Illness and the Family


Art Film Literature


Art


Coe, Sue     At the Hospice (July 20)
Des Granges, David     The Saltonstall Family
Eakins, Thomas     The Gross Clinic
Fildes, Sir Luke     The Doctor
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste     The Paralytic
Kashi, Ed     Aging in America
Layton, Elizabeth     The Courtroom
Munch, Edvard     The Dead Mother
    Death in the Sickroom (Ein Tod)
    The Sick Child
Neel, Alice     The Last Illness
Picasso, Pablo     Science and Charity
    The Tragedy
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Scherer, Deidre     Surrounded by Family and Friends
Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon     Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph
Winokur, Julie     Aging in America
Worsham, Erin Brady     Breathtaking Metamorphosis


Film


    50/50
    Almost Strangers
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    Awakenings
    Away From Her
    The Barbarian Invasions
    A Beautiful Mind
    The Belly of an Architect
    Best Boy
    The Body Beautiful
    Bright Star
    Creation: How Darwin Saw the World and Changed It Forever
    Departures (Okuribito)
    The Devil and Daniel Johnston
    An Early Frost
    Extraordinary Measures
    God Said, Ha!
    The HeART of Empathy: Using the Visual Arts in Medical Eduation
    Ikiru
    Indestructible
    Iris
    The Keys to the House (Le chiavi di casa)
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Marvin's Room
    Melancholia
    A Midwife's Tale
    Mortal Coil: Voices from the Hospice
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    My Left Foot
    My Life Without Me
    Opera Therapy
    Out of the Shadow
    Pauline & Paulette
    Philadelphia
    Pieces of April
    Rain Man
    Respiro
    Safe
    The Savages
    The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    She's Finally Free: Living with the Tragic Loss of Nancy Cruzan
    Sixth Happiness
    The Snake Pit
    Soft Fruit
    Son of the Bride
    Sylvia
    Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot)
    Terms of Endearment
    Thin
    The Vanishing Line
    The War Zone
    When Did You Last See Your Father?
    Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself)
    A Woman Under the Influence
    A Woman's Tale
    Worlds Apart: A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare
    Yesterday


Literature


Abrahams, Lionel     The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan
Abse, Dannie     A Winter Visit
    X-ray
Adler, C. S.     The Shell Lady's Daughter
Adrian, Chris     A Better Angel
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, Laurie Halse     Fever 1793
Anderson, M. F., ed.     Reflections from a Mud Puddle: Helping Children Cope and Grow
Andrews, Tom     Codeine Diary: A Memoir
Angelou, Maya     The Last Decision
Anonymous,     Hurricane Zone
Ariyoshi, Sawako     The Twilight Years
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
Atwood, Margaret     The Blind Assassin
Austen, Jane     Emma
    Persuasion
    Sense and Sensibility
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
Bach, Alice     Waiting for Johnny Miracle
Bacon, Katherine Jay     Finn
Balzac, Honore de     Cousin Pons
Banks, C. & Rizzo, J., eds.     A Loving Voice: A Caregiver's Book of Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly
Barker, Pat     Another World
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Bennett, Cherie     Life in the Fat Lane
    Zink
Berg, Elizabeth     Range of Motion
    Talk Before Sleep
Berger, John     Her Secrets
Berger, Suzanne E.     Horizontal Woman
Bernlef, J.     Out of Mind
Bertman, Sandra L.     Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
Betts, Doris     Souls Raised from the Dead
Biro, David     One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
Blew, Mary Clearman     Balsamroot
Bloch, Chana     In the Land of the Body
    Mrs. Dumpty
Boccaccio, Giovanni     Federigo's Falcon
Bolin, Robert B.     Unwanted Inheritance
Bontemps, Arna W.     A Summer Tragedy
Brabner, Joyce     Our Cancer Year
Bradbury, Ray     Fever Dream
Brashler, Anne     He Read to Her
Breznik, Melitta     Night Duty
Brodkey, Harold     Dying: An Update
Brody, Howard     The Chief of Medicine
Bronte, Charlotte     Jane Eyre
Brooks, Dorothy Howe     Life Support
Brown, Carrie     Miniature Man
Brown, Christy     My Left Foot, excerpt from
Brown, John     Rab and His Friends
Brown, Karen McCarthy     Moma Lola: A Voodou Priestess in Brooklyn
Brown, Rosellen     How to Win
    Tender Mercies
Brown, S., H., ed.     Echoes of War
Bryner, Jeanne     Eclipse
Bulgakov, Mikhail     The Speckled Rash
    The Steel Windpipe
Burack-Weiss, Ann     The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Burgan, Mary     Illness, Gender and Writing: The Case of Katherine Mansfield
Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden
Burney, Fanny     A Mastectomy: Letter to Esther Burney
Burnham, Gregory     By That I Mean Angina Pectoris
Burroughs, Augusten     Running with Scissors
Burrows, Adria     The Man Who Didn't Know He Had Cancer
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Butler, Susan Woldenberg     Black Bag Moon
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     A Stone Woman
Byer, Kathryn Stripling     My Beautiful Grandmother
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Caldwell, Janis McLarren     Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: from Mary Shelley to George Eliot
Callow, Phillip     Chekhov: The Hidden Ground
Calvert, Patricia     Picking Up the Pieces
Canin, Ethan     We Are Nighttime Travelers
Carroll, Robert     Amazing Change
Carruth, Hayden     Doctor Jazz: Poems 1996-2000
Carson, Anne     Hero
Carter, Alden R.     Sheila's Dying
Carver, Raymond     A Small, Good Thing
Casey, Charles     The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial
Caspers, Nona     Vegetative States
Cather, Willa     Neighbour Rosicky
Chekhov, Anton P.     A Doctor's Visit
    Late-Blooming Flowers
    Typhus
Christiansen, C. B.     I See the Moon
Cisneros, Sandra     Arturro Burro
Clark-Sayles, Catharine     One Breath
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Clifton, Lucille     donor
Clyde, Mary     Survival Rates
Cogan, Nancy Adams     Snap Shots
Cohen, Marion Deutsche     Chronic Progressive
    Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse
    Epsilon Country
Coles, R. & Testa, R., eds.     A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
Cook, Karin     What Girls Learn
Cooper, Bernard     The House of the Future
Corcoran, Barbara     Annie's Monster
    Axe-Time, Sword-Time
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     Complications
    Irene
    The Power of Inclination
    Sunsets
Couloumbis, Audrey     Getting Near to Baby
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
Crimmins, Cathy     Where is the Mango Princess?
Cristofer, Michael     The Shadow Box
Cromer, Janet M.     Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Cronin, A. J. (Archibald Joseph)     Doctor, I can't . . . I won't have a child.
Cumming, Deborah     Recovering from Mortality
Dangarembga, Tsitsi     Nervous Conditions
Daniel, John     Looking After: A Son's Memoir
Dark, Alice Elliott     In the Gloaming
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Davis, Heather Choate     Baptism by Fire
Day, Sarah     Free Will
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
DeBaggio, Thomas     Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's
Dickens, Charles     Doctor Marigold
    Our Mutual Friend
Dickey, James     The Hospital Window
Dickinson, Emily     I heard a fly buzz when I died
Didion, Joan     Blue Nights
    The Year of Magical Thinking
Diedrich, Lisa     Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness
Dixon, Paige     May I Cross Your Golden River?
Dodd, Susan     The Mourner's Bench
Donley, C. & Buckley, S., eds.     What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
Dow, Unity     Far and Beyon'
Drabble, Margaret     The Seven Sisters
Draper, Sharon M.     Forged by Fire
Duffin, Jacalyn     Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Durant, Penny Raife     When Heroes Die
Durcan, Liam     Blood
Dyak, Miriam     Dying
Dyer, Joyce     In a Tangled Wood
Easton, Kelly     To Be Mona
Edwards, Kim     The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Eggers, Dave     A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Emecheta, Buchi     The Joys of Motherhood
Esterhazy, Peter     Helping Verbs of the Heart
Eugenides, Jeffrey     Middlesex
Fadiman, Anne     The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Farrington, Carolyn G.     Sea of Glass
Ferris, Jean     Invincible Summer
Ferro, Robert     Second Son
Fies, Brian     Mom's Cancer
Finger, Anne     Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth
Fisher, Diane Gilliam     One of Everything
Fisher, Mary     Angels in Our Midst
Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott     Tender Is the Night
Ford, Ford Madox     The Good Soldier
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
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Freed, Lynn     Ma, a Memoir
Frost, Robert     Home Burial
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Of Love and Other Demons
    A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Gardiner, John Rolfe     Somewhere in France
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gawande, Atul     The Bell Curve
    Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Gee, Maurice     A Glorious Morning, Comrade
Getsi, Lucia Cordell     Letter from the Rehabilitation Institute
Gibson, Margaret     The Vigil: A Poem in Four Voices
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins     The Yellow Wallpaper
    The Yellow Wallpaper
Ginsberg, Allen     Kaddish
Glasgow, Ellen     Jordan's End
Glass, Julia     Three Junes
Gloag, Julian     Only Yesterday
Godwin, Gail     The Good Husband
Goldberg, Myla     Wickett's Remedy
Goldstein, Melissa Anne     Travels with the Wolf
Gordimer, Nadine     Get a Life
Gordon, Mary     The Shadow Man
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Gottlieb, Lori     Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Graber, Richard     Doc
Graboys, Thomas     Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia
Grace, Maggi Ann     Her Hair
Graham-Pole, John     Quick: A Pediatrician's Illustrated Poetry
Grealy, Lucy     Autobiography of a Face
Greenberg, Joanne     Hunting Season
Greenberg, Michael     Hurry Down Sunshine
Grogan, John     Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog
Grohskopf, Bernice     Shadow in the Sun
Groopman, Jerome E.     Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
Gross, P., & Guernsey, D., eds.     Pulse: The First Year
Grover, Lorie Ann     Loose Threads
Guterson, David     East of the Mountains
Høeg, Peter     Pity for the Children of Vaden Town
Hacker, Randi     Life As I Knew It
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Haddix, Margaret Peterson     Because of Anya
    Fine?
    Running Out of Time
Haddon, Mark     The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    A Spot of Bother
Haigh, Jennifer     The Condition
Hall, Donald     The Painted Bed
    The Ship Pounding
Hamilton, Jane     The Short History of a Prince
Hamilton, Virginia     The Planet of Junior Brown
Hanauer, Cathi     My Sister's Bones
Handler, Jessica     Invisible Sisters: A Memoir
Harding, Paul     Tinkers
Harleman, Ann     Thoreau's Laundry
Harr, Jonathan     A Civil Action
Harrington, Kent     The Good Physician
Hassler, Jon     The Love Hunter
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker     Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
    A Small, Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them
Helman, Cecil     Suburban Shaman
Hermann, Nellie     The Cure for Grief
Hermes, Patricia     You Shouldn't Have to Say Goodbye
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler     Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
Hoagland, Tony     Lucky
    Medicine
Hornbacher, Marya     Madness
    Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Hornby, Nick     Introduction to Talking with the Angel
Hospital, Janette Turner     The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
Hsun, Lu     Medicine
Humes, Harry     Butterfly Effect
Hurwin, Davida Wills     A Time for Dancing
Hutner, Elizabeth Hall     Life with Sam
Huyler, Frank     The Laws of Invisible Things
Ibsen, Henrik     Ghosts
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Itani, Frances     Deafening
Jarman, Mark     In Sickness and Health
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
Johnson, Hillary     My Mother Dying
Jones, Thom     40, Still at Home
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Kadohata, Cynthia     Kira Kira
Kafka, Franz     A Country Doctor
    The Metamorphosis
Kaysen, Susanna     Girl, Interrupted
Kenney, Susan     In Another Country
    Sailing
Kidder, Tracy     Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Kingsolver, Barbara     The Poisonwood Bible
Kis, Danilo     The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Klass, David     California Blue
Klass, Perri     Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training
    Love and Modern Medicine
    Other Women's Children
Kooser, Ted     Father: May 19, 1999
Kumin, Maxine     Inside the Halo and Beyond
Kusz, Natalie     Road Song
L'Engle, Madeleine     The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
L'Heureux, John     The Shrine at Altimara
Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel     The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
Lagomarsino, Nancy     Light from an Eclipse
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Only Goodness
    Unaccustomed Earth
Lamb, Wally     I Know This Much is True
Lamott, Anne     Blue Shoe
    Hard Laughter
Landvik, Lorna     The Great Mysterious
Lang, James M.     Learning Sickness
LaPlante, Alice     Turn of Mind
Laqueur, Thomas Walter     Clio among the Old Folks
Larkin, Joan     Cold River
LaScala, Susan     Small Wonder: The Story of a Child Born Too Soon
Laurence, Margaret     The Stone Angel
Lawson, Henry     Brighten's Sister-in-Law
Leavitt, David     Equal Affections
Lee, Li-Young     Water
Lehane, Dennis     ICU
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
Levenkron, Steven     The Best Little Girl in the World
    The Luckiest Girl in the World
Lewis, C. S. (Clives Staples)     A Grief Observed
Lightman, Alan     The Diagnosis
Linton, Simi     My Body Politic
Livesey, Margot     Banishing Verona
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
Lodge, David     Paradise News
Lord, Catherine     The Summer of Her Baldness
Lowry, Lois     The Silent Boy
    A Summer to Die
MacLennan, Hugh     The Watch that Ends the Night
Mairs, Nancy     On Being a Cripple
    A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malamud, Bernard     The Silver Crown
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mann, Thomas     The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)
Manning, Margaret     Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression
Mansfield, Katherine     The Man Without a Temperament
Marani, Diego     New Finnish Grammar
Martin, Kimbra     Snapshots
Massad, Stewart     Casualties
Matlin, Marlee     Deaf Child Crossing
Matthews, William     Dire Cure
Matton, Sylvie     Rembrandt's Whore
Maupassant, Guy de     The Devil
    The Marquis de Fumerol
Maupin, Armistead     The Night Listener
Maxwell, William     They Came Like Swallows
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCabe, Eugene     Cancer
McCormick, Patricia     My Brother's Keeper
McCourt, Frank     Angela's Ashes
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McDaniel, Lurlene     Time to Let Go
McDermott, Alice     Charming Billy
McGovern, Cammie     Eye Contact
McHugh, Heather     What Hell Is
McKeithen, Madge     Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
McLoughlin, J., ed.     On the Death of a Parent
McPhee, John     Heirs of General Practice
McPherson, Scott     Marvin's Room
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten     Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Middlebrook, Christina     Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying
Miles, Miska     Annie and the Old One
Miller, Sue     The Distinguished Guest
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Minot, Susan     Evening
Mistry, Rohinton     Family Matters
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Soon: Tales from Hospice
Monette, Paul     Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Moore, Lorrie     People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk
Moraga, Cherríe L.     Heroes and Saints
Morris, Winifred     Secret Numbers
Mowry, Jess     Babylon Boyz
Mukherjee, Siddhartha     The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Mullan, F., Ficklen, E. & Rubin, K., eds.     Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy
Munce, Alayna     When I Was Young and in My Prime
Munro, Alice     The Bear Came Over the Mountain
    Floating Bridge
Murphy, Robert F.     The Body Silent
Murray, John     A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
Myers, K. R. & Schweizer, H., eds.     The Patient
Mysko, Madeleine     Bringing Vincent Home
Nazeer, Kamran     Send In The Idiots
Neumayr, Anton     Music and Medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nichols, Peter     Joe Egg
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
    Under the Eye of the Clock
Nolan, Han     Dancing on the Edge
Norris, Kathleen     Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Novakovich, Josip     Bruno
Nuland, Sherwin B.     How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
    Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
O'Connor, Mary Bradish     Say Yes Quickly
O'Neill, Eugene     Long Day's Journey into Night
Oe, Kenzaburo     A Personal Matter
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
Olds, Sharon     Beyond Harm
    The Dead Body
    Fate
    The Pulling
    Waste Sonata
Oliveira, Robin     My Name is Mary Sutter
Olsen, Tillie     Tell Me a Riddle
Osteen, M., ed.     Autism and Representation
Pai, Ann     My Other Body: A Memoir of Love, Fat, Life, and Death
Parks, Tim     Destiny
Paterson, Katherine     Park's Quest
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Peck, Richard E.     Something for Joey
Pekar, Harvey     Our Cancer Year
Pensack, Robert     Raising Lazarus
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Perkins, Fionna     The Changes
Peterson, Margaret Kim     Sing Me to Heaven: The Story of a Marriage
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla     Hygiene
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Picardie, Ruth     Before I Say Goodbye
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
    House Rules
    My Sister's Keeper
Piercy, Marge     Does the Light Fail Us, or Do We Fail the Light?
Plath, Sylvia     Tulips
Polacco, Patricia     The Keeping Quilt
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Porter, Katherine Anne     The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Porter, Pamela     The Crazy Man
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Powers, Richard     The Echo Maker
Price, Reynolds     A Whole New Life
Price Herndl, Diane     Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Prokosch, Frederic     A Tale for Midnight
Radetsky, Michael     Sudden Intimacies
Rayfield, Donald     Anton Chekhov. A Life
Raz, H., ed.     Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer
Rhett, K., ed.     Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis
Rinaldi, Ann     An Acquaintance with Darkness
Rinaldi, David     Let's Talk About It
Rivard, Ken     Bottle Talk
Roberts, Willo Davis     Sugar Isn't Everything
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Robinson, Roxana     The Treatment
Roethke, Theodore     My Papa's Waltz
Rogoff, Marianne     Silvie's Life
Roney, Lisa     Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes
Roth, Philip     Patrimony, A True Story
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 Order of the Phoenix
Russell, Lori     One Last Time
Sacks, Oliver     The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Saltzman, Joan     Mr. Right and My Left Kidney
Santucci, Barbara     Anna's Corn
Sarton, May     As We Are Now
Schaefer, Judy, ed.     The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-Poets
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schneiderman, Henry     Breast Cancer in the Family
    Father, Doctor, and the Great City: Poems and Drawings 1964-2003
Schneiderman, L. J.     The Appointment
Schreck, Karen Halvorsen     The Slaughterhouse
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Balancing Acts
    Referred Pain
    The Wrath-Bearing Tree
Seagle, Steven T.     It's A Bird. . .
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Sedaris, David     A Plague of Tics
Sedgwick, Marcus     The Foreshadowing
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     Fetishes
Shafer, Audrey     The Mailbox
    Sleep Talker
Shakespeare, William     Richard III
Shapiro, Alan     Vigil
Shapiro, Dan     Mom's Marijuana
Shelley, Percy Bysshe     The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts
    To Mary Shelley
    To William Shelley
Shields, Carol     Unless
Shumaker, Peggy     Just Breathe Normally
Shute, Jenefer P.     Life-Size
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
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Skloot, Floyd     A World of Light
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Slatkin, Marcia     I Kidnap My Mother: Alzheimer's Poems
Smiley, Jane G.     The Age of Grief
Smith, Dave     Ear Ache
Smollett, Tobias     The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Sonnenblick, Jordan     Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Sontag, Susan     Alice in Bed
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
St. Andrews, B. A. (Bonnie)     Alzheimer's
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Stein, Garth     The Art of Racing in the Rain
Stein, Michael     This Room Is Yours
Stewart, Linda McK.     25 Months: A Memoir
Stone, John     Music From Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems
    Talking to the Family
Stone, Robert     Absence of Mercy
Studer, Constance     Body Language
Sullivan, Jacqueline Levering     Annie's War
Sumrall, Amber Coverdale     Crossing the High Country
Swanson, Julie A.     Going for the Record
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Tan, Amy     The Bonesetter's Daughter
    The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
Tanielian, T. & Jaycox, L. H., eds.     Invisible Wounds of War
Taylor, Jill Bolte     My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Taylor, Kate     Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Thomas, Dylan     Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Tilghman, Christopher     Things Left Undone
Tolstoy, Leo     The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tregebov, Rhea     The Proving Grounds
Trillin, Calvin     About Alice
Trollope, Anthony     He Knew He Was Right
Tucker, Neely     Love in the Driest Season
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeievich     The District Doctor
Twain, Mark     Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
Tyszka, Alberto Barrera     The Sickness
Urquhart, Jane     Away
Valdiserri, Ronald O.     Gardening in Clay
Van der Post, Laurens     The Seed and the Sower
vanMeenan, K. & Rossiter, C., eds.     Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Vernon, John     A Book of Reasons
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Viorst, Judith     The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
Viramontes, Helena Maria     Under the Feet of Jesus: A Novel
Voigt, Ellen Bryant     Kyrie
Vrettos, Athena     Somatic Fictions
Wagner, Pamela Spiro     We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
Wait, Lea     Finest Kind
    Wintering Well
Walker, Alice     The Abortion
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
Watts, H. David     The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
    Taking the History
Weiner, Jonathan     His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Weisman, Jamie     As I Live and Breathe
Wells, Rebecca     Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Werlin, Nancy     Are You Alone on Purpose?
West, Cheryl L.     Before It Hits Home
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Wharton, Edith     Diagnosis
    Ethan Frome
Wiesel, Elie     Open Heart
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Misgivings
Williams, Lori Aurelia     Broken China
Williams, Terry Tempest     The Village Watchman
Williams, William Carlos     The Girl with a Pimply Face
    The Last Words of My English Grandmother
    Last Words of My Grandmother (First Version)
    The Use of Force
    The Use of Force
Winawer, Sidney J.     Healing Lessons
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
Yglesias, Helen     Semi-Private
Zalben, Jane Breskin     Pearl's Marigolds for Grandpa
Zeidenstein, S., ed.     Family Reunion: Poems About Parenting Grown Children