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Health & Medical Humanities Recommended Readings from HHUM Core Faculty

 

Books/Articles

  • Charon, R., DasGupta, S., Hermann, N., Irvine, C., Marcus, E. R., Rivera Colón, E., Spencer, D., & Spiegel, M. (2017). The principles and practice of narrative medicine. Oxford University Press.
  • ○      This is the key text in narrative medicine right now, I highly recommend it
  • Wear, D., & Aultman, J. M. (2005). The limits of narrative: Medical student resistance to confronting inequality and oppression in literature and beyond. Medical Education, 39(10), 1056–1065. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02270.x
  • Howley, L., Gaufberg, E., & King, B. (2020). The Fundamental Role of the Arts and Humanities in Medical Education. Association of American Medical Colleges. https://www.aamc.org/what-we-do/mission-areas/medical-education/frahme
  • Shapiro, J., Coulehan, J., Wear, D., & Montello, M. (2009). Medical humanities and their discontents: Definitions, critiques, and implications. Academic Medicine, 84(2), 192–198. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181938bca
  •  Ousager, J., & Johannessen, H. (2010). Humanities in undergraduate medical education: A literature review. Academic Medicine, 85(6), 988. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181dd226b
  • Charon, R., Hermann, N., & Devlin, M. J. (2016). Close Reading and Creative Writing in Clinical Education: Teaching Attention, Representation, and Affiliation. Academic Medicine : Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 91(3), 345–350. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000000827
  •  Scheetz, A., & Fry, M. E. (2000). The stories. JAMA, 283(15), 1934–1934. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.283.15.1934
  • “What the Humanities Can Teach Medicine” and why that matters: The Hidden Dying of Doctors: What the Humanities Can Teach Medicine, and Why We All Need Medicine to Learn It The Los Angeles Review of Books
  •  Metastatic Metaphors: Poetry, Cancer Imagery, and the Imagined Self Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, this is how developing a range of metaphors can shape how we understand and respond to cancer using poetry.
  •  Where is Dentistry in Health Humanities?
  • Aronson, L. (2014). A history of the present illness: Stories. Bloomsbury.
  • Atwood, M. (2015). Stone mattress: Nine tales. Anchor Books.
  • Awdish, R. (2018). In shock: My journey from death to recovery and the redemptive power of hope. New York: Picador.
  • Baldwin, J. (2004). Vintage Baldwin. Vintage Books.
  • Borensztein, L. (2016). Sharon. Kehrer Verlag.
  • Bowler, K. (2018). Everything happens for a reason: And other lies I've loved. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
  • Brooks, G., & Koss, J. (1990). We real cool: The pool players. Seven at the Golden Shovel. Farmhouse Press.
  • Brown, T. (2011). Critical care. HarperCollins.
  • Bulawayo, N. V. (2014). We need new names: A novel. Back Bay Books.
  • Bulgakov, M., & Glenny, M. (2013). A country doctor's notebook. Melville House Publishing.
  • Carver, R. (2000). A new path to the waterfall: Poems. Atlantic Monthly Press.
  • Carver, R. (2015). Beginners. Vintage Books.
  • Charon, R. (2008). Narrative medicine. Oxford University Press. 
  • Chekhov, A. P., & Coulehan, J. L. (2003). Chekhov's Doctors: A collection of Chekhov's medical tales. Kent State University Press.
  • Coles, R. (1998). The call of stories: Teaching and the moral imagination. Houghton Mifflin.
  • Couser G. T. (2011). What disability studies has to offer medical education. The Journal of Medical Humanities, 32(1), 21–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-010-9125-1
  • Czerwiec, M. K. (2017). Taking turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS care Unit 371. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Dahl, K. (2009). Monsters. Secret Acres.
  • Didion, J. (2008). The year of magical thinking. Alexandria Library.
  • Dubus, A. (1991). Separate flights. D.R. Godine.
  • Endō, S. (2000). Deep river. New Directions.
  • Ensler, E. (2014). In the body of the world: A memoir. Picador.
  • Farmer, Paul (2005). Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.  UC Press. 
  • Fadiman, A. (2012). The spirit catches you and you fall down: A Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures. Straus and Giroux.
  • Fegitz, E., & Pirani, D. (2018). The sexual politics of veggies: Beyoncé’s “commodity vegism.” Feminist Media Studies, 18(2), 294–308. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2017.1358200
  • First-Run Features (Firm), & Kanopy (Firm). (2017). Strangers in Good Company.
  • Forney, E. (2013). Marbles: Mania, depression, Michelangelo & me: A graphic memoir. Constable & Robinson.
  • Fox, J. S. (2009). I still do: Loving and living with Alzheimer's. PowerHouse Books.
  • Francis, G. (2016). Adventures in human being. Profile Books.
  • Frank, A. W. (2013). The wounded storyteller: Body, illness, and ethics. The University of Chicago Press.
  • Galati, F., & Murakami, H. (2009). After the quake. Dramatists Play Service.
  • Gambert, I., & Linn , T. (2018). From rice eaters to soy boys: Race, gender, and tropes of ‘plantfood masculinity.’ Animal Studies Journal, 7(2), 129-179. https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol7/iss2/8
  • Gawande, A. (2014). Being mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company.
  • Gawande, A. (2014). Being mortal. Metropolitan Books. 
  • Gawande, A. (2009, May 25). The cost conundrum. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/the-cost-conundrum 
  • Gelo, F. (2009). The heART of empathy: Using the visual arts in medical education. Drexel University College of Medicine.
  • Goldberg, Emma. 2021. Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic. Harper Collins.Grant, M. (2014). Parasite. Orbit.
  • Grealy, L. (2016). Autobiography of a face. Mariner Books.
  • Green, John. (2012). The fault in our stars. Penguin Press.
  • Greenebaum, J. (2012). Veganism, Identity and the Quest for Authenticity. Food, Culture, & Society, 15(1), 129–144. https://doi.org/10.2752/175174412X13190510222101
  • Groopman, J. E., & Hartzband, P. (2012). Your medical mind: How to decide what is right for you. Penguin Books.
  • Gubar, S. (2013). Memoir of a debulked woman: Enduring ovarian cancer. W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Hall, D. (1999). Without: Poems. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
  • Hicok, B. “The class visit.” The American Poetry Review, https://aprweb.org/poems/the-class-visit
  • Horowitz, M. C. (2004). New dictionary of the history of ideas. Scribner's. 
  • Hsi, S. D., Belshaw, J., & Corbin-Hsi, B. (2008). Closing the chart: A dying physician examines family, faith, and medicine. University of New Mexico Press.
  • Ishiguro, K. (2006). Never let me go. Faber.
  • Jauhar, S. (2015). Doctored: The disillusionment of an American physician. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Johnson, B., & Quinlan, M. M. (2019). You're doing it wrong! Mothering, media, and medical expertise. Rutgers University Press.
  • Jones, C., Trott, V., & Wright, S. (2020) Sluts and soyboys: MGTOW and the production of misogynistic online harassment. New Media & Society. 22(10), 1903-1921.​ https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819887141
  • Kalanithi, P., & Verghese, A. (2017). When breath becomes air.
  • Kaysen, S. (1994). Girl, interrupted. Turtle Bay Books. 
  • Kenyon, J. (1997). Otherwise: New and selected poems. Graywolf Press.
  • Kidder, T. (2005). Mountains beyond mountains: Healing the world: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer.
  • Koenig, H. G., King, D. E., & Carson, V. B. (2012). Handbook of religion and health. Oxford University Press. 
  • Lawson, J. (2017). Furiously happy: {A funny book about horrible things}. Flatiron Books.
  • Leveen, L. (2016, May 25). The hidden dying of doctors: What the humanities can teach medicine, and why we all need medicine to learn it. Los Angeles Review of Books. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-hidden-dying-of-doctors-what-the-humanities-can-teach-medicine-and-why-we-all-need-medicine-to-learn-it/ 
  • Lorde, A. (2006). The cancer journals. Aunt Lute Books.
  • Lynch, D., & Richards, E. (1986). Exploding into life. Aperture.
  • Lynch, J.A. (2019). The origins of bioethics: Remembering when medicine went wrong. Michigan State University Press. 
  • Lynch, J.A. (2011). What are stem cells? Definitions at the intersection of science and politics. University of Alabama Press.
  • Malmström, H. (2010). On borrowed time. Henrik Malmström. 
  • Manning, L. (2009). The magic wand. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 13(7), 785. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603110903046069 
  • Maxwell, W. (1996). So long, see you tomorrow. Vintage Books.
  • McCann, C. (2013). Let the great world spin: A novel. Random House Trade Paperbacks.
  • McCann, C. (2016). Thirteen ways of looking. Random House Inc.
  • Mehl-Madrona, L. (2007). Narrative medicine: The use of history and story in the healing process. Bear & Co.
  • Meloncon, S., Graham, S., Johnson, J., Lynch, J. & Ryan, C. (2020). Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is. The Ohio State University Press. 
  • Motta, Renata. “Social Movements as Agents of Change: Fighting Intersectional Food Inequalities, Building Food as Webs of Life.” The Sociological Review (Keele), vol. 69, no. 3, SAGE Publications, 2021, pp. 603–25, https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261211009061.
  • Mukherjee, S. (2011). The emperor of all maladies. Scribner. 
  • Nadelhaft, R. L., & Bonebakker, V. (2008). Imagine what it's like. University of Hawaii Press. 
  • Ofri, D. (2014). What doctors feel - How emotions affect the practice of medicine. Beacon Press.
  • Ofri, D. (2017). What patients say, what doctors hear: What doctors Say, what patients hear. Beacon Press.
  • Oliver, C. (2021). Mock meat, masculinity, and redemption narratives: Vegan men’s negotiations and performances of gender and eating. Social Movement Studies, 1-18.https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2021.1989293
  • Poetry Foundation. Sharon Olds. Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sharon-olds 
  • Pollack, E. (1994). Milk. In a. Welch (Ed.). Ploughshares. Emerson College.
  • Proctor, R. E. (1998). Defining the humanities: How rediscovering a tradition can improve our schools: With a curriculum for today's students. Indiana Univ. Press.
  • Radcliffe, D., Hamm, J., BBC Worldwide Ltd., & Warner Home Video (Firm). (2014). A young doctor's notebook.
  • Remen, R. N. (2010). Kitchen table wisdom: Stories that heal. Pan Macmillan Australia.
  • Roberts, D.E. (2012). Fatal invention: How science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century. The New Press.
  • Rodin, A. E., & Key, J. D. (1989). Medicine, literature and eponyms. R.E. Krieger. 
  • Rogers, R. A. (2008). Beasts, burgers, and hummers: Meat and the crisis of masculinity in contemporary television advertisements. Environments Communication, 2(3), 281-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524030802390250
  • Sacks, O. (2011). The mind's eye. Picador.
  • Sanders, L. (2010). Every patient tells a story: Medical mysteries and the art of diagnosis. Broadway Books.
  • Schnabel, J., Amalric, M., Seigner, E., Croze, M.J., Consigny, A., Chesnais, P., Arestrup, N., Bauby, J.D. (2010). The diving bell and the butterfly. Icon Home Entertainment.
  • Schulz, K. (2011). Being wrong: Adventures in the margin of error. HarperCollins.
  • Sebald, W. G., Bell, A., & Wood, J. (2011). Austerlitz. Modern Library.
  • Skloot, R. (2011). The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown. 
  • Slater, L. (1997). Welcome to my country. Anchor Books.
  • Small, D. (2010). Stitches - A memoir. Ww Norton & Co.
  • Styron, W. (2007). Darkness visible: A memoir of madness. The Modern Library. 
  • The New York Times. (n.d.). Mikkael A. Sekeres. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/by/mikkael-a-sekeres 
  • Tolstoy, L. (1993). "The death of Ivan Ilych" in The Kreutzer Sonata and other stories. Dover Publications. 
  • Wen, L., & Kosowsky, J. M. (2014). When doctors don't listen: How to avoid misdiagnoses and unnecessary tests. Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin.
  • White, A. A., & Chanoff, D. (2011). Seeing patients: Unconscious bias in health care. Harvard University Press.
  • Whitehead, C. (2018). The underground railroad. Random House Inc.
  • Whitman, W., & Whitman, W. (1996). Poetry and prose. Library of America.
  • Williams, W. C., Williams, W. E., & Coles, R. (2005). The doctor stories. New Directions.
  • Woolf, V., & Hussey, M. (2005). To the lighthouse. Harcourt.