Literary Essays
Lena Arampatzidou
Synesthesia in medicine and the humanities
Kate Baggott
A difficult diagnosis: humor – how we laugh at doctors
Katherina Baranova
The unsexed woman: depictions of women in 19th century fictional literature
Greg Beatty
Bones and Bots: what classic science fiction tells us about contemporary medicine new
Angela Belli
Dr. Blockhead’s victory: up there, down here
Ending one’s life on the stage
Victoria Bonebakker
Humanities at the heart of healthcare
Basil Brooke
‘The lament of the Old Woman of Beare’—contrasting the passage of life
Vasudha Chandra
Kathleen Coggshall
Sylvia Plath: the tortured artist?
Jack Coulehan
Walt Whitman: a difficult patient
Paul Dakin
Sir Roderick Glossop: Wodehouse’s “eminent loony doctor”
Noah DeLone
Sabina Dosani
Madness, mind-doctors and Mrs Dalloway
Martin Duke
Tobias Smollett, MD: his medical life and experiences
George Dunea
Aphorisms and facetiae of Bela Schick
Aphorisms from Latham
John Keats – one whose name was writ in water new
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, apostle of women’s liberation new
Kathryne Dycus
Reading the brain in John Keats’s Ode to Psyche new
Francesco Enia
An Eliotian journey through suffering
Laura Fitzpatrick
James L. Franklin
To the Glory of God and the Service of Man: The Life of James A. Campbell, M.D.
Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age of Flimflam
A bit of irony: Sir William Wilde and Oscar Wilde new
Ashleigh Frayne
Visualizing the paradise within
Dean Gianakos
Grant Gillett and Robin Hankey
Sophocles’ Antigone and the complexities of suicide
John Graham-Pole
Valerie Gribben
The Brothers Grimm under the knife
Stanley Gutiontov
Sarah Jane I. Irawa
Madame Defarge: the psychology of vengeance
Leah Kaminsky
Sylvia R. Karasu
Hawthorne’s ‘The Birthmark:’ a failure to find a perfect future in an imperfect present
About face: from revulsion to compassion
Anna Lantz
The Hagströmer Medico-Historical Library: a cultural treasure
Anna Lantz and Einar Perman
The basilisk—a cause of sudden death
John Last
Carol Levine
New opioid epidemic: another long day’s journey
Pekka Louhiala and Raimo Puustinen
Placebo effect or care effect? Four examples from the literary world
James Mathew & Robert Pavlik
Of Pine and Man: Reflecting on Henry David Thoreau’s Sentiment in ‘Chesuncook’
Giuseppe P. Mazzarello
Jamie McKinstry
Experiencing metaphor: a medieval headache
Lea Mendes
The medical journey of Charles Dickens
Atara Messinger
Margaret Edson’s W;t: lessons on person-centered care new
Lisa Mulleneaux
Ella’s addiction: the story of a mother and morphine new
Tony Miksanek
Grumpy doctors and the short story
Joshua D. Niforatos
Love, cancer and the caregiver’s faith of C.S. Lewis
Serefnur Oztur
My stroke of insight: a brain scientist’s personal journey
J.M.S. Pearce
Observations on Acronyms
Patrick Branwell Brontë (1817-1848): A tale of aspiration and decline
George Gordon Lord Byron and his limp
Giorgina Barbara Piccoli and Martina Ferraresi
Cosmas and Damian: a southern Italian story of tolerance, sex, war, religion, and medicine
Solomon Posen
The doctor in literature: the abortion and the abortionist
Gregory W. Rutecki
Consumption and vampires: metaphor and myth before science
Bonnie Salomon
Emily Dickinson and medical ethics: the “Belle of Amherst” as ethicist
Richard Selzer
Fergus Shanahan
The unloved gut
The professor and the playwright on what it means to care new
Michael D. Shulman
Anoushka Sinha
Manifestations of madness in King Lear
Mahala Yates Stripling
Richard Selzer: the birth of literature and medicine
Annette Tuffs
The morbid poet: Gottfried Benn, the morgue and the mysterious postcard
Mary Vallo
Resounding silence: the trouble with Hamlet’s body and soul
Narrative control and the monster within: empowering disability in Jane Eyre
Roslyn Weaver
Medical mysteries and detective doctors: metaphors of medicine
Maarten Wensink
Tolstoy: insights for doctors and other humans
Mila H. Whiteley
Reason vs. Emotion in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley
Winona Winkler Wendth
Sarah Wise
Why ‘Nurse’ Grace Poole is the greatest puzzle in Jane Eyre
Bill Wolak
Timelessness of the intangible
Frank Wollheim
Joseph Roth, a visionary poet and victim of European history
Afsheen Zafar
Larry Zaroff & Tony Chan
Emily Dickinson’s mystifying in-sight
