Publications
Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature
Greenwood Press, 2005
See Chapter link
(scrolling down), for Table of Contents
and sample chapter.
Books in Progress (See
Chapter link):
Volume I of Richard Selzer's biography
(life and writings [2011]); Volume II (contributions/legacy
[2015]
- Continuing interviews
with Selzer 1993-2009; Drs. John Balint, Liva Jacoby, Richard Beebe, and Ian Porter at Albany Medical College; Drs. Michael Halloran and Patrick Quinn, and Father Tom Phelan of RPI; and Henry Tutunjian, Esq. of Troy, NY, in 1998. Drs. Boone Brackett, Howard Brody, Howard Carter, Jack Coulehan, Robert Davis, Suzanne Poirier, Ron Carson, Anne Hudson Jones, Rita Charon, Jo Banks, Tom McElhinney, Charlie Perakis, Faith Lagay, Faith McLellan, Paul Rodenhauser, Ann Miller, David Oberdorf, Gregory Skie, Marjorie Sirridge, Joe Palmer, and Iliana Semmler. Stanford's Drs. Bob Chase, Jim Marks, Larry Zaroff, and Audrey Shafer. Also, Yale's Sherwin Nuland, Bernie Siegel, Harold Bloom, Mary McCurnen, Howard Spiro, Claude Rawson, Murray Biggs, Donald Faulkner, Clara Gyorgyey, Patrick McCaughey, Patrick Cunningham, Carl Lindskog, Justin Blevin, Phoebe Koch, and Dagan Coppock; Harvard's Bob Brustein, Atul Gawande, and Jerome Groopman.
Case Western Medical School Dean
Ralph Horwitz. Writers Peter Josyph, Myra Skarlew, Sydney Lea, and Lee Hyla. Playwright
Larry Underwood. Archivist Merri Edwards. Artist Joan Silber. Dr. Joe Vincent. St. Louis Director Henry Schvey. SMU's Tom Mayo. Gladys Veidemanis. Katerina and Fred Thorsen (playwright). Readers' Theater's Todd Savitt, Ann Bean, and Greg Watkins. Diane Cameron, Koju Fujieda, Saad Ahmed, Mark Stephany, Jimmie Meeks, and Caroline Fei-Yeng Kwok. U-Colorado's Kathy Maes, Bill Reiquam, and Rick Martinez. Wife Janet Selzer, cousins Esther Marks and Lily Strean, and brother Bill Selzer. Pirkko Vartiainen of Finland; Dr. Irv Guttenberg on Nantucket. UT-SWMC's Dr. George Lister. RPI's Phil Shemella, Brittany Solar, Laila Tabatabai, Ghofrane Benghanem, Nur Zahirah M Sukran, and Rokhsanna Sadeghi. Dr. Andy Graham, President Yale Surgical Society. Dr. Ashgar Rastegar, Professor and Associate Chair, Dept. of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Leon Kass, Chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics. Dr. Ed Pellegrino, Professor Emeritus Georgetown.
From "Savannah Reads Selzer": Dr.
Beth Howell of Armstrong Atlantic
State U. Troy High School '45ers:
John Q. Driscoll, Perry Massey, John
Snyder, Henry Tuntunjian, Mel Wulf,
Helen Califano Belanger, Janey
Landfear Caspar, Beverly Vaughn
Cipperly, Elsie Landau Finkelstein,
Ada Frisher, Anna Mae Tashjian
Mourachian, Betty Uline,
Marion Wansovitch Tashijian, and
Rosanna Mesirian Asadorian.
In 2009, with Father Andrew at San
Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy. Interviews continue.
- [Table of Contents] [Book Chapter]
- Richard Selzer: Conversations (selected primary and secondary interviews 1993-2005, SRO lectures, essays, and belle lettres). [Table of Contents]
- A Companion to Richard Selzer’s Case Narrations, Short Stories, and Essays.
In newspapers:
"High School and
War: A tribute to the Troy High School
Class of 1945." The Record, Troy,
NY forthcoming
In journals:
"Emergency at Yaddo." Praxis Press, 2001. (on-line).
“Richard Selzer’s The Doctor Stories.” Review. The Journal of Medical Humanities 21.3: (Fall 2000): 181-3.
"Searching for Father: A Journey Through the Human Anatomy Lab." Review of Albert Howard Carter III's First Cut: A Season in the Anatomy Lab. Medical Humanities Review 12.2 (Fall 1998): 114-8.
“The Dialogism of Richard Seizer: A Bakhtinian Perspective on the Life and Writings of a Physician/Writer." Federation Rhetoric Symposium, Caxton's Modern Arts Press, 1999 Asynchronous TWU Conference CD.
"Reclaiming Rhetorica: A Class (Re)Action." Collaborative review of Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 17.2 (1997): 290-2.
Contextualized review essay of Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford. Composition Studies 24.1-2 (Spring-Fall 1996): 186-91.
”'The Tending Act'--An Interview with Richard Seizer." The Journal of Medical Humanities 17.3 (Fall 1996): 147-64. Reprint in Composition Studies 24.1-2 (Spring/Fall 1996): 27-43.
“Richard Selzer’s 'Smoking' from Mortal Lessons (1974).” Readerly/Writerly Texts 4.1 (Fall/Winter 1996): 105-18. [Referenced in Yale English (argumentation) class.]
"The Ultimate Case History: A Doctor Describes His Own Coma and Death." Review of Raising the Dead by Richard Selzer. Medical Humanities Review 8.2 (Fall 1994): 53-7.
Contextualized review essay of Menstruation and Psychoanalysis by Mary Jane Lupton. Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory 3.2 (Fall 1994): 120-22.
"Richard Selzer (b. 1928): A Checklist." Bulletin of Bibliography 47.1 (May 1990): 3-8.
Professional Associations
and Journals
American Society for Bioethics and
Humanities. North Texas Biomedical Ethics Network
Literature and Medicine
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Journal of Medical Humanities (book reviewer)
Medical Humanities Review (book reviewer)
National Coalition of Independent Scholars (Board
of Directors--2005-7)
NYU Medical School Interactive Lit-Med Dialogue
Honors and Awards:
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2000)
Consultant, Richard Selzer Archive, UT-Galveston
Chair, ADA "Celebrity Art Auction" (1998).
Dictionary of International Biography,
1999.
Directory of American Scholars (1999)
2000 Outstanding Women of the Twenty-First Century
Best Graduate
Essay, TCU 1996.
RICHARD SELZER: CONVERSATIONS
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
I. “The Tending Act”: An Interview with Richard Selzer [1993 interview with intro.; Selzer discusses doctoring concerns and writing techniques/inspiration]
II. A Talk with Richard Selzer: “Our Stuff Goes On.” [1998 interview with intro.; atheist Selzer, a very spiritual man, discusses his religious convictions and ministry]
III. Richard Selzer’s Literary Non-Fiction (Case Narrations that access the varying viewpoints of medical professional, patient, and family through shifting pronouns). [highlights four case studies, and includes style comments and interview]
IV. “Smoking” from Mortal Lessons (1976): a critical view of Selzer’s personal argument in favor of smoking. [very popular; used in Yale English/Argument class; Selzer’s all-time favorite Stripling essay that showcases his language affinity]
V. Richard Selzer: Poet of the Body [author’s 1998 SRO lecture at Yale Medical School, with biographical notes and medical humanities findings]
VI. Richard Selzer: The Pen and the Scalpel [author’s 1998 SRO lecture given at UTMB-Galveston, with references to Selzer’s unique literary non-fiction]
VII. Selected Letters of Richard Selzer [A function of friendship, Selzer’s Belle Lettres intimately discuss his affinity for Chekhov, horror at losing a completed manuscript, and dread while viewing his own play. They are art.]
VIII. Conversations with medical humanities luminaries (lengthier portions not excerpted into the biography about the medical humanities in general and Selzer specifically).
IX.. Photographs
X. EPILOGUE: Selzer’s status on the Medical Humanities continuum.
INDEX
*Includes edited audiotape of Selzer-Stripling interviews.
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