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BIOETHICS AND MEDICAL ISSUES IN LITERATURE 

GREENWOOD PRESS, APRIL 2005

Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
    Chronology of Events in Literature, Medicine, and Science
    Introduction
    Technology's Creature
    A Brave New World
    Contagions and Isolations
    Illness and Culture
    End of Life: Disease and Death
    Afterword
    Glossary of Terms: Literary, Medical, and Scientific
    Appendix A: Recommended Movies
    Appendix B: Recommended Internet Sites
    Appendix C: Recommended Journals and Books
    Appendix D: Recommended Methods for Teaching
    Index

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Book Code: GR2040
ISBN: 0-313-32040-3

SELECTED PERIODICALS:

“Teaching Literature and Medicine: Ken Kesey’s One Flew   Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 3.1 (Summer 2009): 66-73.

“The Art of Biography,” six-part series in The Independent Scholar, a publication of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars. “Overview and Getting Started,” “Focus and Foreword,” “The Interview,” “Authorial Tone,” “Love Letters,” and “The End Game Strategy–Design Matters & The Author-Publisher Partnership.” Vol. 21.2 (Summer 2007) to Vol.22.3 (Fall 2009).

“Emergency at Yaddo.” Praxispost.com 11 July, 2001. [Incident of Richard Selzer saving John Cheever’s life in 1980 referenced in Blake Bailey’s Cheever: A Life, p. 620]

Rev. of Richard Selzer’s The Doctor Stories. The Journal of Medical Humanities 21.3 (Fall 2000): 181-3.

“The Dialogism of Richard Selzer: A Bakhtinian Perspective on the Life and Writings of a Physician-Writer.” Federation Rhetoric Symposium, Caxton’s Modern Arts Press (Interactive Conference CD, 1999).

“Searching for Father: A Journey Through the Human Anatomy Lab.” Rev. of Albert Carter’s First Cut: A Season in the Anatomy Lab. Medical Humanities Review 2.2 (Fall 1998): 144-8.

“‘The Tending Act’—An Interview with Richard Selzer.” The Journal of Medical Humanities 17.3 (Fall 1996): 147-64. Reprint in Composition Studies 24.1-2 (1996).

“A Dialogic/Rhetorical Analysis of Richard Selzer’s ‘Smoking’ from Mortal Lessons.” Readerly/Writerly Texts 4.1 (1996): 105-18. [used in Yale English class]

“The Ultimate Case History: A Doctor Describes his Own Coma and Death.” Rev. of Raising the Dead by Richard Selzer. Medical Humanities Review 8.2 (1994): 53-7.

“Richard Selzer (b.1928): A Checklist.” Bulletin of Bibliography 47.1(1990): 3-8. Continually updated.