Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Goals of the Book, Audience and Background, How to Use this Book
Introduction to Literature and Medicine:
Part I: Literature Introduction: The Structure and Focus of the Chapters
Part II: Medicine Introduction: The Complexity of Clinical Medicine
Part One: Texts and Topics for Students
I. Narrative and Medicine
Chapter One: Narrative and Cognitive Science; Literature and Medicine.
Ø Vignette-discussion of an excerpt from My Own Country by Dr. Abraham
Verghese;
Ø Grace Paley, “A Conversation with My Father”
II. The Logic of Making a Diagnosis
Chapter Two: The Narrative Structure of Diagnosis.
Ø Vignette, “The Woman with Hyponatremia” (excerpt from The
Chief Concern);
Ø Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Resident Patient”;
Ø Associated poem, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 73: That Time of Year”
III. Professionalism
Chapter Three: Literature and Professionalism in Medicine.
Ø Vignette-discussion of an excerpt from “Playing God” by Dr. Michael
LaCombe;
Ø Dr. Richard Selzer, “Imelda”;
Ø Associated poem, Dr, Audrey Shafer, “Monday Morning”
IV. Building the Patient-Provider Relationship
Chapter Four: Rapport and Empathy in Medicine.
Ø Vignette, “An Elderly African-American Patient” (excerpt from The Chief
Concern);
Ø Dr. Anton Chekhov, “A Doctor’s Visit”;
Ø Associated poem, Dr. John Stone, “He Makes a House Call”
Chapter Five: Listening to Patients.
Ø Vignette, “Young Mother with Abdominal Pain” (excerpt from The Chief Concern);
Ø James Joyce, “Araby”;
Ø Associated poem, Dr. William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”
Chapter Six: The Patient.
Ø Vignette, excerpt from The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde;
Ø Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”;
Ø Associated poem, Dr. Raphael Campo, “The Couple”
Chapter Seven: The Doctor.
Ø Vignette, excerpt from Black Man in a White Coat by Dr. Damon Tweedy;
Ø Vignette-discussion of an excerpt from “Diagnosis” by Dr. Michael LaCombe;
Ø Paul Laurence Dunbar, “The Lynching of Jube Benson”;
Ø Associated poem, Traditional Spiritual, “Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child”
V. Everyday Ethics of Medical Practices
Chapter Eight: Everyday Ethics of Medical Practices.
Ø Vignette, “The Patient with Diabetic Ketoacidosis” (excerpt from
The Chief Concern);
Ø Anton Chekhov, “Enemies”;
Ø Associated poem, William Blake, “A Poison Tree”
VI. Vicarious Experiences
Chapter Nine: Culture.
Ø Vignette, “The Patient’s Chief Concern” (excerpt from The Chief Concern);
Ø Demetria Martinez, “The Annunciation: Lupe”;
Ø Associated poem, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, “Making Tortillas”
Chapter Ten: Sexual and Domestic Abuse.
Ø Vignette, “You Don’t Deserve This” by Dr. Jerry Vannatta;
Ø Edgar Allan Poe, “Berenice”;
Ø Associated poem, W. B. Yeats, “Leda and the Swan”
Chapter Eleven: Pain.
Ø Vignette, excerpt from Inside Chronic Pain: An Intimate and Critical Account by
Lous Heshusius;
Ø Herman Melville, “The Operation” from White Jacket;
Ø Associated poem, Emily Dickinson, “Pain has an Element of Blank”
Chapter Twelve: Ageing.
Ø Vignette, “Treating a Very Old Woman” by Dr. Jerry Vannatta;
Ø Nathaniel Hawthorne, a chapter from House of Seven Gables;
Ø Associated poem, Thomas Hardy, “I Look into my Glass”
VII. Mistakes in Medicine
Chapter Thirteen: Mistakes in Medicine.
Ø Vignette, “Mistake” by Dr. Jerry Vannatta;
Ø Gustav Flaubert, a chapter from Madame Bovary;
Ø Associated poem, Dr, Dannie Abse, “In the Theatre”
VIII. Death and Dying
Chapter Fourteen: Death and Dying.
Ø Vignette, “The Good Death” by Dr. Jerry Vannatta;
Ø Vignette, “Frenzy Facing Death” by Dr. Jerry Vannatta;
Ø Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych;
Ø Associated poem, John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud”
IX. Postscript: The Fulfillments of Healthcare
Chapter Fifteen: Afterword
Ø Associated poem, Derek Mahon, “Everything is Going to be All Right”
Part Two: Appendices
Appendix 1: Experimental Results: The Cognitive Science of Literary Reading
Appendix 2: Discussion Questions for the Chapters
Appendix 3: Questions for Daily Writing
Appendix 4: Guide for Discussing Diagnosis and Diagnosis Errors (Chapter 2)
Appendix 5: Casey Hester, MD., Jerry Vannatta, MD, and Ronald Schleifer, PhD, “Medical Professionalism: Using Literary Narrative to Explore and Evaluate Medical Professionalism,” an essay which includes “the Elements of Genres of Narrative” (Chapter 3)
Appendix 6: Ronald Schleifer and Jerry Vannatta, “Teaching Hemingway to Medical Students” (Chapter 5)
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