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Appendix F: Interesting Books and Readings about the Field of MedicineTraining Howard S. Becker et al. - Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical School, 1991 David Ewing Duncan - Residents: The Perils and Promise of Educating Young Doctors Peri Klass - A Not Entirely Benign Procedure, 1988; The literary Companion to Medicine, 1996; Baby Doctor, 1993 Melvin Konner - Becoming a Physician, A Journey of Initiation in Medical School Charles Le Baron - Gentle Vengeance Dominique Lapierre - Beyond Love Kenneth Ludmerer - A Time to Heal Robert Marion - Learning to Play God: The Coming of Age of a Young Doctor, 1991; The Intern Blues Ellen Lurner Rothman - White Coat: Becoming a Doctor ed. Mike Magee - M.D., The 50 Most Positive Doctors in America Samuel Shem - House of God Practice Patch Adams & M. Mylander - Gesundheit Patch Adams & P. Jacobs - House Calls How We Can All Heal the World One Visit at a Time Lori Arviso, M.D. - The Scalpel and the Silver Bear, 1999 Janet Bickle - Women in Medicine: Getting in, Growing, and Advancing Lisa Belkin - First, Do No Harm Ben Carson - Gifted Hands, the Ben Carson Story, 1990 Bruce Dan - A Piece of My Mind: A Collection of Essays from JAMA Lane Gerber - Married to Their Careers: Career and Family Dilemmas in Doctor's Lives Marlan Gibbs, M.D. - The Medicine of ER or How We Almost Die David Hartman & B. Asbell - White Cane: The Extraordinary Odyssey of a Blind Physician David Hilfiker - Healing the Wounds: A Physicians Look at His Work, 1988 Peri Klass - Other Women's Children Leonard Laster, M.D. - Life After Medical School, Thirty-two Doctors Describe How They Shaped Their Medical Careers Robert Marion - Learning to Play God Robert Marion - The Intern Blues John McPhee - Heirs of General Practice, 1988 Sherwin Nuland - How We Die, 1993; Doctors; The Biography of Medicine Richard Reynolds - On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays, 1991 Richard Selzer - Letters to a Young Doctor, 1992 Howard Spiro - Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond the Pill & Scalpel John Stone - In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Arts of Medicine, 1992 Frank Vertosick, Jr., M.D. - When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery W. Carlos Williams - The Doctor Stories, 1984 Phillip Zazove - When the Phone Rings, My Bed Shakes: Memoirs of a Deaf Doctor, 1993 Cultural Sensitivity Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catch you and You Fall Down Geri Ann Galanti - Caring for Patients from Different Cultures: Case Studies from American Hospitals Patients A. Belli & J. Coulehan (editors) - Blood and Bone Anatole Broyard - Intoxicated by My Illness Harold Bursztajn - Medical Choices, Medical Chances, How Patients, Families and Physicians Can Cope with Uncertainty (out of print, check your libraries) Hilfiker David - Not all of us are Saints, Hill and Wang 1994 George Eliot - Middlemarch Anne Fadiman - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Arthur Frank - At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness Jody Heymann - Equal Partners, 1995 Susanna Kaysen - Girl, Interrupted, 1993 Arthur Kleinman - The Illness Narratives Michael A. Lacombe (editor) - On Being a Doctor (poems and essays) Alan Lightman - The Diagnosis, 2000 Audre Lorde - The Cancer Journals, 1980 Robert McCrum - My Year Off, Recovering Life After a Stroke, 1998 John Mukan (editor) - Articulations Reynolds Price - A Whole New Life, 1994 Gilda Radner - It's Always Been Something, 1990 Rachel Naomi Remen - Kitchen Table Wisdom Edward Rosenbaum - A Taste of My Own Medicine, 1988 Oliver Sacks - A Leg to Stand On, 1984 William Stryon - Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, 1990 Abraham Verghese - My Own Country Hospitals Howard Brody - Stories of Sickness Michael Crichton - Five Patients: The Hospital Explained, 1989 Anton Chekhov - Ward Six and Other Stories Peter E. Dans, M.D. - Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah Susan Garrett - Taking Care of Our Own: A Year in the Life of a Small Hospital, 1995 Harlan Gibbs, M.D. & Alan Duncan Ross - The Medicine of ER, or How We Almost Die, Basic Books, 1996 Stephen Sawicki - Animal Hospital, 1997 Tough Decisions Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord - The Scalpel and the Silver Bear Lisa Belkin - First Do No Harm, 1993 Joycelyn Elders, M.D. - Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the USA Medical Ethics Charles L. Bosk - Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure Samuel Gorovitz - Doctor's Dilemmas: Drawing the Line, Life, Death, and Ethical Choices in an American Hospital, 1991 Eileen Nechas & Denise Foley - Unequal Treatment, What You Don't Know About How Women are Treated by the Medical Community Gregory E. Pence - Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of Cases that Have Shaped Medical Ethics with Philosophical, Legal, and Historical Background J. Warren Salmon (editor) - The Corporate Transformation of Health Care: Perspectives and Implications Paul Starr - The Social Transformation of American Medicine Aging Andrew Malcolm - Someday Phillip Roth - Patrimony: A True Story, 1991 Other Perspectives Howard Brody - Stories of Sickness, 1988 Robert Coles - The Call of Stories, Teaching and the Moral Imagination, 1990; The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism Reprint 1994; A Robert Coles Omnibus, 1993 Anne Hawkins - Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography, 1993 Kathryn Hunter - Doctor as Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge, 1991 Emily Martin - Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS, 1994; The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, 1987 Randollph M. Nesse & George C. Williams - Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine, 1996 Susan Sontag - Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors, 1991 Andrew Weil - Health and Healing, 1988 Humor The New Yorker - The New Yorker Book of Doctors History and Literature Richard Gordon - The Alarming History of Medicine, 1994 Medical Science Lewis Thomas - The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher; The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher; The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher; Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony; The Fragile Species History Jeffrey Fister - The Plaque Makers, 1994 Norman Gevitz - The D.O. as Osteopathic Medicine in America, 1982; Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine in America, 1988 James Harvey - Young American Health Quackery: Collected Essays Irvine Loudon (editor) - Western Medicine, An Illustrated History, 1997 Stuart Moore - Chiropractic in American: The History of a Medical Alternative, 1993 Sheil Rothman - Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History, 1994 Paul Starr - The Social Transformation of American Medicine Harvey Young - The Medical Messiahs, A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America, 1976 Veterinary Medicine Loretta Gage - If Wishes Were Horses, 1995 William Karesh - Appointment at the Ends of the World, a memoir A WWW listing maintained by Purdue University A WWW listing maintained by NetVet Additional Listings New York Medical Humanities a compendium of literature, art, films and videos encompassing medical themes and issues In addition keep current by regularly reading: The New York Times (particularly the Tuesday and Sunday editions) The Wall Street Journal Discover American Medical News The New Physician (a magazine published by medical students) Scientific American (monthly magazine) Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) The New England Journal of Medicine (weekly journal)
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