Surgery


Art Film Literature Theater


Art


Eakins, Thomas     The Agnew Clinic
    The Gross Clinic
Ferguson, Laura     The Visible Skeleton Series
Gervex, Henri     Before the Operation
Hinckley, Robert C.     First Operation Under Ether
Kahlo, Frida     Tree of Hope
Levin, Meryl     Anatomy of Anatomy in Images and Words
Matuschka,     Matuschka Archive
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Seligmann, Adelbert F.     Theodor Billroth Operating (Billroth im Hörsaal)
Spence, Jo     Jo Spence Archive
Van Rijn, Rembrandt Harmenszoon     The Anatomy Lesson of Nicolaes Tulp


Film


    21 Grams
    Article 99
    Bethune: The Making of a Hero
    The Body Beautiful
    The Body Snatcher
    Dark Victory
    Dead Ringers
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Docteur Laennec
    Dr. Lucille: The Lucille Teasdale Story
    Fantastic Voyage
    Frances
    Frida
    The Great Moment
    Innerspace
    The Kingdom
    Magnificent Obsession
    Malice
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Road to Wellville
    Something the Lord Made
    Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy
    Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life
    Twin Falls Idaho
    A Zed and Two Noughts


Literature


Abse, Dannie     In the Theatre (A true incident)
Alvord, Lori Arviso     The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
Amis, Martin     Time's Arrow
Armstrong, Lance     It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Atwood, Margaret     Bodily Harm
    Hairball
Auden, W. H.     Surgical Ward
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Bamforth, I., ed.     The Body in the Library
Barker, Pat     Regeneration
Barry, John M.     The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer
Bascom, George     Medicine Circle
Bazell, Josh     Beat the Reaper
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Betts, Doris     Souls Raised from the Dead
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Bohjalian, Christopher A.     Midwives
Borden, Mary     The Forbidden Zone
Borges, Jorge Luis     The Immortals
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     The Road to Wellville
Brashler, Anne     He Read to Her
Brennan, Frederick Hazlitt     Nurse's Choice
Brock, Pope     Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Brooks, Dorothy Howe     Life Support
Brown, John     Rab and His Friends
Bulgakov, Mikhail     The Embroidered Towel
    The Heart of a Dog
    The Steel Windpipe
    The Vanishing Eye
Burney, Fanny     A Mastectomy: Letter to Esther Burney
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     A Stone Woman
Carver, Raymond     What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Chen, Pauline W.     Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Clark-Sayles, Catharine     One Breath
Clifton, Lucille     Amazons
    poem to my uterus
Clyde, Mary     Survival Rates
Coetzee, J. M.     Slow Man
Cohen, Matt     The Spanish Doctor
Conley, Frances K.     Walking Out on the Boys
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Csáth, Géza     The Surgeon
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Davis, Heather Choate     Baptism by Fire
Dennis, Carl     Progressive Health
Dickinson, Emily     Death is like the insect
Donley, C. & Kohn, M., eds.     Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories
Downie, Glen     Wishbone Dance
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan     The Case of Lady Sannox
    Conan Doyle's Tales of Medical Humanism and Values
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
    Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life
Dunmore, Helen     The Betrayal
Ehrenreich, Barbara     Welcome to Cancerland
Endo, Shusako     The Sea and Poison
    The Sea and Poison
Eugenides, Jeffrey     Middlesex
Faber, Michel     Finesse
Ferris, Jim     The Hospital Poems
Firlick, Katrina     Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott     Family in the Wind
Franklin, Ariana     A Murderous Procession
Friedland, Gerald W. Friedman, Meyer     Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries
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
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Bon Voyage, Mr. President
Gawande, Atul     Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Gilbert, Sandra     Wrongful Death
Glowney, John     Word of the Cure
Goedicke, Patricia     After the Second Operation
    In the Hospital
Gordimer, Nadine     Get a Life
Gordon, Richard     The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants
Grace, Maggi Ann     State of the Heart: A Medical Tourist's True Story of Lifesaving Surgery in India
Gray, Spalding     Gray's Anatomy
Grealy, Lucy     Autobiography of a Face
    Mirrorings
Green, Gerald     The Last Angry Man
Grimm, Brothers     The Three Army Surgeons
Grogan, John     Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog
Hansen, Julie V.     The Physician's Art: Representations of Art and Medicine
Hass, Robert     A Story about the Body
Helman, Cecil     Suburban Shaman
Henderson-Holmes, Safiya     Snapshots of Grace
Henley, William Ernest     In Hospital
Heymann, Jody     Equal Partners
Hiaasen, Carl     Skin Tight
Holub, Miroslav     Heart Transplant
    Intensive Care: Selected and New Poems
    Vanishing Lung Syndrome
Hopper, James     When it Happens
Horgan, Paul     The Surgeon and the Nun
Jones, Alice     The Biopsy
    The Knot
Jones, Thom     I Want to Live!
    Ooh Baby Baby
Kaplan, Jonathan     The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Karlawish, Jason     Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont
Kenney, Susan     In Another Country
Kenyon, Jane     Cesarean
Kirchwey, Karl     Propofol
Kis, Danilo     The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Klass, Perri     Love and Modern Medicine
Klawans, Harold     Defending the Cavewoman and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Kovacic, Kristin, & Barrett, L., eds.     Birth: A Literary Companion
Kovner, Abba     Sloan-Kettering
Kusz, Natalie     Road Song
L'Heureux, John     The Shrine at Altimara
Lamott, Anne     Hard Laughter
Lang, James M.     Learning Sickness
LaPlante, Alice     Turn of Mind
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Levin, Dana     In the Surgical Theatre
Levin, Meryl     Anatomy of Anatomy in Images and Words
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
London, Jack     Semper Idem
MacDonald, Roger     Mr. Darwin's Shooter
MacLennan, Hugh     The Watch that Ends the Night
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Margolis, Leslie     Fix
Mars-Jones, Adam     The Waters of Thirst
McCabe, Eugene     Cancer
McEwan, Ian     The Diagnosis
    Pornography
    Saturday
McFarlane, Donna     Division of Surgery
McGrath, Patrick     Dr. Haggard's Disease
McKechnie, Robert E.     Strong Medicine: History of Healing on the Northwest Coast
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten     Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Metcalf, Tim     Cut to the Word
Miller, Andrew     Ingenious Pain
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     The Case of George Dedlow
Moffett, Shannon     The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries
Moore, Breanndan S.     Consoling Mrs. Byrne
Moore, Lorrie     People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk
Moore, Wendy     The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
Moraczewski, Thomas     Birth Sounds. Tales from Labor & Delivery
Morris, Jan     Conundrum
Moss, Barbara Robinette     Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir
Mukherjee, Siddhartha     The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik     The Story of San Michele
Murray, John     A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
    Watson and the Shark
Myers, Art     Winged Victory, Altered Images: Transcending Breast Cancer
Nadler, Spencer     The Language of Cells: Life as Seen Under the Microscope
Neuhaus, Richard John     As I Lay Dying
Nuland, Sherwin B.     The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis
    How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
    Medicine: The Art of Healing
    The Mysteries Within
    The Wisdom of the Body
O'Brian, Patrick     The Commodore
Oliveira, Robin     My Name is Mary Sutter
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin     The Mastectomy Poems
Palmer, Tom     Cracked Marbles: Life's Lessons for a Maine Surgeon
Papper, Emanuel M.     Romance, Poetry, and Surgical Sleep: Literature Influences Medicine
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pensack, Robert     Raising Lazarus
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Pernick, Martin S.     A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Anesthesia in Nineteenth Century America
Perry, Anne     A Sudden, Fearful Death
Phelan, Peggy     To Suffer a Sea Change
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Plath, Sylvia     Face Lift
    The Surgeon at 2 A.M.
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Porter, Suzanne     The Physician's Art: Representations of Art and Medicine
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Powers, Richard     Operation Wandering Soul
Price, Reynolds     A Whole New Life
Rosenberg, Steven A.     The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer
Roth, Philip     Everyman
Sacks, Oliver     A Leg to Stand On
Saltzman, Joan     Mr. Right and My Left Kidney
Salzman, Mark     Lying Awake
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Referred Pain
    So You're Going to Have a New Body !
Selzer, Richard     An Absence of Windows
    Brute
    The Doctor Stories
    Down from Troy
    The Exact Location of the Soul
    The Exact Location of the Soul
    Fetishes
    Imelda
    Lessons from the Art
    Letters to a Young Doctor
    Minor Surgery
    Sarcophagus
    The Surgeon as Priest
    The Whistlers' Room
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
Sexton, Anne     The Operation
Shafer, Audrey     Sleep Talker
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Sissman, L. E. (Louis Edward)     A Deathplace
Slater, Lauren     Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
Slaughter, Frank G.     Doctors' Wives
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Stafford, Jean     The Interior Castle
Stone, John     Music From Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems
Strauss, Ken     La Tendresse
Taylor, Sheila Ortiz     Coachella
Trevor, Douglas     The Surprising Weight of the Body's Organs
Updike, John     The City
    Metamorphosis
Van Pelt, Elizabeth Cohen     The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Voight, Cynthia     Izzy--Willy-Nilly
Wadler, Joyce     My Breast
Walker, Daly     I Am the Grass
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Watts, H. David     Starting the I.V.
    Taking the History
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
Whitman, Walt     The Wound Dresser
Wiesel, Elie     Open Heart
Wilkins, R., ed.     The Doctor's Quotation Book: A Medical Miscellany
Williams, Guy     The Age of Miracles: Medicine and Surgery in the Nineteenth Century
Williams, William Carlos     The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
    Old Doc Rivers
Winter, Alison     Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Woodruff, Lee     In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing
Yalom, Marilyn     A History of the Breast
Yglesias, Helen     Semi-Private
Yoshino, Kenji     Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights


Theater


Middleton, Clark Powell, Michael Warren     Miracle Mile