Professionalism


Art Film Literature Theater


Art


Bartley, Mary Anne     Aerobics of the Spirit
Dürer, Albrecht     The Temptation of the Idler (The Dream of the Doctor)
Eakins, Thomas     The Agnew Clinic
Fildes, Sir Luke     The Doctor
Garcia, Emanuel E.     Aerobics of the Spirit
Gervex, Henri     Before the Operation
Hogarth, William     Marriage a la Mode (3): The Visit to the Quack Doctor
Levin, Meryl     Anatomy of Anatomy in Images and Words
Munch, Edvard     Compassion
Neel, Alice     City Hospital
Picasso, Pablo     Science and Charity
Rockwell, Norman Percevel     Doctor and Doll
Tooker, George     Corporate Decision


Film


    Arrowsmith
    Article 99
    Awakenings
    The Barbarian Invasions
    Bethune: The Making of a Hero
    The Body Snatcher
    Bramwell
    Bringing Out the Dead
    The Citadel
    Dead Ringers
    Departures (Okuribito)
    Dirty Pretty Things
    The Doctor
    Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
    Dr. Monica
    The Elephant Man
    Extraordinary Measures
    Grave Words: Tools for Discussing End of Life Choices
    Gross Anatomy
    He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
    Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
    Holding Our Own: Embracing the End of Life
    The House of God
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    Infection (Kansen)
    The Kingdom
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Malice
    Man Facing Southeast (Hombre Mirando Al Sudeste)
    A Midwife's Tale
    Miss Evers' Boys
    Mrs. Tucker, Her Daughter Emily and Dr. Duff
    Nell
    Nurse Edith Cavell
    People Will Talk
    Puncture
    Red Beard (Akahige)
    Requiem for a Dream
    Sicko
    A Slightly Pregnant Man
    Something the Lord Made
    The Son's Room
    Spellbound
    Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy
    Talk to Her (hable con ella)
    Vera Drake
    Wanted! Doctor on Horseback
    Whose Life Is It Anyway?
    Worlds Apart: A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare
    The Young Doctors


Literature


Abse, Dannie     Case History
    A Winter Visit
    X-ray
Alcott, Louisa May     Hospital Sketches
Amis, Martin     Time's Arrow
Atwood, Margaret     Alias Grace
Auden, W. H.     The Art of Healing
Austin, Paul     Something for the Pain
Axline, Virginia M.     Dibs: In Search of Self
Baida, Peter     A Nurses's Story
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Ball, Tamara Dale     Search for wholeness: the adventures of a doctor-patient
Barnes, Djuna     Nightwood
Barrett, Andrea     Servants of the Map
    Ship Fever
Bascom, George     Medicine Circle
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Berczeller, Richard     A Trip into the Blue
Berger, John     A Fortunate Man
Bertman, Sandra L.     One Breath Apart: Facing Dissection
Biro, David     One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
Bohjalian, Christopher A.     The Law of Similars
    Midwives
Bolton, Gillie     Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development
Bovard, Wendy L.     Why Not Me? The Story of Gladys Milton, Midwife
Brennan, Frederick Hazlitt     Nurse's Choice
Brock, Pope     Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Brody, Howard     The Chief of Medicine
Brown, III, T. K.     A Drink of Water
Broyard, Anatole     Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
Bryant, Daniel     A Roster of Twentieth Century Physicians Writing in English
Bryner, Jeanne     Breathless
    Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered
Bulgakov, Mikhail     Baptism by Rotation
    The Blizzard
    A Country Doctor's Notebook
    The Embroidered Towel
Burroughs, Augusten     Running with Scissors
Burrows, Adria     The Man Who Didn't Know He Had Cancer
Busch, Frederick     The Talking Cure
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     Body Art
Campo, Rafael     The Poetry of Healing
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     First Cut: A Season in the Human Anatomy Lab
Carver, Raymond     The Autopsy Room
    A Small, Good Thing
Cassell, Eric J.     The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
Charon, Rita     Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness
Chekhov, Anton P.     The Doctor
    Ionych
    Perpetuum Mobile
    The Selected Letters of Anton Chekhov
    A Work of Art
Chen, Pauline W.     Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Clark-Sayles, Catharine     One Breath
Cleavland, Clif     Sacred Space: Stories from a Life in Medicine
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Coles, R. & Testa, R., eds.     A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
Coles, Robert     Lives of Moral Leadership
    Medical Ethics and Living a Life
Collins, Anne     In the Sleep Room: The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada
Conley, Frances K.     Walking Out on the Boys
Connell, Evan S.     The Anatomy Lesson
Cooper, James Fenimore     The Prairie
Cornell, Virginia     The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies
Coulehan, Jack     Anatomy Lesson
    The Heavenly Ladder
Couser, G. Thomas     Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Crimmins, Cathy     Where is the Mango Princess?
Cronin, A. J. (Archibald Joseph)     The Citadel
    Doctor, I can't . . . I won't have a child.
Crutcher, Chris     Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Dahl, Roald     Poison
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Davenport, Horace W.     Doctor Dock: Teaching and Learning Medicine at the Turn of the Century
Davis, C. & Schaefer, J., eds.     Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses
    Intensive Care
Davis, Cortney     The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
    Leopold's Maneuvers
Dickens, Charles     A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Donley, C. & Kohn, M., eds.     Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories
Downie, Glen     An X-Ray of Longing
Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock), ed.     The Healing Arts
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan     The Black Doctor
    The Case of Lady Sannox
    Conan Doyle's Tales of Medical Humanism and Values
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
Duncker, Patricia     James Miranda Barry
Dunmore, Helen     The Betrayal
Edwards, Kim     The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Eggleston, Edward     The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Middlemarch
Emling, Shelley     The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
Faber, Michel     Finesse
Findley, Timothy     Pilgrim
Fisher, Mary     Angels in Our Midst
Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott     Family in the Wind
Freeman, Jerome W.     Starting from Here: Dakota Poetry, Pottery, and Caring
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
    Women Healers & Physicians
Furst, Lilian R.     Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power
Galgut, Damon     The Good Doctor
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     One of These Days
Gawande, Atul     Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Gerritsen, Tess     Life Support
Goldstein, Melissa Anne     Travels with the Wolf
Gordon, Arthur     Old Ironpuss
Gordon, R., ed.     The Literary Companion to Medicine
Gordon, Richard     The Alarming History of Medicine: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Graboys, Thomas     Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia
Graham-Pole, J. & Joy, C., eds.     On Wings of Spirit: Anthology of The American Physicians' Poetry Association
Gray, Andrew     Heart of the Land
Green, Gerald     The Last Angry Man
    To Brooklyn with Love
Green, Jack Peter     Physicians Practicing Other Occupations, Especially Literature
Grim, Pamela     Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER
Grimm, Brothers     The Three Army Surgeons
Gross, Alan G.     Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present
Guilfoile, Kevin     Cast of Shadows
Hall, Stephen S.     Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension
Hamilton, Jane     A Map of the World
Hansen, Bert     Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
Harvor, Elisabeth     Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
    Invisible Target
Helfand, William H.     Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books
Hellerstein, David     Touching
Helman, Cecil     Suburban Shaman
Hemingway, Ernest     Indian Camp
Hertzler, Arthur E.     The Horse and Buggy Doctor
Hiaasen, Carl     Skin Tight
Hilfiker, David     Mistakes
Hirshbein, Laura D.     American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century
Hojat, Mohammadreza     Empathy in Patient Care
Hopf, Ludwig     Electra: A Physical Diagnostic Tale of the Twentieth Century
Horgan, Paul     The Surgeon and the Nun
Hornby, Nick     How To Be Good
Hunter, Kathryn Montgomery     Doctors' Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge
Ibsen, Henrik     An Enemy of the People
Izes, Joseph K.     Heartpains
Jamison, Kay Redfield     An Unquiet Mind
Jauhar, Sandeep     Intern: A Doctor's Initiation
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Johnson, Denis     Emergency
Johnson, Diane     Health and Happiness
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
Karnezis, Panos     Medical Ethics
Keizer, Bert     Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
Kelly, Timothy     Toccata and Fugue
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
Kirklin, D. & Richardson, R., eds.     Medical Humanities: A Practical Introduction
Klass, Perri     Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training
    A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student
    Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor
Klawans, Harold     Defending the Cavewoman and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Koch, Christopher     Out of Ireland
Kohn, M. & Donley, C., eds.     Return to The House of God: Medical Resident Education 1978-2008
Kornbluth, Cyril M.     The Little Black Bag
Kovalchik, Michael T.     Theo's Story
Krauser, Paula     Tears
Krysl, Marilyn     Midwife and Other Poems on Caring
Laffitte, Sophie     Chekhov: 1860 - 1904
Lam, Vincent     Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Levin, Meryl     Anatomy of Anatomy in Images and Words
Lewis, Henry Clay     Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor
Lewis, Sinclair     Arrowsmith
    Arrowsmith
Lifton, Robert J.     Sterilization and the Nazi Biomedical Vision
Lowenstein, Jerome     The Midnight Meal and Other Essays About Doctors, Patients, and Medicine
Lown, Bernard     The Lost Art of Healing
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Manning, Margaret     Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression
Massad, Stewart     Doctors and Other Casualties
Masson, Veneta     Ninth Street Notebook: Voice of a Nurse in the City
Mates, Susan Onthank     Ambulance
    The Good Doctor
    The Good Doctor
    Laundry
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     Of Human Bondage
McDonough, M. L., ed.     Poet Physicians: An Anthology of Medical Poetry Written by Physicians
McEwan, Ian     The Diagnosis
McFarlane, Donna     Division of Surgery
McGrath, Patrick     Asylum
    Dr. Haggard's Disease
McIntyre, Vonda N.     Dreamsnake
McKay, Ami     The Birth House
McPhee, John     Heirs of General Practice
Menick, Stephen     Dr. Rapallo
Milton, Gladys     Why Not Me? The Story of Gladys Milton, Midwife
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     The Autobiography of a Quack
Mohr, Jean     A Fortunate Man
Mokeddem, Malika     The Forbidden Woman
Molière,     A Doctor in Spite of Himself
    The Imaginary Invalid
Montross, Christine     Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Moore, Breanndan S.     Consoling Mrs. Byrne
Moraczewski, Thomas     Birth Sounds. Tales from Labor & Delivery
More, E. S., Fee, E., & Parry, M.     Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine
Mukand, Jon Arun     First Payment
Mullan, F., Ficklen, E. & Rubin, K., eds.     Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy
Munro, Alice     Before the Change
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik     The Story of San Michele
Murch, Muriel     Journey in the Middle of the Road
Murray, John F.     Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal
Myers, K. R., ed.     Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics
Nafisi, Azar     Reading Lolita in Tehran
Narayan, R. K. (Rasipuram Krishnaswami)     The Doctor's Word
Needleman, Jacob     The Way of the Physician
Nuland, Sherwin B.     How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
    Maimonides
    Medicine: The Art of Healing
    The Wisdom of the Body
Nyiszli, Miklos     Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
O'Nan, Stewart     A Prayer for the Dying
Ofri, Danielle     Incidental Findings: Lessons from My Patients in the Art of Medicine
    Singular Intimacies: On Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Oliveira, Robin     My Name is Mary Sutter
Orient, Jane M.     Sutton's Law
Palmer, Tom     Cracked Marbles: Life's Lessons for a Maine Surgeon
Pears, Iain     The Dream of Scipio
Penfield, Wilder Graves     The Torch
Pensack, Robert     Raising Lazarus
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
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
Poirier, Suzanne     Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education
Pollack, Eileen     Milk
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Prado, Carlos G.     Assisted Suicide: Theory and Practice in Elective Death
Ragula, Boris     Against the Current: The Memoirs of Boris Ragula (as told to Dr. Inge Sanmiya)
Reade, Charles     Hard Cash
Reed, Barry C.     The Verdict
Rinaldi, David     Let's Talk About It
Robinson, Elizabeth Ann     The Soul of the Nurse
Rowe, Michael     The Book of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine.
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Ruddock, Nicholas     The Parabolist
Salber, Eva J.     The Mind is Not the Heart
Sams, Ferrol     Epiphany
    Epiphany
Sappol, Michael     A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Scarlett, Earle     What Is a Profession?
Schaefer, Judy     Harvesting the Dew
Schaefer, Judy, ed.     The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-Poets
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schneider-Braus, Kathleen     The Hypnotist
Schweitzer, Albert     Out of My Life and Thought
Sedgwick, Marcus     The Foreshadowing
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     A Blue Ribbon Affair
    Brute
    The Consultation
    The Doctor Stories
    Down from Troy
    Imelda
    Letters to a Young Doctor
    Mercy
Sergi, P. & Gorman, G., eds.     A Call to Nursing: Nurses' Stories about Challenge and Commitment
Sexton, Anne     Doctors
Shafer, Audrey     Monday Morning
    Sleep Talker
Shapiro, Alan     The Dead Alive and Busy
Shapiro, Dan     Delivering Doctor Amelia
Shapiro, Johanna     The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry
Shapshay, S., ed.     Bioethics at the Movies
Shem, Samuel (Stephen Bergman)     Fiction as Resistance
    The House of God
    Mount Misery
Shorter, Edward     Bedside Manners
Simpson, Louis     Chocolates
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Slocum, Milton Jonathan     Manhattan Country Doctor: A Memoir
Smith, Larry     Leaning Together in the Storm
Sontag, Susan     Regarding the Pain of Others
Spence, Wayman     Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose Perez
Starr, Paul     The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Stein, Michael     The White Life
Stone, John     Talking to the Family
Surawicz, Borys     Doctors in Fiction: Lessons from Literature
Takakuwa, K. M., et al., eds.     What I Learned in Medical School: Personal Stories of Young Doctors
Taylor, Patrick     An Irish Country Doctor
Taylor, Sandra J.     Assisted Suicide: Theory and Practice in Elective Death
Thomas, Lewis     House Calls
Thomas, Maria     Antonia Saw the Oryx First
Tischler, Victoria, ed.     Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts: A Teaching Handbook
Tolstoy, Leo     The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Trollope, Anthony     Doctor Thorne
Tucker, Neely     Love in the Driest Season
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeievich     The District Doctor
Tyszka, Alberto Barrera     The Sickness
Updike, John     The City
Van Peenen, H. J.     Net Worth
Verghese, Abraham     The Physician as Storyteller
    The Tennis Partner
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Wagner, Jan Costin     Silence
Walsh, Elsa     Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Warren, Rosalind     Outpatient
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Watson, Larry     Montana 1948
Watts, H. David     Bedside Manners
    The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Wharton, Edith     The Fruit of the Tree
White, Kelley Jean     The Patient Presents
Williams, Ben Ames     The Nurse
Williams, Guy     The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, 1700-1800
    The Age of Miracles: Medicine and Surgery in the Nineteenth Century
Williams, Marie Sheppard     The Worldwide Church of the Handicapped and Other Stories
Williams, William Carlos     The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
    The Girl with a Pimply Face
    Jean Beicke
    The Use of Force
Winawer, Sidney J.     Healing Lessons
Winckler, Martin     The Case of Dr. Sachs
Winter, Alison     Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Winter, Sarah     Freud and the Institution of Psychoanalytic Knowledge
Yalom, Irvin     Fat Lady
    Lying on the Couch
Young, Audrey     The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital
    What Patients Taught Me


Theater


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