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Title	Author/Editor	Call Number	Notes
ART
The Art of JAMA: One hundred Covers and Essays from the Journal of the American Medical Association	edited by M. Therese Southgate	WZ 330 A7847 1997	Outstanding art history – wonderful analyses of the art on the cover of JAMA
The Art of JAMA II: Covers and Essays from the Journal of the American Medical Association	edited by M. Therese Southgate	WZ 330 A7847 2001	A second volume of art from the JAMA covers
The Body At Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness and Healing	Carol Squires		This is from a photo exhibit I saw in NYC. Outstanding. Has a chapter about the ER at Denver General – same photographer who did The Knife and Gun Club, (about DGH ER) Also photos by Salgado, W. Eugene Smith and others.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams	William Carlos Williams	WZ 100 W728a 1951	The famous pediatrician/poet tells his story
BIOGRAPHY
The Knife Man	Wendy Moore		A short biography of John Hunter, the great Scottish/English 18th century physician-surgeon-anatomist, who had one of the most inquiring minds ever.
ESSAYS
The Life of Self; Toward a New Psychology	Robert Jay Lifton	BF 380L722L 1976	Essays in Psychology
Explorations in Psychohistory: The Wellfleet Papers	edited by Robert Jay Lifton with Eric Olson	BF 81 L722e 1974	Essays by well-known psychologists and psychiatrists.
The Broken Connection: on Death and the Continuity of Life	Robert Jay Lifton	BF 789 L722b 1979	Essays, mostly on death.
Living and Dying	Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson	BF 789 L722L 1974	Essays
Human Options	Norman Cousins	PN 4874 C867h 1981	Optimistic essays by a prominent author.
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher	Lewis Thomas	QH 307 T458m 1979	More of the same from Lew Thomas.
The Lives of a Cell; Notes of a Biology Watcher	Lewis Thomas	QH 331 T458L 1974	Essays about science by a pathologist with very wide ranging interests. Outstanding
A Piece of My Mind: A Collection of Essays from the Journal of the American Medical Association	edited by Bruce B. Dan and Roxanne K. Young	W 9 P613 1988	Indispensable! Brief essays from JAMA which will bring tears to your eyes and smiles to your lips.
Head First: the Biology of Hope	Norman Cousins	WM 90 C867h 1989	Essays
Explorations in Psychoanalysis	Ralph Greenson	WM 460 G815e 1978	Essays in psychiatry
Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery	Richard Selzer	WO 9 S469m 1976	Medical Essays
Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine	edited by Roy Porter and Andrew Wear	WZ 345 P962 1987	Essays by various historians
FICTION
Arthur Miller’s Adaptation of an Enemy of the People	Henrik Ibsen	839.8 IBS	Ibsen’s masterpiece about medicine and commerce.
A Thousand Acres	Jane Smiley	F SMILEY THO	A fine novel (I’m not sure that it is medically oriented.)
A Reckoning: A Novel	May Sarton	P101 S251r 1978	A noted writer’s novel of a woman’s battle with cancer.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich	Leo Tolstoy	PG 2117 T654d 1976	The premier account of existential fear of death.
The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka; translated and edited by Stanley Corngold	PT 2621.A26 K11m 1972	The classical alienation scenario - life as a cockroach.
On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays	edited by Richard Reynolds and John Stone	WZ 330 O58 1991	Kafka, Hemingway, Angelou, Borges, etc, etc
Ten Years of Medicine and the Arts: 100 Selections from Academic Medicine, 1991-2001	edited by Lisa Dittrich	WZ 330 T289 2001	First class poems, stories, essays from the journal Academic Medicine
HISTORY
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide	Robert Jay Lifton	W 50 L7228n 1986	The title explains it.
Bring Out Your Dead; The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793	J. H. Powell	WC 532 P884b 1965	An interesting account of the great epidemic.
The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry	edited by W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepard	WM 11 A535 1985	The history of psychiatry.
The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry	edited by W.F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepard	WM 11 A535 1988	The history of psychiatry.
Mind-Forg’d Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency	Roy Porter	WM 11 P847m 1987	The history of psychiatry.
Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans: Neither Victims or Executioners	Robert Jay Lifton	WM 184 L722h 1973
When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf	Harlan Lane	WV 270 L265w 1984	History of deafness
The Hospital in History	edited by Lindsay Granshaw and Roy Porter	WX 11 H828 1989	Essays (heavy) on the history of hospitals.
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine	edited by Roy Porter	WZ 40 C178 1996
Brunonianism in Britain and Europe	edited by W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter	WZ56 B898 1988	Difficult analyses of the English physician, John Brown.
In Sickness and in Health: The British Experience, 1650-1850	Roy Porter, Dorothy Porter	WZ 70 P847i 1988	Medicine in England
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, A Study or “Brainwashing” in China	Robert Jay Lifton	BF 636 L722t 1961	The psychology of China, 1950’s
Health for Sale: Quackery in England	Roy Porter	WZ 310 P847h 1989
MEDICAL EDUCATION
The Making of a Doctor: Medical Education in Theory and Practice	R.S. Downie and Bruce Charlton; with chapters contributed by K.C. Calman and James McCormick	W 18 D751m 1992	Medical Education
A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student	Perri Klass	W18 K63n 1987	A pediatrician tells how medical school was for her.
Doctors’ Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge	Katherine Montgomery Hunter	WZ 345 H945d 1991	Important essays in the narrative in medicine
MEDICAL TALES
Imagine a Woman and Other Tales	Richard Selzer	813.54 SEL	Clinical tales by a very imaginative surgeon turned writer.
Confessions of a Knife	Richard Selzer	WO 9 S469c 1979	Essays and stories
Letters to a Young Doctor	Richard Selzer	WO 9 S469L 1982	Medical stories
A Man Without Words	Susan Schaller	WV 270 S298m 1991	A long case study in teaching a deaf man.
Taking the World in for Repairs	Richard Selzer	WZ 100 S469t 1986	Medical stories
Rituals of Surgery	Richard Selzer	WZ 350 S469r 1974
The Doctor Stories	William Carlos Williams; Complied with an introduction by Robert Coles; afterward by William Eric Williams	WZ 350 W728d 1984	The physician/author par excellence
MEMOIRS
A Very Easy Death	Simone de Beauvoir	BF 789 B386m 1965	A memoir of her mother by the famous feminist existentialist (don’t be put off here- she knows how to write.)
Night	Elie Wiesel; translated from the French by Stella Rodway	D 810.J4 W651n 1982	A terrifying memoir of the death camp.
As We Are Now: A Novel	May Sarton	PS 3537.A832 S249a 1973	The novelist writes about growing old.
The Healing Heart: Antidotes to Panic an Helplessness	Norman Cousins	WG 300 C867h 1983	Memoir of his illness
Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration	Norman Cousins	WZ 313 C867a 1979	Cousin’s own illness. A famous book.

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