Medical Arts and Humanities
Medical Arts and Humanities is a rising field in Medicine. The need to engage with humanities, arts, culture and sociology is not lost on physicians and the inclusion of medical humanities in many medical degree programmes is a testament to the importance of reflecting on life generally, reflecting on medicine as a human, on all levels and engaging with patients and yourself through poetry, art, and writing.
Here we provide an ever expanding, and by no means complete, list of some suggestions for you to engage with. If you want make a suggestion for the list – hit us up at tsmj@tcd.ie or editor@tsmj.ie
Projects
| Medicine Unboxed |
Books
| On Being Mortal Atul Gawande
Do No Harm Henry Marsh When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi Mans Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro The Snow Child Eowyn Ivey A Whole Life Robert Seethaler Until Further Notice, I am Alive Tom Lubbock Anils Ghost Michael Ondatjee The Fault in Our Stars John Green A Monster Calls Patrick Ness Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese Probably Nothing Matilda Tristram On Immunity: An Inoculation Eula Biss The Tennis Partner Abraham Verghese The House of God Samuel Shem The Iceberg Marion Coutts The Body in the Library: A Literary Anthology of Modern Medicine WH Auden My Own Country Abraham Verghese The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Mark Haddon Year of Wonders Geraldine Brooks The Reason I Jump Naoki Higashida David Mitchell and Keiko Yoshida Noah Barleywater Runs Away John Boyne Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman It’s all in Your Head Suzanne O’Sullivan The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot Every Patient Tells a Story Lisa Sanders The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks It’s Not Yet Dark Simon Fitzmaurice Before I Die Jenny Downham My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult Elizabeth is Missing Emma Healey So Much for That Lionel Shriver It’s Going To Hurt Adam Kay Bite Sized Fiona Hamilton The Other Side Kate granger Odd Girl Out Laura James Thanks for the Feedback Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen The Woman with a Worm in her Head and Other Stories Pamela Nagami Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient Norman Cousins Music and Madness Ivor Browne How to be Human Ruby Wax Gratitude Oliver Sacks |
Films
| After Amy (2001)
Awakenings (1990) Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Dying Young (1991) Elephant Man (1980) Erin Brokovich (1999) Flatliners (1990) Girl, Interrupted (1999) Good Will Hunting (1997) Heartsounds (1984) I, Daniel Blake (2016) If These Walls Could Talk (1996) If you’re not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast (2017) Iris (2001) K-Pax (2001) Losing Isaiah (1999) Marvin’s Room (1996) Me Before You (2016) My Left Foot (1989) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) Patch Adams (1998) Philadelphia (1993) Precious (2009) Rain Man (1988) Sicko (2007) Something the Lord Made (2004) Steel Magnolias (1989) Still Alice (2014) The Big Sick (2017) The Doctor (1991) The Handmaid’s Tale (1990) The Insider (1999) The Rider (2017) The Ryan White Story (1989) The Verdict (1982) Tuesdays with Morrie (1999) Whose Life Is it Anyway? (1981) Wit (2001) Wonder (2017) You Don’t Know Jack (2010) |
