The Literature and Medicine Book Series

published by Kent State University Press

.	The Spirit of the Place Samuel Shem
Bodies and Barriers Dramas of Dis-Ease edited by Angela Belli
	Lisa’s Story The Other Shoe Tom Batiuk
Wider than the Sky Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson edited by Cindy MacKenzie and Barbara Dana
	Stories of Illness and Healing Women Write Their Bodies Edited by Sayantani Das Gupta and Marsha Hurst
Checkhov's Doctors A collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales Edited by Jack Coulehan In his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. The stories in Chekhov’s Doctors are powerful portraits of doctors in their everyday lives, struggling with their own personal problems as well as trying to serve their patients
	Tenderly Lift Me Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered Jeanne Bryner Author Jeanne Bryner has gathered biographical sketches of remarkable nurses, each accompanied by poetry and photographs, and has created the multigenre presentation that is the compassionate and complex Tenderly Lift Me. This book concentrates on nurses' voices and experiences, and extends perceptions of how health care is understood and delivered by recognizing nurses as primary caregivers
What's Normal? Narratives of Mental & Emotional Disorders Edited by Carol Donley and Sheryl Buckley The first section of What’s Normal? presents a wide-ranging collection of essays and articles written by renowned clinicians who address clinical, ethical, and social issues related to mental illness and disorders. The second section uses fiction, poetry, and drama to portray mental and behavioral abnormalities, sometimes from “inside” the perspective of the deviant and sometimes from the experiences of family, friends, and other engaged observers
	The Tyranny of the Normal An Anthology Edited by Carol Donley and Sheryl Buckley This anthology examines the experiences of those who live outside social norms for attractiveness, size, and shape; it also explores the reactions of “normal” people to those who seem grotesque. The first section includes essays and articles written by health care professionals about the treatment of those with eating disorders or physical deformities. Part two contains more than 40 stories, poems, and plays about people with various abnormalities
Literature and Aging An Anthology Edited by Martin Kohn, Carol Donley, and Delese Wear Some of the world's greatest literature is devoted to expressing the joys and sorrows humans experience as they grow old. This collection of more than 60 short stories, poems, and plays addresses these issues primarily through the works of modern American writers. The selections represent the experience of aging from the perspective of persons of diverse color, ethnicity, and background
	Recognitions Doctors & Their Stories Edited by Carol Donley and Martin Kohn Carol Donley & Martin Kohn believe that “physicians stand at a unique vantage point as observers of the human condition.” In Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories, contributors Richard Selzer, Robert Coles, Perri Klass, Jack Coulehan, prove this assertion through their moving and enlightening prose
The Poetry of Nursing Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-Poets Edited by Judy Schaefer Judy Schaefer has compiled this anthology of contemporary nurse-poets’ work, which is accompanied by their commentaries about their poetry, their work, and their lives. She has gathered contributions from some of the best-known nurse-poets as well as from those who deserve to be.
	Our Human Hearts A Medical and Cultural Journey Albert Howard Carter III A nonfiction exploration of the meanings of the human heart as interpreted by two traditions: medical science, which has made possible dramatic cardiac surgery and sophisticated drug treatments, and the much older cultural traditions that view the heart as a repository for wisdom, courage, emotion and the soul.
Fourteen Stories Doctors, Patients and Other Strangers Jay Baruch A rich collection of short fiction that gives voice to a variety of people who, faced with difficult moral choices, find themselves making disturbing self-discoveries. Baruch’s unique voice is a welcome addition to the genre of medical narratives—fiction and non-fiction alike—that is becoming increasingly important to medical and nursing schools’ and university curricula