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Osler Fellowship Resources


Reflection and Physicianship:  A Primer for Osler Fellows

 

LITERARY REFERENCES RELEVANT TO PHYSICIANSHIP

Author Title
Abse, Dannie Arcadia, One Mile
The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds & Dr. Glas
Welsh Retrospective
Allende, Isabel Paula
Bach, Richard Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Banks, Iain The Wasp Factory
Barker, Pat Another World
Border Crossing
Regeneration Trilogy
Barnard, C. Towers, A. Boston, P. & Lambrinidou, Y. Crossing Over:  Narratives of Palliative Care
Bartlett, Elizabeth Two Women Dancing
Bauby, Jean-Dominique The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bayley, John Iris:  A Memoir of Iris Murdoch
Bear, Greg Darwin's Radio
Bennett, Andrew An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory
Berger, John A Fortunate Man:  The Story of A Country Doctor
Blackman, Malorie Pig-Heart Boy
Bonsor, Sacha Dipped into Oblivion
Brady, Joan Death Comes for Peter Pan
Brody, Howard Stories of Sickness
Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights
Brown, Christy My Left Foot
Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanas'evich A Country Doctor's Notebook
Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange
Cadwalladr, Caro The Family Tree
Calman, Kenneth C. A Study of Story Telling Humour and Learning in Medicine
Campo, Rafael The Healing Art
The Poetry of Healing:  A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity and Desire
Camus, Albert The Plague
The Outsider
Carr, John Dickson The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Cassidy, Sheila The Loneliest Journey
Chang, Jung Wild Swans:  Three Daughters of China
Chavis, Geri Family:  Stories from the Interior
Clark, Brian Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Clement, Peter Mutant
Clewlow, Carol Keeping the Faith
A Woman's Guide to Adultery
Coehlo, Paolo Veronika Decides to Die
Coope, John Doctor Chekhov:  A Student in Literature and Medicine
Coles, Robert The Call of Stories:  Teaching and the Moral Imagination
Collins, Wilkie Armadale
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness, with, The Congo Diary
Cook, Judith Dr. Simon Forman:  A Most Notorious Physician
Cronin, A. J. The Citadel
Cruess, R.L., Cruess, S.R. & Steinert, Y. Teaching Medical Professionalism
Dans, Peter E. Doctors in the Movies:  Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Darling, Julia The Poetry Cure
Sudden Collapses in Public Places
Davidoff, F. Who has seen a blood sugar? (Reflections on medical education)
Davies, Robertson The Cunning Man
Davis, Gul A Lone Walk
Dawkins, Richard The Selfish Gene
De Bernières, Louis Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Dean, Geoffrey The Turnston:  A Doctor's Story
Diamond, John C:  Because Cowards Get Cancer Too
Doyle, Roddy The Woman Who Walked into Doors
Duckles, Donald My Father's Face
Dunn, Douglas Elegies
Edson, Margaret Wit
Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Eliot, George Middlemarch
Eliot. T. S. The Cocktail Party
Eugenides, Jeffrey Middlesex
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories
Tender is the Night
Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary
Forster, Margaret Have the men had enough?
Mother can you hear me?
Foxton, Michael Bedside Stories:  Confessions of a Junior Doctor
Frank, Anne Diary of a Young Girl
Freeny, Michael Terminal Consent
Frey, James A Million Little Pieces
Friedman, Rosemary Intensive Care
French, Marilyn A Season in Hell:  A Memoir
Galgut, Damon The Good Doctor
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Love in the Time of Cholera
Gawande, A. Complications (A surgeon's notes on an imperfect science)
Garland, Alex The Coma
Gerritsen, Tess Harvest
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins The Yellow Wallpaper
Greene, Graham Brighton Rock
A Burnt Out Case
The Power and the Glory
Griffin, Susan Woman and Nature:  The Roaring Inside Her
Guevara, Ernesto The Motorcycle Diaries:  A Journey Around South America
Guterson, David East of the Mountain
Haddock, Gail What for chop today?
Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest The Essential Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
Holub, Miroslav Vanishing Lung Syndrome
Hooper, Edward The River:  A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and AIDS
Hugo, Victor Les Miserables
Hutchinson, R. C. A Child Possessed
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Irving, John The Cider House Rules:  A Novel
Jauhar S. Intern (A doctor's initiation)
Jewett, Sarah Orne A Country Doctor
Kaplan, Jonathan The Dressing Station:  A Surgeon's Odyssey
Keane, Fergal Letter to Daniel:  Dispatches from the Heart
Kearney, Michael Mortally Wounded:  Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing
Keenan, Brian An Evil Cradling
Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible
Klass, P. A not entirely benign procedure (Four years as a medical student)
Treatment Kind and Fair:  Letters to a Young Doctor
Kleinman, Arthur The Illness Narratives:  Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition
Konner, M. Becoming a Doctor (A journey of initiation in medical school)
Kundera, Milan The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Laine, C. & LaCombe, M.A. On Being A Doctor
Lam, V. Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Larkin, Philip Collected Poems
Le Carre, John The Constant Gardener
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
Levertov, Denise Light Up the Cave
Lewis, C. S. A Grief Observed
Lewis, Sinclair Arrowsmith
Losada, Isabel The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment
Lowenstein, J. Markel, H. & Stern, A. M. The Midnight Meal and Other Essays About Doctors, Patients and Medicine
Lown, Bernard The Lost Art of Healing
McCarthy, C. Learning How the Heart Beats (The making of a pediatrician)
McGrath, Patrick Dr. Haggard's Disease
Mann, Thomas The Magic Mountain
Death in Venice
Masters, Alexander Stuart:  A Life Backwards
Mates, Susan Onthank The Good Doctor
Matthews, Lisa Postcard from a Waterless Lake
Maugham, W. Somerset The Collected Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories
Menaker, D. The Treatment
Mercurio, Jed Bodies
Moore, Brian The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Mowat, Linda As Long As Possible:  An Encounter with Motor Neuron Disease
Murray, Rowena Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare:  A Practical Approach Through Medical Humanities
Nolan, Christopher Under the Eye of the Clock:  The Life Story of Christopher Nolan
Ondaatje, Michael The English Patient
Orwell, George Nineteen Eighty-Four
Palahniuk, Chuck Fight Club
Palmer, Michael Miracle Cure
Parsons, Tony Man and Boy
Paton, Alan Cry, the Beloved Country
Pegler, Jason A Can of Madness
Percy, Walker Love in the Ruins:  The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World
Peschel, Richard E. When a Doctor Hates a Patient, and Other Chapters in a Young Physician's Life
Picardie, Ruth Before I Say Goodbye
Pierre, D. B. C. Vernon God Little
Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Plath, Sylvia The Bell Jar
Posen, Solomon The Doctor in Literature
Prescott, Blake D. The Saturnian Snake
Reichs, Kathy Deja Dead
Rhinehart, Luke The Dice Man
Rilke, Rainer Maria The Book of Hours
Robinson, Jane Mary Seacole:  The Charismatic Black Nurse Who Became a Heroine of the Crimea
Roche, Lauren Bent Not Broken
Rothman, E. L. & Rothman, E. White Coat (Becoming a doctor at Harvard Medical School)
Roy, Arundhati The God of Small Things
Rushdie, Salman Midnight's Children
Ryman, Geoff The Child Garden
Sacks, Oliver W. A Leg to Stand On
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Salinsky, John Medicine and Literature:  The Doctor's Companion to the Classics
Medicine and Literature:  The Doctor's Companion to the Classics, Vol. 2
Saramago, Jose Blindness
Sarton, May As We Are Now
A Reckoning
After the Stroke:  A Journal
The Magnificent Spinster
Savage, A. The Patient Knows
Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones
Selzer, R. The Doctor Stories
Sennett, Dorothy Full Measure:  Modern Short Stories on Aging
Seth, Vikram A Suitable Boy
Shakespeare, William The Complete Works
Shaw, Bernard The Doctor's Dilemma:  A Tragedy
Shearer, Alex The Great Blue Yonder
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Shem, Samuel The House of God
Mount Misery
Shilts, Randy And the Band Played On:  Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic
Slater, Lauren Spasm
Welcome to My Country
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Cancer Ward
Sontag, Susan Illness as Metaphor, and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Spark, Muriel Memento Mori
Spring, Jacqueline Cry Hard and Swim:  The Story of an Incest Survivor
Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath:  Text and Criticism
Steinmetz, Andrew Wardlife:  The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk
Stone, John Where Water Begins:  New Poems and Prose
Styron, William Darkness Visible:  A Memoir of Madness
A Tidewater Morning:  Three Tales from Youth
Swift, Graham Last Orders
Waterland
Syal, Meera Anita and Me
Tilberis, Liz No Time to Die
Tolstoy, Leo The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tomlinson, Jane and Mike The Luxury of Time
Traister, Barbara The Notorious Astrological Physician of London:  Works and Days of Simon Forman
Verghese, Abraham My Own Country:  A Doctor's Story
Vine, Barbara The Blood Doctor
Voight, Cynthia When She Hollers
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Welsh, Irvine Trainspotting
Wharton, Edith The House of Mirth
White, Edmund A Boy's Own Story
The Farewell Symphony
Williams, William Carlos The Doctor Series
Willis, Connie Passage
Winkler, Martin La maladie de Sachs
Winterson, Jeanette Oranges are not the Only Fruit
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz The Shadow of the Wind