From reading to healing: teaching medical professionalism through literature

From Reading to Healing: An Introduction from the Clinical Perspective / Susan Stagno

From Reading to Healing: An Introduction from a Health Humanities Perspective / Michael Blackie.

Part I: The Humanities in Medical Education: Some Key Texts :

Why Analyze a Sonnet?: Avoiding Presumption through Close Reading / Devon Madon

The Ethics of Reading: Close Encounters / Jane Gallop

Medicine and the Silent Oracle: An Exercise in Uncertainty / Catherine Belling

Reflecting on "Perspective Shift" / Daniel Shapiro

Occasional Notes: Medical Ethics and Living a Life / Robert Coles

The Wonders of Literature in Medical Education / Joanne Trautmann.

Part II: Boundaries :

On Both Sides of the Stethoscope: Teaching Professional Boundaries in Medical Education / Julie Aultman

Toenails / Richard Selzer

Professionalism in the Practice of Psychotherapy / Kelly Fiore, Robert Dicker, Sailaja Akella, Pamela Hoffman

A Novel Approach to Narrative-Based Professionalism: The Literature Classroom in Medical Education / Pamela Schaff, Erika Wright

"Playing God" / Susan Stagno.

Part III: Empathy and Respect :

Below the Surface: A "Most Beautiful" Understanding / Aparna Atluru, Michael Laney, Tianyi Du

The Most Beautiful Woman in Town / Charles Bukowski

"Do You Always Swear at Your Patients?": Teaching Professionalism Using Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Speckled Rash" / Clayton J. Baker

The Speckled Rash / Mikhail Bulgakov

Reign over Me: A Film Resource for Reflecting on Themes Related to Grief, Meaning, and Professionalism in Healthcare / Pamela Brett-MacLean, Louanne Keenan, David Kelner

Teaching Literature and Professionalism: Course Design, Texts, and Didactic Approaches / Anne Johnson, Adam Brenner

The Lady, or the Tiger? / Frank Stockton

"Death Is Here, and I Am Thinking of an Appendix!": On Rereading "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" / Abraham M. Nussbaum

The Death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Kikolayevich Tolstoy

Bed Controls: Narrative Ethics and Professional Identity / Rebecca Garden

"Okay, So I'm in This Bed" / Tony Grammaglia.

Part IV: Authority and Duty :

The Mustard Seed and the Poison Arrow: Using Religious Literature to Teach Professionalism in Medicine / Tara Flanagan

The Mustard Seed

Parable of the Poisoned Arrow

How an Effort to Understand an Enigmatic Literary Text Can Translate into Our Practice of Medicine / Sara Pawlowski

Unpacking Physician Behavior in "The Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams / Allan Peterkin

The Use of Force / William Carlos Williams

Challenging the Orthodoxy of "Perfection" / Linda Raphael

The Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Book of the Grotesque / Sherwood Anderson

Assisting Medical Students in the Creation of a Class Oath Using Comics / Michael Redinger, Cheryl Dickson, Elizabeth Lorbeer

Literature and Psychiatry / Lloyd A. Wells.

Part V: Stigma :

Structural Violence, HIV/AIDS, and the Use of Narrative Medicine to Examine Individual and Collective Storytelling / Samantha Barrick, Rosa Lee

Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine / Paul Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, Salmaan Keshavjee

Narcissism and Empathy in Flaubert's Madame Bovery / Kelly Fiore

Speechless: Shame, Stigma, and Professionalism in David Sedaris's "Go Carolina" / Lisa Kerr Dunn.

Part VI: Truth-Telling and Communication :

Listen to My Tale: Frankenstein and Physician-Patient Disagreements / Clayton J. Baker, Sarah Berry, Stephani Brown Clark

Latin American Literature, the Hispanic Patient, and Professionalism in Healthcare / Anne Stachura

The Youngest Doll / Rosario Fere, Diana Velez

Peyo Mercé and the Dietician / Abelardo Diaz Alfaro

Connections in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Using Reflective Writing to Engage in Providing Healthcare to Women / Abigail Ford Winkel, Lauren Mitchell, Stephanie Blank.

Part VII: Conclusion-Cautionary Words :

Disorderly Conduct: Calling Out the Hidden Curriculum(s) of Professionalism / Delese Wear, Joseph Zarconi, Rebecca Garden.