Medical Ethics


Art Film Literature Theater


Art


David, Jacques-Louis     The Death of Socrates
Gervex, Henri     Before the Operation
Layton, Elizabeth     The Courtroom
Rivera, Diego     Vaccination


Film


    50/50
    Anatomy (Anatomie)
    Arrowsmith
    Article 99
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    Battlestar Galactica (2003)
    The Body Snatcher
    Bringing Out the Dead
    The Citadel
    Crisis
    Dax's Case
    Dead Ringers
    Death and the Maiden
    Death on Request
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Docteur Petiot
    The Doctor
    Extraordinary Measures
    Extreme Measures
    He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    Indestructible
    Infection (Kansen)
    The Interns
    The Kingdom
    Made in America
    Malice
    Maurice
    Mind Talk: The Brain's New Story
    Miss Evers' Boys
    A Modern Affair
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    Nell
    Nurse Edith Cavell
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    Out of the Ashes
    People Will Talk
    Please Let Me Die
    The President's Analyst
    Puncture
    Red Beard (Akahige)
    Shutter Island
    Sicko
    Something the Lord Made
    Spellbound
    Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy
    Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot)
    Talk to Her (hable con ella)
    The Third Man
    Twin Falls Idaho
    Vera Drake
    Whose Life Is It Anyway?
    Worlds Apart: A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare
    The Young Doctors


Literature


Abe, Kobo     Inter Ice Age 4
Abse, Dannie     Case History
    The Dogs of Pavlov
    Exit
    The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas
    A Strong Dose of Myself
Adrian, Chris     A Better Angel
Aizley, Harlyn     Buying Dad
Appignanesi, Lisa     Paris Requiem
Ariès, Philippe     The Hour of Our Death
Ariyoshi, Sawako     The Doctor's Wife
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
Atwood, Margaret     Oryx and Crake: A Novel
Austin, Paul     Something for the Pain
Author, Unknown     Indian Poem
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Balzac, Honore de     Cousin Pons
Bamforth, I., ed.     The Body in the Library
Barry, John M.     The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer
Baruch, Jay     Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers
Battin, Margaret Pabst     Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
Beauvoir, Simone de     A Very Easy Death
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Berger, John     A Fortunate Man
Berry, Wendell     Fidelity
Bialosky, J. & Schulman, H., eds.     Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult But Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood i
Bleier, Ruth     Lab Coat: Robe of Innocence or Klansman's Sheet?
Bohjalian, Christopher A.     The Law of Similars
    Midwives
Borden, Mary     The Forbidden Zone
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     Killing Babies
Braude, Hillel D.     Intuition in Medicine: A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning
Brock, Pope     Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Brody, Howard     The Chief of Medicine
Brooks, Geraldine     Year of Wonders
Brown, S., H., ed.     Echoes of War
Brown, III, T. K.     A Drink of Water
Broyard, Anatole     Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
Buchner, Georg     Woyzeck
Buck, Pearl S.     The Enemy
Bulgakov, Mikhail     The Heart of a Dog
    Morphine
    The Murderer
Burney, Fanny     A Mastectomy: Letter to Esther Burney
Burroughs, Augusten     Running with Scissors
Burrows, Adria     The Man Who Didn't Know He Had Cancer
Busch, Frederick     The Talking Cure
Butler, Octavia     Imago
Butler, Samuel     Erewhon
Butler, Susan Woldenberg     Black Bag Moon
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     Body Art
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Campo, Rafael     Towards Curing AIDS
Camus, Albert     The Plague
Carmichael, A. G. & Ratzan, Richard M., eds.     Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature
carter, lu     Forever
Casey, Charles     The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial
Cassell, Eric J.     The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
Caston, Anne     Flying Out with the Wounded
Charon, Rita     Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness
Chen, Pauline W.     Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Clendinen, Dudley     A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Cohen, Matt     The Spanish Doctor
Cohen, Robert     Inspired Sleep
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
Collins, Wilkie     Armadale
    The New Magdalen
Connelly, Joe     Bringing Out the Dead
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     The Dynamizer and the Oscilloclast: in memory of Albert Abrams, an American quack
    Medicine Stone
Couser, G. Thomas     Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Crane, Stephen     The Monster
Cronin, A. J. (Archibald Joseph)     The Citadel
    Doctor, I can't . . . I won't have a child.
Culkin, Jennifer     A Final Arc of Sky: a Memoir of Critical Care
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Davidson, Jenny     Heredity
Deming, Alison H.     Science
Dennis, Carl     Progressive Health
Derrida, Jacques     The Animal That Therefore I Am
Dickens, Charles     A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Donley, C. & Buckley, S., eds.     The Tyranny of the Normal
    What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
Donley, C. & Kohn, M., eds.     Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories
Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock), ed.     The Healing Arts
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan     The Case of Lady Sannox
    Round the Red Lamp
Dreuilhe, Alain Emmanuel     Mortal Embrace
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
Dunn, Katherine     Geek Love
Edwards, Kim     The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Eggleston, Edward     The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     The Lifted Veil
Elliott, C. & Lantos, J., eds.     The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Ellison, Ralph     Invisible Man
Emecheta, Buchi     The Joys of Motherhood
Endo, Shusako     The Sea and Poison
    The Sea and Poison
Eugenides, Jeffrey     Middlesex
Faber, Michel     Finesse
Farley, Margaret A.     Compassionate Respect: A Feminist Approach to Medical Ethics and Other Questions
Fausto-Sterling, Anne     Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men
Feinberg, Leslie     Stone Butch Blues
Feldshuh, David     Miss Evers' Boys
Ferris, Jim     The Hospital Poems
Finger, Anne     Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth
Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott     Family in the Wind
Freedman, Nancy     Joshua, Son of None
Frick, Marlena     All the Days of His Dying
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Galgut, Damon     The Good Doctor
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Leaf Storm
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    One of These Days
Gardiner, John Rolfe     Somewhere in France
Gawande, Atul     Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
    Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
    Whose Body is it Anyway?
Gerritsen, Tess     Life Support
Gilbert, Sandra     Wrongful Death
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins     Mr. Peebles' Heart
Giono, Jean     The Horseman on the Roof
Goldstone, Lawrence     The Anatomy of Deception
Gordon, R., ed.     The Literary Companion to Medicine
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
Grimm, Brothers     The Three Army Surgeons
Groopman, Jerome E.     The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
    Kirk
    Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
Gross, P., & Guernsey, D., eds.     Pulse: The First Year
Guilfoile, Kevin     Cast of Shadows
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Hall, Stephen S.     Merchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension
Hansen, Bert     Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
Harrington, Kent     The Good Physician
Harvor, Elisabeth     Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
Hawkins, A. H. & Ballard, J. O., eds.     Time to Go: Three Plays on Death and Dying, with Commentary on End-of-Life Issues
Hawthorne, Nathaniel     The Birthmark
    Rappaccini's Daughter
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
    A Natural History of the Dead
Herschberger, Ruth     josie takes the stand
Hiaasen, Carl     Skin Tight
Hilfiker, David     Mistakes
Holman, Sheri     The Dress Lodger
Holub, Miroslav     Animal Rights
Horgan, Paul     The Surgeon and the Nun
Hornby, Nick     How To Be Good
Huyler, Frank     The Blood of Strangers
Iagnemma, Karl     Children of Hunger
Ibsen, Henrik     An Enemy of the People
Ishiguro, Kazuo     Never Let Me Go
Jacobstein, Roy     Ripe
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Johnson, Diane     Health and Happiness
Jonsen, Albert R.     The New Medicine and the Old Ethics
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Kaplan, Jonathan     The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Karnezis, Panos     Medical Ethics
Kass, Leon R.     The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man's Estate?
Keizer, Bert     Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
Keller, Evelyn Fox     Making Gender Visible in the Pursuit of Nature's Secrets
Keyes, Daniel     Flowers for Algernon
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     Other Women's Children
    Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor
Klawans, Harold     Defending the Cavewoman and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Kohn, M. & Donley, C., eds.     Return to The House of God: Medical Resident Education 1978-2008
Kornbluth, Cyril M.     The Little Black Bag
LaCombe, Michael     Playing God
Lam, Vincent     Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
LaScala, Susan     Small Wonder: The Story of a Child Born Too Soon
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Le Carré, John     The Constant Gardener
Ledger, Kate     Remedies
Lee, Chang-rae     A Gesture Life
LeGuin, Ursula K.     May's Lion
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
Levertov, Denise     Death Psalm: O Lord of Mysteries
Levi, Primo     The Drowned and the Saved
Levin, Dana     In the Surgical Theatre
Lewis, Sinclair     Arrowsmith
    Arrowsmith
Lifton, Robert J.     Sterilization and the Nazi Biomedical Vision
London, Jack     The Law of Life
    Semper Idem
Lorde, Audre     The Cancer Journals
Lowry, Lois     The Giver
Lynch, Thomas     Still Life in Milford
Macy, Dora     Night Nurse
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mantel, Hilary     The Giant, O'Brien
Marani, Diego     New Finnish Grammar
Margolis, Leslie     Fix
Marlowe, Christopher     Doctor Faustus
Massad, Stewart     Change
    Dreams of a Doctor's Wife
    Healers
    The Veteran
Maupassant, Guy de     The Devil
Mawer, Simon     Mendel's Dwarf
McCaffrey, Anne     The Ship Who Sang
McEwan, Ian     Amsterdam
    Black Dogs
    Saturday
McGrath, Patrick     Asylum
Mead, Rebecca     Eggs for Sale
Melville, Herman     White-Jacket
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten     Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Menick, Stephen     Dr. Rapallo
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     The Autobiography of a Quack
Moffett, Shannon     The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries
Mohr, Jean     A Fortunate Man
Montross, Christine     Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
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
Munro, Alice     Before the Change
Munthe, Axel Martin Fredrik     The Story of San Michele
Murray, John F.     Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journal
Myers, K. R., ed.     Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics
Narayan, R. K. (Rasipuram Krishnaswami)     The Doctor's Word
Needleman, Jacob     The Way of the Physician
Newman, Richard     Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz
Nova, Craig     The Universal Donor
Nuland, Sherwin B.     How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
    Maimonides
Nyiszli, Miklos     Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
O'Nan, Stewart     A Prayer for the Dying
Oe, Kenzaburo     Aghwee the Sky Monster
    A Personal Matter
Ofri, D., et al., eds.     The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
Oliveira, Robin     My Name is Mary Sutter
Orient, Jane M.     Sutton's Law
Parry, Richard     Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition
Patrick, John     The Hasty Heart
Pears, Iain     An Instance of the Fingerpost
Pennie, Ross     Tainted
Percy, Walker     Love in the Ruins
    The Thanatos Syndrome
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
    My Sister's Keeper
Poe, Edgar Allan     The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
    The Imp of the Perverse
Poirier, Suzanne     Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Prado, Carlos G.     Assisted Suicide: Theory and Practice in Elective Death
Preston, Richard     Demon in the Freezer
Rabe, David     A Question of Mercy
Ray, David     The Hemlock Society
Reade, Charles     Hard Cash
Reed, Barry C.     The Verdict
Rinaldi, Ann     An Acquaintance with Darkness
Rinaldi, David     Let's Talk About It
Robinson, Edwin Arlington     Annandale Again
    How Annandale Went Out
    Richard Cory
Rogoff, Marianne     Silvie's Life
Rosenberg, Steven A.     The Transformed Cell: Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer
Rothman, D. J.,et al., eds.     Medicine and Western Civilization
Rothman, Sheila     Living in the Shadow of Death
Sappol, Michael     A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Savitt, T. L., ed.     Medical Readers Theater: A Guide and Scripts
Schaefer, Judy, ed.     The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-Poets
Schiedermayer, David L.     House Calls, Rounds, and Healings
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schweitzer, Albert     Out of My Life and Thought
Selzer, Richard     A Blue Ribbon Affair
    Brute
    The Doctor Stories
    Down from Troy
    The Exact Location of the Soul
    Letters to a Young Doctor
    Mercy
    Sarcophagus
    Whither Thou Goest
Sexton, Anne     Doctors
Shapshay, S., ed.     Bioethics at the Movies
Shaw, George Bernard     The Doctor's Dilemma
Shelley, Percy Bysshe     Sonnet ("Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there,")
Shem, Samuel (Stephen Bergman)     The House of God
Sherwood, Joan     Infection of the Innocents: Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France
Silko, Leslie Marmon     Almanac of the Dead: A Novel
Simmons, Dan     The River Styx Runs Upstream
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Slaughter, Frank G.     Doctors' Wives
Snodgrass, Steven     Lethal Dose
Snodgrass, W. D.     A Flat One
Soderberg, Hjalmar     Doctor Glas
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr     The Cancer Ward
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Starr, Paul     The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Stevenson, Robert Louis     The Body Snatcher
    Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Studer, Constance     Body Language
Styron, William     A Tidewater Morning
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
Tayman, John     The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Trollope, Anthony     The Fixed Period
Tucker, Neely     Love in the Driest Season
Twain, Mark     Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
Tyszka, Alberto Barrera     The Sickness
Updike, John     Metamorphosis
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
    The Tennis Partner
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     Fortitude
Walker, Alice     Meridian
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Watson, Larry     Montana 1948
Watts, H. David     The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
Weiner, Jonathan     His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine
Weinstein, Harvey M.     Father, Son, and CIA
Weldon, Fay     A Libation of Blood
    The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)     The Stolen Bacillus
Wendell, Susan     The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     When
Williams, William Carlos     Jean Beicke
    A Night in June
    Old Doc Rivers
    The Use of Force
Winckler, Martin     The Case of Dr. Sachs
Winter, Alison     Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Wordsworth, William     Resolution and Independence
Yalom, Irvin     Fat Lady
    Lying on the Couch
Young, Audrey     The House of Hope and Fear: Life in a Big City Hospital
Young, Ian     The Private Life of Islam
Yount, Rena     Pursuit of Excellence
Zola, Emile     Doctor Pascal


Theater


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