Disability


Art Film Literature Theater


Art


Bartley, Mary Anne     Aerobics of the Spirit
Duccio di Buoninsegna,     Jesus Opens the Eyes of a Man Born Blind
Ferguson, Laura     The Visible Skeleton Series
Garcia, Emanuel E.     Aerobics of the Spirit
Gilbert and George,     The Fundamental Pictures
Goya, Francisco     Deaf Man
    He Can No Longer at the Age of 98
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste     The Paralytic
Kahlo, Frida     The Broken Column
    Frida and the Miscarriage
    Henry Ford Hospital
    Tree of Hope
    Without Hope
Quinn, Marc     Alison Lapper Pregnant
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
Willing, Victor     Self-portrait at 70
Worsham, Erin Brady     Breathtaking Metamorphosis
    Headturner
    Mind, Body, Spirit


Film


    Antonia's Line
    Article 99
    At First Sight
    Awakenings
    The Barbarian Invasions
    A Beautiful Mind
    The Body Beautiful
    Born on the Fourth of July
    The Color of Paradise
    Coming Home
    Dax's Case
    Death and the Maiden
    Death on Request
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    The Eighth Day
    The Elephant Man
    Extraordinary Measures
    Flawless
    Frankie Starlight
    Frida
    God Said, Ha!
    Grave Words: Tools for Discussing End of Life Choices
    Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
    Illness as Experience
    In My Language
    Indestructible
    The Keys to the House (Le chiavi di casa)
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Magnificent Obsession
    Maze
    Memento
    The Men
    Midnight Cowboy
    Million Dollar Baby
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    Murderball
    My Left Foot
    Opera Therapy
    Out of the Shadow
    Passion Fish
    Pauline & Paulette
    Pieces of April
    Please Let Me Die
    Rain Man
    Regeneration
    Requiem for a Dream
    Respiro
    Road to Wellville
    Safe
    The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)
    The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    Seducing Dr. Lewis (La Grande Séduction)
    Sixth Happiness
    Strangers in Good Company
    The Sweet Hereafter
    Theory of Flight
    Tsotsi
    Twin Falls Idaho
    The Vanishing Line
    Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back
    The Waterdance
    Whose Life Is It Anyway?
    A Woman's Tale
    A Zed and Two Noughts


Literature


Abrahams, Lionel     The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan
Adolphsen, Peter     Machine
Alexander, Sally Hobart     Taking Hold: My Journey into Blindness
Anderson, M. F., ed.     Reflections from a Mud Puddle: Helping Children Cope and Grow
Andrews, Tom     Codeine Diary: A Memoir
    The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle
    A Language of Hemophilia
Angelou, Maya     The Last Decision
Anonymous,     Hurricane Zone
Ansay, A. Manette     Limbo: A Memoir
Appignanesi, Lisa     Paris Requiem
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Bérubé, Michael     Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
B., David     Epileptic
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova     The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Balzac, Honore de     The Country Doctor
Banks, Russell     The Sweet Hereafter
Barker, Pat     Regeneration
Barnes, Julian     Arthur and George
Barthelme, Donald     The President
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
Beattie, Ann     Dwarf House
Bell, Marvin     He Had a Good Year
Bellarosa, James M.     A problem of plumbing
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Berger, Suzanne E.     Horizontal Woman
Bertman, S. L., ed.     Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy
Birney, (Alfred) Earle     David
Blume, Judy     Deenie
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Bontemps, Arna W.     A Summer Tragedy
Borges, Jorge Luis     Funes the Memorious (Funes el Memorioso)
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     The Road to Wellville
Bradbury, Ray     The Dwarf
Brancato, Robin F.     Winning
Breslin, Rosemary     Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
Brock, Pope     Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Brodkey, Harold     Dying: An Update
Brown, Carrie     Miniature Man
Brown, Christy     My Left Foot, excerpt from
Brown, Rosellen     How to Win
    Tender Mercies
Brown, S., H., ed.     Echoes of War
Brown, III, T. K.     A Drink of Water
Broyard, Anatole     Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
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
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Calvert, Patricia     Picking Up the Pieces
Carey, Peter     The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Carruth, Hayden     Notes on Emphysema
Carter III, Albert Howard     Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned
Casey, Charles     The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial
Cather, Willa     Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Chaikin, Joseph     Struck Dumb
Chekhov, Anton P.     The Bear
    A Doctor's Visit
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Clifton, Lucille     dialysis
    donor
    Miss Rosie
Coetzee, J. M.     The Blow
    Slow Man
Cogan, Nancy Adams     In Strange Places
Cohen, Marion Deutsche     Chronic Progressive
    Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse
    Epsilon Country
Collins, Wilkie     Hide and Seek
    Poor Miss Finch
Corcoran, Barbara     Axe-Time, Sword-Time
Coulehan, Jack     Irene
Courtemanche, Gil     A Good Death
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
    Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Cousins, Norman     Anatomy of an Illness (As Perceived by the Patient)
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock     Olive
Crane, Stephen     The Monster
Crimmins, Cathy     Where is the Mango Princess?
Cromer, Janet M.     Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Crutcher, Chris     Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Culkin, Jennifer     A Final Arc of Sky: a Memoir of Critical Care
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Darwin, Charles Robert     The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Daudet, Alphonse     In the Land of Pain
Davis, C. & Schaefer, J., eds.     Intensive Care
Delury, George E.     But What if She Wants to Die? A Husband's Diary
Dickens, Charles     A Christmas Carol
    The Cricket on the Hearth
    A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
    Doctor Marigold
    The Old Curiosity Shop
    Our Mutual Friend
Dillard, Annie     Holy the Firm
Doerr, Anthony     The Shell Collector
Donley, C. & Buckley, S., eds.     The Tyranny of the Normal
    What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
Dostoevski, Fyodor Mikhailovich     The Idiot
Doty, Mark     Atlantis
Downie, Glen     Wishbone Dance
Dubus, Andre     Dancing After Hours
    Meditations from a Movable Chair
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
Dunant, Sarah     In the Company of the Courtesan
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Dunn, Katherine     Geek Love
Edwards, Kim     The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Eig, Jonathan     Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     The Lifted Veil
Engel, Howard     Memory Book: A Benny Cooperman Mystery
Enquist, Per Olov     The Royal Physician's Visit
Estrin, Marc     Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
Ferris, Jim     The Hospital Poems
Fies, Brian     Mom's Cancer
Finger, Anne     Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth
Fiser, Karen     Across the Border
    Losing and Finding
    Words Like Fate and Pain
Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott     Family in the Wind
Forman, Vicki     This Lovely Life
Foster, P. & Swander, M., eds.     The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery
Foster, P., ed.     Minding The Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
Fox, John     Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Freisinger, Randall R.     Aphasia: the Breakdown of Language
Fries, Kenny     The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Leaf Storm
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie     Staring: How We Look
Gawande, Atul     Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
George, Sara     The Beekeeper's Pupil
Getsi, Lucia Cordell     Letter from the Rehabilitation Institute
Gilbert, Sandra     You See the Armless Woman
Gloag, Julian     Only Yesterday
Goedicke, Patricia     After the Second Operation
Goldstein, Melissa Anne     Travels with the Wolf
Goncz, Arpad     Old People
Graboys, Thomas     Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia
Graham-Pole, John     Quick: A Pediatrician's Illustrated Poetry
Gray, Spalding     Gray's Anatomy
Grealy, Lucy     Autobiography of a Face
Greenberg, Joanne     Hunting Season
Grinker, Roy Richard     Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism
Grohskopf, Bernice     Shadow in the Sun
Grumbach, Doris     Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Haddon, Mark     The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Harleman, Ann     Thoreau's Laundry
Hassler, Jon     The Love Hunter
Hawking, Stephen     Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Hearle, Kevin     In Memorium
    The Lesson
Hegi, Ursula     Stones from the River
Helman, C., ed.     Doctors and Patients: An Anthology
Hemingway, Ernest     In Another Country
Henley, William Ernest     In Hospital
Herling, Gustaw     The Island
Heymann, Jody     Equal Partners
Hoagland, Tony     Emigration
Hoffman, Amy     Hospital Time
Hollingshead, Greg     Spin Dry
Holman, Sheri     The Dress Lodger
Hornby, Nick     Introduction to Talking with the Angel
    A Long Way Down
Hospital, Janette Turner     The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
Hugo, Richard     Hot Springs
Hugo, Victor Marie     The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Hull, Jonathan     Losing Julia
Hunt, Nan     A Palsied Girl Goes to the Beach
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Irving, John     A Prayer for Owen Meany
Itani, Frances     Deafening
James, P. D.     The Children of Men
James, Thomas     Letters to a Stranger
Jamison, Kay Redfield     An Unquiet Mind
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Johnson, Harriet McBryde     Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Jolley, Elizabeth     Dingle the Fool
Jordan, Sherryl     The Raging Quiet
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Kafka, Franz     The Metamorphosis
Kaplan, Jonathan     The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Kelly, Timothy     Toccata and Fugue
Kenyon, Jane     The Sick Wife
Keyes, Daniel     Flowers for Algernon
Kingsolver, Barbara     The Poisonwood Bible
Kinnell, Galway     Parkinson's Disease
Klawans, Harold     Defending the Cavewoman and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Knighton, Ryan     Cockeyed: A Memoir
Koch, Christopher     The Doubleman
    The Year of Living Dangerously
Kooser, Ted     Father: May 19, 1999
Kopit, Arthur     Wings
Kumin, Maxine     Inside the Halo and Beyond
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel     The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
Lamott, Anne     Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Lang, James M.     Learning Sickness
Larsson, Asa     The Blood Spilt
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)     The Blind Man
Leavitt, David     Equal Affections
Lee, Li-Young     Persimmons
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
Levine, Philip     Listen Carefully
Lightman, Alan     The Diagnosis
Linton, Simi     My Body Politic
Livesey, Margot     Banishing Verona
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
Lodge, David     Deaf Sentence
London, Jack     Told in the Drooling Ward
Lowry, Lois     The Silent Boy
Luria, A. R. (Aleksandr Romanovich)     The Man with a Shattered World
    The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
MacLeod, Anne     The Dark Ship
Mahoney, Rosemary     A Likely Story
Mairs, Nancy     On Being a Cripple
    A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malamud, Bernard     Idiots First
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mansfield, Katherine     The Man Without a Temperament
Marani, Diego     New Finnish Grammar
Mars-Jones, Adam     The Waters of Thirst
Matthews, William     Ice Follies
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     Of Human Bondage
Mawer, Simon     Mendel's Dwarf
McCaffrey, Anne     The Ship Who Sang
McCracken, Elizabeth     The Giant's House
McCullers, Carson     The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McDermott, Alice     Charming Billy
McGovern, Cammie     Eye Contact
McGrath, Patrick     Dr. Haggard's Disease
McKeithen, Madge     Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
McLoughlin, J., ed.     On the Death of a Parent
Mehta, Ved     Sound Shadows of the New World
Milton, John     Sonnet 16 (On His Blindness )
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     The Case of George Dedlow
Molière,     The Imaginary Invalid
Moller, David Wendell     Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying Among Inner-City Poor
Monette, Paul     Your Sightless Days
Moraga, Cherríe L.     Heroes and Saints
Morris, David B.     The Culture of Pain
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Mukand, Jon Arun     First Payment
Munro, Alice     Comfort
    Comfort
Murphy, Robert F.     The Body Silent
Murray, Les     Hearing Impairment
Myers, K. R. & Schweizer, H., eds.     The Patient
Myers, K. R., ed.     Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics
Mysko, Madeleine     Bringing Vincent Home
Newborn, Barbara     Return to Ithaca
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
    Under the Eye of the Clock
Nuland, Sherwin B.     Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
O'Connell, Mary     Saint Ursula and Her Maidens
O'Connor, Flannery     Good Country People
    The Lame Shall Enter First
    The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Oe, Kenzaburo     Aghwee the Sky Monster
    A Personal Matter
Ofri, D., et al., eds.     The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
Olds, Sharon     Fate
Osteen, M., ed.     Autism and Representation
Ott, Katherine     Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870
Pai, Ann     My Other Body: A Memoir of Love, Fat, Life, and Death
Pastan, Linda     Migraine
Pensack, Robert     Raising Lazarus
Perillo, Lucia     I've Heard the Vultures Singing
Petro, Jane Arbuckle     Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
    House Rules
Pies, Ronald     Creeping Thyme
Pinter, Harold     A Kind of Alaska
Pomerance, Bernard     The Elephant Man
Porter, Katherine Anne     Holiday
Porter, Pamela     The Crazy Man
Powers, Richard     The Echo Maker
Price, Margaret     Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Price, Reynolds     The Good Priest's Son
    A Whole New Life
Prince-Hughes, Dawn     Songs of the Gorilla Nation
Rash, Ron     Brown Lung
Ray, David     The Progress of the Soul
Reed, Barry C.     The Verdict
Reiss, Benjamin     Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Rhett, K., ed.     Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis
Richman, Jan     Tourette's Journey
Rilke, Rainer Maria     The Blindman's Song
    Going Blind
    The Song the Dwarf Sings
Rivard, Ken     Bottle Talk
Rogoff, Marianne     Silvie's Life
Rollin, Betty     First, You Cry, excerpt from
Roney, Lisa     Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes
Roth, Philip     Nemesis
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
Sachs, Albie     The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
Sacks, Oliver     An Anthropologist on Mars
    The Island of the Colorblind
    A Leg to Stand On
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
    Rebecca
    Seeing Voices
    Witty Ticcy Ray
Saramago, José     Blindness
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schnitzler, Arthur     Blind Geronimo and His Brother
Schramm, T., ed.     Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic Depression
Schreck, Karen Halvorsen     The Slaughterhouse
Scott, Joanna     Various Antidotes
Seaver, Anne Mae Halgram     My World Now
Sedaris, David     A Plague of Tics
Selzer, Richard     Toenails
    The Whistlers' Room
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Service, Robert     Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Shafer, Audrey     The Mailbox
Shakespeare, William     Richard III
Shapiro, Alan     The Dead Alive and Busy
Shapshay, S., ed.     Bioethics at the Movies
Shawn, Allen     Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life
Shumaker, Peggy     Just Breathe Normally
Shute, Jenefer P.     Life-Size
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Simmons, Philip     Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Sissman, L. E. (Louis Edward)     Homage to Clotho: A Hospital Suite
Skloot, Floyd     In the Shadow of Memory
    The Night-Side
    A World of Light
Slater, Lauren     Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
Smith, Dave     Stroke
Snodgrass, W. D.     A Flat One
Sontag, Susan     Alice in Bed
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
Steinbeck, John     Of Mice and Men
Strand, Mark     Old People on the Nursing Home Porch
Studer, Constance     Prayer to a Purple God
Sumrall, Amber Coverdale     Crossing the High Country
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
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Tanielian, T. & Jaycox, L. H., eds.     Invisible Wounds of War
Taylor, Jill Bolte     My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Tayman, John     The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Tomey, Ingrid     Nobody Else Has to Know
Tregebov, Rhea     The Proving Grounds
Updike, John     From the Journal of a Leper
Van Duyn, Mona     Letters from a Father
van Itallie, Jean-Claude     Struck Dumb
Vernon, John     A Book of Reasons
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Voight, Cynthia     Izzy--Willy-Nilly
Vrettos, Athena     Somatic Fictions
Wait, Lea     Finest Kind
    Wintering Well
Walker, Daly     I Am the Grass
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Warfield, Frances     Cotton in My Ears, excerpt from
Wasserstein, Wendy     Complications
Weiner, Jonathan     His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine
Weisman, Jamie     As I Live and Breathe
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)     The Country of the Blind
Welty, Eudora     A Worn Path
Wendell, Susan     The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Werlin, Nancy     Are You Alone on Purpose?
Wetherell, W. D.     Chekhov's Sister
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
Wilkins, R., ed.     The Doctor's Quotation Book: A Medical Miscellany
Williams, Donna     Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic
Williams, Lori Aurelia     Broken China
Williams, Marie Sheppard     Wilma Bremer's Funeral
    The Worldwide Church of the Handicapped and Other Stories
Williams, Terry Tempest     The Village Watchman
Williams, William Carlos     Last Words of My Grandmother (First Version)
Winckler, Martin     The Case of Dr. Sachs
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Woodruff, Lee     In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
Yoshino, Kenji     Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Zimmer, Paul     The Tenth Circle


Theater


Middleton, Clark Powell, Michael Warren     Miracle Mile