PART I: DISEASE AND ILLNESS
Chapter 1 Being a Good Story: The Humanities as Therapeutic Practice
Chapter 2 Illuminating the It, Thee, and We of Disease and Illness:The Metamorphosis and Related Works
Chapter 3 “This Weird, Incurable Disease”: Competing Diagnoses in the Rhetoric of Morgellons
Chapter 4 My Quest for Health
PART II: DISABILITY
Chapter 5 Disability in Two Doctor Stories
Chapter 6 Music and Disability
Chapter 7 American Narrative Films and Disability: An Uneasy History
Chapter 8 Standout
PART III: DEATH AND DYING
Chapter 9 When the Doctor Is Not God: The Impact of Religion on Medical Decision-Making at the End of Life
Chapter 10 Postmodern Death and Dying: A Literary Analysis
Chapter 11 Second-Degree Block: Poem and Commentary
PART IV PATIENT-PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter 12 Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, and the Social Context of the Patient-Professional Relationship
Chapter 13 Humanities and the Medical Home
Chapter 14 Occupational Medicine
PART V: THE BODY
Chapter 15 The Virtues of the Imperfect Body
Chapter 16 Seeing Bodies in Pain
Chapter 17 Public Fetuses
Chapter 18 More Body: A Performance for Five (or More) Bodies
PART VI: GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Chapter 19 Adult Intake Form
Chapter 20 What Is Sex For? or, The Many Uses of the Vag
Chapter 21 “I Always Prefer the Scissors”: Isaac Baker Brown and Feminist Histories of Medicine
Chapter 22 Comics in the Health Humanities: A New Approach to Sex and Gender Education
Chapter 23 I Am Gula, Hear Me Roar
PART VII: RACE AND CLASS
Chapter 24 Listening as Freedom: Narrative, Health, and Social Justice
Chapter 25 Race and Mental Health
Chapter 26 Law’s Hand in Race, Class, and Health Inequities: On the Humanities and the Social Determinants of Health
Chapter 27 Dark Rooms of Our Souls
PART VIII: AGING
Chapter 28 “Old Age Isn’t a Battle, It’s a Massacre”: Reading Philip Roth’s Everyman
Chapter 29 “Do You Remember Me?”: Construction of Alzheimer’s Disease in Literature and Film
Chapter 30 Love in the Time of Dementia
PART IX MENTAL ILLNESS
Chapter 31 Narrating Our Sadness, with a Little Help from Humanities
Chapter 32 Teaching Narratives of Mental Illness
Chapter 33 Community Psychiatry and the Medical Humanities
Chapter 34 Culpability
PART X SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION
Chapter 35 Rites of Bioethics
Chapter 36 Health and Humanities: Spirituality and Religion
Chapter 37 Scientia Mortis and the ArsMoriendi: To the Memory of Norman
Chapter 38 Meditations of an Anesthesiologist: Poem and Commentary
PART XI: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 39 Andromeda’s Futures: A Story of Humanities, Technology, Science, and Art
Chapter 40 Knowing and Seeing: Reconstructing Frankenstein
Chapter 41 A Brief History of Love: A Rationale for the History of Epidemics
Chapter 42 Calcedonies
PART XII HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION
Chapter 43 Teaching Autism through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing the Divide between Bioethics and Medical Humanities
Chapter 44 Courting Discomfort in an Undergraduate Health Humanities Classroom
Chapter 45 The Medical Humanities in Medical Education: Toward a Medical Aesthetics of Resistance
Chapter 46 In Defense of Cheaper Stethoscopes