Teaching Literature and Medicine

Courses in literature and medicine flourish in undergraduate, medical school, and continuing-education programs throughout the United States and Canada. This volume presents a variety of approaches to the subject. It is intended both for literary scholars and for physicians who teach literature and medicine or who are interested in interdisciplinary study.

The essays describe model courses; list readings widely taught in literature and medicine courses; discuss the value of texts in both medical education and the practice of medicine; and provide bibliographic resources, including works in the history of medicine from classical antiquity.

Introduction: Teaching Literature and Medicine: A Retrospective and a Rationale

1

(28)

Anne Hunsaker Hawkins

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Part I: Model Courses

Literary Concepts for Medical Readers: Frame, Time, Plot, Desire

29

(13)

Rita Charon

Illness in America

42

(13)

Stephanie P. Browner

Medical History and Literary Texts

55

(10)

Lilian R. Furst

The History and Literature of Women's Health

65

(12)

Suzanne Poirier

Teaching the Body in Texts: Literature, Culture, and Religion

77

(15)

Kendrick W. Prewitt

Exploring the Human Condition: Literature and Public Health Issues

92

(13)

Martin Donohoe

Ethics, Language, and Narrative

105

(14)

Iliana Alexandra Semmler

Madness and Suicide as Themes in Western Literature

119

(9)

Janice L. Willms

Mind and Body, Psyche and Soma: Metaphors from Greek Myth through Literature to the Clinic

128

(13)

Jan Marta

Literature and Medicine as a Writing Course

141

(10)

Lois S. Spatz

Kathleen Welch

Light to the Mind: Literature in the Medical Spanish Course

151

(12)

Elizabeth M. Willingham

The Tyranny of the Normal

163

(12)

Carol Donley

Sheryl Buckley

Rhetoric and the Politics of Medical Persuasion

175

(12)

Dieter J. Boxmann

Part II: Texts, Authors, Genres

Touchstones: A Brief Survey of Some Standard Works

187

(13)

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

Plague Medicine in Langland's Piers Plowman

200

(8)

Bryon Lee Grigsby

Teaching Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Medical Texts as Literature

208

(10)

Paul W. Child

``Doctor'' Frankenstein and ``Scientific'' Medicine

218

(8)

H. Bruce Franklin

The Nineteenth Century's Obsession with Medicine: Flaubert's Madame Bovary

226

(7)

Michele M.Respaut

Kafka's Corpus: Writing Tuberculosis and Being Literature

233

(10)

Vera Pohland

The Tigers of Wrath: Mann's Death in Venice as Myth and Medicine

243

(9)

Laura Otis

``There Is Something Wrong about the Fellow'': Willa Cather's ``Paul's Case''

252

(8)

Michelle Bollard Toby

Birthing Death: Sharon Old's The Father and the Poetics of the Body

260

(7)

Kristin Lindgren

The Hospital Poetry of U. A. Fanthorpe

267

(10)

Paul Delaney

Health and Healing in the Works of Three African American Women Writers

277

(5)

Deborah R. Grayson

Critical Conditions: Teaching Illness Narrative

282

(7)

G. Thomas Couser

``Dancing in Very Narrow Spaces'': Pinter's A Kind of Alaska in Performance

289

(10)

Elizabeth Homan

Sidney Homan

Part III: Literature in Medical Education and Medical Practice

Sherlock Holmes and Clinical Reasoning

299

(7)

Kathryn Montgomery

Nurses' Poetry: Expanding the Literature and Medicine Canon

306

(10)

Cortney Davis

Literature and the Irony of Medical Science

316

(11)

LaVera M. Crawley

``Poor Yorick'': Reflections on Gross Anatomy

327

(6)

Douglas Robert Reifler

In Brief: A Literature Seminar in Clinical Medical Education

333

(5)

Joseph Cady

Signifying Medication in Thom Jones's ``Superman, My Son''

338

(6)

Jonathan M. Metzl

(Un)Professional Relationships in the Gendered Maze of Medicine

344

(9)

Rhonda L. Soricelli

David H. Flood

``Read Two Chapters and Call Me in the Morning'': Teaching Literature to Physicians

353

(32)

Anne Hunsaker Hawkins

Part IV: Resources for Teachers and Scholars in Literature and Medicine

General Bibliographies

367

(1)

Journals

367

(1)

Anthologies of Primary Sources

367

(1)

Online Resources at New York University School of Medicine

368

(2)

Felice Aull

Centers and Societies

370

(1)

Selective Bibliography of Secondary Sources in Literature and Medicine

371

(2)

Selective Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources in the History of Medicine

373

(12)

Dieter J. Boxmann

Paul W. Child

Bryon Lee Grigsby

Monica Maillet

Notes on Contributors

385

(14)

Index

399

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