Childbirth


Art Film Literature


Art


Cruikshank, Isaac     A Man Midwife
Kahlo, Frida     Frida and the Miscarriage
    Henry Ford Hospital
Klimt, Gustav     Hope, II
Kollwitz, Käthe     At the Doctor's (Beim Arzt)
    Woman with Dead Child
Munch, Edvard     Madonna
Neel, Alice     Well Baby Clinic
Quinn, Marc     Alison Lapper Pregnant


Film


    Antonia's Line
    The Body Beautiful
    The Brood
    Dr. Monica
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    A Midwife's Tale
    Out of the Ashes
    The Syringa Tree
    The War Zone


Literature


Aizley, Harlyn     Buying Dad
Armstrong, Lance     Every Second Counts
Axelrod, David B.     Mother and Child
Bérubé, Michael     Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
Baca, Jimmy Santiago     Black Mesa Poems
    Child of the Sun--Gabriel's Birth (Sun Prayer)
Baratz-Logsted, Lauren     Angel's Choice
Berger, John     A Fortunate Man
Bialosky, J. & Schulman, H., eds.     Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult But Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood i
Bohjalian, Christopher A.     Midwives
Bolin, Robert B.     Unwanted Inheritance
Bovard, Wendy L.     Why Not Me? The Story of Gladys Milton, Midwife
Brooks, Dorothy Howe     Life Support
Brooks, Geraldine     Year of Wonders
Bryner, Jeanne     Breathless
Bulgakov, Mikhail     Baptism by Rotation
    Black as Egypt's Night
    A Country Doctor's Notebook
    The Vanishing Eye
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     Body Art
Carmichael, A. G. & Ratzan, Richard M., eds.     Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature
Carr, Pat M.     Sunday Morning
Chabon, Michael     Son of the Wolfman
Chekhov, Anton P.     The Examining Magistrate
    The Party
Christiansen, C. B.     I See the Moon
Cokal, Susann     Mirabilis
Cornell, Virginia     The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Darby, Ann     Pity My Simplicity
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Davis, C. & Schaefer, J., eds.     Intensive Care
Davis, Cortney     I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body
Day, Sarah     Antenatal Class
de Hartog, Jan     The Hospital
Derricotte, Toi     Delivery
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee     The Ultrasound
Donley, C. & Kohn, M., eds.     Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories
Dow, Unity     Far and Beyon'
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan     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     Annina
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
Emecheta, Buchi     The Joys of Motherhood
Emmott, Kirsten     How Do You Feel?
Fadiman, Anne     The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Ferrara, Emily     The Alchemy of Grief (Alchimia del dolore)
Fessler, Ann     The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Finger, Anne     Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth
Flanagan, Richard     The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Forman, Vicki     This Lovely Life
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)     Where Angels Fear to Tread
Freedman, Nancy     Joshua, Son of None
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Leaf Storm
Gawande, Atul     Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Grant, Cynthia     The White Horse
Grim, Pamela     Just Here Trying to Save a Few Lives: Tales of Life and Death from the ER
Grogan, John     Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog
Guilfoile, Kevin     Cast of Shadows
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Heaney, Seamus     Out of the Bag
Helfand, William H.     Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books
Hemingway, Ernest     A Farewell to Arms
    Indian Camp
Henley, Patricia     Hummingbird House
Hill, Lawrence     The Book of Negroes
Irving, John     The Cider House Rules: A Novel
Jensen, Liz     The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Jolley, Elizabeth     Hilda's Wedding
Keneally, Thomas     The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Kenyon, Jane     Cesarean
Kirchwey, Karl     Sonogram
Klass, Perri     Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training
    Love and Modern Medicine
    A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student
Klawans, Harold     Defending the Cavewoman and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Kovacic, Kristin, & Barrett, L., eds.     Birth: A Literary Companion
Krysl, Marilyn     Midwife and Other Poems on Caring
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
Lamott, Anne     Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
LaScala, Susan     Small Wonder: The Story of a Child Born Too Soon
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
Livesey, Margot     Eva Moves the Furniture
MacLeod, Anne     The Dark Ship
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Mann, Thomas     The Black Swan
Mansfield, Katherine     In A German Pension: 13 Stories
Massad, Stewart     Dreams of a Doctor's Wife
Matton, Sylvie     Rembrandt's Whore
McKay, Ami     The Birth House
Mead, Rebecca     Eggs for Sale
Milton, Gladys     Why Not Me? The Story of Gladys Milton, Midwife
Mohr, Jean     A Fortunate Man
Montgomery, Judith H.     Mercury
Moraczewski, Thomas     Birth Sounds. Tales from Labor & Delivery
Morrison, Toni     The Bluest Eye
Mowry, Jess     Babylon Boyz
Muldoon, Paul     The Birth
    Footling
    Sonogram
Munro, Alice     Before the Change
Nafisi, Azar     Reading Lolita in Tehran
Newman, Karen     Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
Nuland, Sherwin B.     The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis
    The Wisdom of the Body
O'Brien, Tim     The Lives of the Dead
Olds, Sharon     The Wellspring
Oliveira, Robin     My Name is Mary Sutter
Olsen, Sylvia     The Girl With a Baby
Olsen, Tillie     I Stand Here Ironing
Pastan, Linda     Notes from the Delivery Room
    Notes from the Delivery Room
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
Plath, Sylvia     Heavy Women
    Three Women
Pollack, Eileen     Milk
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Raeburn, Daniel     Vessels
Rankine, Claudia     Plot
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Rogoff, Marianne     Silvie's Life
Schneider, Robert     Brother of Sleep
Scott, Joanna     Various Antidotes
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Shapiro, Dan     Delivering Doctor Amelia
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
    The Stone Diaries
Shlain, Leonard     Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
Singer, Peter     Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Values
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Spires, Elizabeth     Theatre of Pain
Squiers, Carol     The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Steinbeck, John     The Pastures of Heaven
Stevenson, Ian     Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect
Stone, John     Music From Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems
Tilghman, Christopher     Things Left Undone
Toomer, Jean     Cane
Torga, Miguel     The Lord
Tougaw, Jason Daniel     Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Voigt, Ellen Bryant     Kyrie
Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt     Adam
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Walsh, Elsa     Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Wasserstein, Wendy     Complications
Watts, H. David     The Orange Wire Problem and Other Tales from the Doctor's Office
Weldon, Fay     A Libation of Blood
White, Kelley Jean     Late
Williams, Guy     The Age of Agony: The Art of Healing, 1700-1800
    The Age of Miracles: Medicine and Surgery in the Nineteenth Century
Williams, William Carlos     The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
    The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams
    Complaint
    A Night in June
    White Mule
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Wolitzer, Hilma     Mother
Young, Audrey     What Patients Taught Me
Young, Ian     The Private Life of Islam