Teaching Literature and Medicine Book

	Introduction: Teaching Literature and Medicine: A Retrospective and a Rationale	1
	Literary Concepts for Medical Readers: Frame, Time, Plot, Desire	29
	Illness in America	42
	Medical History and Literary Texts	55
	The History and Literature of Women's Health	65
	Teaching the Body in Texts: Literature, Culture, and Religion	77
	Exploring the Human Condition: Literature and Public Health Issues	92
	Ethics, Language, and Narrative	105
	Madness and Suicide as Themes in Western Literature	119
	Mind and Body, Psyche and Soma: Metaphors from Greek Myth through Literature to the Clinic	128
	Literature and Medicine as a Writing Course	141
	Light to the Mind: Literature in the Medical Spanish Course	151
	The Tyranny of the Normal	163
	Rhetoric and the Politics of Medical Persuasion	175
	Touchstones: A Brief Survey of Some Standard Works	187
	Plague Medicine in Langland's Piers Plowman	200
	Teaching Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Medical Texts as Literature	208
	"Doctor" Frankenstein and "Scientific" Medicine	218
	The Nineteenth Century's Obsession with Medicine: Flaubert's Madame Bovary	226
	Kafka's Corpus: Writing Tuberculosis and Being Literature	233
	The Tigers of Wrath: Mann's Death in Venice as Myth and Medicine	243
	"There Is Something Wrong about the Fellow": Willa Cather's "Paul's Case"	252
	Birthing Death: Sharon Olds's The Father and the Poetics of the Body	260
	The Hospital Poetry of U.A. Fanthorpe	267
	Health and Healing in the Works of Three African American Women Writers	277
	Critical Conditions: Teaching Illness Narrative	282
	"Dancing in Very Narrow Spaces": Pinter's A Kind of Alaska in Performance	289
	Sherlock Holmes and Clinical Reasoning	299
	Nurses' Poetry: Expanding the Literature and Medicine Canon	306
	Literature and the Irony of Medical Science	316
	"Poor Yorick": Reflections on Gross Anatomy	327
	In Brief: A Literature Seminar in Clinical Medical Education	333
	Signifying Medication in Thom Jones's "Superman, My Son"	338
	(Un)Professional Relationships in the Gendered Maze of Medicine	344
	"Read Two Chapters and Call Me in the Morning": Teaching Literature to Physicians	353
	General Bibliographies	367
	Journals	367
	Anthologies of Primary Sources	367
	Online Resources at New York University School of Medicine	368
	Centers and Societies	370
	Selective Bibliography of Secondary Sources in Literature and Medicine	371
	Selective Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources in the History of Medicine	373
	Notes on Contributors	385
	Index	399