We have provided an updated list of books for students who wish to explore some of the topic areas of the course in greater depth. Students report that they have used this bibliography over the course of their Medical School training as issues of concern have come up for them and have found these books and articles supportive.
Achterberg, Jeanne. Imagery and Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine. New York, NY: New Science Library, 1985.
Albom, Mitch, For One More Day, Hyperion: New York, 2006
Albom, Mitch, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Hyperion: New York, 2003
Albom, Mitch, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson, Doubleday: New York, 1997
Aldridge, David, “Is There Evidence for Spiritual Healing?” Advances: The Journal of MindBody Health, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Fall 1993): 4-21.
Arrien, Angeles, Ph.D. The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary. San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 1993.
Balint, Michael, MD, The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness, International Universities Press, Inc.: New York, 1964. Barasch,
Marc Ian. The Healing Path: A Soul Approach to Illness. Jeremy P. Tarcher: New York, 1993. Barbour,
Allen, MD, Caring for Patients: A Critique of the Medical Model, Stanford University Press: 1995.
Belli, Angela and Jack Coulehan, Blood and Bones: Poems by Physicians. Univ of Iowa Press: Iowa City, 1998
Ben Izzy, Joel, The Beggar Kind and the Secret of Happiness, Algonquin Books: Chapel Hill, NC, 2003
Bolen, Jean Shinoda, M.D. Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996.
Boorstein, Sylvia. It’s Easier Than You Think. HarperCollins: New York, NY, 1995.
Borysenko, Joan, Ph.D. Minding the Body, Mending the Mind. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.: Reading, MA, 1987.
Brand, Paul and Philip Yancy, The Gift Nobody Wants, HarperCollins: New York, 1995
Brener, Anne. Mourning & Mitzvah: A Guided Journal For Walking The Mourner’s Path Through Grief to Healing. Jewish Lights Publishing: Woodstock, VT, 1993
Brody, Howard, Stories of Sickness. Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 1987.
Brown, Walter A. “The placebo effect.” Scientific American, January 1998, 90-95.
Brussat, Frederic and Brussat, Mary Ann. Spiritual Literacy: Reading The Sacred in Everyday Life. Touchstone Books, 1998
Buber, Martin, I and Thou. Touchstone: New York, 1970
Byrd, Randolph C, M.D., “Positive Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer in a Coronary Care Unit Population,” Southern Medical Journal, Vol. 81, No. 7 (July 1988): 826-29.
Candib, Lucy M., M.D., “What Doctors Tell About Themselves to Patients: Implications for Intimacy and Reciprocity in the Relationship,” Family Medicine, Vol. 19, No. 1 (January/February 1987): 23-30.
Carlson, Richard, Ph.D., ed., Healers on Healing. Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc.: Los Angeles, CA, 1989.
Casarjian, Robin, Forgiveness: A Bold Choice for a Peaceful Heart. Bantam: New York, 1992
Cassell, Eric J., M.D., The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Oxford University Press: New York, NY, 1991.
de Chardin, Teilhard. The Phenomenon of Man. Harper & Row: New York, NY, 1959.
de Chardin, Teilhard. The Future of Man. Harper & Row: New York, NY, 1959. Charon, Rita, Narrative Medicine, Honoring the Stories of Illness. Oxford University Press: New York, 2006
Chin, Eliza Lo, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA, 2002
Chodron, Pema, Start Where You Are. Shambhala Publications, Boston, 1994.
Chodron, Pema, When Things Fall Apart. Shambhala Publications, Boston, 2000.
Cousins, Norman. Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration. Bantam Books: New York, NY, 1985.
Dalai Lama. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living. Riverhead Books: New York, 1998
Dalai Lama. The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus. Wisdom Publications: Somerville, MA, 1998
Ram Dass. Be Here Now. Crown Publishers: New York, NY, 1971.
Ram Dass. Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying. Riverhead Books: New York, NY, 2000
Ram Dass, The Only Dance There Is. Doubleday: New York, NY, 1974.
Ram Dass and Gorman, Paul. How Can I Help? Alfred A. Knopf: New York, NY, 1985.
Ram Dass and Levine, Stephen. Grist for the Mill. Celestial Arts: Berkeley, CA, 1987.
Didion, Joan, The Year of Magical Thinking. Knopf: New York, 2005
Dienstfrey, Harris. Where the Mind Meets the Body: Type A, The Relaxation Response. Harper Collins: New York, NY, 1981.
Dossey, Larry, M.D. Beyond Illness: Discovering the Experience of Health. Shambhala Publications: Boulder, CO, 1984.
Dossey, Larry, M.D. Prayer Is Good Medicine. HarperSanFrancisco: San Francisco, CA, 1996.
Dossey, Larry, M.D. Space, Time and Medicine. Shambhala Publications: New York, NY, 1982.
Dossey, Larry, M.D. Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine. HarperSanFrancisco: San Francisco, CA, 1993.
Duff, Kat. Alchemy of Illness. Pantheon: New York, NY, 1993.
Eastcott, Michal. The Silent Path. Samuel Wiser, Inc.: New York, NY, 1969.
Eliade, Mircea. Shamanism. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1964. Epstein, Gerald, M.D. Healing Visualizations: Creating Health Through Imagery. Bantam Books: New York, NY, 1989.
Fadiman, Anne. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1997.
Fawzy, Fawzi I. et al, “Malignant Melanoma: Effects of an Early Structured Intervention, Coping, and Affective State on Recurrence and Survival Six Years Later,” Archives of General Psychiatry Vol. 50 (September 1993): 681-689.
Ferrucci, Piero. What We May Be. J.P. Tarcher, Inc.: Los Angeles, CA, 1982.
Forrest, Margot Silk, A Short Course in Kindness. LM Press: San Luis Obispo, CA 2002
Frank, Jerome D. Persuasion and Healing: A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy. Shocken: New York, NY, 1963.
Frankl, Viktor, Man’s Search for Meaning. Beacon Press: Boston, 2000
Gabran, Kahlil. The Prophet. Knopf: New York, NY, 1966.
Gallagher, Winifred. Spiritual Genius: The Mastery of Life’s Meaning. Random House: New York, 2001
Gallup, Feorge, Jr. and Frank Newport, “Mirror of America: fear of dying,” Gallup Poll News Service, 55:33, January 6, 1991.
Gardner, Richard. Therapeutic Communication with Children: The Mutual Storytelling Techniques. J. Aronson: New York, NY, 1991.
Gawande, Atul. Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science. Picador: New York, 2003
Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Metropolitan Books: Henry Holt & Company: New York, NY, 2014.
Gawler, Ian. You Can Conquer Cancer. Hill of Content: Melbourne, Australia, 1986.
Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. Bantam Books: New York, NY, 1995.
Gordon, James S., M.D. Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company: Reading, MA, 1996
Hall, Stephen S. “Cheating Fate,” Hippocrates, (April 1992): 38-45.
Groopman, Jerome. The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness. Penguin: New York, 1998
Hacker, Marilyn. Squares and Courtyards: Poems. WW Norton & Co: New York, 2001
Hanh, Thich Nhat. The Miracle of Mindfulness. Beacon Press: Boston, MA, 1975.
Harner, Michael. The Way of the Shaman. Harper & Row Publishers: San Francisco, CA, 1990.
Hensel, William A. and Rasco, Teresa L., “Storytelling as a Method for Teaching Values and Attitudes,” Academic Medicine, No. 67 (1992): 500-4.
Hesse, Hermann, “Siddhartha.” Shambhala, 2005
Hirshberg, Carol and Marc Ian Barasch. Remarkable Recovery. Putnam Riverhead: New York, NY, 1995.
Hunter, Kathryn Montgomery. Doctor’s Stories: The Narrative Structure of Medical Knowledge. Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1991.
Humphreys, Christmas. The Way of Action. Penguin Books: Baltimore, MD, 1960.
Hutschnecker, Arnold A., M.D. The Will To Live. Cornerstone Library: New York, NY, 1977.
Huyler, Frank. The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine. Picador: New York, 2004 James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. Random House: New York, NY, 1902.
Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness. Delta: New York, 1990
Kabat-Zinn, Jon. Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. Hyperion: New York, NY, 1994.
Kalanithi, Paul. When Breath Becomes Air. Random House: New York. 2016.
Kaptchuk, Ted and Michael Croucher. The Healing Arts: Exploring the Medical Ways of the World. Summit Books: New York, 1987.
Kearney, Michael. Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing. Touchstone: New York, 1997
Kenyon, Jane. Otherwise: new and selected poems. Graywolf Press: St. Paul, MN 1996
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine. HarperCollins: San Francisco 2002
Klunman, Arthur. The Illness Narratives. Basic Books: New York, 1988.
Koren, Leonard. Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers. Stone Bridge Press: Berkeley, CA, 1994.
Kornfield, Jack. A Path with Heart. Bantam Books: New York, NY, 1993.
Kushner, Harold S. When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough. Fireside: New York, 2002
Kushner, Harold S. When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Avon Books: New York, 1981.
Larson, David B., M.S.P.H. The Faith Factor–Volume Two: An Annotated Bibliography of Clinical Research on Spiritual Subjects. National Institute for Healthcare Research, 6110 Executive Blvd, Suite 680, Rockville, MD 20852.
Larson, David B., M.D., M.S.P.H. and Larson, Susan, M.A.T. The Forgotten Factor in Physical and Mental Health: What Does the Research Show? National Institute for Healthcare Research, 6110 Executive Blvd, Suite 680, Rockville, MD 20852.
Lazare, Aaron. On Apology. Oxford University Press: New York, 2005 Lerner, Max. Wrestling With the Angel. W.W. Norton & Co.: New York, NY, 1990.
LeShan, Lawrence, Ph.D. Cancer as a Turning Point: A Handbook for People with Cancer, Their Families, and Health Professionals. E.P. Dutton: New York, NY, 1989.
Levoy, Gregg. Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life. Three Rivers Press: New York, 1998
Lewis, C.S., M.A. The Problem of Pain. Macmillan Publishing Co.: New York, NY, 1963.
Lewis, C.S. A Grief Observed. New York, NY: Bantam, 1976.
Lo B, Ruston D, Kates LW, Arnold RM, Cohen CB, Faber-Langendoen K, Pantilat SZ, Puchalski CM, Quill TR, Rabow MW, Schreiber S, Sulmasy DP, Tulsky JA. “Discussing religious and spiritual issues at the end of life: a practical guide for physicians.” JAMA. 2002 Feb 13:287(6):749.
Maslow, Abraham. The Psychology of Science. Henry Regnery Co.: Chicago, IL, 1966.
Matthews, Dale, M.D., Larson, David B., M.D., M.S.P.H. and Barry, Constance, M.P.H. The Faith Factor: An Annotated Bibliography of Clinical Research on Spiritual Subjects. National Institute for Healthcare Research, 6110 Executive Blvd, Suite 680, Rockville, MD 20852.
McMurry, Madeline. Illuminations: The Healing Image. Wingbow Press: Berkeley, CA, 1988. McPhee SJ, Rabow MW, Pantilat SZ, Markowitz AJ, Winker MA. “Finding our way— perspectives on care at the close of life.” JAMA, 2000, 284(19):2512.
Meador, Clifton K., M.D., “The Person With the Disease,” Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 268, No. 1 (July 1, 1992): 35.
Miller, Sukie and Ober, Doris. Finding Hope When A Child Dies: What Other Cultures Can Teach Us. Simon & Schuster: New York, NY, 1999
Mitchell S (trans). The Book of Job, Harper Perennial, New York, 1992.
Mohrmann, M. Medicine as Ministry: Reflections on Suffering, Ethics, and Hope. The Pilgrim Press: Cleveland, OH, 1999.
Moore, Thomas. Care of the Soul. HarperCollins: New York, NY, 1992. Moore, Thomas. Soul Mates: Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship. HarperCollins: San Francisco, CA, 1994.
Moss, Richard. The I That Is We: Awakening to Higher Energies through Unconditional Love. Celestial Arts: Berkeley, CA, 1981.
Merton, Thomas, The Seven Storey Mountain. Harcourt Brace, 1999
Mukland, Jon, ed. Articulations: the Body and Illness in Poetry. Univ of Iowa Press: Iowa City, 1994
Neihardt, John. Black Elk Speaks. Simon & Schuster: New York, NY, 1972.
Nouwen, Henri, J. The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society. Doubleday: New York, NY, 1994.
Nuland, Sherwin B. How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, NY, 1994.
Pagels, Elaine. The Gnostic Gospels. Random House: New York, 1979
Palmer, Parker. A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, 2004
Palmer, Parker. Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, 2000
Palmer, Parker. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life. Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, 1997
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Swami Prabhavananda and Isherwood, Christopher. The Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God. Vedanta Press: Hollywood, CA, 1972.
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Redfield, James. The Celestine Prophecy. Warner Books: New York, 1994
Remen, Rachel Naomi, M.D. Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal. Riverhead Books: New York, 1996.
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Rinpoche, Sogyal. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. HarperCollins: San Francisco, 1992.
Rossman, Martin L., M.D. Guided Imagery for Self Healing. New World Library: Novato, CA, 2000
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