REPRESENTATIVE PRINT AND ONLINE RESOURCES FOR NARRATIVE MEDICINE
For the most comprehensive and updated information, see the Gold Foundation’s Gold Databases of Research on humanism in medicine, and the Literature Arts Medicine Database maintained by NYU Langone Health.
Georgetown University offers an online course, Interacting with the Medical Humanities.
Videos:
Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D. Honoring the Stories of Illness. TEDx, Atlanta, GA: November 4, 2011.
Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D. A Sense of Story, or Narrative Medicine for the Chaos of Illness. OHMA Columbia, Columbia University, NY: January 24, 2018.
Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D. The Power of Narrative Medicine. CHCMCCSMTV: June 13, 2017.
Dominick LaCapra, Ph.D. Narrative Medicine: Trauma and Its After-Effects. Columbia University, NY: May 3, 2003.
Michael Green, M.D., M.S. Holy Graphic Medicine, Batman! Penn State College of Medicine, October 6, 2017.
Abraham Verghese, M.D. Narrative Medicine: A Colloquium. Columbia University, NY: May 2, 2003.
Books:
Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D. Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness
Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D., et al., eds. The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine
Paul Crawford, et al. Health Humanities
Ronald Epstein, M.D. Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Yasmin Gunaratnam and David Oliviere, eds. Narrative and Stories in Health Care: Illness, Dying, and Bereavement
Lynn Harter, Phyllis Japp, and Christina Beck. Narratives, Health, and Healing: Communication Theory, Research, and Practice
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D. Healing the Mind through the Power of Story: The Promise of Narrative Psychiatry
Lewis Mehl-Madrona, M.D., Ph.D. Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process
Danielle Ofri, M.D. What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Susan Pories M.D., et al., eds. The Soul of a Doctor: Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death
Reflective Stories by and About Patients:
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson
Lucia Amsden, Breaking Eggs: Finding New Meaning with Chronic Illness
Janel Atlas, ed. They Were Still Born: Personal Stories About Stillbirth
Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of
Tom Brokaw, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope
Marion Coutts, The Iceberg: A Memoir
Joan Didion, Blue Nights
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Jenny Diski, In Gratitude
Phil Dwyer, Conversations on Dying: A Palliative-Care Pioneer Faces His Own Death
Roger Ebert, Life Itself
Susan Gubar, Ph.D. Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
Carolyn Heilbrun, Ph.D. The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
Christopher Hitchens, Mortality
Eve Joseph, In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Dying
Audre Lord, The Cancer Journals
Geralyn Lucas, Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Gerald May, The Wisdom of Wilderness: Experiencing the Healing Power of Nature
David Rieff, Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir
Katie Roiphe, The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
William Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club
Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor
Sophie van der Stap, The Girl with Nine Wigs
Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill
Reflective Stories by and About Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals:
Theresa Brown, R.N. The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives
Vincent DeVita, M.D. The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable — and How We Can Get There
Jerome Groopman, M.D. The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
Jerome Groopman, M.D. How Doctors Think
Cory Franklin, M.D. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
Atul Gawande, M.D. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande, M.D. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
Ronald Glasser, M.D. The Body Is the Hero
Mimi Guarnieri, M.D. The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of
Lee Gutkind, ed. I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse
Paul Kalanithi, M.D. When Breath Becomes Air
Leah Kaminsky, M.D. ed. Writer, M.D.: The Best Contemporary Fiction and Nonfiction by Doctors
Baron Lerner, M.D. The Good Doctor: A Father, A Son, and the Evolution of Medical Ethics
Martin Makary, M.D. Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
Eric Manheimer, M.D. Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital
Daniel Munoz, M.D. Alpha Docs: The Making of a Cardiologist
Sherwin Nuland, M.D. How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter
Abraham Nussbaum, M.D. The Finest Traditions of My Calling: One Physician’s Search for the Renewal of Medicine
Anand Panwalker, M.D. The Place of Cold Water: A Memoir
Paul Ruggieri, M.D. Confessions of a Surgeon: The Good, the Bad, and the Complicated . . . Life Behind the O.R. Doors
Eric Topol, M.D. The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands,
Oliver Sacks, M.D. Gratitude
Oliver Sacks, M.D. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Abraham Verghese, M.D. Cutting for Stone
Angelo Volandes, M.D. The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
