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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Too Long Too Short / Vonnegut, Mark -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Why, The What, And The How Of The Medical/Health Humanities / Friedman, Lester D. / Wear, Delese / Jones, Therese -- Part I. Disease And Illness -- Chapter 1. Being A Good Story: The Humanities As Therapeutic Practice / Frank, Arthur W. -- Chapter 2. Illuminating The It, Thee, And We Of Disease And Illness: The Metamorphosis And Related Works / Soricelli, Rhonda L. / Flood, David H. -- Chapter 3. "This Weird, Incurable Disease": Competing Diagnoses In The Rhetoric Of Morgellons / Keränen, Lisa -- Chapter 4. My Quest For Health / Wall, Shelley / Sappol, Michael -- Part II. Disability -- Chapter 5. Disability In Two Doctor Stories / Holmes, Martha Stoddard -- Chapter 6. Music And Disability / Straus, Joseph N. -- Chapter 7. American Narrative Films And Disability: An Uneasy History / Norden, Martin F. -- Chapter 8. Standout / Iezzoni, Lisa I. -- Part III. Death And Dying -- Chapter 9. When The Doctor Is Not God: The Impact Of Religion On Medical Decision Making At The End Of Life / Cohn, Felicia -- Chapter 10. Postmodern Death And Dying: A Literary Analysis / Lantos, John / Montello, Martha -- Chapter 11. Second Degree Block: Poem And Commentary / Haddad, Amy -- Part IV. Patient- Professional Relationships -- Chapter 12. Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, And The Social Context Of The Patient-Professional Relationship / Garden, Rebecca -- Chapter 13. Humanities And The Medical Home / Hester, Rebecca / Brody, Howard / Clark, Mark -- Chapter 14. Occupational Medicine / Coulehan, Jack -- Part V. The Body -- Chapter 15. The Virtues Of The Imperfect Body / Tong, Rosemarie -- Chapter 16. Seeing Bodies In Pain / Gilman, Sander L. -- Chapter 17. Public Fetuses / Hausman, Bernice L. -- Chapter 18. More Body: A Performance For Five (Or More) Bodies / Case, Gretchen A. -- Part VI. Gender And Sexuality -- Chapter 19. Adult Intake Form / Peterkin, Allan -- Chapter 20. What Is Sex For? Or, The Many Uses Of The Vag / Dreger, Alice -- Chapter 21. "I Always Prefer The Scissors": Isaac Baker Brown And Feminist Histories Of Medicine / Levine-Clark, Marjorie -- Chapter 22. Comics In The Health Humanities: A New Approach To Sex And Gender Education / Squier, Susan M. -- Chapter 23. I Am Gula, Hear Me Roar: On Gender And Medicine / Campo, Rafael -- Part VII. Race And Class -- Chapter 24. Listening As Freedom: Narrative, Health, And Social Justice / DasGupta, Sayantani -- Chapter 25. Race And Mental Health / Metzl, Jonathan M. -- Chapter 26. Law'S Hand In Race, Class, And Health Inequities: On The Humanities And The Social Determinants Of Health / Goldberg, Daniel -- Chapter 27. The Rooms Of Our Souls / Grainger-Monsen, Maren -- Part VIII. Aging -- Chapter 28. "Old Age Isn'T A Battle, It'S A Massacre": Reading Philip Roth'S Everyman / Saxton, Benjamin / Cole, Thomas R. -- Chapter 29. "Do You Remember Me?" Constructions Of Alzheimer'S Disease In Literature And Film / Kaplan, E. Ann -- Chapter 30. Love In The Time Of Dementia / Winakur, Jerald -- Part IX. Mental Illness -- Chapter 31. Narrating Our Sadness, With A Little Help From The Humanities / Lewis, Brad -- Chapter 32. Teaching Narratives Of Mental Illness / Jones, Anne Hudson -- Chapter 33. Community Psychiatry And The Medical Humanities / Rowe, Michael -- Chapter 34. Culpability / Williams, Ian -- Part X. Spirituality And Religion -- Chapter 35. Rites Of Bioethics / Chambers, Tod -- Chapter 36. Health And Humanities: Spirituality And Religion / Selman, Lucy / Barfield, Raymond C. -- Chapter 37. Scientia Mortis And The Ars Moriendi: To The Memory Of Norman / Bishop, Jeffrey P. -- Chapter 38. Meditations Of An Anesthesiologist: Poem And Commentary / Shafer, Audrey -- Part XI. Science And Technology -- Chapter 39. Andromeda'S Futures: A Story Of Humanities, Technology, Science, And Art / Belling, Catherine -- Chapter 40. Knowing And Seeing: Reconstructing Frankenstein / Wolpe, Paul Root -- Chapter 41. A Brief History Of Love: A Rationale For The History Of Epidemics / Kavey, Allison B. -- Chapter 42. Calcedonies / Nisker, Jeff -- Part XII. Health Professions Education -- Chapter 43. Teaching Autism Through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing The Divide Between Bioethics And Medical Humanities / Aultman, Julie M. -- Chapter 44. Courting Discomfort In An Undergraduate Health Humanities Classroom / Lamb, Erin Gentry / Blackie, Michael -- Chapter 45. The Medical Humanities In Medical Education: Toward A Medical Aesthetics Of Resistance / Bleakley, Alan -- Chapter 46. In Defense Of Cheaper Stethoscopes / Baruch, Jay -- References -- Notes On Contributors -- Index