Heaven: The Story of a Marriage
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla     Hygiene
Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis     Riding the Flume
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Phillips, Kate     White Rabbit
Picardie, Ruth     Before I Say Goodbye
Picoult, Jodi     My Sister's Keeper
Piercy, Marge     The Long Death
    My Mother's Body
Pies, Ronald     Creeping Thyme
    Zimmerman's Tefillin
Plath, Sylvia     Childless Woman
    Lady Lazarus
    Old Ladies' Home
    Two Views of a Cadaver Room
Platonov, Andrey Platonovich     The Third Son
Poe, Edgar Allan     The Conqueror Worm
    The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
    For Annie
    The Masque of the Red Death
    A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Poirier, Suzanne     Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education
Polacco, Patricia     The Keeping Quilt
Pollack, Eileen     Milk
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Porter, Katherine Anne     Holiday
    The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
    Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Prado, Carlos G.     Assisted Suicide: Theory and Practice in Elective Death
Preston, Richard     The Cobra Event
    Demon in the Freezer
Price, Reynolds     The Good Priest's Son
    The Promise of Rest
    A Whole New Life
Price Herndl, Diane     Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Pym, Barbara     Quartet in Autumn
Querry, Ron     Bad Medicine
Quindlen, Anna     One True Thing
Rabe, David     A Question of Mercy
Radetsky, Michael     Sudden Intimacies
Raeburn, Daniel     Vessels
Ragula, Boris     Against the Current: The Memoirs of Boris Ragula (as told to Dr. Inge Sanmiya)
Ramondetta, Lois     The Light Within: The Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and Patient Brought Together by Cancer
Rasebotsa, N., Samuelson, M. & Thomas, K., eds.     Nobody Ever Said AIDS: Poems and Stories from Southern Africa
Ray, David     The Hemlock Society
    In the Third Month
    One Thousand Years: Poems about the Holocaust
Raymond, Linda     Rocking the Babies
Remen, Rachel Naomi     My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
Rhett, K., ed.     Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis
Ribman, Ronald     Cold Storage, A Play in Two Acts
Rich, Adrienne     A Woman Dead In Her Forties
Rilke, Rainer Maria     The Swan
    Washing the Corpse
Rinaldi, Ann     An Acquaintance with Darkness
Rinaldi, David     Let's Talk About It
Rios, Alberto     The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
Robinson, Edwin Arlington     How Annandale Went Out
    Richard Cory
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Rodowsky, Colby     Remembering Mog
Roethke, Theodore     The Waking
Rogoff, Marianne     Silvie's Life
Roney, Lisa     Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes
Rosen, David     The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Rosenberg, Steven A.     The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer
Rosenblum, Barbara     Cancer in Two Voices
Rossetti, Christina     Up-Hill
Roston, Diane     On Studying Anatomy
Roth, Philip     Everyman
    Patrimony, A True Story
Rothman, D. J.,et al., eds.     Medicine and Western Civilization
Rothman, Sheila     Living in the Shadow of Death
Rowe, Michael     The Book of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine.
Rowe, Vernon     Sea Creatures and Other Poems
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
Rudd, A. & Taylor, D., eds.     Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS
Ruddick, Bruce     Poems
Rudnick, Paul     Jeffrey
Russell, Lori     One Last Time
Sagan, Francoise     Bonjour Tristesse
Santucci, Barbara     Anna's Corn
Sappol, Michael     A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Sarton, May     As We Are Now
Scannell, Kate     Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic
Schaefer, Judy     Harvesting the Dew
Schaefer, Judy, ed.     The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-Poets
Schiedermayer, David L.     House Calls, Rounds, and Healings
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schneider, Robert     Brother of Sleep
Schneiderman, Henry     Father, Doctor, and the Great City: Poems and Drawings 1964-2003
Schneiderman, L. J.     The Appointment
    Sequel
Schulz, Bruno     Father's Last Escape
    Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Balancing Acts
    Referred Pain
Schweitzer, Albert     Out of My Life and Thought
Scott, Joanna     Various Antidotes
Sebold, Alice     The Lovely Bones
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     An Absence of Windows
    Atrium: October 2001
    Avalanche
    A Blue Ribbon Affair
    The Doctor Stories
    Down from Troy
    The Exact Location of the Soul
    Four Appointments with the Discus Thrower
    Imelda
    Lessons from the Art
    Letters to a Young Doctor
    Mercy
    Raising the Dead
    Sarcophagus
    Tom and Lily
    The Whistlers' Room
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
    Whither Thou Goest
Sergi, P. & Gorman, G., eds.     A Call to Nursing: Nurses' Stories about Challenge and Commitment
Service, Robert     Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Sexton, Anne     The Operation
    You, Doctor Martin
Shafer, Audrey     The Mailbox
Shakespeare, William     Hamlet
    Macbeth
    Richard III
    That time of year thou mayest in me behold
    When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
Shapiro, Alan     The Dead Alive and Busy
    Song and Dance
    Vigil
Shapiro, Dan     Mom's Marijuana
Shapiro, Johanna     The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry
Shapshay, S., ed.     Bioethics at the Movies
Shaw, George Bernard     The Doctor's Dilemma
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Shelley, Percy Bysshe     On Death
    Sonnet ("Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there,")
    To Mary Shelley
    To William Shelley
Shem, Samuel (Stephen Bergman)     The House of God
Sheppard, Gordon     HA! A Self Murder Mystery
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
Shin, Nan     Diary of a Zen Nun: Every Day Living
Shroder, Tom     Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Simmons, Dan     The River Styx Runs Upstream
Simmons, Philip     Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
Simpson, Louis     Typhus
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Sissman, L. E. (Louis Edward)     A Deathplace
    A Deathplace
    Dying: A Resurrection, 1969
    Dying: An Introduction
    Homage to Clotho: A Hospital Suite
    Homage to Clotho: A Hospital Suite
Slatkin, Marcia     I Kidnap My Mother: Alzheimer's Poems
Slavitt, David R.     The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation
Smith, D. (Dennis) L.     The Miracles of Santo Fico
Snodgrass, Steven     Lethal Dose
Snodgrass, W. D.     A Flat One
    Viewing the Body
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr     The Cancer Ward
Sontag, Susan     Alice in Bed
    Regarding the Pain of Others
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Spann, C., ed.     Poet Healer: Contemporary Poems for Health & Healing
Spark, Debra     Last Things
Spark, Muriel     Memento Mori
Squiers, Carol     The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing
St. Andrews, B. A. (Bonnie)     The Healing Muse
    Oncological Cocktails
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Stanton, Maura     Concussion
Stearns, Samuel     Autopsy
Steinbeck, John     The Pastures of Heaven
Stevenson, Ian     Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect
Stewart, George R.     Ordeal by Hunger
Stone, John     Answering The Phone
    Autopsy in the Form of an Elegy
    Cadaver
    Death
    He Takes the Course in Advanced Cardiac Life Support
    Music From Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems
    Noel: A Christmas Poem
    Talking to the Family
    The Truck
    Two Dreams of Leukemia
Stone, Ruth     In the Next Galaxy
Strand, Mark     Old People on the Nursing Home Porch
Straus, Marc J.     Not God: A Play in Verse
    One Word
Strauss, Ken     La Tendresse
Studer, Constance     Body Language
    Prayer to a Purple God
Styron, William     A Tidewater Morning
Sullivan, Jacqueline Levering     Annie's War
Swanson, Julie A.     Going for the Record
Swenson, May     Nature: Poems Old and New
Szczeklik, Andrzej     Catharsis: On the Art of Medicine
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Tan, Amy     The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
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, Dylan     Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
    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
    The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart)     Geriatric
    This To Do
Tilghman, Christopher     Things Left Undone
Tolstoy, Leo     The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tregebov, Rhea     The Proving Grounds
Trevor, Douglas     The Surprising Weight of the Body's Organs
Trillin, Alice Stewart     Of Dragons and Garden Peas: A Cancer Patient Talks to Doctors
Trillin, Calvin     About Alice
Trollope, Anthony     Doctor Thorne
    The Fixed Period
Tucker, Neely     Love in the Driest Season
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeievich     The District Doctor
Updike, John     Endpoint and Other Poems
Van Duyn, Mona     The Accusation
    Letters from a Father
Van Peenen, H. J.     Net Worth
vanMeenan, K. & Rossiter, C., eds.     Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Viorst, Judith     The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
Viramontes, Helena Maria     The Moths
Vivante, Arturo     By the Bedside
    Last Rites
Vogel, Paula     The Baltimore Waltz
Voigt, Ellen Bryant     Kyrie
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian
Vowell, Sarah     Assassination Vacation
Vrettos, Athena     Somatic Fictions
Wagner, Shelly     The Andrew Poems
Walker, Alice     Medicine
    To Hell with Dying
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Walls, Jeannette     The Glass Castle
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Watts, H. David     Bedside Manners
    The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
    Taking the History
Weigl, Bruce     Archeology of the Circle. New and Selected Poems
Weinberger, Florence     Carnal Fragrance
Weishaus, Joel     The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Weisman, Jamie     As I Live and Breathe
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)     Under the Knife
West, Cheryl L.     Before It Hits Home
Wetherell, W. D.     Chekhov's Sister
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Wharton, Edith     Diagnosis
    The Fruit of the Tree
Whelan, Gloria     Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky
    A Time to Keep Silent
White, Kelley Jean     Late
Whitman, Walt     Walt Whitman's Civil War
    The Wound Dresser
Wideman, John Edgar     newborn thrown in trash and dies
Wilber, Ken     Grace and Grit
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Grief
    Misgivings
    Villanelle of the Suicide's Mother
    When
Williams, Guy     The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, 1700-1800
    The Age of Miracles: Medicine and Surgery in the Nineteenth Century
Williams, Lori Aurelia     Broken China
Williams, Marie Sheppard     Wilma Bremer's Funeral
Williams, Miller     A Day in the Death
Williams, Philip Lee     All the Western Stars
Williams, Terry Tempest     The Village Watchman
Williams, William Carlos     The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
    Jean Beicke
    Jean Beicke
    The Last Words of My English Grandmother
    Tract
Wilson, Jonathan     Dead Ringers
Winawer, Sidney J.     Healing Lessons
Winckler, Martin     The Case of Dr. Sachs
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Woiwode, Larry     A Step From Death
Wolff, Tobias     Casualty
Wolitzer, Hilma     Mother
Woodruff, Lee     In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
Woolf, Virginia     To the Lighthouse
Wordsworth, William     To ----, in Her Seventieth Year
Yolen, Jane     The Radiation Sonnets
Young, Audrey     What Patients Taught Me
Young, C. Dale     August
Young, George     Spinoza's Mouse
Yourcenar, Marguerite     Memoirs of Hadrian
Zalben, Jane Breskin     Pearl's Marigolds for Grandpa
Zimmer, Paul     The Explanation
    The Tenth Circle
Zivkovic, Zoran     The Violinist
Zola, Emile     Therese Raquin
Zwerdling, Michael     Postcards of Nursing: A Worldwide Tribute