Human Worth


Art Film Literature


Art


Bacon, Francis     Painting
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter     The Triumph of Death
Chapman, Jake and Dinos     Great Deeds against the Dead
Dürer, Albrecht     Christ Among the Doctors
    The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve)
David, Jacques-Louis     Death of Marat
    The Death of Socrates
Gauguin, Paul     Words of the Devil (Parau na te Varua ino)
Goldstein, Barry M.     Being There: Medical Student Morgue Volunteers Following 9-11--Portraits and Interviews
Goya, Francisco     Courtyard with Lunatics
    Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, 3rd May 1808
    He Can No Longer at the Age of 98
Hodler, Ferdinand     The Dying Valentine Godé-Darel
Kahlo, Frida     El suicidio de Dorothy Hale (Suicide of Dorothy Hale)
    Frida and the Miscarriage
    Henry Ford Hospital
    Tree of Hope
Kashi, Ed     Aging in America
Koch, John     Interlude
Kollwitz, Käthe     At the Doctor's (Beim Arzt)
    Woman with Dead Child
Layton, Elizabeth     The Courtroom
Matuschka,     Matuschka Archive
Michelangelo,     Creation of Adam
Neel, Alice     City Hospital
    Investigation of Poverty, Russell Sage Foundation
    Well Baby Clinic
Picasso, Pablo     Guernica
    Science and Charity
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Quinn, Marc     Alison Lapper Pregnant
Salgado, Sebastiao     An Uncertain Grace
Scherer, Deidre     Surrounded by Family and Friends
Solomon, Rosalind     Portraits in the Time of AIDS
Sugimoto, Henry     Nisei Babies in Concentration Camp
    Reverend Yamazaki Was Beaten in Camp Jerome
    Send Off Husband at Jerome Camp
    When Can We Go Home?
Tooker, George     Corporate Decision
Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon     Bathsheba
    Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph
Warhol, Andy     Red Disaster (one of two panels)
Winokur, Julie     Aging in America
Worsham, Erin Brady     Breathtaking Metamorphosis
    Mind, Body, Spirit


Film


    21 Grams
    50/50
    About Schmidt
    All About My Mother
    American Beauty
    Anatomy (Anatomie)
    And the Band Played On
    Antonia's Line
    Arrowsmith
    Article 99
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    Awakenings
    Away From Her
    The Barbarian Invasions
    Battlestar Galactica (2003)
    Beautiful Dreamers
    A Beautiful Mind
    Bethune: The Making of a Hero
    The Body Beautiful
    Born on the Fourth of July
    Brain Candy
    Bramwell
    Bright Star
    Bringing Out the Dead
    Casa de los Babys
    The Citadel
    The Color of Paradise
    Coming Home
    Common Threads
    Daughters of the Dust
    Death and the Maiden
    Death in the Seine
    The Deep
    Departures (Okuribito)
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Docteur Petiot
    The Doctor
    Down Came a Blackbird
    Dr. Lucille: The Lucille Teasdale Story
    An Early Frost
    The Eighth Day
    The Elephant Man
    The English Patient
    Extreme Measures
    Far From Heaven
    Frankie Starlight
    Frida
    Gattaca
    Good Will Hunting
    The Green Mile
    Half-Nelson
    Harvey
    Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
    Holding Our Own: Embracing the End of Life
    The House of God
    Ikiru
    Illness as Experience
    In My Language
    Iris
    Jesus of Montréal
    Kandahar-Journey into the Heart of Afghanistan
    The Keys to the House (Le chiavi di casa)
    L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours)
    Lone Star
    Longtime Companion
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Madame Curie
    Man Facing Southeast (Hombre Mirando Al Sudeste)
    Marvin's Room
    Maurice
    Maze
    The Men
    Midnight Cowboy
    A Midwife's Tale
    Million Dollar Baby
    Miss Evers' Boys
    Monsoon Wedding
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    Murderball
    My Left Foot
    My Life Without Me
    Mystic River
    Nell
    Nurse Edith Cavell
    Of Hopscotch and Little Girls
    The Official Story (La Historia oficia)
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Ordinary People
    Out of the Ashes
    Out of the Shadow
    Passion Fish
    People Will Talk
    Philadelphia
    Puncture
    Red Beard (Akahige)
    Regeneration
    Requiem for a Dream
    Ridicule
    The Savages
    The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)
    The Secret Garden
    Seducing Dr. Lewis (La Grande Séduction)
    Seraphine
    She's Finally Free: Living with the Tragic Loss of Nancy Cruzan
    Sicko
    Singing Myself a Lullaby
    Sixth Happiness
    Smoke Signals
    Something the Lord Made
    Son of the Bride
    Spellbound
    The Station Agent
    Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy
    Strangers in Good Company
    Sylvia
    Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot)
    The Syringa Tree
    Theory of Flight
    Three Colors: Blue
    The Three Faces of Eve
    Titicut Follies
    Tsotsi
    Twin Falls Idaho
    The Undertaking
    Vera Drake
    Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back
    Waltz with Bashir
    The Waterdance
    Whose Life Is It Anyway?
    Wild Strawberries
    A Woman's Tale
    Y Tu Mamá También (And your mother too)
    Yesterday
    You Can Count on Me
    The Young Doctors


Literature


Abe, Kobo     Inter Ice Age 4
Abrahams, Lionel     The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan
Abse, Dannie     Be Seated, Thou
    Carnal Knowledge
    The Dogs of Pavlov
    Exit
    The Origin of Music
    Pythagoras (Smith)
Aizley, Harlyn     Buying Dad
Akhmatova, Anna     In Memory of Mikhail Bulgakov
    Requiem
Albom, Mitch     Tuesdays with Morrie
Alegria, Claribel     Sorrow/Saudade
Alvarez, Julia     How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Anaya, Rudolfo     Bless Me, Ultima
Andahazi, Federico     The Anatomist
Anderson, Laurie Halse     Fever 1793
Andersson, Claes     Poems in Our Absence
Angelou, Maya     The Last Decision
    Phenomenal Woman
Appleman, Philip     Alive
    Darwin's Ark
Arcana, Judith     What if your mother
Ariès, Philippe     The Hour of Our Death
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
Atwood, Margaret     Alias Grace
    The Blind Assassin
Auden, W. H.     The Art of Healing
    Musee des Beaux Arts
Austin, Paul     Something for the Pain
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Axline, Virginia M.     Dibs: In Search of Self
Bérubé, Michael     Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
B., David     Epileptic
Baca, Jimmy Santiago     Black Mesa Poems
    A Place to Stand
Baer, William     The Unfortunates
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova     The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Bakan, David     Disease, Pain, & Sacrifice
Balzac, Honore de     The Country Doctor
Bambara, Toni Cade     A Girl's Story
Bamforth, I., ed.     The Body in the Library
Bamforth, Iain     Open Workings
Banks, C. & Rizzo, J., eds.     A Loving Voice: A Caregiver's Book of Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly
Baratz-Logsted, Lauren     Angel's Choice
Barber, Charles     Songs from the Black Chair
Barker, Pat     Another World
    The Ghost Road
    Regeneration
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Barnes, Peter     Red Noses
Barrett, Andrea     Ship Fever
Bartlett, J., Black, S. & Northen, M., eds.     Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
Baruch, Jay     Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers
Battin, Margaret Pabst     Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
Bauby, Jean-Dominique     The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bazell, Josh     Beat the Reaper
Bell, Marvin     Frankenstein's Monster
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, Cherie     Life in the Fat Lane
Berg, Elizabeth     Range of Motion
Berlin, R. M., ed.     Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process
Berlin, Richard M.     Code Blue
    How JFK Killed My Father
Bernieres, Louis de     Corelli's Mandolin
Bernlef, J.     Out of Mind
Bertman, S. L., ed.     Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy
Bertman, Sandra L.     Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
Betjeman, John     The Cottage Hospital
    Death in Leamington
Bishop, Elizabeth     In the Waiting Room
Bissell, Tom     Death Defier
Bly, Carol     Gunnar's Sword
Bly, R. , et al., eds.     The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Boland, Eavan     The Journey
Bolton, Gillie     The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing: Writing Myself
Bontemps, Arna W.     A Summer Tragedy
Borden, Mary     The Forbidden Zone
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     Killing Babies
Bradbury, Ray     The Dwarf
    The Leave-Taking
Brecht, Bertolt     The Unseemly Old Lady
Brink, Andre     The Wall of the Plague
Brodkey, Harold     Dying: An Update
Brodsky, Joseph     Homage to Chekhov
Bronte, Charlotte     Jane Eyre
Brook, T., et.al., eds.     Death by a Thousand Cuts
Brooks, Gwendolyn     Thinking of Elizabeth Steinberg
Brown, Christy     My Left Foot, excerpt from
Brown, Rebecca     The Gifts of the Body
Brown, S., H., ed.     Echoes of War
Broyard, Anatole     Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
Bryner, Jeanne     Breathless
    Butterfly
    Eclipse
    Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered
    This Red Oozing
Buchner, Georg     Woyzeck
Bulgakov, Mikhail     A Country Doctor's Notebook
    The Heart of a Dog
    Morphine
    The Murderer
Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden
Butler, Octavia     Dawn
Butler, Robert Olen     Love
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     A Stone Woman
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Callanan, Maggie     Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying
Campo, Rafael     The Distant Moon
    The Enemy
    The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry
    Her Final Show
    The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World
    The Poetry of Healing
    Technology and Medicine
    Towards Curing AIDS
Carey, Peter     True History of the Kelly Gang
    The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Carroll, Robert     What Waiting Is
Carter, Alden R.     Sheila's Dying
Carter III, Albert Howard     First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab
Carver, Raymond     The Autopsy Room
    Fat
    Gravy
    My Death
    Where I'm Calling From
Cather, Willa     Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de     The Glass Graduate
Chamoiseau, Patrick     Texaco
Charach, Ron     Elephant Street
    Past Wildflowers
Charon, Rita     Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness
    To Render the Lives of Patients
Chekhov, Anton P.     An Attack of Nerves (A Nervous Breakdown)
    An Awkward Business
    The Beggar
    Betrothed
    The Bishop
    The Cherry Orchard
    The Darling
    The Duel
    Excellent People
    Gooseberries
    The Grasshopper
    Gusev
    Happiness
    The Head Gardener's Story
    The Horse Stealers
    In Exile
    Intrigues: Nine Stories by Anton Chekhov
    Ivanov
    A Journey to Sakhalin
    The Kiss
    Lights
    Murder
    My Life
    Neighbors
    On Easter Eve
    On Official Business
    Peasant Wives
    Perpetuum Mobile
    The Princess
    Rothschild's Fiddle
    The Schoolmaster
    The Student
    The Teacher of Literature
    Three Years
    Typhus
    The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty Eight New Stories
    Volodya
    Ward 6
    Wild Honey
Chisholm, Brock     Can People Learn to Learn?: How to Know Each Other
Clark-Sayles, Catharine     One Breath
Cleavland, Clif     Healers and Heroes: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
Clifton, Lucille     Miss Rosie
    Miss Rosie
    to my friend, jerina
    wishes for sons
Coetzee, J. M.     Age of Iron
    The Blow
    Disgrace
Cogan, Nancy Adams     In Strange Places
    Snap Shots
Cohen, Matt     Elizabeth and After
Cokal, Susann     Mirabilis
Coles, Robert     A Festering Sweetness
    Lives of Moral Leadership
    Rumors of Separate Worlds
Colfelt, Robert H.     Together in the Dark
Collins, Anne     In the Sleep Room: The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Connelly, Joe     Bringing Out the Dead
Coope, John     Doctor Chekhov: A Study in Literature and Medicine
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     Anatomy Lesson
    Anatomy Lesson
    The Heavenly Ladder
    I'm Gonna Slap Those Doctors
Courtemanche, Gil     A Good Death
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
    Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing
Crace, Jim     Being Dead
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock     Olive
Crane, Stephen     The Monster
Cromer, Janet M.     Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Cronin, A. J. (Archibald Joseph)     The Citadel
    The Judas Tree
Crutcher, Chris     Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)     anyone lived in a pretty how town
    a man who had fallen among thieves
Cunningham, Michael     The Hours
Dangarembga, Tsitsi     Nervous Conditions
Daniel, John     Looking After: A Son's Memoir
Danticat, Edwidge     Breath, Eyes, Memory
Davidson, Jenny     Heredity
Davies, Robertson     World of Wonders
Davis, C. & Schaefer, J., eds.     Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses
    Intensive Care
Davis, Cortney     The Body Flute
    Details of Flesh
Davis, Heather Choate     Baptism by Fire
de Hartog, Jan     The Hospital
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
Delury, George E.     But What if She Wants to Die? A Husband's Diary
Dennis, Carl     Progressive Health
Derby, Pat     Visiting Miss Pierce
Derrida, Jacques     The Animal That Therefore I Am
    The Work of Mourning
Dessaix, Robert     Night Letters
Dickens, Charles     Bleak House
    A Christmas Carol
    A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
    The Old Curiosity Shop
    Our Mutual Friend
Dickey, James     Diabetes
Diedrich, Lisa     Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness
Dillard, Annie     Holy the Firm
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee     A Perfect Life
    The Ultrasound
Doherty, Berlie     Dear Nobody
Donley, C. & Buckley, S., eds.     The Tyranny of the Normal
    What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
Donley, C. & Kohn, M., eds.     Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories
Dorsett, Thomas     Dance Fire Dance
Dostoevski, Fyodor Mikhailovich     Notes from Underground
Douglas, Ellen     Apostles of Light
Dove, Rita     Old Folk's Home, Jerusalem
Dow, Unity     Far and Beyon'
Downie, Glen     An X-Ray of Longing
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan     Conan Doyle's Tales of Medical Humanism and Values
Drabble, Margaret     The Seven Sisters
Draper, Sharon M.     Forged by Fire
Dreuilhe, Alain Emmanuel     Mortal Embrace
Dubus III, Andre     Townie
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
Dunmore, Helen     The Thief
Dunn, Katherine     Geek Love
Dunn, Stephen     After the Argument
    Among Men
    Checklist
    Power
Easton, Kelly     To Be Mona
Edwards, Kim     The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Ehrenreich, Barbara     Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
    The Sexual Politics of Sickness
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     The Lifted Veil
Elliott, C. & Lantos, J., eds.     The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Ellison, Ralph     Invisible Man
Emecheta, Buchi     The Joys of Motherhood
Emling, Shelley     The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Endo, Shusako     The Sea and Poison
    The Sea and Poison
Engel, Marian     The Honeyman Festival
English, Deirdre     The Sexual Politics of Sickness
Enquist, Per Olov     The Royal Physician's Visit
Erdrich, Louise     Love Medicine
Estrin, Marc     Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
Eugenides, Jeffrey     Middlesex
Faber, Michel     Under the Skin
Farley, Margaret A.     Compassionate Respect: A Feminist Approach to Medical Ethics and Other Questions
Faust, Drew Gilpin     This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Feinberg, Leslie     Stone Butch Blues
Feinfeld, D. (Donald) A.     What Do Numbers Dream Of?
Feldshuh, David     Miss Evers' Boys
Ferris, Jim     The Hospital Poems
Findley, Timothy     Pilgrim
Finger, Anne     Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth
Firlick, Katrina     Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Fiser, Karen     Losing and Finding
    Words Like Fate and Pain
Fisher, Mary     Angels in Our Midst
Fitzgerald, Penelope     Innocence
Flynn, Nick     Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Ford, Ford Madox     The Good Soldier
Forman, Vicki     This Lovely Life
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)     The Machine Stops
Foster, P. & Swander, M., eds.     The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery
Fox, Mem (Merrion Frances)     Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Frayn, Michael     Wild Honey
Frazier, Charles     Cold Mountain
Freedman, Nancy     Joshua, Son of None
Freud, Sigmund     Civilization and its Discontents
Fries, Kenny     The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory
Frost, Robert     The Death of the Hired Man
Fugard, Athol     A Lesson from Aloes
    The Road to Mecca
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Gaines, Ernest J.     A Lesson Before Dying
Galgut, Damon     The Good Doctor
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Leaf Storm
    Living to Tell the Tale
    Of Love and Other Demons
    A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie     Staring: How We Look
Garshin, Vsevolod     The Scarlet Flower
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
    Ruth
Gawande, Atul     Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Geller, J. L. & Harris, M., eds.     Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945
Gilbert, S. M., ed.     Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
Gilbert, Sandra     You See the Armless Woman
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins     The Yellow Wallpaper
Ginsberg, Allen     Kaddish
Glaspell, Susan     A Jury of Her Peers
Goldstone, Lawrence     The Anatomy of Deception
Goldsworthy, Peter     This Goes with This
Gonzales, Laurence     Lucy
Gordon, Mary     The Shadow Man
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Graboys, Thomas     Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia
Graham-Pole, John     Quick: A Pediatrician's Illustrated Poetry
Grant, Cynthia     The White Horse
Grealy, Lucy     Autobiography of a Face
    Mirrorings
Green, Gerald     The Last Angry Man
    To Brooklyn with Love
Grim, Pamela     Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER
Groopman, Jerome E.     The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
    Kirk
Gross, P., & Guernsey, D., eds.     Pulse: The First Year
Guilfoile, Kevin     Cast of Shadows
Guillen, Nicolas     Man-making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen
Guillevic, Eugene     Of My Death
Guterson, David     Snow Falling on Cedars
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Haigh, Jennifer     The Condition
Hall, Donald     Life Work
    Out the Window
Hall, Rodney     Captivity Captive
    The Grisly Wife
Hamilton, Virginia     The Planet of Junior Brown
Harrington, Kent     The Good Physician
Harris, J. W., ed.     Remembrances and Celebrations: A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs
Hass, Robert     A Story about the Body
Hassler, Jon     The Love Hunter
Hauerwas, Stanley     God, Medicine, and Suffering
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker     Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
    A Small, Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them
Head, Bessie     A Question of Power
Heaney, Seamus     Chekhov on Sakhalin
Hecht, Anthony     The Transparent Man
Hegi, Ursula     Stones from the River
Helfand, William H.     Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books
Helman, C., ed.     Doctors and Patients: An Anthology
Helman, Cecil     Suburban Shaman
Hemingway, Ernest     A Natural History of the Dead
Henley, William Ernest     In Hospital
Herwaldt, Loreen     Patient Listening: A Doctor's Guide
Highsmith, Patricia     Strangers on a Train
Hikmet, Nazim     My Funeral
    On Living
Hilfiker, David     Not All of Us Are Saints
Hill, Lawrence     The Book of Negroes
Hirshhorn, Norbert     A Cracked River
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler     Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
Holman, Sheri     The Dress Lodger
Holub, Miroslav     Animal Rights
    Death in the Evening
    Intensive Care: Selected and New Poems
Hopkins, Gerard Manley     Felix Randal
    Spring and Fall
Horgan, Paul     The Surgeon and the Nun
Hornbacher, Marya     Madness
Hospital, Janette Turner     The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
Hosseini, Khaled     The Kite Runner
Howard, Billy     Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of AIDS
Hughes, Holly, J., ed.     Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease
Hugo, Victor Marie     The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Hull, Jonathan     Losing Julia
Hunt, Nan     A Palsied Girl Goes to the Beach
Huxley, Aldous     Brave New World
    Island
Huyler, Frank     The Dead Lake
Hyde, Catherine Ryan     Becoming Chloe
Ibsen, Henrik     Ghosts
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Ihimaera, Witi     Tangi
Irving, John     A Prayer for Owen Meany
Itani, Frances     Deafening
Jablonski, Nina G.     Skin: A Natural History
Jacobstein, Roy     Ripe
Jain, N., Coppock, D., & Clark, S. B., eds.     Body Language: Poems of the Medical Training Experience
James, P. D.     The Children of Men
James, Thomas     Letters to a Stranger
Jarrell, D. & Sukrungruang, I., eds.     What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology
Jarrell, Randall     Nestus Gurley
Johnson, Harriet McBryde     Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
Jones, Alice     Gorgeous Mourning
Jones, Lloyd     Mr. Pip
Jones, Thom     Way Down Deep in the Jungle
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Köepf, Michael     The Fisherman's Son
Kadohata, Cynthia     Kira Kira
Kafka, Franz     A Hunger Artist
    In the Penal Colony
    A Report to an Academy
Kanafani, Ghassan     Death of Bed 12
Kaplan, Jonathan     The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Karlawish, Jason     Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont
Karnezis, Panos     Medical Ethics
Kass, Leon R.     The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man's Estate?
Kataev, Vladimir     If Only We Could Know: An Interpretation of Chekhov
Kearney, Michael     Mortally Wounded. Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing
Keizer, Bert     Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
Kelly, Timothy     Toccata and Fugue
Kendrick, Leatha     Science in Your Own Back Yard
Keneally, Thomas     The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Kenyon, Jane     Having it Out with Melancholy
    Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
Khan, Jemshed A.     New Bridge over the Missouri
Kidder, Tracy     Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Kingsolver, Barbara     Animal Dreams
    Homeland
    The Poisonwood Bible
Kinnell, Galway     Neverland
    St. Francis and the Sow
Kipling, Rudyard     Kim
Kirchwey, Karl     Barium
Kis, Danilo     The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Klass, Perri     Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training
Knapp, Caroline     Drinking: A Love Story
Koch, Christopher     Out of Ireland
Kocher, Philomene     Signs of Spring: Haiku Poems by Persons with Dementia
Kohn, M. & Donley, C., eds.     Return to The House of God: Medical Resident Education 1978-2008
Kooser, Ted     Father: May 19, 1999
Kovalchik, Michael T.     Theo's Story
Kovner, Abba     Sloan-Kettering
Kristeva, Julia     Murder in Byzantium
Krysl, Marilyn     Midwife and Other Poems on Caring
Kumin, Maxine     The Excrement Poem
Kurten, Bjorn     Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age
L'Engle, Madeleine     The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel     The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
LaCombe, Michael     Playing God
Laffitte, Sophie     Chekhov: 1860 - 1904
Lagomarsino, Nancy     Light from an Eclipse
Lam, Vincent     Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Lamb, Wally     I Know This Much is True
Lamott, Anne     Blue Shoe
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Landvik, Lorna     The Great Mysterious
Laqueur, Thomas Walter     Clio among the Old Folks
Larkin, Philip     Ambulances
Larsen, Nella     Quicksand
LaScala, Susan     Small Wonder: The Story of a Child Born Too Soon
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)     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
Lee, Chang-rae     A Gesture Life
LeGuin, Ursula K.     The Space Crone
Leon, Philip W.     Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Lessard, Suzannah     The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family
Lesser, Rika     All We Need of Hell
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
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
Levine, Philip     The Poem of Chalk
Lewis, Richard     The Killing Sea
Lieberman, Michael     Remnant
    Sojourn at Elmhurst
Lifshitz, L. H., ed.     Only Morning in Her Shoes: Poems About Old Women
Lifton, Robert J.     Sterilization and the Nazi Biomedical Vision
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
    What Counts
Lobo Antunes, Antonio     The Land at the End of the World
Lodge, David     Deaf Sentence
    Therapy
London, Jack     The Law of Life
Lorde, Audre     Sister Outsider
Lowry, Lois     The Giver
    The Silent Boy
Lundkvist, Artur     Journeys in Dream and Imagination
Luria, A. R. (Aleksandr Romanovich)     The Man with a Shattered World
Lurie, Alison     Foreign Affairs
    The War between the Tates
Lynch, Thomas     Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
    The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
MacGregor, John Monroe     The Discovery of the Art of the Insane
MacLeod, Anne     The Dark Ship
    Standing by Thistles
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malamud, Bernard     God's Grace
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Malouf, David     The Conversations at Curlow Creek
    Remembering Babylon
Mann, Thomas     Doctor Faustus
Mantel, Hilary     The Giant, O'Brien
Marani, Diego     New Finnish Grammar
Margolis, Leslie     Fix
Martin, Kimbra     Snapshots
Mason, Daniel     The Piano Tuner
Massad, Stewart     Change
Masson, Veneta     Ninth Street Notebook: Voice of a Nurse in the City
Mastretta, Ángeles     Lovesick
Mates, Susan Onthank     Ambulance
    The Good Doctor
    The Good Doctor
    Laundry
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     The Painted Veil
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCaffrey, Anne     The Ship Who Sang
McCann, Richard     Mother of Sorrows
McCarthy, Cormac     The Road
McCarthy, Joanne     The Fat Lady Speaks
McConkey, James     To a Distant Island
McCormick, Patricia     My Brother's Keeper
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McDermott, Alice     Charming Billy
McEwan, Ian     Amsterdam
    On Chesil Beach
    Saturday
McFarlane, Donna     Division of Surgery
McGovern, Cammie     Eye Contact
McKay, Ami     The Birth House
McKay, Claude     The Lynching
McKeithen, Madge     Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
McMahon, Ted     The Uses of Imperfection
Merwin, W. S.     Good People
Metcalf, Tim     Cut to the Word
    Into the No Zone
Miller, Andrew     Ingenious Pain
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Milton, John     Sonnet 16 (On His Blindness )
Mistry, Rohinton     Family Matters
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     The Grave of Keats
    Ode on a Lycian Tomb
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Called Out
Mokeddem, Malika     The Forbidden Woman
Moller, David Wendell     Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying Among Inner-City Poor
Monette, Paul     Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Montross, Christine     Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Moore, Brian     The Doctor's Wife
Moraga, Cherríe L.     Heroes and Saints
Moran, Thomas     The Man in the Box
    The World I Made for Her
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Mowry, Jess     Babylon Boyz
Mukand, Jon Arun     First Payment
Mukherjee, Siddhartha     The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Munce, Alayna     When I Was Young and in My Prime
Munro, Alice     The Bear Came Over the Mountain
    Comfort
    Floating Bridge
    The Office
Murphy, Robert F.     The Body Silent
Murray, John     A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
Murray, Les     Burning Want
Murray, T. Jock     Reflections: Illness and Healing. The Art of Robert Pope
Myers, Art     Winged Victory, Altered Images: Transcending Breast Cancer
Nafisi, Azar     Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nemirovsky, Irene     Fire in the Blood
    Suite Francaise
Neuhaus, Richard John     As I Lay Dying
Neumayr, Anton     Music and Medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Newborn, Barbara     Return to Ithaca
Newman, Richard     Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nigam, Sanjay     Transplanted Man
Nixon, Nicholas     People with AIDS
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
    Under the Eye of the Clock
Nolan, Han     Dancing on the Edge
Nova, Craig     The Universal Donor
Nuland, Sherwin B.     How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
    Maimonides
O'Brian, Patrick     The Commodore
O'Brien, Edna     The Creature
O'Brien, Tim     The Lives of the Dead
O'Connor, Flannery     Greenleaf
    The Lame Shall Enter First
    Revelation
O'Nan, Stewart     A Prayer for the Dying
O'Neill, Eugene     The Iceman Cometh
Offutt, Chris     Barred Owl
    Out of the Woods
Ofri, Danielle     Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
Olds, Sharon     The Dead Body
    Late Poem to My Father
    Waste Sonata
Oliveira, Robin     My Name is Mary Sutter
Ondaatje, Michael     The English Patient
    The English Patient
Orient, Jane M.     Sutton's Law
Osteen, M., ed.     Autism and Representation
Owen, Wilfred     Futility
Ozick, Cynthia     The Shawl
Parrado, Nando     Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Pasternak, Boris     Doctor Zhivago
Pears, Iain     The Dream of Scipio
    An Instance of the Fingerpost
Peck, David     Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Pennie, Ross     Tampered
Percy, Walker     The Last Gentleman
    Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
    The Message in the Bottle
    The Moviegoer
    The Second Coming
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Perillo, Lucia     I've Heard the Vultures Singing
Phi, Bao     Sông I Sing
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
    House Rules
    My Sister's Keeper
Piercy, Marge     The Long Death
Pinter, Harold     A Kind of Alaska
Plath, Sylvia     Barren Woman
    The Bell Jar
    Childless Woman
    Face Lift
Poe, Edgar Allan     The Conqueror Worm
    Hop-Frog
    William Wilson
Poirier, Suzanne     Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education
Pollack, Eileen     Milk
Pollan, Michael     The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Pomerance, Bernard     The Elephant Man
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Pories, S., et.al, eds.     The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death
Porter, Pamela     The Crazy Man
Potok, Chaim     The Chosen
Powers, Richard     Gain
    Operation Wandering Soul
Preston, Richard     Demon in the Freezer
Price, Jill     The Woman Who Can't Forget
Price, Margaret     Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Prince-Hughes, Dawn     Songs of the Gorilla Nation
Proulx, E. Annie     The Shipping News
Ragula, Boris     Against the Current: The Memoirs of Boris Ragula (as told to Dr. Inge Sanmiya)
Rasebotsa, N., Samuelson, M. & Thomas, K., eds.     Nobody Ever Said AIDS: Poems and Stories from Southern Africa
Ray, David     One Thousand Years: Poems about the Holocaust
    The Progress of the Soul
Rayfield, Donald     Anton Chekhov. A Life
Raz, Hilda     Divine Honors
    What Becomes You
Remen, Rachel Naomi     My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
Rhett, K., ed.     Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis
Rich, Susan     The Cartographer's Tongue
Rinaldi, Ann     An Acquaintance with Darkness
Rios, Alberto     The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
Rivard, Ken     Bottle Talk
Robinson, Edwin Arlington     Annandale Again
Robinson, Elizabeth Ann     The Soul of the Nurse
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Rogoff, Marianne     Silvie's Life
Roney, Lisa     Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes
Rosen, David     The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Roston, Diane     On Studying Anatomy
Roth, Philip     Everyman
    The Human Stain
Rothman, D. J.,et al., eds.     Medicine and Western Civilization
Rottman, S. L.     Head Above Water
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Roy, Arundhati     The God of Small Things
Ruddick, Bruce     Poems
Ruddock, Nicholas     The Parabolist
Sacks, Oliver     An Anthropologist on Mars
    The Autist Artist
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
    Rebecca
    Witty Ticcy Ray
Sams, Ferrol     Epiphany
    Epiphany
Sandblom, Philip     Creativity and Disease: How Illness Affects Literature, Art and Music
Sappol, Michael     A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Saramago, José     Blindness
Sarton, May     As We Are Now
Scarry, Elaine     The Body in Pain
Schoemperlen, Diane     Forms of Devotion
    On Looking Further into the Bodies of Men
    Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel
Schramm, T., ed.     Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic Depression
Schreck, Karen Halvorsen     The Slaughterhouse
Schulz, Bruno     Father's Last Escape
Schweitzer, Albert     Out of My Life and Thought
Scott, Joanna     Various Antidotes
Seagle, Steven T.     It's A Bird. . .
Seaver, Anne Mae Halgram     My World Now
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     The Doctor Stories
    Four Appointments with the Discus Thrower
    Luis
    Minor Surgery
    Pipistrel
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Sergi, P. & Gorman, G., eds.     A Call to Nursing: Nurses' Stories about Challenge and Commitment
Service, Robert     Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Shafer, Audrey     The Mailbox
Shakespeare, William     Macbeth
    Richard III
Shapiro, Alan     The Dead Alive and Busy
    Song and Dance
    Vigil
Shapshay, S., ed.     Bioethics at the Movies
Shaw, George Bernard     The Doctor's Dilemma
Shawn, Wallace     The Fever
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft     Frankenstein
Shelley, Percy Bysshe     The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts
    On Death
Shem, Samuel (Stephen Bergman)     Fiction as Resistance
Sherwood, Joan     Infection of the Innocents: Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France
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
Silbert, Layle     Losses
Silko, Leslie Marmon     Almanac of the Dead: A Novel
Simmons, Philip     Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
Simonds, Merilyn     The Convict Lover: A True Story
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Skloot, Floyd     The Virus
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Slatkin, Marcia     I Kidnap My Mother: Alzheimer's Poems
Slavitt, David R.     The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation
Smiley, Jane G.     A Thousand Acres
Smith, D. (Dennis) L.     The Miracles of Santo Fico
Smith, Dinitia     The Illusionist
Smith, Larry     Leaning Together in the Storm
Snodgrass, W. D.     A Flat One
Soderberg, Hjalmar     Doctor Glas
Solwitz, Sharon     Mercy
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr     The Cancer Ward
Sonnenblick, Jordan     Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Sontag, Susan     Alice in Bed
    Regarding the Pain of Others
Sophocles,     Philoctetes
Soto, Gary     Living up the Street
Souljah, Sister     The Coldest Winter Ever
Spanbauer, Tom     The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Squiers, Carol     The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Stein, Garth     The Art of Racing in the Rain
Stein, Gertrude     Three Lives
Stein, Michael     This Room Is Yours
    The White Life
Stephenson, Lynda     Dancing with Elvis
Sterling, Bruce     Holy Fire
Stewart, George R.     Ordeal by Hunger
Stewart, Linda McK.     25 Months: A Memoir
Stone, John     He Makes a House Call
    Music From Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems
    Where Water Begins
Stone, Robert     Absence of Mercy
Strand, Mark     Old People on the Nursing Home Porch
Straus, Marc J.     Not God: A Play in Verse
Strauss, Ken     La Tendresse
Studer, Constance     Body Language
    Prayer to a Purple God
Sullivan, Jacqueline Levering     Annie's War
Sweet, Victoria     God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Szwajger, Adina Blady     I Remember Nothing More
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Taylor, Kate     Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Tayman, John     The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Thomas, Dylan     A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart)     Geriatric
    This To Do
Toomer, Jean     Cane
Trollope, Anthony     The Fixed Period
Trumbo, Dalton     Johnny Got His Gun
Tsypkin, Leonid     Summer in Baden-Baden
Tucker, Neely     Love in the Driest Season
Urquhart, Jane     The Underpainter
Van der Post, Laurens     The Seed and the Sower
Van Duyn, Mona     The Accusation
vanMeenan, K. & Rossiter, C., eds.     Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
    The Physician as Storyteller
    The Tennis Partner
Vernon, John     A Book of Reasons
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Viramontes, Helena Maria     Under the Feet of Jesus: A Novel
Voigt, Ellen Bryant     Kyrie
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     Fortitude
    God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian
Wadler, Joyce     My Breast
Wagner, Jan Costin     Silence
Wagner, Pamela Spiro     We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
Wagoner, David     Their Bodies
Wait, Lea     Finest Kind
    Wintering Well
Walker, Alice     The Abortion
    Meridian
Walker, Daly     I Am the Grass
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Warfield, Frances     Cotton in My Ears, excerpt from
Waring, Belle     Dark Blonde
    Refuge
Watts, H. David     The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
Weigl, Bruce     Archeology of the Circle. New and Selected Poems
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Weishaus, Joel     The Healing Spirit of Haiku
Weldon, Fay     A Libation of Blood
    The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Wendell, Susan     The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Wertham, Fredric     Seduction of the Innocent
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Wharton, Edith     Diagnosis
    Ethan Frome
White, Kelley Jean     Late
Whitman, Walt     Walt Whitman's Civil War
Wideman, John Edgar     newborn thrown in trash and dies
Wiesel, Elie     Open Heart
Wilber, Ken     Grace and Grit
Wilkomirski, Binjamin     Fragments
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Misgivings
Williams, Guy     The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, 1700-1800
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     The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
    The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams
    In the American Grain
    Jean Beicke
    The Mental Hospital Garden
    Of Medicine and Poetry
Winchester, Simon     The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dicti
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Woiwode, Larry     A Step From Death
Wolff, Tobias     This Boy's Life: A Memoir
Wright, James     In Terror of Hospital Bills
    The Minneapolis Poem
Wright, John     As Though Praying: Poems from Decatur Island
Wright, Richard     Black Boy
Yalom, Irvin     When Nietzsche Wept
Yolen, Jane     The Radiation Sonnets
Yoshino, Kenji     Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Young, Audrey     The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital
Young, C. Dale     Torn
Yount, Rena     Pursuit of Excellence
Yourcenar, Marguerite     Memoirs of Hadrian
Zimmer, Paul     The Explanation
    The Tenth Circle
Zola, Emile     Doctor Pascal
    Therese Raquin
Zwerdling, Michael     Postcards of Nursing: A Worldwide Tribute