“For readers of this database, [the book] contains a
succinct but vivid portrayal of the life and work of a country doctor in the
early twentieth century—through war, influenza, the Dust Bowl depression, and
small-town nastiness…”
“This
slim volume of essays written by a young woman who had a heart transplant packs
a wallop, albeit an understated one. The
essays—there are seven of them—deal with life experiences, mostly in the form
of encounters with other people, mostly post-transplant."
"Kubrick’s masterpiece asks us to ponder who we
are, where we are going, and what we will become. It is important to extend
these questions to the field of medicine..."
“This film is frequently
difficult to watch and provides the viewer with glimpses of the ever more
monumental challenge of living with or caring for someone with Alzheimer’s
disease."
“In the beautifully written prose, users of this database
will find evocative portrayals of the impacts of social determinants on the
health of women and children—impacts that are exaggerated in times of crisis.”
“Thirteen-year-olds often feel a lot of anxiety and
uncertainty, and their developing brains have yet to gain control of risky
impulses. [The movie] explores the effects of ratcheting up these anxieties and
uncertainties ….”
“Ng has written an austere mythic tale that is propelled by
a journey of self-discovery and that brings to life the conflict between the
individual and the State when values collide.”
“This is an important and thought-provoking play that,
despite its difficulties, provides a springboard for discussion about some of
today’s most pressing bioethical issues.”
“This opera is an
immersive portrayal of depression, grief, trauma, loss, and suicide of three different
women in different eras and locations in which we learn, and experience what
many of our own friends, family, and patients go through.”
“Published in 1844, the poem is one of several sonnets
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote following the death of her 33 year old beloved
brother and immediately younger sibling, Edward, by drowning in 1840.”
“The novel recasts Charles Dickens’ David
Copperfield for modern day as a literary take on the opioid addiction
crisis in the U.S. during the 1990s and 2000s.”
“Anna Gasperini builds on existing scholarship by examining
how Victorian ‘penny blood’ literature depicted working-class readers’
anxieties concerning medical dissection following the 1832 Anatomy Act.”
“[The novel] is inspired by the real 1995 discovery of 400
suitcases that once belonged to former patients of the Willard State Hospital
in New York’s Finger Lakes region.”
"..
the repeated message is one we’ve heard many times before,
offered in a refreshing way: the importance of empathy and of listening to the
patient's wishes in birthing and in dying."
“Owens argues that the emergence, practice, and professionalization
of American gynecology in the 19th century were inextricably enmeshed with the
institution of slavery and discourses of biological racism."
“Severance is a genre defying series that enables us
to see a contemporary cultural construct -- work-life balance -- from new and
different vantage points.”
“[The book] is an unusual collection of scholarly essays in
that it combines essays about Nazi euthanasia with others that deal with
contemporary PAD (Physician Aid in Dying) and questions whether there might be
a relationship between the two.”
“[The novel]raises questions about basic human
nature--fear, greed, cruelty, and decency–and about the fragility of our world
and the technologies on which we depend.”
“[The book] provides a fascinating glimpse at people whose
psychiatric conditions cannot be fully understood through existing paradigms….The
reader is left with an appreciation for the complexity of the human condition.”
“[The author] approaches vaccine rejection as a complex
moral and cultural phenomenon, rather than as a simple issue of ignorance or a
marginal point-of-view.”
"
Rx/Museum is a wonderful example of collaboration and
integration of the arts, humanities, and medicine to teach or renew a sense of
empathy, connection, and new perspective.”
“With a dream-like setting and spiritual tone that includes
psychics and deceased ancestors, this affectionate story explores the joy and
duty of being a healer.”
“Physician-historian-playwright Charles Hayter describes his
encounters with cancer, as a doctor and as a son, and how the experience
changed him as a person.”
“Readers
interested in the history of psychiatry, institutionalization, Indigenous
studies, or early twentieth-century politics will appreciate Joinson’s meticulous
portrait of Canton Asylum.”
“[The book} is essential reading for those wanting to learn
about the history of SIDS, apparent life-threatening events, fatal child abuse,
postpartum depression, and what was called Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.”
“Close
reading of this book is well worth the effort, especially since it deals with a
technology that is bound to raise profound ethical issues in future medical
practice."
“While Michelle Zauner’s remarkable memoir is an expression
of her profound grief after her mother died, her story simultaneously reflects
on her complicated relationship with the woman she called Umma and with her own
Korean-American identity.”
“Young doctor Jean-Marc Itard is serving in the Paris home
for deaf-mute children. When a ‘wild boy’ without speech is found near a
village in Aveyron, France, Itard accepts the challenge of educating him…”
“The book takes on the accepted grand narrative of human
development, namely, a linear evolution from a primordial state of innocence
and equality to a society in which hierarchy and inequality are hard wired into
existence.”
“The poems in this collection were written during the Covid
pandemic; they speak of the toll the virus has taken and continues to take not
only on patients but, in these poems, on the caregivers--specifically the poet.”
“The film is an inspiring and emotional portrayal of a
family who has devoted their lives to tackling progeria while simultaneously
embracing life and living the present day to its fullest.”
“Suzanne O’Sullivan, an Irish neurologist, set out in 2018
to study children suffering from resignation syndrome, a project that led her
to investigate other outbreaks of mysterious illness around the world.”
“The stories explore the way in which the characters
interact with the myth of open land, untouched environment, and home in the
West, but do not shy away from all that myth can often obscure - poverty,
hardship, crime, radicalism.”
“Nothing will
quite prepare you for the literary world that Labatut has invented… the
characters lived through the turbulent first third of the 20th
century when quantum mechanics revolutionized the traditional understanding of
physics.”
“[The book] is a comprehensive history of addiction from
ancient times to the present day. It is also a memoir of the author’s
own struggle with addiction.”
“[The film’s] focus on the suffering of the patients and the
emotional stress on those who care for them will be of interest to everyone
living in this life-changing time of the pandemic.”
“Jacobson’s brilliant essays refuse to let us ignore our
shared vulnerability or the unpredictability of living in a body, as she once
thought she could.”
"What is most striking throughout the film is the
sense that what makes Fauci a great man and what has made him so influential is
not simply his knowledge or his intellect, but his unfailing sense of duty to
his fellow man..."
"There is much in Tangles that might offer solace to
current (or former) caregivers who struggle to give loved ones with Alzheimer’s
a quality, dignified end-of-life experience.”
“The tale is a stunning and sorrowful envisioned snapshot of
what the end of life might have felt like for an artist-protagonist during the
1918 influenza pandemic.”
“The book has utmost relevance today, as we continue to
understand how vestiges of racial thought, bias and discrimination may still
live on in medicine albeit in a more insidious manner.”
“The story involves the interplay of serious clinical
events, family and social relationships, challenges with daily activities, and
diminishing medical options.”
“The collection is a tribute to familial love, and
ultimately to one particular person, separated by the worsening pandemic, and
dealing with the ravages of metastatic breast cancer.”
“To adapt to the format of a dramatic series, Danny Strong,
the creator, sets the series around the fiendish Purdue Pharma sales and
marketing practices and the people they affected directly.”
“Centered on the mysterious death and lost grave of the
great anatomist, this enjoyable novel is anchored in nodal points generated by
scholarly literature.”
“The bulk of the book is an edited selection of the author’s
psychiatric records from 1969 to 2016…The notes document changes in psychiatry
over the past half century."
“This book is a reminder that it will take an extended and
concerted effort to achieve equal treatment for citizens in the penal system
and in the health system.”
“The film is a moving and thought-provoking look at the
beating heart of medicine with its engaging soundtrack and its from-the-inside
views of rural and village life.”
“Evident in the poems is a person experiencing much more
than medical/psychiatric practice, but a full cornucopia of life: his love of
art, music, food, nature, and the people he shares this bounty with.”
“Pollan continues pursuing his interest in the human drive
for altering consciousness through mind-altering substances and marries this
interest with his passion for plants and gardening.”
“Like many public health crusaders, Lange understood the
connection between societal and historical factors and the spread and
development of disease, specifically HIV and AIDS.”
“Even when the author is writing of life outside the hospital or the sickroom, her knowledge of our fragile bodies and vulnerable minds are evident--as is her understanding of the complexities of human existence and desire.”
“Hughes’ ability to create the setting and build the uneasiness is superb literary craft… prepare to have everything you’ve thought about the story suddenly change with the breathless rapidity of a rug being pulled out from under you.”
“Berlin writes as a physician, husband, father, friend, lover of music--and as a man who understands that he and his patients share a common and fragile humanity.”
“Readers will appreciate the book for the questions it raises and the thinking it inspires...[about] taking measures to avoid devastating enfeeblement and infirmity during old age.”
“The book explores the human condition and what it means to relate to one another with caring despite the interpersonal complications that can often arise.”
“[The author] brings together scholars and creative writers to celebrate the legacy of the sixteenth-century Flemish physician and anatomist, Andreas Vesalius and his landmark text, De Humani Corporis”
“In these two linked books, [the author] tells an extraordinary real life story that combines personal experience and world history into a narrative that is as powerful as any novel.”
“Crip Camp is in part a multi-voiced memoir told from the too-rare perspective of teenagers with disabilities about a shared formative experience and, simultaneously, a needed documentary about disability civil rights campaigns.”
“Covid-19 has has scorched societies at all levels all
around the world. Will anyone believe a movie is set in the current time period
without signs of Covid-19? Dileesh Pothan thinks not.”
“Is
Religion or Science best able to deal with the psychological problems that can
arise over a lifetime? Yaa Gyasi’s powerful new book aims to answer these
perennial questions.”
“[The] memoir points its readers in the direction of a safe passage to the home of our natural world, where, in finding union with that world, we may experience healing not only from COVID but from habits of the heart that have left us more broken than we know.”
“From this novel, we get Lethem’s view of how Tourette syndrome can affect everyday life and how it can progress; how people with the syndrome can think about it; the balance people seek between benefits and side effects of drug therapies; and whether it’s acceptable to think that some verbal and physical tics are funny.”
"The author-artist's black and white illustrations are potent in portraying her struggle to understand the seizures and her attempt to communicate their impact on her life.”
“By bringing public awareness to the critical shortcomings, corruption and politicization of the Romanian health care system, the filmmakers have created an important cautionary tale for other cities and countries who do not prioritize the health of their citizens.”