Syllabi by Topic : Literature and Medicine

• "American Psychos and the Culture of Mental Illness." C. Amirault. Now at Brown University; Was taught at University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. [undergraduate seminar; elective; Fall 1993]; see also: Film and Medicine, Mental Illness.

• "Anatomy of Love." E. Whiting. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program. [BS/MD; selective; Winter 2000]; see also: Aging, Behavioral Science, Film and Medicine, Medicine and the Arts, Physician-Patient Relationship, Women and Medicine.

• "Bellevue Literary Review Curriculum Study Guide"

• "The Body Image in Medicine and the Arts" M. Sirridge. University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine [BA/MD; selective; June 1999]; see also Death and Dying, Gender and Medicine, History of Medicine, Medical Education, Medicine and the Arts, Mental Illness, Women and Medicine.

• "Creative Writing for Medical Students" A. Shafer. Stanford University School of Medicine [medicine 1st yr., 2nd yr.; elective; Winter 1999].

• "Death, Suffering, Spirituality, and Medicine." G. Micco. UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program [MD; Graduate-level; elective; Spring 1999]; see also: Aging, Alternative Medicine, Death and Dying, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Religion and Medicine, Social Issues in Medicine.

• "The Doctor's Life; Literature and Medicine." N. Wikoff. Dartmouth Medical School [medicine yrs 1 and 2 ; elective; Fall 1997]; see also: Death and Dying, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism, Social Issues in Medicine.

• "Family Values ." D. Wear. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Fall 1999]; see also: Aging, Social Issues in Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• "Healing Words: The Literature of Medicine and the Medicine of Literature." B. Bremen. University of Texas at Austin [junior/senior undergraduate honors seminar; elective; Spring, 2008] see also: AIDS, History of Medicine, Medical Ethics.

• "Health, Society, and Disease." N. Karnik. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [undergraduate; elective; Spring 1997]; see also: AIDS, Death and Dying, Mental Illness, Social Issues in Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• "Hope and Suffering in the Doctor-Patient Relationship." A. Shafer. Stanford University School of Medicine [medicine 1st yr., 2nd yr.; elective; Winter 2001]; see also: Behavioral Science, Death and Dying, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Religion and Medicine.

• "The Humanities and Social Sciences in Medicine." M. Donohoe. Oregon Health and Science University [medicine 4th yr; elective; March 2001]; see also: Alternative Medicine, Death and Dying, Ethnicity and Medicine, Gender and Medicine, Health Care Policy, History of Medicine, Law and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Medicine and the Arts, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Social Issues in Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• "Illness and Health in Literature" J. Dolezal. Central College [Spring, 2006]

• "Images of Women in Popular Culture: Medical Implications." A. Pokorny and P. Moss. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Winter 2000]; see also: Behavioral Science, Gender and Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• "In Search of the Good Doctor" M. Kohn. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program. [BS/MD; selective; Winter 2000.see also: Physician-Patient Relationship, Social Issues in Medicine.

• "Light, Vision and Understanding: Investigations in the Sciences and Humanities." S. Weininger. Worcester Polytechnic Institute [undergraduate; selective; Fall 1999] see also: Medicine and the Arts, Science and the Humanities.

• "Literature and the Healing Arts" B. Moore. Gannon University [undergraduate (senior); elective; Fall 2003; see also Aging, Death and Dying, Ethnicity and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Social Issues in Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• "Literature and Medical Interventions." A. Shafer. Stanford University School of Medicine [sophmore undergrdauate; selective; Fall 2000]; see also AIDS, Medical Ethics, Medicine and Technology, Physician-Patient Relationship, Women and Medicine.

• "Literature and Medicine" J. Dolezal. Central College [Fall, 2007]

• "Literature and Medicine." A. Shafer. Stanford University School of Medicine [medicine 1st yr., 2nd yr.; elective; Winter 1999]; see also: AIDS, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Women and Medicine.

• "Literature and Medicine: What's So Good About Getting Old?" G. Micco. UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program [MD; Graduate-level; elective; Fall 1998]; see also: Aging, Behavioral Science, Death and Dying, Disability, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Social Issues in Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• "Literature, Medicine and Public Health." M. Donohoe. Oregon Health and Science University. [medicine and associated medical professional schools; elective; Winter 2000]; see also: Aging, Death and Dying, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Social Issues in Medicine.

• Medical Humanities Elective I J. Shapiro. University of California, Irvine [1st year Medical Student; elective; Spring 2000]; see also: Aging, Behavioral Science, Ethnicity and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Medical Education, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism.

• Medical Humanities Elective II J. Shapiro. University of California, Irvine [2nd year Medical Student; required; Fall 1999 - Spring 2000]; see also: Aging, Aids, Death and Dying, Disability, Ethnicity and Medicine, Gender and Medicine, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism, Social Issues in Medicine.

• Medical Humanities in Patient - Doctor I E. Morrison, J. Shapiro. University of California, Irvine [1st year Medical Student; required; Fall 1999 - Spring 2000]; see also: Aging, Behavioral Science, Ethnicity and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Medical Education, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism.

• Medical Humanities in Patient - Doctor II D. Lie, J. Shapiro. University of California, Irvine [2nd year Medical Student; required; Fall 1999 - Spring 2000]; see also: Aging, Aids, Death and Dying, Disability, Ethnicity and Medicine, Gender and Medicine, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism, Social Issues in Medicine.

• Medical Humanities Workshop (History and Philosophy of Science) L. Zaroff. Stanford University School of Medicine [undergraduate, graduate, medicine; elective; Spring 2001]; see also: History of Medicine, Medicine and the Arts.

• Medical Science, Medical Humanities, and the Quest for Empathy." J. Shapiro. University of California, Irvine [3rd year Medical Student; required; Spring 2000]; see also: Behavioral Science, Medical Education, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism.

• "Medical Visions." C. Amirault. Brown University [sophomore seminar; elective; Spring 1998]; see also: AIDS, Film and Medicine, Gender and Medicine, History of Medicine, Medicine and the Arts, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism, Women and Medicine.

• "Medicine, Culture, and Self." J. Woodcock. University of Indiana-Bloomington [Undergraduate, Spring 2002]; see also: Death and Dying, Disability, Ethnicity and Medicine, Film and Medicine, Gender and Medicine, History of Medicine, Medical Ethics, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism, Social Issues in Medicine, War and Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• " Medicine and Literature: The Human Perspective". H. Mathiasen and J. Alpert. University of Arizona College of Medicine [Spring, 2001]

• "Medicine in Literature." M. McEntyre. Westmont College [undergraduate; elective; Spring 1999]; see also: Death and Dying, History of Medicine, Physician-Patient Relationship, Social Issues in Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• "Narrative in Medicine: A Writing Class." G. Micco. UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program [MD; Fall and Spring 1999]; see also: Behavioral Science, Medicine and the Arts, Physician-Patient Relationship.

• "Narrative Pathologies, Narrative Cures." C. Amirault. Brown University [senior seminar; elective; Spring 1999]; see also: AIDS, Film and Medicine, Gender and Medicine, History of Medicine, Medicine and the Arts, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Women and Medicine.

• "The Nature of Illness" R. Martinez, J. Swaney [4th yr medicine, pastoral graduate; elective; Winter 2000]; see also: Aging, Death and Dying, Ethnicity and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism, Religion and Medicine, Social Issues in Medicine.

• "Perspectives of Romance and Sexuality in Literature ." T. Dukes. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000]; see also: Behavioral Science, Gender and Medicine.

• "The Physician as Writer."M. Kohn and B. Pomidor. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000].

• Program in Medical Humanities, East Carolina University School of Medicine. R. Martensen [required courses in all four years; Selectives in fourth year].
  see also: Death and Dying, Health Care Policy, History of Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Professionalism, Social Issues in Medicine, War and Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• Science Fiction and Medicine: Modern Technology's Impact on the Individual." B. Pomidor. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Winter 2000]; see also Medicine and Technology, Social Issues in Medicine.

• "Women's Health: Views from Literature, Communities, and Clinical Medicine ." D. Wear. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000]; see also: Aging, Gender and Medicine, Social Issues in Medicine., Women and Medicine..

• "Wounded Storytellers: Narratives of Illness in Literature." J. Shapiro. University of California, Irvine [freshman honors seminar; elective; Spring 2000]; see also: Aging, Aids, Alternative Medicine, Disability, Ethnicity and Medicine, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Social Issues in Medicine.