{"id":78,"date":"2017-03-12T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T17:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2017-03-12T21:53:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T21:53:30","slug":"core-texts-in-medical-humanities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/resources\/core-texts-in-medical-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Core texts in medical humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A core reading list in medical humanities <\/strong><em>with notes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>John Gillies created this list in January 2017. Many are suitable for adapting into posts (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\">examples on home page<\/a>) and you may have things that should be added to the list below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Suggest new items for this list in Comments at the foot of this page.<\/li>\n<li>Send complete submissions &#8211; follow the info on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org\/human\/contact-us\/\">Contact Us<\/a> page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Core reading list<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Gavin Francis:<\/strong> <em>Adventures in Human Being<\/em> (2015). ? under Anatomy. But could of course fit in many places as background reading for undergraduates<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Tools of the Trade:<\/strong> <em>poems for new doctors<\/em>.\u00a0 We are reviewing this with Scottish Poetry Library in 2017, and looking at how it might be used and evaluated earlier on in the medical UG course<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>William Carlos Williams<\/strong>: <em>the Doctor Stories<\/em>\u00a0 A short collection based on his experiences as a family doctor in a poor area of New Jersey in the 1920s and 30s. Powerful, unvarnished, evocative.\u00a0\u00a0 General Practice but could be used for discussion of professionalism in all medical disciplines<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Miguel Torga<\/strong>: <em>diaries 1933-1976<\/em> (extracts) translated from the Portuguese by Iain Bamforth<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1314186\/pdf\/11766866.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download as pdf<\/a> (see pages 18-22 of the pdf, pp1042-1047 of BJGP from December 2001).<br \/>\nDiaries and patient stories of Miguel Torga, literary GP in Coimbra, Portugal.<br \/>\nGeneral Practice<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Franz Kafka<\/strong>: <em>A Country Doctor<\/em> tr Iain Bamforth. Probably based on Kafka\u2019s uncle Loewy, a rural GP in Bohemia, this is a disquieting story about a doctor\u2019s nightmare, or possibly reality of a night call. General Practice + all disciplines<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Kathleen Jamie\/ Brigid Collins<\/strong>: <em>Frissure<\/em> Prose poems \/ texts and drawings\/ paintings after Jamie\u2019s mastectomy for breast cancer.\u00a0 Oncology\/ breast surgery\/ general practice<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Siddhartha Mukherjee<\/strong>: <em>The Emperor of all maladies<\/em>, a biography of cancer<br \/>\nShould be a compulsory read for all surgeons and all oncologists in embryo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Siddhartha Mukherjee<\/strong>: <em>The Laws of Medicine<\/em>\u00a0 (TED Books) Law 1: Rumours are more important than tests. Law 2: The piece of data that does not fit your model is the most crucial piece of data that you own. Law 3: For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.<br \/>\nImportant counterblast to simplistic ideas of EBM<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>John Berger &amp; Jean Mohr<\/strong> (intro Gavin Francis) <em>A Fortunate Man<\/em> A GP and his patients in the 1960s. Classic, still very relevant General Practice<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Henry Marsh<\/strong> <em>Do no harm<\/em> A neurosurgeon talks frankly about brain surgery, hospitals and hope Neurosurgery<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Paul Kalanithi<\/strong>: <em>When breath becomes air<\/em> A young doctor tells the story of his life with incurable cancer, with an afterword by his physician wife Palliative care\/ oncology<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Iain Bamforth<\/strong>: <em>The Body in the Library<\/em> : a literary anthology of modern medicine. Verso Books 2003. A huge potential resource for medical students. Bamforth\u2019s selections and translations from French, German, Portuguese and Russion cover the whole gamut of commentary on medicine from Berger to Virginia Woolf via Chekhov, Torga and Kafka (A Country Doctor) and Kierkegaard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Iain Bamforth<\/strong> <em>A Doctor\u2019s Dictionary<\/em>\u00a0 Humorous, exacting and erudiate look at medicine today. All specialities!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Ivan Illich<\/strong>: <em>Limits to Medicine, medical nemesis<\/em>. Pelican 1977. Illich\u2019s radical take on medicine is probably even more relevant today than 1977.\u00a0 All specialities\/ public health<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>David I Harvie<\/strong>: <em>Limeys<\/em> medical history which deserves to be better known: the story of discovering how to prevent and treat scurvy All specialties\/ EBM\/Public health<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Oliver Sachs<\/strong>: <em>seeing voices<\/em>. Sacks\u2019 foray into the world of the deaf, some of our most neglected and stoical patients\u00a0 all specialties\/ ENT\/ general practice<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>John Salinsky<\/strong>: <em>medicine and literature<\/em>. Salinsky\u2019s reviews of major pieces of literature :\u00a0 Austen, Bronte, Eliot, Kafka form a medic\u2019s view. All specialties<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Clement Bryce Gunn<\/strong>: <em>Leaves from the life of a country doctor<\/em>. (Foreword by John Buchan) Stories of medicine and\u00a0 general practice in Peebleshire in 1880s to 1918. Well written and compelling General Practice<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Stressed\/unstressed<\/strong>:<em> classic poems to ease the mind<\/em>. J Bate, Paula Byrne, S Ratcliffe, A Schuman (eds) This interesting collection and commentary is edited by literary scholars and a meic in oxford. really intended to help lay individuals, I think it could have a place for medical students as well All specialities<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; padding-left: 30px;\">John Gillies 9th January 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A core reading list in medical humanities with notes John Gillies created this list in January 2017. Many are suitable for adapting into posts (examples on home page) and you may have things that should be added to the list below. 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