Favorite Readings for Lit & Med

Drama

• W;t by Margaret Edson
• Medical Reader's Theater: A Guide and Scripts ed. T.L. Savitt

Fiction

• "A Nurse's Story" from A Nurse's Story and Others by Peter Baida
• Regeneration by Pat Barker
• Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
• The Plague by Albert Camus
• "We are Nighttime Travelers" from Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin
• Cathedral by Raymond Carver
• He's at the Office by Allan Gurganus
• You Are Not A Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
• The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
• Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen
• "People Like That Are the Only People Here" from Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
• Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
• Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
• The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy

Non-Fiction

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War by Margaret R. Higonnet
• "On Being a Cripple" from Plain Text by Nancy Mairs
• Turkegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (Studies in Social Medicine) edited by Susan Reverby
• Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams

Poetry

• Without by Donald Hall
• Otherwise: Collected Poems by Jane Kenyon
• Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill, poems by Veneta Masson
• The Book of Job trans. Stephen Mitchell
• Between the Heart Beats: Poetry & Prose by Nurses edited by Cortney Davis and Judy Schaefer