Hospitalization


Art Film Literature


Art


Kahlo, Frida     Henry Ford Hospital
    Tree of Hope
    Without Hope
Layton, Elizabeth     The Courtroom
Moore, Frank     Patient
Neel, Alice     City Hospital
Picasso, Pablo     Science and Charity
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Tooker, George     Corporate Decision
Van Gogh, Vincent     A Corridor in the Asylum


Film


    Alice Neel
    Article 99
    Awakenings
    The Barbarian Invasions
    Beautiful Dreamers
    Bethune: The Making of a Hero
    The Body Beautiful
    Born on the Fourth of July
    Bringing Out the Dead
    Coming Home
    Dax's Case
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    Docteur Laennec
    The Doctor
    The Elephant Man
    Extraordinary Measures
    Grave Words: Tools for Discussing End of Life Choices
    Harvey
    Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
    The House of God
    Infection (Kansen)
    Jesus of Montréal
    The Kingdom
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Man Facing Southeast (Hombre Mirando Al Sudeste)
    The Men
    Million Dollar Baby
    Murderball
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Please Let Me Die
    Rain Man
    Red Beard (Akahige)
    Regeneration
    Respiro
    Road to Wellville
    Shadowlands
    Shutter Island
    Sicko
    Singing Myself a Lullaby
    The Snake Pit
    Son of the Bride
    Twin Falls Idaho
    The Vanishing Line
    The War Zone
    The Waterdance
    Whose Life Is It Anyway?
    Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself)
    A Woman Under the Influence
    A Woman's Tale


Literature


Abe, Kobo     Kangaroo Notebook
Abse, Dannie     Be Seated, Thou
    Pythagoras (Smith)
Alexander, Sally Hobart     Taking Hold: My Journey into Blindness
Allen, Dick     Parents' Support Group
Allende, Isabel     Paula
Anand, Geeta     The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million--and Bucked the Medical Establishment--in a Quest to Save His Children
Anaya, Rudolfo     Tortuga
Anderson, M. F., ed.     Reflections from a Mud Puddle: Helping Children Cope and Grow
Andrews, Tom     The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle
    A Language of Hemophilia
Appleman, Philip     Alive
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Armstrong, Lance     It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
Austin, Paul     Something for the Pain
Axelrod, David B.     Consent
Bach, Alice     Waiting for Johnny Miracle
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Barker, Pat     The Ghost Road
    Regeneration
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Baruch, Jay     Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers
Bauby, Jean-Dominique     The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bauer, Mark S., ed.     A Mind Apart
Bazell, Josh     Beat the Reaper
Beauvoir, Simone de     A Very Easy Death
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Benn, Gottfried     Man and Woman Go through the Cancer Ward
Bennett, Arnold     Riceyman Steps
Bennett, Cherie     Zink
Berg, Elizabeth     Range of Motion
Berlin, R. M., ed.     Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process
Bertman, Sandra L.     Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
Betjeman, John     The Cottage Hospital
Betts, Doris     Souls Raised from the Dead
Biro, David     One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
Bishop, Elizabeth     Visits to St. Elizabeths
Bloch, Chana     In the Land of the Body
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Bogan, Louise     Evening in the Sanitarium
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     The Road to Wellville
Brancato, Robin F.     Winning
Breedlove, C., ed.     Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association
Breslin, Rosemary     Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
Brodkey, Harold     Dying: An Update
Brooks, Dorothy Howe     Life Support
Brooks, Gwendolyn     sick man looks at flowers
Brown, John     Rab and His Friends
Brown, III, T. K.     A Drink of Water
Broyard, Anatole     Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
Bryner, Jeanne     Breathless
Bulgakov, Mikhail     Baptism by Rotation
    Black as Egypt's Night
    A Country Doctor's Notebook
    The Embroidered Towel
    The Speckled Rash
    The Vanishing Eye
Burroughs, Augusten     Dry
    Running with Scissors
Burrows, Adria     The Man Who Didn't Know He Had Cancer
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     Body Art
    A Stone Woman
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Campo, Rafael     Technology and Medicine
Cantwell, Mary     Manhattan, When I Was Young
Carmichael, A. G. & Ratzan, Richard M., eds.     Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature
Carter, Alden R.     Sheila's Dying
Carter III, Albert Howard     Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned
Carver, Raymond     My Death
    A Small, Good Thing
Caspers, Nona     Vegetative States
Caston, Anne     Flying Out with the Wounded
Charon, Rita     Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness
Chen, Pauline W.     Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Clyde, Mary     Survival Rates
Coetzee, J. M.     Slow Man
Coles, R. & Testa, R., eds.     A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
Collins, Anne     In the Sleep Room: The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Coulehan, Jack     I'm Gonna Slap Those Doctors
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
Cousins, Norman     Anatomy of an Illness (As Perceived by the Patient)
Crimmins, Cathy     Where is the Mango Princess?
Cristofer, Michael     The Shadow Box
Cromer, Janet M.     Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Crutcher, Chris     Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Daniel, John     Looking After: A Son's Memoir
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.     Intensive Care
Davis, Cortney     Details of Flesh
    The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
    Leopold's Maneuvers
Davis, Heather Choate     Baptism by Fire
Day, Sarah     Children's Ward
de Hartog, Jan     The Hospital
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
Dickens, Charles     A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
    Our Mutual Friend
Didion, Joan     Blue Nights
    The Year of Magical Thinking
Donley, C. & Kohn, M., eds.     Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories
Downie, Glen     Wishbone Dance
Dreuilhe, Alain Emmanuel     Mortal Embrace
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
Durant, Penny Raife     When Heroes Die
Edson, Margaret     Wit
Ellison, Ralph     Invisible Man
Endo, Shusako     The Sea and Poison
    The Sea and Poison
Engel, Howard     Memory Book: A Benny Cooperman Mystery
Enright, D. J., ed.     Ill at Ease: Writers on Ailments Real and Imagined
Fadiman, Anne     The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Ferris, Jean     Invincible Summer
Ferris, Jim     The Hospital Poems
Fies, Brian     Mom's Cancer
Findley, Timothy     Dreams
Finger, Anne     Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth
Fiser, Karen     Losing and Finding
Foerster, Richard     Isolation Ward
Foster, P., ed.     Minding The Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
Foucault, Michel     Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Frey, James     A Million Little Pieces
Frick, Marlena     All the Days of His Dying
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Furst, Lilian R.     Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Bon Voyage, Mr. President
    Of Love and Other Demons
    The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow
Gardiner, John Rolfe     Somewhere in France
Garshin, Vsevolod     The Scarlet Flower
Gawande, Atul     The Bell Curve
    Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
    Whose Body is it Anyway?
Gilbert, Sandra     Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
    Wrongful Death
Glass, Julia     Three Junes
Goedicke, Patricia     In the Hospital
    One More Time
Goldberg, Myla     Wickett's Remedy
Goldstein, Melissa Anne     Travels with the Wolf
Gordon, Arthur     Old Ironpuss
Gordon, R., ed.     The Literary Companion to Medicine
Gottlieb, Lori     Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Grace, Maggi Ann     State of the Heart: A Medical Tourist's True Story of Lifesaving Surgery in India
Graham-Pole, John     Quick: A Pediatrician's Illustrated Poetry
Grealy, Lucy     Autobiography of a Face
Greenberg, Michael     Hurry Down Sunshine
Groopman, Jerome E.     Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
Gunn, Thom     The Man with Night Sweats
Hacker, Randi     Life As I Knew It
Haddad, Amy Marie     Dehiscence
Haddix, Margaret Peterson     Fine?
Hall, Donald     The Ship Pounding
Hallman, J. C.     The Hospital for Bad Poets
Hamilton, Jane     The Short History of a Prince
Hanauer, Cathi     My Sister's Bones
Handler, Evan     Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors
Harper, Michael S.     Nightmare Begins Responsibility
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker     Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
Head, Bessie     A Question of Power
Hecht, Anthony     The Transparent Man
Helman, C., ed.     Doctors and Patients: An Anthology
Helman, Cecil     Suburban Shaman
Hemingway, Ernest     A Farewell to Arms
Henley, William Ernest     Enter Patient
    In Hospital
Hicok, Bob     Fieldwork
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler     Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
Hoffman, Amy     Hospital Time
Hopper, James     When it Happens
Hornbacher, Marya     Madness
    Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Huyler, Frank     The Blood of Strangers
    The Laws of Invisible Things
Hyde, Catherine Ryan     Becoming Chloe
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Ignatow, David     Sunday at the State Hospital
Jacobstein, Roy     Ripe
Jain, N., Coppock, D., & Clark, S. B., eds.     Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience
James, Thomas     Letters to a Stranger
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Johnson, Diane     Health and Happiness
Johnson, Harriet McBryde     Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Jolley, Elizabeth     Hilda's Wedding
Jones, Alice     The Knot
Jones, Thom     I Want to Live!
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Kadohata, Cynthia     Kira Kira
Kaysen, Susanna     Girl, Interrupted
Kearney, Michael     Mortally Wounded. Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing
Keizer, Bert     Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
Kenney, Susan     In Another Country
    Sailing
Kirklin, D. & Richardson, R., eds.     Medical Humanities: A Practical Introduction
Klíma, Ivan     Rich Men Tend to Be Strange
Klass, Perri     Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training
    Love and Modern Medicine
    Other Women's Children
    Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor
Kohn, M. & Donley, C., eds.     Return to The House of God: Medical Resident Education 1978-2008
Kopit, Arthur     Wings
Kovacic, Kristin, & Barrett, L., eds.     Birth: A Literary Companion
Kovner, Abba     Sloan-Kettering
Krauser, Paula     Tears
Kumin, Maxine     Inside the Halo and Beyond
Kusz, Natalie     Road Song
Lam, Vincent     Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Lamb, Wally     I Know This Much is True
Lamott, Anne     Hard Laughter
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Larkin, Philip     Ambulances
    The Building
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Leavitt, David     Equal Affections
Lehane, Dennis     ICU
Levenkron, Steven     The Best Little Girl in the World
Lewis, Richard     The Killing Sea
Lieberman, Michael     Sojourn at Elmhurst
Linton, Simi     My Body Politic
Livesey, Margot     Eva Moves the Furniture
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
Lodge, David     Paradise News
London, Jack     Told in the Drooling Ward
Lowenstein, Jerome     The Midnight Meal and Other Essays About Doctors, Patients, and Medicine
Lundkvist, Artur     Journeys in Dream and Imagination
Luria, A. R. (Aleksandr Romanovich)     The Man with a Shattered World
Lux, Thomas     Hospital View
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mann, Thomas     Tristan
Marani, Diego     New Finnish Grammar
Matthews, William     Dire Cure
    Dire Cure
    Recovery Room
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCourt, Frank     Angela's Ashes
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McFarlane, Donna     Division of Surgery
McGrath, Patrick     Asylum
McLoughlin, J., ed.     On the Death of a Parent
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Monette, Paul     Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Moore, Lorrie     People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk
Moran, Thomas     The World I Made for Her
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Mukand, Jon Arun     Lullaby
Munro, Alice     The Bear Came Over the Mountain
Murakami, Haruki     Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Murphy, Robert F.     The Body Silent
Murray, John F.     Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal
Murray, Les     Travels with John Hunter
Murray, T. Jock     Reflections: Illness and Healing. The Art of Robert Pope
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
Neuhaus, Richard John     As I Lay Dying
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nigam, Sanjay     Transplanted Man
Nolan, Han     Dancing on the Edge
Nova, Craig     The Universal Donor
Nuland, Sherwin B.     How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
    The Wisdom of the Body
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     The Dead Body
Oliver, Mary     University Hospital, Boston
Orient, Jane M.     Sutton's Law
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin     The Mastectomy Poems
Padilla, Ignacio     Amends in Halak-Proot
Pai, Ann     My Other Body: A Memoir of Love, Fat, Life, and Death
Parks, Tim     Destiny
Patrick, John     The Hasty Heart
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Peck, Richard E.     Something for Joey
Pennie, Ross     Tampered
Pensack, Robert     Raising Lazarus
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Perez, Jose     Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose Perez
Perry, Anne     A Sudden, Fearful Death
Petro, Jane Arbuckle     Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
Piercy, Marge     Woman on the Edge of Time
Plath, Sylvia     The Bell Jar
    Lady Lazarus
    The Surgeon at 2 A.M.
    Three Women
    Tulips
Poe, Edgar Allan     The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Pollack, Eileen     Milk
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Porter, Katherine Anne     Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Powers, Richard     Operation Wandering Soul
Price, Reynolds     A Whole New Life
Pym, Barbara     Quartet in Autumn
Radetsky, Michael     Sudden Intimacies
Ramondetta, Lois     The Light Within: The Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and Patient Brought Together by Cancer
Rappaport, Helen     No Place for Ladies: The Untold Story of Women in the Crimean War
Raymond, Linda     Rocking the Babies
Reade, Charles     Hard Cash
Reiss, Benjamin     Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Ribman, Ronald     Cold Storage, A Play in Two Acts
Roberts, Willo Davis     Sugar Isn't Everything
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.
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sachs, Albie     The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
Sacks, Oliver     The Autist Artist
Saltzman, Joan     Mr. Right and My Left Kidney
Sansom, C. (Christopher) J. (John)     Revelation
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
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Balancing Acts
    The Wrath-Bearing Tree
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Sedgwick, Marcus     The Foreshadowing
Self, Will     Great Apes
Selzer, Richard     An Absence of Windows
    Atrium: October 2001
    The Exact Location of the Soul
    Fetishes
    Four Appointments with the Discus Thrower
    Letters to a Young Doctor
    Raising the Dead
    The Whistlers' Room
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Sergi, P. & Gorman, G., eds.     A Call to Nursing: Nurses' Stories about Challenge and Commitment
Sexton, Anne     The Operation
Shafer, Audrey     Sleep Talker
Shapiro, Alan     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
Sheed, Wilfrid     In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery
Shem, Samuel (Stephen Bergman)     The House of God
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
Shumaker, Peggy     Just Breathe Normally
Shute, Jenefer P.     Life-Size
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Silbert, Layle     Losses
    Losses
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Sissman, L. E. (Louis Edward)     A Deathplace
    A Deathplace
    Dying: A Resurrection, 1969
    Homage to Clotho: A Hospital Suite
    Homage to Clotho: A Hospital Suite
Slaughter, Frank G.     Doctors' Wives
Smith, Dave     Stroke
Snodgrass, W. D.     A Flat One
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr     The Cancer Ward
Sonnenblick, Jordan     Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Sontag, Susan     The Way We Live Now
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Spence, Wayman     Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose Perez
St. Andrews, B. A. (Bonnie)     Oncological Cocktails
Stafford, Jean     The Interior Castle
Stein, Michael     The White Life
Stone, John     Music From Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems
Straus, Marc J.     Not God: A Play in Verse
Sweet, Victoria     God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Tanielian, T. & Jaycox, L. H., eds.     Invisible Wounds of War
Tomey, Ingrid     Nobody Else Has to Know
Tucker, Neely     Love in the Driest Season
Updike, John     The City
    Endpoint and Other Poems
vanMeenan, K. & Rossiter, C., eds.     Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Wagner, Pamela Spiro     We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Walls, Jeannette     The Glass Castle
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Wasserstein, Wendy     Complications
Watts, H. David     Bedside Manners
    The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Weisman, Jamie     As I Live and Breathe
Whitman, Walt     Walt Whitman's Civil War
Wiesel, Elie     Open Heart
Williams, Guy     The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, 1700-1800
    The Age of Miracles: Medicine and Surgery in the Nineteenth Century
Williams, Miller     A Day in the Death
Williams, William Carlos     Jean Beicke
    Last Words of My Grandmother (First Version)
    The Mental Hospital Garden
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Wittlinger, Ellen     Stevie in the Mirror
Wolitzer, Hilma     Mother
Woodruff, Lee     In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
Wurtzel, Elizabeth     Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
Young, Audrey     The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital
Young, Ian     The Private Life of Islam
Zivkovic, Zoran     The Violinist