List of Great Readings

Readings: Medical Lives

Ellen Ronald Bayer and Gerald M. Oppenheimer, AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic. An Oral History (2000)
Michael Bliss, Harvey Cushing: A Life in Surgery (2005)
Tracy Kidder, Mountains beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (2003)
Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn (1999)
Ellen. More, Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Parry, eds., Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine (2009)
Arleen Marcia Tuchman, Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D. (2006)

Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face (1994)
John J. Gunther, Death Be Not Proud (1949)
Arthur Kleinman, The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition (1988)
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals (1980)
Marjorie Williams (edited by Timothy Noah), The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Writings on Politics, Family, and Fate (2005)

Robert A. Aronowitz, Unnatural History: Breast Cancer and American Society (2007)
Chris Feudtner, Bitter Sweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness (2003)
Janet Golden, Message in a Bottle: The Making and Unmaking of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (2005)
Howard Markel, When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics that Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed (2004)
Gregg Mitman, Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes (2007)
Keith Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (2001)

Charles L. Briggs (with Clara Mantini-Briggs), Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare (2003)
Philippe Bourgeois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (1996)
Cathy J. Cohen, The Boundaries of Blackness : AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (1999)
Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (1997)
Julie Livingston, Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana (2005)
Luise White, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa (2000)

Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society. On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (2007)
Adrianna Petryna, Andrew Lakoff, and Arthur Kleinman, Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices. (2006)
Nicolas Rasmussen, On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine (2008)
David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman, The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement (2003)
Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, eds., Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History (2007)

Mary E. Fissell, Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England (2004)
Shigehisa Kuriyama, The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (1999)
Emily Martin, Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS (1994)
Katherine Park, Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection (2006)
Deanna Petherbridge and Ludmilla Jordanova, The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy (1997)
Ruth Richardson, The Making of Mr. Gray’s Anatomy: Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame (2008)

Judith A. Houck, Hot and Bothered: Women, Medicine, and Menopause in Modern America (2006)
Jonathan Michel Metzl, Prozac on the Coach: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs (2003)
Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 (1997)
Barron H. Lerner, The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America (2001)
Sally Morgen, Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States, 1969-1990 (2002)
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America (2007)

Warwick Anderson, Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines (2006)
Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa (2007)
Paula M. Michaels, Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin’s Central Asia (2003)
Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002)
Ruth Rogaski, Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (2004)

Rita Charon, Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness (2006)
Atul Gewande, Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (2002)
Arthur Kleinman, What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life Amidst Uncertainty and Danger (2006)
Sherwin B. Nuland, How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (1994)
Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985)
Richard Selzer, Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery (1976)
Abraham Verghese, My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (1994)