Patient Experience


Art Film Literature Theater


Art


Bartley, Mary Anne     Aerobics of the Spirit
David, Jacques-Louis     The Death of Socrates
Géricault, Théodore     The Madman
Garcia, Emanuel E.     Aerobics of the Spirit
Gauguin, Paul     Self-Portrait with Halo
Gilbert and George,     A.D. (1987)
Goya, Francisco     Courtyard with Lunatics
    Goya Attended by Dr. Arrieta
Kahlo, Frida     The Broken Column
    Henry Ford Hospital
    Tree of Hope
    Without Hope
Kashi, Ed     Aging in America
Klimt, Gustav     Hope, II
Kollwitz, Käthe     At the Doctor's (Beim Arzt)
Layton, Elizabeth     The Courtroom
Matuschka,     Matuschka Archive
Moore, Frank     Patient
Munch, Edvard     Compassion
Neel, Alice     City Hospital
    The Last Illness
    T.B., Harlem
Picasso, Pablo     Science and Charity
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Rockwell, Norman Percevel     Before the Shot
Sargent, John Singer     Gassed
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
Tooker, George     Corporate Decision
    The Waiting Room
Van Gogh, Vincent     A Corridor in the Asylum
    Self-Portrait
    Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
Willing, Victor     Self-portrait at 70
Winokur, Julie     Aging in America
Worsham, Erin Brady     Breathtaking Metamorphosis
    Headturner
    Mind, Body, Spirit


Film


    21 Grams
    50/50
    At First Sight
    Awakenings
    Away From Her
    The Barbarian Invasions
    Beautiful Dreamers
    The Belly of an Architect
    Bethune: The Making of a Hero
    The Body Beautiful
    Born on the Fourth of July
    Coming Home
    Common Threads
    Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
    Dark Victory
    Dax's Case
    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
    Death on Request
    Dialogues with Madwomen
    Docteur Laennec
    The Doctor
    The Eighth Day
    The English Patient
    Extreme Measures
    Frances
    Frida
    Grave Words: Tools for Discussing End of Life Choices
    Harvey
    Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
    Ikiru
    Illness as Experience
    In My Skin (Dans ma Peau)
    Indestructible
    Iris
    Jesus of Montréal
    The Kingdom
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Magnificent Obsession
    Maze
    Million Dollar Baby
    Miss Evers' Boys
    Mortal Coil: Voices from the Hospice
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    Murderball
    My Left Foot
    My Life Without Me
    Nell
    The Odds of Recovery
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Opera Therapy
    Ordinary People
    Out of the Ashes
    Out of the Shadow
    Passion Fish
    Please Let Me Die
    Red Beard (Akahige)
    Regeneration
    Road to Wellville
    Safe
    The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)
    Seraphine
    Shadowlands
    Sicko
    Sixth Happiness
    A Slightly Pregnant Man
    The Snake Pit
    Soft Fruit
    Son of the Bride
    Spellbound
    Sylvia
    Theory of Flight
    Thin
    Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
    The Three Faces of Eve
    The Vanishing Line
    Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back
    The Waterdance
    Whose Life Is It Anyway?
    Worlds Apart: A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare
    Yesterday


Literature


Abe, Kobo     Kangaroo Notebook
Abrahams, Lionel     The Celibacy of Felix Greenspan
Albee, Edward     Three Tall Women
Albom, Mitch     Tuesdays with Morrie
Alden, Paulette Bates     Crossing the Moon: A Journey Through Infertility
Alexander, M., Lenahan, P. & Pavlov, A., eds.     Cinemeducation: a comprehensive guide to using film in medical education
Alexander, Sally Hobart     Taking Hold: My Journey into Blindness
Alexie, Sherman     War Dances
Ammons, A. R.     Burnout in the Overshoot
Anaya, Rudolfo     Tortuga
Anderson, M. F., ed.     Reflections from a Mud Puddle: Helping Children Cope and Grow
Andrews, Tom     The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle
    A Language of Hemophilia
Ansay, A. Manette     Limbo: A Memoir
Appleman, Philip     Alive
Ariès, Philippe     The Hour of Our Death
Armstrong, Lance     Every Second Counts
    It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
Atwood, Margaret     Alias Grace
    Bodily Harm
    Hairball
    The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart
Auden, W. H.     The Art of Healing
    Letter to a Wound
    Surgical Ward
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Axline, Virginia M.     Dibs: In Search of Self
Ayers, Mary Alice     The Infinite Dark
Bérubé, Michael     Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
Bach, Alice     Waiting for Johnny Miracle
Ball, Tamara Dale     Search for wholeness: the adventures of a doctor-patient
Banks, C. & Rizzo, J., eds.     A Loving Voice: A Caregiver's Book of Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly
Barker, Pat     The Ghost Road
    Regeneration
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Barrett, Andrea     Ship Fever
Bartlett, J., Black, S. & Northen, M., eds.     Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
Bauby, Jean-Dominique     The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bell, Marvin     He Had a Good Year
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Bennett, Cherie     Zink
Berg, Elizabeth     Talk Before Sleep
Berger, Suzanne E.     Horizontal Woman
Berlin, R. M., ed.     Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process
Bertman, S. L., ed.     Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy
Bialosky, J. & Schulman, H., eds.     Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult But Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood i
Biro, David     One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
Bly, Carol     Gunnar's Sword
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Bolin, Robert B.     Unwanted Inheritance
Bolton, Gillie     The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing: Writing Myself
Booth, Philip     Fallback
    Outlook
Borden, Mary     The Forbidden Zone
Borges, Jorge Luis     Funes the Memorious (Funes el Memorioso)
    The Immortals
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     The Road to Wellville
Brabner, Joyce     Our Cancer Year
Bradbury, Ray     Fever Dream
Brancato, Robin F.     Winning
Brashler, Anne     He Read to Her
Breedlove, C., ed.     Uncharted Lines: Poems from the Journal of the American Medical Association
Breslin, Rosemary     Not Exactly What I Had in Mind
Brock, Pope     Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Brodkey, Harold     Dying: An Update
Brooks, Dorothy Howe     Life Support
Brown, Jeanette     How to Visit a Healer
Brown, John     Rab and His Friends
Brown, Rebecca     The Gifts of the Body
Brown, III, T. K.     A Drink of Water
Broyard, Anatole     Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
Bryner, Jeanne     This Red Oozing
Bukowski, Charles     My Doctor
Bulgakov, Mikhail     Morphine
Burgan, Mary     Illness, Gender and Writing: The Case of Katherine Mansfield
Burney, Fanny     A Mastectomy: Letter to Esther Burney
Burrows, Adria     The Man Who Didn't Know He Had Cancer
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Butler, Sandra     Cancer in Two Voices
Butler, Susan Woldenberg     Black Bag Moon
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     A Stone Woman
Caldwell, Janis McLarren     Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: from Mary Shelley to George Eliot
Calvert, Patricia     Picking Up the Pieces
Campo, Rafael     The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry
    The Poetry of Healing
    What the Body Told
Cantwell, Mary     Manhattan, When I Was Young
Cardinal, Marie     The Words to Say It
Carey, Peter     The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Carr, Pat M.     Sunday Morning
Carruth, Hayden     Notes on Emphysema
carter, lu     Forever
Carter III, Albert Howard     Our Human Hearts: A Medical and Cultural Journey
    Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned
Carver, Raymond     Gravy
    My Death
    What the Doctor Said
    What the Doctor Said
Casey, Nell, ed.     Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
Cassell, Eric J.     The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
Chaikin, Joseph     Struck Dumb
Charach, Ron     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)
    Gusev
    Hydrophobia
    Typhus
    The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty Eight New Stories
    Ward 6
Cleavland, Clif     Healers and Heroes: Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Clifton, Lucille     dialysis
Coetzee, J. M.     Age of Iron
    The Blow
Collins, Anne     In the Sleep Room: The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Collins, Billy     Death Beds
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     D Day, 1994
    The Heavenly Ladder
    I'm Gonna Slap Those Doctors
    The Man with Stars Inside Him
    Medicine Stone
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Cousins, Norman     Anatomy of an Illness (As Perceived by the Patient)
Crandall, Rob Crandall, Walter H.     Borders of Time: Life in a Nursing Home
Crane, Hart     Episode of Hands
Crane, Stephen     An Episode of War
Cristofer, Michael     The Shadow Box
Cromer, Janet M.     Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Cumming, Deborah     Recovering from Mortality
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Darling, J. & Fuller, C., eds.     The Poetry Cure
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Daudet, Alphonse     In the Land of Pain
Davis, Cortney     I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body
    Leopold's Maneuvers
de Hartog, Jan     The Hospital
DeBaggio, Thomas     Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's
Delury, George E.     But What if She Wants to Die? A Husband's Diary
DeMaine, Mary R.     Six Days
DeQuincey, Thomas     Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Derricotte, Toi     Delivery
DeSalvo, Louise     Breathless: An Asthma Journal
Dessaix, Robert     Night Letters
Dickens, Charles     A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Dickey, James     The Cancer Match
    Diabetes
Dickinson, Emily     I felt a funeral in my brain
    I heard a fly buzz when I died
    Just lost when I was saved
    Pain has an element of blank
Diedrich, Lisa     Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness
Dittrich, Lisa R., ed.     Ten Years of Medicine and the Arts: 100 Selections from Academic Medicine, 1991-2001
Donley, C. & Buckley, S., eds.     What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
Donne, John     Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Dostoevski, Fyodor Mikhailovich     The Idiot
Douglas, Ellen     Apostles of Light
Downie, Glen     Wishbone Dance
Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock), ed.     The Healing Arts
Dreuilhe, Alain Emmanuel     Mortal Embrace
Dunmore, Helen     Annina
    The Thief
Edson, Margaret     Wit
Ehrenreich, Barbara     The Sexual Politics of Sickness
    Welcome to Cancerland
Eig, Jonathan     Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     The Lifted Veil
Elliott, C. & Lantos, J., eds.     The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Emecheta, Buchi     The Joys of Motherhood
Emmott, Kirsten     How Do You Feel?
Engel, Howard     Memory Book: A Benny Cooperman Mystery
English, Deirdre     The Sexual Politics of Sickness
Enright, D. J., ed.     Ill at Ease: Writers on Ailments Real and Imagined
Eugenides, Jeffrey     Middlesex
Farley, Margaret A.     Compassionate Respect: A Feminist Approach to Medical Ethics and Other Questions
Feinberg, Leslie     Stone Butch Blues
Feldshuh, David     Miss Evers' Boys
Ferris, Jim     The Hospital Poems
Fessler, Ann     The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Fies, Brian     Mom's Cancer
Findley, Timothy     Pilgrim
    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
    Pointing to the Place of the Pain
    Words Like Fate and Pain
Flaherty, Alice W.     The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
Foster, P. & Swander, M., eds.     The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery
    The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery
Foster, P., ed.     Minding The Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
Fox, John     Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making
Frank, Arthur W.     The Wounded Storyteller
Fraser, Sylvia     My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing
Freisinger, Randall R.     Sperm Test
Fries, Kenny     The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Furst, Lilian R.     Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     One of These Days
Garshin, Vsevolod     The Scarlet Flower
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gawande, Atul     The Bell Curve
Gehrke, Steve     The Resurrection Machine
Geller, J. L. & Harris, M., eds.     Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945
Getsi, Lucia Cordell     Letter from the Rehabilitation Institute
Gilbert, Sandra     Blood Pressure
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins     The Yellow Wallpaper
    The Yellow Wallpaper
Goedicke, Patricia     After the Second Operation
    In the Hospital
    One More Time
    Precious Bodily Fluids
Gogol, Nikolai     The Nose
Goldsmith, Ellen     No Pine Tree in this Forest is Perfect
Goldstein, Melissa Anne     Travels with the Wolf
Gonzales, Laurence     Lucy
Gordon, Arthur     Old Ironpuss
Gordon, R., ed.     The Literary Companion to Medicine
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Gottlieb, Lori     Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
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
    State of the Heart: A Medical Tourist's True Story of Lifesaving Surgery in India
Graham-Pole, John     Quick: A Pediatrician's Illustrated Poetry
Grealy, Lucy     Autobiography of a Face
    Mirrorings
Green, Gerald     The Last Angry Man
Groopman, Jerome E.     The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
    How Doctors Think
    Kirk
    Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
Gross, P., & Guernsey, D., eds.     Pulse: The First Year
Gunn, Thom     The Man with Night Sweats
Hacker, Marilyn     Cancer Winter
Hadas, Pamela White     To Make a Dragon Move: From the Diary of an Anorexic
Hadas, R., ed.     Unending Dialogue: Voices from an AIDS Poetry Workshop
Haddad, Amy Marie     Dehiscence
Haddix, Margaret Peterson     Because of Anya
    Fine?
Haddon, Mark     A Spot of Bother
Haigh, Jennifer     The Condition
Hall, Donald     Life Work
Handler, Evan     Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors
Harrison, Kathryn     Saint Catherine of Siena: Catherine Means Pure
Harvor, Elisabeth     Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
Hassler, Jon     The Love Hunter
Hawking, Stephen     Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Hawkins, A. H. & Ballard, J. O., eds.     Time to Go: Three Plays on Death and Dying, with Commentary on End-of-Life Issues
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker     Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
    A Small, Good Thing: Stories of Children with HIV and Those Who Care for Them
Hecht, Anthony     The Transparent Man
Hellerstein, David     Touching
Helman, C., ed.     Doctors and Patients: An Anthology
Helman, Cecil     Suburban Shaman
Hemingway, Ernest     A Day's Wait
Henderson, Cary Smith     Partial View: An Alzheimer's Journal
Henderson-Holmes, Safiya     Snapshots of Grace
Henley, William Ernest     Enter Patient
    In Hospital
Herbert, Mary Kennan     On the Couch
Herschberger, Ruth     josie takes the stand
Herwaldt, Loreen     Patient Listening: A Doctor's Guide
Heymann, Jody     Equal Partners
Hilfiker, David     Not All of Us Are Saints
Hirsch, Edward     I Need Help
Hirschfield, Jane     It Is Easy to Be Fascinated with Death
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler     Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
Hoagland, Tony     Arrows
    Emigration
    Lucky
    Medicine
Hoffman, Amy     Hospital Time
Holman, Sheri     The Dress Lodger
Hopper, James     When it Happens
Hornbacher, Marya     Madness
Hospital, Janette Turner     The Tiger in the Tiger Pit
Hugo, Richard     Hot Springs
Hunt, Nan     A Palsied Girl Goes to the Beach
Hunter, Kathryn Montgomery     Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge
Hurston, Zora Neale     My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience
Ishiguro, Kazuo     Never Let Me Go
Itani, Frances     Deafening
Jacobstein, Roy     Ripe
James, Thomas     Letters to a Stranger
Jamison, Kay Redfield     An Unquiet Mind
Jarrell, D. & Sukrungruang, I., eds.     What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology
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
Jones, Alice     The Biopsy
Jones, Richard     The Remedy
Jones, Thom     I Want to Live!
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Kafka, Franz     A Country Doctor
    The Metamorphosis
Kaysen, Susanna     Girl, Interrupted
Kendrick, Leatha     Science in Your Own Back Yard
    Second Opinion
Kenney, Susan     Sailing
Kenyon, Jane     Having it Out with Melancholy
    The Sick Wife
Keyes, Daniel     Flowers for Algernon
Kidder, Tracy     Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Kirchwey, Karl     Propofol
Kirklin, D. & Richardson, R., eds.     Medical Humanities: A Practical Introduction
Klass, Perri     Love and Modern Medicine
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
Kopit, Arthur     Wings
Kovacic, Kristin, & Barrett, L., eds.     Birth: A Literary Companion
Kovner, Abba     Sloan-Kettering
Krauser, Paula     Tears
Kumin, Maxine     Inside the Halo and Beyond
L'Engle, Madeleine     The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
L'Heureux, John     The Shrine at Altimara
Lam, Vincent     Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Lang, James M.     Learning Sickness
Larkin, Philip     The Building
LaScala, Susan     Small Wonder: The Story of a Child Born Too Soon
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)     Malade
    The Ship of Death
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Leavitt, David     Equal Affections
Leon, Philip W.     Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Lesser, Rika     All We Need of Hell
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
Levertov, Denise     Death Psalm: O Lord of Mysteries
Lieberman, Michael     Sojourn at Elmhurst
Lightman, Alan     The Diagnosis
Linton, Simi     My Body Politic
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
    What Counts
London, Jack     The Law of Life
    Told in the Drooling Ward
Lord, Catherine     The Summer of Her Baldness
Lorde, Audre     The Cancer Journals
Lowenstein, Jerome     The Midnight Meal and Other Essays About Doctors, Patients, and Medicine
Lundkvist, Artur     Journeys in Dream and Imagination
Luria, A. R. (Aleksandr Romanovich)     The Man with a Shattered World
    The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory
Lux, Thomas     Hospital View
MacGregor, John Monroe     The Discovery of the Art of the Insane
MacLaverty, Bernard     The Clinic
MacLeod, Anne     Standing by Thistles
Mairs, Nancy     On Being a Cripple
    A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mann, Thomas     The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)
    Tristan
Manning, Margaret     Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression
Marani, Diego     New Finnish Grammar
Marchetto, Marisa Acocella     Cancer Vixen
Mars-Jones, Adam     The Waters of Thirst
Massad, Stewart     Casualties
    Doctors and Other Casualties
Masson, Veneta     Clinician's Guide to the Soul
    Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill
Matthews, William     Dire Cure
    Dire Cure
    Recovery Room
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     Lord Mountdrago
    Sanatorium
Maupassant, Guy de     An Old Man
Maxwell, William     They Came Like Swallows
McCabe, Eugene     Cancer
McCann, Richard     The Resurrectionist
McFarlane, Donna     Division of Surgery
McHugh, Heather     What Hell Is
Mead, Rebecca     Eggs for Sale
Melville, Herman     White-Jacket
Middlebrook, Christina     Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Milton, John     Sonnet 16 (On His Blindness )
Mistry, Rohinton     Family Matters
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     The Case of George Dedlow
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Soon: Tales from Hospice
Mokeddem, Malika     The Forbidden Woman
Molière,     The Imaginary Invalid
Moller, David Wendell     Dancing with Broken Bones: Portraits of Death and Dying Among Inner-City Poor
Monette, Paul     Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Montaigne, Michel de     Of Experience
Montross, Christine     Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Moore, Breanndan S.     Consoling Mrs. Byrne
Moran, Thomas     The World I Made for Her
Morris, David B.     The Culture of Pain
Mueller, Lisel     Monet Refuses the Operation
Mukand, Jon Arun     First Payment
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     Comfort
    Floating Bridge
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik     The Story of San Michele
Murphy, Robert F.     The Body Silent
Murray, Les     Hearing Impairment
    Travels with John Hunter
Murray, T. Jock     Reflections: Illness and Healing. The Art of Robert Pope
Myers, K. R. & Schweizer, H., eds.     The Patient
Myers, K. R., ed.     Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics
Nelson, Sharon H.     Premenstrual Syndrome
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
Nielsen, Jerri     Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
Nolan, Christopher     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
North, Carol S.     Welcome Silence: My Triumph Over Schizophrenia
Nuland, Sherwin B.     The Wisdom of the Body
O'Connor, Flannery     Revelation
O'Connor, Mary Bradish     Say Yes Quickly
Ofri, Danielle     Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
Olsen, Tillie     Tell Me a Riddle
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin     The Mastectomy Poems
Ott, Katherine     Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870
Palmer, Tom     Cracked Marbles: Life's Lessons for a Maine Surgeon
Pastan, Linda     Migraine
    Notes from the Delivery Room
    Notes from the Delivery Room
    Routine Mammogram
Pears, Iain     An Instance of the Fingerpost
Pekar, Harvey     Our Cancer Year
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
Petro, Jane Arbuckle     Rising from the Flames: The Experience of the Severely Burned
Phelan, Peggy     To Suffer a Sea Change
Picardie, Ruth     Before I Say Goodbye
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
Piercy, Marge     Cold Head, Cold Heart
    Does the Light Fail Us, or Do We Fail the Light?
    Homage to Lucille, Dr. Lord-Heinstein
    Out of Sight
    Woman on the Edge of Time
Pinter, Harold     A Kind of Alaska
Plath, Sylvia     Barren Woman
    The Bell Jar
    Childless Woman
    Face Lift
    Lady Lazarus
    Three Women
    Tulips
Plumly, Stanley     Pityriasis Rosea
Pollack, Eileen     Milk
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, Katherine Anne     Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Porter, Pamela     The Crazy Man
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Potok, Chaim     The Chosen
Powers, Richard     The Echo Maker
    Gain
    Operation Wandering Soul
Powley, Elaine     The Arts in Medical Education: A Practical Guide
Price, Jill     The Woman Who Can't Forget
Price, Reynolds     The Good Priest's Son
    A Whole New Life
Price Herndl, Diane     Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Prior, Jerilynn     Estrogen's Storm Season: Stories of Perimenopause
Pym, Barbara     Quartet in Autumn
Quindlen, Anna     One True Thing
Ramondetta, Lois     The Light Within: The Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and Patient Brought Together by Cancer
Ray, David     The Hemlock Society
Raz, H., ed.     Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer
Raz, Hilda     Divine Honors
    What Becomes You
Reade, Charles     Hard Cash
Reiss, Benjamin     Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Remen, Rachel Naomi     Kitchen Table Wisdom
Rhett, K., ed.     Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis
Ribman, Ronald     Cold Storage, A Play in Two Acts
Richler, Mordecai     Barney's Version
Richman, Jan     Tourette's Journey
Rivard, Ken     Bottle Talk
Roberts, Willo Davis     Sugar Isn't Everything
Robinson, David J.     Reel Psychiatry: Movie Portrayals of Psychiatric Conditions
Robinson, Roxana     The Treatment
Roethke, Theodore     Meditation in Hydrotherapy
Rollin, Betty     First, You Cry, excerpt from
Roney, Lisa     Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes
Rosenblum, Barbara     Cancer in Two Voices
Roth, Philip     Everyman
    Nemesis
Rothman, Sheila     Living in the Shadow of Death
Rowe, Michael     The Book of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine.
Rudd, A. & Taylor, D., eds.     Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS
Ruddick, Bruce     Poems
Sachs, Albie     The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
Sacks, Oliver     An Anthropologist on Mars
    The Island of the Colorblind
    A Leg to Stand On
    The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
    Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
    Rebecca
    Seeing Voices
    Witty Ticcy Ray
Saltzman, Joan     Mr. Right and My Left Kidney
Sams, Ferrol     Epiphany
    Epiphany
Sandblom, Philip     Creativity and Disease: How Illness Affects Literature, Art and Music
Sarton, May     As We Are Now
Savitt, T. L., ed.     Medical Readers Theater: A Guide and Scripts
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schneider-Braus, Kathleen     The Hypnotist
Schoemperlen, Diane     Forms of Devotion
    The Spacious Chambers of Her Heart
Schramm, T., ed.     Living in Storms: Contemporary Poetry and the Moods of Manic Depression
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Balancing Acts
Scott, Joanna     Various Antidotes
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
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     Fetishes
    Four Appointments with the Discus Thrower
    Lessons from the Art
    Minor Surgery
    Raising the Dead
Service, Robert     Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Sexton, Anne     The Operation
Shapiro, Alan     The Dead Alive and Busy
    Song and Dance
Shapiro, Dan     Mom's Marijuana
Shapiro, Johanna     The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry
Shapshay, S., ed.     Bioethics at the Movies
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Sheed, Wilfrid     In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery
Shem, Samuel (Stephen Bergman)     Fiction as Resistance
Sherwood, Joan     Infection of the Innocents: Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France
Shin, Nan     Diary of a Zen Nun: Every Day Living
Shorter, Edward     Bedside Manners
Showalter, Elaine     Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture
Shute, Jenefer P.     Life-Size
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Silbert, Layle     Losses
    Losses
Simmons, Philip     Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Sissman, L. E. (Louis Edward)     A Deathplace
    A Deathplace
    Dying: A Resurrection, 1969
    Dying: An Introduction
    Homage to Clotho: A Hospital Suite
    Homage to Clotho: A Hospital Suite
Skloot, Floyd     Brain Scan
    Home Remedies
    In the Shadow of Memory
    The Night-Side
    The Virus
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Slater, Lauren     Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
    Welcome to My Country
Smith, Dave     Ear Ache
    Stroke
Smith, Larry     Leaning Together in the Storm
Smith, Sybil     A Dog Named Hopi
Smollett, Tobias     The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr     The Cancer Ward
Sontag, Susan     Alice in Bed
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Spark, Debra     Last Things
Spark, Muriel     Memento Mori
St. Andrews, B. A. (Bonnie)     The Healing Muse
Stafford, Jean     The Interior Castle
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Sterling, Bruce     Holy Fire
Stevenson, Ian     Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect
Stone, John     Lines While Waiting
    Two Dreams of Leukemia
Strand, Mark     Old People on the Nursing Home Porch
Straus, Marc J.     Dr. Gold & Dr. Green
    Not God: A Play in Verse
    One Word
Studer, Constance     Body Language
    Prayer to a Purple God
Sumrall, Amber Coverdale     Crossing the High Country
Swander, Mary     The Desert Pilgrim: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles
Sweet, Victoria     God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Taibo, II, Paco Ignacio     Calling All Heroes: A Manual for Taking Power
Tanielian, T. & Jaycox, L. H., eds.     Invisible Wounds of War
Taylor, Sheila Ortiz     Coachella
Tayman, John     The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Thomas, Lewis     Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony
Tischler, Victoria, ed.     Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts: A Teaching Handbook
Tolstoy, Leo     The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tomey, Ingrid     Nobody Else Has to Know
Trillin, Alice Stewart     Of Dragons and Garden Peas: A Cancer Patient Talks to Doctors
Trillin, Calvin     About Alice
Updike, John     The City
    Endpoint and Other Poems
    The Fairy Godfathers
    From the Journal of a Leper
    Metamorphosis
    My Love Has Dirty Fingernails
Van Duyn, Mona     Letters from a Father
    Tears
van Itallie, Jean-Claude     Struck Dumb
Verghese, Abraham     The Physician as Storyteller
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     Fortitude
Vrettos, Athena     Somatic Fictions
Wadler, Joyce     My Breast
Wagner, Pamela Spiro     We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Warfield, Frances     Cotton in My Ears, excerpt from
Warren, Rosalind     Outpatient
Wasserstein, Wendy     Complications
Watts, H. David     The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Weisman, Jamie     As I Live and Breathe
Wendell, Susan     The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Wharton, Edith     Diagnosis
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks)     The Second Tree from the Corner
Whitman, Walt     Walt Whitman's Civil War
Wiesel, Elie     Open Heart
Wilber, Ken     Grace and Grit
Wilkins, R., ed.     The Doctor's Quotation Book: A Medical Miscellany
Williams, Miller     A Day in the Death
Williams, William Carlos     A Face of Stone
    The Last Words of My English Grandmother
    Last Words of My Grandmother (First Version)
Winawer, Sidney J.     Healing Lessons
Winchester, Simon     The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dicti
Winckler, Martin     The Case of Dr. Sachs
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Winter, Alison     Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Wisenberg, S. (Sandi) L.     Big Ruthie Imagines Sex Without Pain
Wittlinger, Ellen     Stevie in the Mirror
Woiwode, Larry     A Step From Death
Wolitzer, Hilma     Mother
Woodruff, Lee     In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
Woolf, Virginia     On Being Ill
Wurtzel, Elizabeth     Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
Yourcenar, Marguerite     Memoirs of Hadrian
Zimmer, Paul     The Tenth Circle


Theater


Middleton, Clark Powell, Michael Warren     Miracle Mile