Pain


Art Film Literature Theater


Art


Bartley, Mary Anne     Aerobics of the Spirit
Blake, William     Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils
Chapman, Jake and Dinos     Great Deeds against the Dead
David, Jacques-Louis     The Death of Socrates
Eakins, Thomas     The Gross Clinic
Euphronios,     Death of Sarpedon
Ferguson, Laura     The Visible Skeleton Series
Garcia, Emanuel E.     Aerobics of the Spirit
Goya, Francisco     El sueño de la razon produce monstruos (the sleep of reason brings forth monsters)
Hinckley, Robert C.     First Operation Under Ether
Hodler, Ferdinand     The Dying Valentine Godé-Darel
Kahlo, Frida     The Broken Column
    Frida and the Miscarriage
    Henry Ford Hospital
    Tree of Hope
    Without Hope
Klimt, Gustav     Hope, II
Munch, Edvard     Madonna
Picasso, Pablo     The Old Guitarist (The Blind Guitarist)
    The Tragedy
Salgado, Sebastiao     An Uncertain Grace
Seligmann, Adelbert F.     Theodor Billroth Operating (Billroth im Hörsaal)
Sigler, Hollis     Hoping to Bring Her Life Together...It's Not Hard, It Just Takes Time
    To Kiss the Spirits: Now, This Is What It Is Really Like
Worsham, Erin Brady     Breathtaking Metamorphosis


Film


    All About My Mother
    Article 99
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    The Barbarian Invasions
    The Body Beautiful
    Creation: How Darwin Saw the World and Changed It Forever
    Dax's Case
    Death and the Maiden
    Death on Request
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Down Came a Blackbird
    The English Patient
    Frida
    God Said, Ha!
    Grave Words: Tools for Discussing End of Life Choices
    The Great Moment
    The Green Mile
    Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
    The HeART of Empathy: Using the Visual Arts in Medical Eduation
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    Illness as Experience
    In My Skin (Dans ma Peau)
    Kandahar-Journey into the Heart of Afghanistan
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Marvin's Room
    Mind Talk: The Brain's New Story
    Monsoon Wedding
    Murderball
    My Life Without Me
    The Odds of Recovery
    Passion Fish
    Pieces of April
    Please Let Me Die
    Regeneration
    Requiem for a Dream
    Respiro
    Safe
    Shadowlands
    Soft Fruit
    Spellbound
    Strangers in Good Company
    Terms of Endearment
    Vera Drake


Literature


Abse, Dannie     The Dogs of Pavlov
Adrian, Chris     A Better Angel
Alvarez, Julia     How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Andrews, Tom     Codeine Diary: A Memoir
Ansay, A. Manette     Limbo: A Memoir
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Armstrong, Lance     Every Second Counts
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
Auden, W. H.     Letter to a Wound
    Surgical Ward
Austin, Paul     Something for the Pain
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Bakan, David     Disease, Pain, & Sacrifice
Bambara, Toni Cade     The Salt Eaters
Bang, Mary Jo     Elegy
Barker, Pat     Regeneration
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Bartlett, J., Black, S. & Northen, M., eds.     Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
Battin, Margaret Pabst     Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
Bazell, Josh     Beat the Reaper
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Berger, Suzanne E.     Horizontal Woman
Biro, David     One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
Bly, R. , et al., eds.     The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Borden, Mary     The Forbidden Zone
Brabner, Joyce     Our Cancer Year
Brand, Paul     The Gift Nobody Wants
Brook, T., et.al., eds.     Death by a Thousand Cuts
Brooks, Gwendolyn     sick man looks at flowers
Brown, Carrie     Miniature Man
Brown, John     Rab and His Friends
Bulgakov, Mikhail     Black as Egypt's Night
    A Country Doctor's Notebook
    The Steel Windpipe
    The Vanishing Eye
Burney, Fanny     A Mastectomy: Letter to Esther Burney
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Butler, Sandra     Cancer in Two Voices
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     Body Art
    A Stone Woman
Byer, Kathryn Stripling     My Beautiful Grandmother
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Callanan, Maggie     Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying
Cameron, Sharon     Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain
Campo, Rafael     El Curandero
Cantwell, Mary     Manhattan, When I Was Young
Carruth, Hayden     Notes on Emphysema
Carver, Raymond     Vitamins
Casey, Nell, ed.     Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
Casper, Claudia     The Reconstruction
Cassell, Eric J.     The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
Cather, Willa     Neighbour Rosicky
Chekhov, Anton P.     An Attack of Nerves (A Nervous Breakdown)
Chen, Pauline W.     Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Clark-Sayles, Catharine     One Breath
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Coetzee, J. M.     Slow Man
Cokal, Susann     Mirabilis
Collins, Anne     In the Sleep Room: The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     D Day, 1994
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Cramer, Steven     The World Book
Dahl, Roald     The Sound Machine
Darby, Ann     Pity My Simplicity
Darling, J. & Fuller, C., eds.     The Poetry Cure
Daudet, Alphonse     In the Land of Pain
Davis, C. & Schaefer, J., eds.     Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses
Davis, Cortney     The Body Flute
    The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
DeQuincey, Thomas     Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Dickens, Charles     Our Mutual Friend
Dickinson, Emily     After great pain, a formal feeling comes
    The heart asks pleasure first
    My life closed twice
    Pain has an element of blank
Donley, C. & Kohn, M., eds.     Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan     Conan Doyle's Tales of Medical Humanism and Values
Dreuilhe, Alain Emmanuel     Mortal Embrace
Dubus, Andre     Meditations from a Movable Chair
Dubus III, Andre     Townie
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
Dunmore, Helen     Annina
Dunn, Stephen     After the Argument
Duras, Marguerite     The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Durcan, Liam     Blood
Edson, Margaret     Wit
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
Emmott, Kirsten     How Do You Feel?
Faber, Michel     Under the Skin
Fies, Brian     Mom's Cancer
Findley, Timothy     Pilgrim
Fiser, Karen     Across the Border
    Losing and Finding
    Pointing to the Place of the Pain
    Words Like Fate and Pain
Foster, P. & Swander, M., eds.     The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery
Frazier, Charles     Cold Mountain
Frey, James     A Million Little Pieces
Fries, Kenny     The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory
Frost, Robert     Home Burial
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Bon Voyage, Mr. President
    Of Love and Other Demons
    One of These Days
    A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gawande, Atul     Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
George, Sara     The Beekeeper's Pupil
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Grealy, Lucy     Autobiography of a Face
Høeg, Peter     Pity for the Children of Vaden Town
Hacker, Marilyn     Migraine Sonnets
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Harper, Michael S.     Reuben, Reuben
Harris, J. W., ed.     Remembrances and Celebrations: A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs
Helfand, William H.     Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books
Hellerstein, David     Touching
Helman, C., ed.     Doctors and Patients: An Anthology
Hemingway, Ernest     In Another Country
    A Natural History of the Dead
Henry, O.     The Last Leaf
Herling, Gustaw     The Island
Holub, Miroslav     Animal Rights
Hosseini, Khaled     The Kite Runner
Hugo, Richard     Hot Springs
Hull, Jonathan     Losing Julia
Huyler, Frank     The Laws of Invisible Things
Hyde, Catherine Ryan     Becoming Chloe
Iagnemma, Karl     Children of Hunger
Ignatow, David     First Coffin Poem
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
Jones, Thom     40, Still at Home
    I Want to Live!
    Ooh Baby Baby
    Way Down Deep in the Jungle
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Kaplan, Jonathan     The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Kearney, Michael     Mortally Wounded. Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing
Keats, John     Ode on a Grecian Urn
    Ode on Melancholy
Keizer, Bert     Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
Kelly, Timothy     Toccata and Fugue
Kenney, Susan     Sailing
Kis, Danilo     The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Klíma, Ivan     Rich Men Tend to Be Strange
Klawans, Harold     Defending the Cavewoman and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Klein, M., ed.     Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS
Kovacic, Kristin, & Barrett, L., eds.     Birth: A Literary Companion
Krauser, Paula     Tears
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Unaccustomed Earth
Lamott, Anne     Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Ledger, Kate     Remedies
Lee, Li-Young     Mnemonic
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
Livesey, Margot     Eva Moves the Furniture
    Homework
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
    What Counts
Lobo Antunes, Antonio     The Land at the End of the World
Lodge, David     Therapy
Lowry, Lois     The Giver
Lurie, Alison     Foreign Affairs
    Love and Friendship
Lynch, Thomas     Still Life in Milford
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Mann, Thomas     The Black Swan
Martin, Kimbra     Snapshots
Massad, Stewart     Casualties
Matton, Sylvie     Rembrandt's Whore
McCarthy, Cormac     The Road
McEwan, Ian     The Diagnosis
McFarlane, Donna     Division of Surgery
McGrath, Patrick     Dr. Haggard's Disease
McKay, Claude     The Lynching
Melville, Herman     White-Jacket
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten     Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Merwin, W. S.     Good People
Millay, Edna St. Vincent     Love Is Not All; It Is Not Meat nor Drink
Miller, Andrew     Ingenious Pain
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Millhauser, Steven     The Wizard of West Orange
Minot, Susan     Evening
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     The Case of George Dedlow
    The Grave of Keats
    Ode on a Lycian Tomb
Moffett, Shannon     The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Soon: Tales from Hospice
Mokeddem, Malika     The Forbidden Woman
Montaigne, Michel de     Of Experience
Morris, David B.     The Culture of Pain
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Mukand, Jon Arun     First Payment
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik     The Story of San Michele
Nafisi, Azar     Reading Lolita in Tehran
Neumayr, Anton     Music and Medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nuland, Sherwin B.     How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
    Medicine: The Art of Healing
O'Connell, Mary     Saint Ursula and Her Maidens
Oliveira, Robin     My Name is Mary Sutter
Olsen, Sylvia     The Girl With a Baby
Ondaatje, Michael     The English Patient
    The English Patient
Pai, Ann     My Other Body: A Memoir of Love, Fat, Life, and Death
Papper, Emanuel M.     Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep: Literature Influences Medicine
Pastan, Linda     Migraine
    Notes from the Delivery Room
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pears, Iain     The Dream of Scipio
Pekar, Harvey     Our Cancer Year
Percy, Walker     The Moviegoer
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Perillo, Lucia     I've Heard the Vultures Singing
Pernick, Martin S.     A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Anesthesia in Nineteenth Century America
Peterson, Margaret Kim     Sing Me to Heaven: The Story of a Marriage
Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis     Riding the Flume
Phelan, Peggy     To Suffer a Sea Change
Picardie, Ruth     Before I Say Goodbye
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
Plath, Sylvia     Three Women
    Tulips
Poe, Edgar Allan     The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Powers, Richard     Operation Wandering Soul
Price, Reynolds     A Whole New Life
Rankine, Claudia     Plot
Rhett, K., ed.     Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Rogoff, Marianne     Silvie's Life
Rosenblum, Barbara     Cancer in Two Voices
Rossetti, Christina     Up-Hill
Rothman, D. J.,et al., eds.     Medicine and Western Civilization
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Sacks, Oliver     A Leg to Stand On
Sandblom, Philip     Creativity and Disease: How Illness Affects Literature, Art and Music
Scarry, Elaine     The Body in Pain
Schaefer, Judy     Harvesting the Dew
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schneider, Robert     Brother of Sleep
Schneider-Braus, Kathleen     The Hypnotist
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Balancing Acts
    Referred Pain
Scott, Joanna     Various Antidotes
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     An Absence of Windows
    Atrium: October 2001
    The Doctor Stories
    The Exact Location of the Soul
    Mercy
    Toenails
    The Whistlers' Room
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Service, Robert     Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Shapiro, Alan     Vigil
Shapiro, Johanna     The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
Shin, Nan     Diary of a Zen Nun: Every Day Living
Shlain, Leonard     Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
Showalter, Elaine     Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Slater, Lauren     Welcome to My Country
Slavitt, David R.     The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation
Smiley, Jane G.     A Thousand Acres
Smith, Dave     Ear Ache
Smith, Sybil     A Dog Named Hopi
Sophocles,     Philoctetes
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Spann, C., ed.     Poet Healer: Contemporary Poems for Health & Healing
Spires, Elizabeth     Theatre of Pain
Stafford, Jean     The Interior Castle
Stanton, Maura     Concussion
Stone, Robert     Absence of Mercy
Styron, William     A Tidewater Morning
Swander, Mary     The Desert Pilgrim: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles
Swanson, Julie A.     Going for the Record
Torga, Miguel     The Lord
Tougaw, Jason Daniel     Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel
Updike, John     The City
Van Duyn, Mona     The Accusation
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Vivante, Arturo     By the Bedside
    Last Rites
Vrettos, Athena     Somatic Fictions
Walker, Alice     Medicine
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Wallace, David Foster     Incarnations of Burned Children
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Watts, H. David     Bedside Manners
    The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
Weinberg, Richard B.     Communion
Weinberger, Florence     Carnal Fragrance
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Weisman, Jamie     As I Live and Breathe
Weldon, Fay     The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)     Under the Knife
Wendell, Susan     The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Wharton, Edith     The Fruit of the Tree
Wiesel, Elie     Open Heart
Wilber, Ken     Grace and Grit
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Villanelle of the Suicide's Mother
Williams, Guy     The Age of Miracles: Medicine and Surgery in the Nineteenth Century
Wilson, Jonathan     Dead Ringers
Winawer, Sidney J.     Healing Lessons
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Winter, Alison     Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Wisenberg, S. (Sandi) L.     Big Ruthie Imagines Sex Without Pain
Yolen, Jane     The Radiation Sonnets
Young, Audrey     The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital
Young, C. Dale     Torn


Theater


Middleton, Clark Powell, Michael Warren     Miracle Mile