This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work.
This book examines the phenomenon of physician-authors. Focusing on the books that contemporary doctors write--the stories that they tell--with contributors critically engaging their work.
A selection of original chapters from leading scholars in medical and health humanities analyze the literary output of doctors, including Oliver Sacks, Danielle Ofri, Atul Gawande, Louise Aronson, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Abraham Verghese. Discussing issues of moral meaning in the works of contemporary doctor-writers, from memoir to poetry, this collection reflects some of the diversity of medicine today.
A key reference for all students and scholars of medical and health humanities, the book will be especially useful for those interested in the relationship between literature and practising medicine.
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"Contemporary Physicians-Authors demonstrates that most of today's writers speak in a self-aware, reflective voice that keeps them close to the ground, while they also retain the flexibility to take a more bird's-eye view to comment, report, and advocate. The book's primary audience is academic (e.g., students and professors of medical humanities), but anyone who has read a few or more of these authors is likely to find something of interest and perhaps discover a brand-new author to investigate." -Jack Coulehan, Journal of Medical Humanities
Introduction. Part One: Two Traditional Representatives. 1.Richard
Selzer: Three Troubling Tales of Physicians Peculiar Behavior 2.Oliver
Sacks: A Kind of Reminiscence. Part Two: Three Contemporary Favorites.
3.Perri Klass: Books Are Like Stethoscopes. 4.Abraham Verghese: The Power of
Storytelling. 5.Atul Gawande: Doctoring, Dying, and the Pursuit of "Better".
Part Three: Medicine, Meaning, and Identity. 6.Danielle Ofri: Offering
Lessons for All. 7.Paul Kalanithi: Sometimes, They BreakCraft as a Window.
8.Joanna Cannon: Leaving Medicine to Pursue a Physicians Calling. 9.Damon
Tweedy: Stories on Being Black, Sick, and Marginalized. 10.Fady Joudah: An
Exploration of Borders and Boundaries. 11.Louise Aronson: Using Facts and
Stories to Improve Medical Care for Older Adults. 12.Marc Agronin: Into the
Heart of Growing Old. Part Four: Alternative Models. 13.David Watts and Frank
Huyler: A Tale of Two Patients, 14.Siddhartha Mukherjee: Tending and
ExtendingThe Long and Short of Siddhartha Mukherjee. 15.Arthur Kleinman:
Professional Caregiving Narratives Become Personal
Nathan Carlin is Professor in the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA, where he holds the Samuel Karff Chair.
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