MEDICINE, TRAINING, DOCTORS, HOSPITALS
Vincent Lam’s Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (‘How to Get into Medical School Part 1’) – fiction
Stephen A. Hoffman’s Under the Ether Dome (Chapter 1 ‘Medical School’) – non-fiction
Johnathan Kaplan’s The Dressing Station (extracts) – non-fiction
Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Country Doctor’s Notebook (‘The Speckled Rash’) – fiction
Ian McEwan’s Saturday (extracts) – fiction
Samuel Shem’s The House of God (extracts) – fiction
Philip Roth’s Anatomy Lesson (extracts) – fiction
MATERNITY & OBSTETRICS
Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work (‘Forty Weeks’) – a non-fiction, ‘patient’ perspective
Vincent Lam’s Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (‘An Insistent Tide’) – a fiction, patient perspective
PAEDIATRICS
Lorrie Moore’s ‘People Like That Are the Only People Here’ from Birds of America – a fictional, patient perspective
William Carlos Williams’ ‘The Girl with a Pimply Face’, ‘The Use of Force’, ‘Jean Beicke’ from Doctor Stories – a fiction, doctor perspective
COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY
John Berger’s A Fortunate Man – a non-fiction, third-party perspective
JD O’Connor ‘Doctor in the Dales’ – a non-fiction, doctor perspective
Carlo Levi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli (extracts) – a non-fiction, doctor perspective
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera (extract) – a fiction, third-party perspective
CANCER
Barbara Ehrehreich’s Smile Or Die (‘The Bright Side of Cancer’) – a non-fiction, patient perspective
Sophie Petit-Zeman’s Doctor, what’s wrong? (extracts) – a fiction, third-party perspective
Lia Mills’ In Your Face (extracts) – a non-fiction, patient perspective
Paul Zweig’s Departures (extracts) – a non-fiction, patient perspective
DEATH
Sherwin B. Nuland’s How We Die (‘Doors to Death of the Aged’) – a non-fiction perspective
Joyce Carol Oates’ ‘Angel of Mercy’ from The Female of the Species – fiction
Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych – fiction
PSYCHIATRY & DIALOGUE
Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture (extracts) – a non-fiction perspective on both doctor and patient
Oliver Sacks ‘An Interview’
Paul Valéry’s ‘Socrates and his Physician’ (extract) – fiction
Herman Broch The Death of Virgil (extract) – fiction
MAJORITY WORLD & MINORITY LIVES
Dave Eggers’ What is the What? (extracts) – fiction
Donnacha Rynne’s Being Donnacha (extacts) – non-fiction
Jean-Dominique Bauby’s The Diving Bell & the Butterfly (extracts) – non-fiction
POETRY
Work from poets including Patrick Kavanagh, Núala Ní Dhómhnaill, Anne Sexton, Nessa O’Mahony, John Stone, and Philip Casey
THEORY
Petr Skrabanek and James McCormick’s Follies and Fallacies in Modern Medicine