Books in the Humanities in Medicine Collection include Is It All In Your Head?; Romantic Autopsy; Next in Line; Life Isn't Binary; Letters to a Young Doctor; Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine; The Secret Life of Stories; Patient H.M.; Diagnosis Female; War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line; Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900; Bringing Out the Dead; The Reflector; The Becoming; Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism; Patients As Art; A Diary of the Plague Year; The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities; Game-Based Teaching and Simulation in Nursing and Healthcare; Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress; Songs from the Black Chair; Educating Doctors’ Senses Through the Medical Humanities; No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me; How We Do Harm; A Civil Action; Surviving Mental Illness; Health Humanities in Postgradutate Medical Education; Direct Red; Healthcare Ethics on Film; and Fire Shut Up in My Bones.

 

The Humanities in Medicine Collection was developed to support the work of the Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) at Harvard Medical School, exploring the intersection of medicine, literature, and the arts.

The collection features memoirs, poetry, fiction, and scholarly works that examine how the humanities can deepen our understanding of health, illness, disability, and the human experience. These titles illuminate how storytelling, art, and critical inquiry enrich medical practice and patient care.

The Humanities in Medicine Collection can be found in the Russell Reading Room on Floor 2 of Countway Library along the outer walls. You can browse the collection in HOLLIS using the following link: Countway Humanities in Medicine Collection.