Religion


Art Film Literature


Art


Bacon, Francis     Painting
Bak, Samuel     The Ghetto
Blake, William     The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve
    Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter     The Triumph of Death
Cole, Thomas     Voyage of Life: Childhood/Youth/Manhood/Old Age
Courbet, Gustave     A Burial at Ornans
Dürer, Albrecht     Christ Among the Doctors
    The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve)
Duccio di Buoninsegna,     Jesus Opens the Eyes of a Man Born Blind
Gauguin, Paul     Self-Portrait with Halo
    Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao tupapau)
    Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
    Words of the Devil (Parau na te Varua ino)
Gilbert and George,     The Fundamental Pictures
Goya, Francisco     Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, 3rd May 1808
Kahlo, Frida     El suicidio de Dorothy Hale (Suicide of Dorothy Hale)
Michelangelo,     Creation of Adam
Picasso, Pablo     Guernica
    Science and Charity
Salgado, Sebastiao     An Uncertain Grace
Sendak, Maurice     Dear Mili: An Old Tale (Wilhelm Karl Grimm)
Titian (Tiziano Veccellio),     Three Ages of Man
Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon     Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph


Film


    21 Grams
    Antonia's Line
    Creation: How Darwin Saw the World and Changed It Forever
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Docteur Laennec
    The Green Mile
    Jesus of Montréal
    Kandahar-Journey into the Heart of Afghanistan
    Magnificent Obsession
    Man Facing Southeast (Hombre Mirando Al Sudeste)
    Midnight Cowboy
    A Midwife's Tale
    Mind Talk: The Brain's New Story
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    Nurse Edith Cavell
    Opera Therapy
    The Plague
    Robert Coles, Teacher
    Seraphine
    Shadowlands
    Son of the Bride
    The Syringa Tree
    Worlds Apart: A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare


Literature


Abse, Dannie     Be Seated, Thou
    Pythagoras (Smith)
Anaya, Rudolfo     Bless Me, Ultima
Andahazi, Federico     The Anatomist
Andrews, Tom     Codeine Diary: A Memoir
Ansay, A. Manette     Limbo: A Memoir
Appleman, Philip     After the Faith Healings
    Alive
    Darwin's Ark
Ariès, Philippe     The Hour of Our Death
Atwood, Margaret     Alias Grace
    Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander     Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800
Barnes, Peter     Red Noses
Bass, Rick     The Lives of Rocks
Battin, Margaret Pabst     Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
Bellow, Saul     The Victim
Bentley, James     Albert Schweitzer. The Enigma
Bertman, Sandra L.     One Breath Apart: Facing Dissection
Biguenet, John     The Vulgar Soul
Bly, R. , et al., eds.     The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     Killing Babies
Brody, Howard     The Chief of Medicine
Brooks, Geraldine     Year of Wonders
Brown, Karen McCarthy     Moma Lola: A Voodou Priestess in Brooklyn
Browning, Robert     Fra Lippo Lippi
Burnett, Frances Hodgson     The Secret Garden
Butler, Robert Olen     Love
Butler, Sandra     Cancer in Two Voices
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     Body Art
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron     Lord Byron's Don Juan
Cambor, Kathleen M.     The Book of Mercy
Campo, Rafael     El Curandero
Camus, Albert     The Plague
Carmichael, A. G. & Ratzan, Richard M., eds.     Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature
Carter III, Albert Howard     Our Human Hearts: A Medical and Cultural Journey
Carver, Raymond     What the Doctor Said
    What the Doctor Said
Caston, Anne     Flying Out with the Wounded
Cecil, Richard     Miracles
Chekhov, Anton P.     An Attack of Nerves (A Nervous Breakdown)
    The Bishop
    The Duel
    The Horse Stealers
    Murder
    On Easter Eve
    The Princess
    The Student
    The Two Volodyas
Chisholm, Brock     Can People Learn to Learn?: How to Know Each Other
Clark-Sayles, Catharine     One Breath
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Cogan, Nancy Adams     Snap Shots
Cohen, Matt     The Spanish Doctor
Cokal, Susann     Mirabilis
Coles, Robert     Lives of Moral Leadership
Colquhoun, Glenn     Playing God
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     Jerusalem
    Medicine Stone
    To the Heart of Lazar Riverius, Galenist Physician
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock     Olive
Cronin, A. J. (Archibald Joseph)     The Judas Tree
Cule, John     The Wreath on the Crown: The Story of Sarah Jacob the Welsh Fasting Girl
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Darwin, Charles Robert     The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Davies, Robertson     The Cunning Man
Davis, Heather Choate     Baptism by Fire
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
Defoe, Daniel     Robinson Crusoe
DeLillo, Don     White Noise
Delury, George E.     But What if She Wants to Die? A Husband's Diary
Dickens, Charles     A Christmas Carol
    The Old Curiosity Shop
Dickinson, Emily     I heard a fly buzz when I died
Didion, Joan     The Year of Magical Thinking
Dillard, Annie     Holy the Firm
Donne, John     Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Dorsett, Thomas     Dance Fire Dance
Dubus, Andre     Meditations from a Movable Chair
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
    Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
Elliott, C. & Lantos, J., eds.     The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Enright, D. J., ed.     Ill at Ease: Writers on Ailments Real and Imagined
Erdrich, Louise     Love Medicine
    Tracks
Fadiman, Anne     The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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
Fisher, Rudolph     The Conjure Man Dies
Ford, Ford Madox     The Good Soldier
Foster, P., ed.     Minding The Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Freud, Sigmund     Civilization and its Discontents
Fugard, Athol     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
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Living to Tell the Tale
    Of Love and Other Demons
    A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Garcia Morales, Adelaida     The South
Garshin, Vsevolod     The Scarlet Flower
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gilbert, Sandra     Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
Giono, Jean     The Horseman on the Roof
Gordon, Mary     The Shadow Man
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Graham-Pole, J. & Joy, C., eds.     On Wings of Spirit: Anthology of The American Physicians' Poetry Association
Green, Gerald     To Brooklyn with Love
Grenfell, Wilfred T.     Adrift on an Ice Pan
Grimm, Wilhelm Karl     Dear Mili: An Old Tale
Guista, Michael     The Year of Release
Hall, Rodney     The Grisly Wife
Harrington, Kent     The Good Physician
Harrison, Kathryn     Saint Catherine of Siena: Catherine Means Pure
Hayes, Bill     The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy
Healy, Margaret     Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics
Heaney, Seamus     Out of the Bag
Hemingway, Ernest     God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Herling, Gustaw     The Island
Hill, Lawrence     The Book of Negroes
Hopkins, Gerard Manley     Felix Randal
Horgan, Paul     The Surgeon and the Nun
Hosseini, Khaled     The Kite Runner
Hugo, Richard     St. Ignatius Where the Salish Wail
Hugo, Victor Marie     The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Hurston, Zora Neale     Their Eyes Were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous     Island
Huyler, Frank     The Laws of Invisible Things
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Irving, John     A Prayer for Owen Meany
James, Thomas     Letters to a Stranger
Jones, Gayl     The Healing
Jones, Thom     Way Down Deep in the Jungle
Joyce, James     Araby
Köepf, Michael     The Fisherman's Son
Kafka, Franz     A Country Doctor
Kearney, Michael     Mortally Wounded. Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing
Keizer, Bert     Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
Kenyon, Jane     Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
Kidder, Tracy     Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
Kingsolver, Barbara     Homeland
    The Poisonwood Bible
Kipling, Rudyard     Kim
Kovner, Abba     Sloan-Kettering
Kushner, Tony     Angels in America
L'Heureux, John     The Shrine at Altimara
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Unaccustomed Earth
Lamott, Anne     Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Lang, James M.     Learning Sickness
Larsson, Asa     The Blood Spilt
Leavitt, David     Equal Affections
Levertov, Denise     Death Psalm: O Lord of Mysteries
Levi, Carlo     Christ Stopped at Eboli
Levi, Primo     The Drowned and the Saved
Lewis, C. S. (Clives Staples)     A Grief Observed
Lewis, Richard     The Killing Sea
Lieberman, Michael     Remnant
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
Lodge, David     The British Museum Is Falling Down
    Paradise News
    Therapy
    Thinks . . .
Lorca, Federico Garcia     The House of Bernarda Alba
Lynch, Thomas     Apparition & Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories
    Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
    The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
MacDonald, Roger     Mr. Darwin's Shooter
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malamud, Bernard     God's Grace
    The Silver Crown
Malcolm, Janet     Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey
Mann, Thomas     Doctor Faustus
    The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg)
Marchetto, Marisa Acocella     Cancer Vixen
Marlowe, Christopher     Doctor Faustus
Matton, Sylvie     Rembrandt's Whore
Matute, Ana Maria     Soldiers Cry by Night
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     Of Human Bondage
    The Painted Veil
Maupassant, Guy de     The Marquis de Fumerol
McCourt, Frank     Angela's Ashes
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
McDermott, Alice     Charming Billy
McEwan, Ian     Enduring Love
Mda, Zakes     The Heart of Redness
Melville, Herman     Moby-Dick
Miller, Sue     The Distinguished Guest
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Milton, John     Sonnet 16 (On His Blindness )
Moffett, Shannon     The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Called Out
    Soon: Tales from Hospice
Mokeddem, Malika     The Forbidden Woman
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Munro, Alice     Comfort
    Comfort
Murray, John     Watson and the Shark
Nafisi, Azar     Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nashe, Thomas     A Litany in the Time of Plague
Neuhaus, Richard John     As I Lay Dying
Neumayr, Anton     Music and Medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
Norris, Kathleen     Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Nuland, Sherwin B.     Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
    Maimonides
O'Connor, Flannery     Good Country People
    Greenleaf
    Revelation
Ofri, Danielle     Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
Parrado, Nando     Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pears, Iain     The Dream of Scipio
    An Instance of the Fingerpost
Percy, Walker     The Last Gentleman
    Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
    Love in the Ruins
    The Message in the Bottle
    The Second Coming
    The Thanatos Syndrome
Pies, Ronald     Zimmerman's Tefillin
Plath, Sylvia     Heavy Women
Poe, Edgar Allan     The Conqueror Worm
Polacco, Patricia     The Keeping Quilt
Porter, Katherine Anne     The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Potok, Chaim     The Chosen
Price, Reynolds     The Good Priest's Son
Reed, Barry C.     The Verdict
Reiss, Benjamin     Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Rios, Alberto     The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Roethke, Theodore     In a Dark Time
    The Waking
Rosenblum, Barbara     Cancer in Two Voices
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel     Body's Beauty
Roth, Philip     Nemesis
Rothman, D. J.,et al., eds.     Medicine and Western Civilization
Rushdie, Salman     Is Nothing Sacred? The Herbert Read Memorial Lecture
Salzman, Mark     Lying Awake
Sansom, C. (Christopher) J. (John)     Revelation
Scarry, Elaine     The Body in Pain
Schneider, Robert     Brother of Sleep
Schoemperlen, Diane     Forms of Devotion
    Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel
Schweitzer, Albert     Out of My Life and Thought
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Selzer, Richard     The Exact Location of the Soul
    The Exact Location of the Soul
    Lessons from the Art
    The Surgeon as Priest
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Shaffer, Peter     Equus
Shakespeare, William     Hamlet
    Macbeth
Shelley, Percy Bysshe     Sonnet ("Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there,")
Sheppard, Gordon     HA! A Self Murder Mystery
Shin, Nan     Diary of a Zen Nun: Every Day Living
Shlain, Leonard     Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
Shroder, Tom     Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Simmons, Philip     Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
Slater, Lauren     Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
Slavitt, David R.     The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation
Smith, D. (Dennis) L.     The Miracles of Santo Fico
Snodgrass, Steven     Lethal Dose
Sophocles,     Philoctetes
Stone, John     Noel: A Christmas Poem
Stone, Robert     Absence of Mercy
Studer, Constance     Prayer to a Purple God
Sullivan, Jacqueline Levering     Annie's War
Szczeklik, Andrzej     Catharsis: On the Art of Medicine
Thomas, Dylan     A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
Toomer, Jean     Cane
Torga, Miguel     The Lord
Trevor, William     Sacred Statues
Updike, John     Endpoint and Other Poems
Vargas Llosa, Mario     The War of the End of the World
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Vivante, Arturo     Last Rites
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Weinberger, Florence     Carnal Fragrance
Weldon, Fay     The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Whelan, Gloria     A Time to Keep Silent
White, Kelley Jean     Late
Wiesel, Elie     Open Heart
Wilber, Ken     Grace and Grit
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Misgivings
Williams, Terry Tempest     The Village Watchman
Winawer, Sidney J.     Healing Lessons
Winter, Alison     Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Winter, Sarah     Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge
Woodruff, Lee     In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
Wright, Richard     Black Boy
Yourcenar, Marguerite     Memoirs of Hadrian
Zalben, Jane Breskin     Pearl's Marigolds for Grandpa