Health Literature

Abraham, Laurie Kaye. Mama Might be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Review; Publisher;

Andrews, Lori B. Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions About Genetics. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Bookstore; Publisher; Review;

Avorn, Jerry. Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs. New York: Knopf, 2004. Reviews 1, 2;

Bauby, Jean-Dominique. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. New York: A. A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1997. Annotation;

Bayley, John. Elegy for Iris. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Reviews, Annotation;

Berger, John, and Jean Mohr. A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981, 1967. Annotation;

Bosk, Charles L. Forgive and Remember: Managing Medical Failure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Bookstore; Publisher;

Camus, Albert. The Plague. New York: Modern Library, 1948. Annotation; Bookstore; Biography;

Chambliss, Daniel F. Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Publisher; Bookstore;

Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. New York: Norton. 1989. Interpretation; Resources;

DePrince, Elaine. Cry Bloody Murder: A Tale of Tainted Blood. New York: Random House, 1997.

Dresser, Rebecca. When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Publisher;

Dubler, Nancy N., and Carol B. Liebman. Bioethics mediation: A Guide to Shaping Shared Solutions. New York: United Hospital Fund of New York, 2004. Review;

Edson, Margaret. Wit: A Play. New York: Faber and Faber, 1999. Review;

Eliot, George. Middlemarch. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Details;

Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997. Review;

Farmer, Paul. Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley, CA.: University of California Press, 2003. Publisher; Biography; Details;

Gawande, Atul. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002. Review;

Gibson, Rosemary, and Janardan Prasad Singh. Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of Medical Mistakes that Kill and Injure Millions of Americans. Washington, D.C.: Lanham, MD: LifeLine Press: Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, 2003. Details; Bookstore;

Henig, Robin Marantz. Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Book Review;

Hilfiker, David. Healing the Wounds: A Physician Looks at His Work. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985. Publisher;

Institute of Medicine. Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2001. Publisher;

Jones, James H. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment. New York: London: Free Press; Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1981.Case Study;

Jost, Timothy S. Disentitlement ? : The Threats Facing Our Public Health-care Programs and a Rights-based Response. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Publisher;

Kassirer, Jerome P. On the Take: How America's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Publisher;

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Novel. New York: Viking Press, 1962. Resources; Notes; Literature Guide

Kidder, Tracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains. New York: Random House, 2003. Review;

Klinenberg, Eric. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Author Interview; Review;

Kohn, Linda T., Janet Corrigan, and Molla S. Donaldson. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2000. Bookstore;

Kolata, Gina Bari. Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. Summary;

Kramer, Larry. The Normal Heart. New York: New American Library, 1985. Bookstore;

Kushner, Tony. Angels in America. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1993. Movie Description; Annotation; Author Biography;

Lantos, John D. The Lazarus Case: Life and Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Book Review;

Lewis, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1925, 1952. Annotation;

Lorde, Audre. The Cancer Journals. Argyle, N.Y.: Spinsters, Ink, 1980. Annotation;

Millenson, Michael L. Demanding Medical Excellence: Doctors and Accountability in the Information Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Publisher Description; Review; Review;

Molière. The Imaginary Invalid: A Play in Three Acts. (An Adaptation by Miles Malleson), London; New York: S. French, 1959. Annotations;

Monette, Paul. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Publisher Description; Annotation;

Nasar, Sylvia. A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Biographical Information; Review; Review;

Nuland, Sherwin B. How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter. New York: A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1994. Publisher Description; Annotation;

Porter, Roy. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998. Review;

Price, Reynolds. A Whole New Life. New York: Atheneum, 1994. Annotation;

Quinn, Susan. Human Trials: Scientists, Investors, and Patients in the Quest for a Cure. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Pub., 2001. Review; Review;

Russell, Louise B. Educated Guesses: Making Policy About Medical Screening Tests. Berkeley, CA.: University of California Press, 1994. Biographical Information; Review;

Selzer, Richard. The Doctor Stories. New York: Picador USA, 1998. Annotations;

Shem, Samuel. The House of God: A Novel. New York: R. Marek Publishers, 1978. Abstract; Bookstore;

Smith, David Barton. Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Publisher Description; Book Review;

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich. The Cancer Ward. New York: Dial Press, 1968. Annotation;

Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Iván Ilych, and Other Stories. London : Oxford University Press, 1971. Summary; Notes;

Wachter, Robert W., and Kaveh G. Shojania. Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes. New York: RuggedLand, 2004.
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Werth, Barry. Damages: One Family's Legal Struggles in the World of Medicine. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Review;

Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Stories of William Carlos Williams. New York: New Directions, 1996, 1961. (Includes A Face of Stone; Old Doc Rivers; The Use of Force). Annotation; Author;

Williams, William Carlos. The Doctor Stories. Compiled with an introduction by Robert Coles. New York: New Directions, 1984.