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Tables of Contents for Teaching Literature and Medicine
Chapter/Section Title
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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