Secondary Sources

Key Medical Humanities Texts

Tier 1

Foucault, Michel. Introduction. The Birth of the Clinic, Routledge, 1989, pp. ix-xxii. | Download PDF
Balint, Michael. The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness. Churchill Livingstone, 2005.| Download PDF
Frank, Arthur W. The Wounded Storyteller. The University of Chicago Press, 1995. | Download PDF
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker. “Introduction.” Reconstructing Illness : Studies in Pathography. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, 1999, pp. 1-30 | Download PDF
Jurecic, Ann. “Illness narratives and the challenge to criticism.” Illness as narrative. University of Pittsburgh Pre, 2012, pp. 1-17. | Download PDF
Kleinman, Arthur. “The meaning of symptoms and disorders.” The illness narratives: Suffering, healing, and the human condition. Basic books, 1988, pp. 3-30 | Download PDF
Leder, Drew. “Rethinking pain: the paradoxical problem.” The Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing. University of Chicago Press, 2016, pp. 24-41. | Download PDF
Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Penguin Books, 2002. | Download PDF


Tier 2

Abberley, Paul. “The spectre at the feast: disabled people and social theory” The Disability Reader: Social Science Perspectives, edited by Tom Shakespeare, Continuum, 1998, pp. 79-93. | Download PDF
Barnes, Colin. “Understanding the social model of disability” Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies, edited by Nick Watson, Alan Roulstone and Carol Thomas, Routledge, 2012, pp. 12-29. | Download PDF
Bleakley, Alan. “What are the ‘medical humanities’? Definitions and controversies” Medical Humanities and Medical Education: How the medical humanities can shape better doctors. Routledge, 2015, pp. 40-59. | Download PDF
Bolaki, Stella. Introduction. Illness as Many Narratives, by Bolaki, Edinburgh University Press, 2016, pp. 1-25. | Download PDF
Bourke, Joanna. “Metaphor” The story of pain: from prayer to painkillers. OUP Oxford, 2014, pp. 53-87. | Download PDF
Brinkmann, Svend. “Introducing the concept of diagnostic cultures” Diagnostic Cultures. Routledge, 2016, pp. 7-26. | Download PDF
Crawford, Paul, Brian Brown, Charley Baker, Victoria Tischler and Brian Abrams. Health Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. | Download PDF
Deleuze, Gilles. “Literature and life.” Translated by Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco. Essays critical and clinical. University of Minnesota Press, 1997, pp. 1-6. | Download PDF
Dolan, Brian, editor. Humanitas: Readings in the Development of the Medical Humanities. Virtuoso Press, 2015. | Download PDF
Frank, Arthur W. “What’s wrong with medical consumerism?” Consuming Health, edited by Saras Henderson and Alan Petersen. Routledge, 2002, pp. 13-30. | Download PDF
Hardy, Anne. Health and Medicine in Britain Since 1860. Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. | Download PDF
Kelly, Michael P. and Louise M. Millward. “Identity and illness” Identity and Health, edited by David Kelleher and Gerard Leavey. Routledge, 2004, pp. 1-18. | Download PDF
Lorber, Judith, and Lisa Jean Moore. Gender and the social construction of illness. Rowman Altamira, 2002. | Download PDF
Marini, Maria Giulia. Narrative Medicine. Springer International Publishing, 2016. | Download PDF
Schrecker, Ted, and Clare Bambra. How politics makes us sick: Neoliberal epidemics. Springer, 2015. | Download PDF
Shakespeare, Tom. “The social model of disability” The Disability Studies Reader, edited by Lennard J. Davis, Routledge, 2006, pp. 197-204. | Download PDF
Williams, Simon J., Jonathan Gabe and Michael Calnan, editors. Health, medicine and society. Routledge, 2000. | Download PDF
Woollett, Anne and Harriette Marshall. “Discourses of pregnancy and childbirth” Material discourses of health and illness, edited by Lucy Yardley. Routledge, 1997, pp. 176-198. | Download PDF

 

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Week 2: “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Bak, John S. “Escaping The Jaundiced Eye: Foucauldian Panopticism In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.” Studies In Short Fiction 1 (1994): 39-46. | Download PDF
Betjemann, Peter. “Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Grammar Of Ornament: Stylistic Tagging And The Politics Of Figuration In ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ And the ‘The Unexpected’.” Word & Image: A Journal Of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 24.4 (2008):393-402. | Download PDF
Blackie, Michael. “Reading The Rest Cure.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal Of American Literature, Culture, And Theory 60.2. (2004):57-85. | Download PDF
Crewe, Jonathan. “Queering The Yellow Wallpaper? Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Politics of Form.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 14.2 (1995):273-293. | Download PDF
Davison, Carol Margaret. “Haunted House/Haunted Heroine: Female Gothic Closets In “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Women’s Studies 33.1 (2004): 47-75.  | Download PDF
Edelstein, Sari. “Charlotte Perkins Gilman And The Yellow Newspaper.” Legacy 24.1 (2007):72-92. | Download PDF
Ford, Karen. “”The Yellow Wallpaper” and Women’s Discourse.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 4.2 (1985):309-14. | Download PDF
Hadas, PW. “Madness And Medicine, The Graphomaniacs Cure + Gilman ‘Yellow Wallpaper’ And Waugh’gilbert Pinfold’.” Literature And Medicine 9 (1990): 181-193. | Download PDF
Herndl, Diane Price. “The writing Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna O., And ‘Hysterical’ Writing.” NWSA Journal (National Women’s Studies Association) 1.1 (1988):52-74. | Download PDF
Hochman, Barbara. “The Reading Habit And “The Yellow Wallpaper’.” American Literature 74.1 (2002): 89-110. | Download PDF
Hume, Beverly A. “Gilman’s ‘Interminable Grotesque’: the Narrator Of ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’ (Charlotte Perkins Gilman).” Studies In Short Fiction 4 (1991): 477-484. | Download PDF
Johnson, Greg. “Gilman’s Gothic Allegory: Rage And Redemption In “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Studies In Short Fiction 26.4 (1989): 521-530. | Download PDF
Johnston, Georgia. “Exploring Lack and Absence In The Body/Text: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Prewriting Irigaray.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 21.1 (1992): 75-86. | Download PDF
MacFarlane, Jeremy. “Enough To Make A Body riot”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Chester Himes, And The Process Of Socio-Spatial Negotiation.” Interdisciplinary Humanities 31.2 (2014): 5-16. | Download PDF
Oakley, Ann. “Reading The Garden In Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.” Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies In Literature And Environment 2.2 (1996): 25-44. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 27 June 2016. | Download PDF
Post, Stephen L. “His And Hers: Breakdown As Depicted By Evelyn Waugh And Charlotte Perkins Gilman.” Literature And Medicine 9.1 (1990): 172-180. Project MUSE. Web. 27 June 2016. | Download PDF
Schweninger, Lee. “Reading The Garden In Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.” Isle: Interdisciplinary Studies In Literature And Environment 2.2 (1996): 25-44. | Download PDF
Scott, Heidi. “Crazed Nature:Ecology In The Yellow Wall-Paper.” Explicator 67.3 (2009): 198-203. | Download PDF
Suess, Barbara A. “The Writing’s On The Wall” Symbolic Orders In ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.” Women’s Studies 32.1 (2003): 79-97. | Download PDF
Thrailkill, Jane F. “Doctoring “The Yellow Wallpaper”” ELH 69.2 (2002): 525-66. | Download PDF
Tomlinson, Niles. “Creeping In The’Mere’: Catagenesis In Poe’s ‘Black Cat’ And Gilman’s ‘Yellow Wallpaper’.” ESQ: A Journal Of The American Renaissance 56.3 (2011): 232-268. | Download PDF
Treichler, Paula A. “Escaping the Sentence: Diagnosis and Discourse in “The Yellow Wallpaper”” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 3.1/2 (1984): 61-77.| Download PDF
Treichler, Paula A. “The Wall Behind the Yellow Wallpaper: Response to Carol Neely and Karen Ford.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 4.2 (1985): 323-30.  | Download PDF
Zink, Amanda J.. “Maternal Economies In The Estranged Sisterhood Of Edith Summers Kelley And Charlotte Perkins Gilman.” Studies In American Fiction 41.2 (2014): 201-224. | Download PDF

Week 3: How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman

Gearhart, Stephanie S. “‘The More There Is To See’ Another Look At James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late.” Scottish Literary Review 2.1 (2010): 77-94. | Download PDF
Hames, Scott. “Eyeless in Glasgow: James Kelman’s Existential Milton.” Contemporary Literature 50.3 (2009): 496-527.| Download PDF
Jones, Carole.”‘Acting The Part Of An Illiterate Savage’: James Kelman And The Question Of Postcolonial Masculinity.” Journal Of Postcolonial Writing 45.3 (2009): 275-284. | Download PDF
Kovesi, Simon. “How Late It Was, How Late (1994).” James Kelman. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. 122-66. | Download PDF
McGlynn, Mary. “”Middle-Class Wankers” and Working-Class Texts: The Critics and James Kelman.” Contemporary Literature 43.1 (2002): 50-84. | Download PDF
McGuire, Matt. “Dialect(Ic) Nationalism? The Fiction Of James Kelman And Roddy Doyle.” Scottish Studies Review 7.1 (2006): 80-94. | Download PDF

Week 3: Therapy, David Lodge

Augustyn, Prisca. “Art-Depression- Fiction: A Variation On René Thom’s Three Important Kinds Of Human Activity.” Semiotica: Journal Of The International Association For Semiotic Studies/Revue De L’association Internationale De Sémiotique 157.1-4 (2005): 35-47. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 28 June 2016. | Download PDF
Crowe, Marian. “Catholicism And Metaphor: The Catholic Fiction Of David Lodge.” Logos: A Journal Of Catholic Thought And Culture 15.3 (2012): 130-160. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 28 June 2016. | Download PDF

Weeks 5-6: Saturday, Ian McEwan

Aimel-Houser, Tammy. “The Ethics of Otherness in Ian McEwan’s Saturday.” Connotations 21.1 (2011/2012): 128-157. | Download PDF
Alderson, David. “Saturday’s Enlightenment.” End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945. Ed. Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. 218-37. | Download PDF
Brown, Richard. “Politics, The Domestic And The Uncanny Effects Of The Everyday In Ian Mcewan’s Saturday.” Critical Survey Academic Search Premier. Web. 28 June 2016. | Download PDF
Butler, Heidi. “The Master’s Narrative: Resisting The Essentializing Gaze In Ian Mcewan’s Saturday.” Critique 52.1 (2011): 101-113. | Download PDF
Fertel, Randy. “Saturn vs. Hermes: The Battle of the Hemispheres in Ian McEwan’s Saturday.” jml: Journal of Modern Literature 39.3 (2016): 53-71. | Download PDF
Foley, Andrew. “Liberalism In The New Millennium: Ian Mcewan’s Saturday.” Journal Of Literary Studies 26.1 (2010): 135-162. | Download PDF
Green, Susan. “Consciousness And Ian Mcewan’s Saturday: What Henry Knows’.” English Studies: A Journal Of English Language And Literature 91.1 (2010): 58-73. | Download PDF
Habibi, Seyed Javad. “Democracy As Simulacrum: Incredulity Towards The Metanarrative Of Emancipation In Ian Mcewan’s Saturday.” 3L: Southeast Asian Journal Of English Language Studies 19.3 (2013): 127-140. | Download PDF
Head, Dominic. “‘Accidents of Character and Circumstance’: Saturday.” Ian McEwan. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. 177-99. | Download PDF
Hillard, G. “The Limits Of Rationalism In Ian Mcewan’s SATURDAY.” Explicator 68.2 (2010): 140-143. | Download PDF
Knapp, Peggy A. “Ian McEwan’s Saturday and the Aesthetics of Prose.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 41.1 (2007): 121-43. | Download PDF
Rogers, Janine. “The Grandeur in This View of Life: Consciousness and Literary Form in Ian McEwan’s Saturday.” Unified Fields: Science and Literary Form. Montreal; Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. 162-83. | Download PDF
Root, Christina. “A Melodiousness At Odds With Pessimism: Ian Mcewan’s Saturday.” Journal Of Modern Literature 35.1 (2011): 60-78. | Download PDF
Ross, Michael L. “On A Darkling Planet: Ian Mcewan’s Saturday And The Condition Of England.” Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly And Critical Journal 54.1 (2008): 75-96. | Download PDF
Ryle, Martin. “Anosognosia, Or The Political Unconscious: Limits Of Vision In Ian Mcewan’s Saturday.” Criticism 1 (2010): 25-40. | Download PDF
Thrailkill, Jane F. “Ian Mcewan’s Neurological Novel.” Poetics Today 32.1 (2011): 171-201. | Download PDF
Winterhalter, T. “”Plastic Fork in Hand”: Reading as a Tool of Ethical Repair in Ian McEwan’s Saturday.” Journal of Narrative Theory 40.3 (2010): 338-363. | Download PDF

Week 13: Slow Man, J. M. Coetzee

Attwell, David. “Coetzee’s Postcolonial Diaspora.” Twentieth Century Literature 57.1 (2011): 9-19. | Download PDF
Marais, Michael. “Coming into Being: J. M. Coetzee’s “Slow Man” and the Aesthetic of Hospitality.” Contemporary Literature 50.2 (2009): 273-98. | Download PDF
Mehigan, Tim. “Slow Man (2005).” A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee. Ed. Tim Mehigan and Tim Mehigan. Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2011. 192-207. | Download PDF
Pellow, C. Kenneth. “Intertextuality and Other Analogues in J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.” Contemporary Literature 50.3 (2009): 528-52. | Download PDF
Powers, D. “Emigration And Photography In J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.” Journal Of Postcolonial Writing 49.4 (2013): 458-469. | Download PDF
Vermeulen, Pieter. “Abandoned Creatures: Creaturely Life And The Novel Form In J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.” Studies In The Novel 45.4 (2013): 655-674. | Download PDF
Vold, Tonje. “How To ‘Rise Above Mere Nationality’: Coetzee’s Novels Youth And Slow Man In The World Republic Of Letters.” Twentieth Century Literature 57.1 (2011): 34-53. | Download PDF
Wicomb, Zoë. “Slow Man And The Real: A Lesson In Reading And Writing.” Journal Of Literary Studies/Tydskrif Vir Literatuurwetenskap 25.4 (2009): 7-24. | Download PDF
Yoo, Jae Eun. “Broken Tongues In Dialogue: Translation And The Body In Slow Man.” Texas Studies In Literature And Language 55.2 (2013): 234-251. | Download PDF