Medical Advances


Art Film Literature Theater


Art


Chartran, Theobold     Laennec Listening with his Ear Against the Chest of a Patient at the Necker Hospital
Eakins, Thomas     The Agnew Clinic
    The Gross Clinic
Gauguin, Paul     Self-Portrait with Halo
Gilbert and George,     The Fundamental Pictures
Hinckley, Robert C.     First Operation Under Ether
Layton, Elizabeth     The Courtroom
Picasso, Pablo     Science and Charity
Rivera, Diego     Vaccination
Seligmann, Adelbert F.     Theodor Billroth Operating (Billroth im Hörsaal)
Worsham, Erin Brady     Breathtaking Metamorphosis


Film


    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    Awakenings
    Bethune: The Making of a Hero
    Brain Candy
    Docteur Laennec
    Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
    Extreme Measures
    Gattaca
    The Great Moment
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Madame Curie
    Made in America
    Mind Talk: The Brain's New Story
    A Modern Affair
    Puncture
    She's Finally Free: Living with the Tragic Loss of Nancy Cruzan
    The Snake Pit
    Something the Lord Made
    Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life
    The Three Faces of Eve
    The Young Doctors


Literature


Abse, Dannie     Tuberculosis
Aizley, Harlyn     Buying Dad
Anand, Geeta     The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million--and Bucked the Medical Establishment--in a Quest to Save His Children
Andrews, Tom     The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle
    A Language of Hemophilia
Armstrong, Lance     Every Second Counts
    It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Bamforth, I., ed.     The Body in the Library
Barry, John M.     The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer
Battin, Margaret Pabst     Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
Bell, Marvin     Frankenstein's Monster
Bewell, Alan     Romanticism and Colonial Disease
Bolin, Robert B.     Unwanted Inheritance
Borges, Jorge Luis     The Immortals
Bown, Stephen R.     Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
Brand, Paul     The Gift Nobody Wants
Brock, Pope     Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Brooks, Dorothy Howe     Life Support
Brown, S., H., ed.     Echoes of War
Bulgakov, Mikhail     The Heart of a Dog
Butler, Octavia     Imago
Campo, Rafael     Technology and Medicine
Carmichael, A. G. & Ratzan, Richard M., eds.     Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature
Carrell, Jennifer Lee     The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
Carter III, Albert Howard     Our Human Hearts: A Medical and Cultural Journey
    Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned
Chen, Pauline W.     Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Collins, Anne     In the Sleep Room: The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Coulehan, Jack     The Resurrection Trade: William Burke, grave robber, Edinborough 1792-1829
Crawford, Hugh T.     Modernism, Medicine, & William Carlos Williams
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Davidson, Jenny     Heredity
Dennis, Carl     Progressive Health
Dickens, Charles     A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Dickinson, Emily     Death is like the insect
Didion, Joan     The Year of Magical Thinking
Dreuilhe, Alain Emmanuel     Mortal Embrace
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
Ehrenreich, Barbara     Welcome to Cancerland
Eig, Jonathan     Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Middlemarch
Elliott, C. & Lantos, J., eds.     The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Eugenides, Jeffrey     Middlesex
Firlick, Katrina     Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Fishbein, Julie Deane     Katherine
FitzGerald, James     What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son's Attempt to Redeem the Past
Foerster, Richard     Isolation Ward
Foucault, Michel     Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Freedman, Nancy     Joshua, Son of None
Friedland, Gerald W. Friedman, Meyer     Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries
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
Gawande, Atul     The Bell Curve
    Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Ghosh, Amitav     The Calcutta Chromosome
Glowney, John     Word of the Cure
Goldsmith, Barbara     Obsessive Genius. The Inner World of Marie Curie
Goldsworthy, Peter     Wish
Gonzales, Laurence     Lucy
González-Crussi, Frank     Carrying the Heart: Exploring the Worlds within Us
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Grinker, Roy Richard     Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism
Groopman, Jerome E.     How Doctors Think
    Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
Gross, Alan G.     Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present
Guilfoile, Kevin     Cast of Shadows
Haddix, Margaret Peterson     Running Out of Time
Hall, Stephen S.     Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension
Handler, Evan     Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors
Hansen, Bert     Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
Hayes, Bill     The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
Helfand, William H.     Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books
Helman, Cecil     Suburban Shaman
Herschberger, Ruth     josie takes the stand
Hirshbein, Laura D.     American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century
Holub, Miroslav     Heart Transplant
    In the Microscope
Hopf, Ludwig     Electra: A Physical Diagnostic Tale of the Twentieth Century
Jacobstein, Roy     Ripe
Johnson, Steven     The Ghost Map
Jonsen, Albert R.     The New Medicine and the Old Ethics
Karlawish, Jason     Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont
Kass, Leon R.     The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man's Estate?
Katz, Robert I.     Edward Maret: A Novel of the Future
Keyes, Daniel     Flowers for Algernon
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
Klass, Perri     Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor
Klawans, Harold     Defending the Cavewoman and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Kneale, Matthew     Sweet Thames
Kornbluth, Cyril M.     The Little Black Bag
Lamb, Cynthia     Brigid's Charge
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Lewis, Sinclair     Arrowsmith
Lown, Bernard     The Lost Art of Healing
Lowry, Lois     The Giver
Marlowe, Christopher     Doctor Faustus
Mars-Jones, Adam     The Waters of Thirst
Mawer, Simon     Mendel's Dwarf
McCaffrey, Anne     The Ship Who Sang
McCann, Richard     The Resurrectionist
McKechnie, Robert E.     Strong Medicine: History of Healing on the Northwest Coast
Metcalf, Tim     Cut to the Word
Moffett, Shannon     The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries
Monette, Paul     Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Moore, Wendy     The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
Mukand, Jon Arun     Letter of Introduction
Murray, Les     Hearing Impairment
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
Nuland, Sherwin B.     The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis
    The Mysteries Within
    The Wisdom of the Body
Oschman, James L.     Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance
Ott, Katherine     Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870
Papper, Emanuel M.     Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep: Literature Influences Medicine
Peck, David     Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Pennie, Ross     Tainted
Percy, Walker     Love in the Ruins
    The Thanatos Syndrome
Perez, Jose     Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose Perez
Pernick, Martin S.     A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Anesthesia in Nineteenth Century America
Perry, Anne     A Sudden, Fearful Death
Petro, Jane Arbuckle     Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned
Picoult, Jodi     My Sister's Keeper
Pollan, Michael     The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Pollycove, Morton (H. J. Van Peenen)     The Literature
Preston, Richard     Demon in the Freezer
Price, Jill     The Woman Who Can't Forget
Price Herndl, Diane     Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Rinaldi, Ann     An Acquaintance with Darkness
Rosenberg, Steven A.     The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer
Rothman, D. J.,et al., eds.     Medicine and Western Civilization
Sacks, Oliver     Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
    Seeing Voices
Sappol, Michael     A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Selzer, Richard     Imelda
    Whither Thou Goest
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft     Frankenstein
Shorter, Edward     Bedside Manners
Shute, Jenefer P.     Life-Size
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Skloot, Floyd     Brain Scan
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Slater, Lauren     Prozac Diary
Slaughter, Frank G.     Doctors' Wives
Smith, Larry     Leaning Together in the Storm
Spence, Wayman     Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose Perez
St. Andrews, B. A. (Bonnie)     The Healing Muse
Stafford, Jean     The Interior Castle
Starr, Paul     The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Swift, Graham     Tomorrow
Szczeklik, Andrzej     Catharsis: On the Art of Medicine
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Tanielian, T. & Jaycox, L. H., eds.     Invisible Wounds of War
Thomas, Lewis     Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
    The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
Van Duyn, Mona     Tears
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     Fortitude
Vrettos, Athena     Somatic Fictions
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
Weldon, Fay     The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Winawer, Sidney J.     Healing Lessons
Winter, Alison     Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Young, C. Dale     August
Zola, Emile     Doctor Pascal


Theater


Kaikkonnen, Gus Romains, Jules     Dr. Knock, or The Triumph of Medicine