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-Department of English-
Health Humanities Undergraduate Research
The Evolution of the Physician-Patient Relationship:
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Medical History:
A Young Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov: "In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo."
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot: "A journalist named Rebecca Skloot recounts learning about an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks, who died in 1951 of cervical cancer, but whose cancerous cells became the first immortal human cell line, called HeLa. Rebecca explains that HeLa made possible some of the most important discoveries of the 21st century, but that we know little about the woman behind them."
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Hippocratic Writings by Hippocrates, edited by G.E.R Lloyd: "This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature of Man describes the physiological theories of the time. The book ends with a discussion of embryology and a brief anatomical description of the heart."
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Notes on Hospitals by Florence Nightingale: "The founder of modern nursing expressed her revolutionary ideas of hospital reform in these two essays, published in 1859 and presented the previous year at the Social Science Congress. This report of her findings and suggestions had a profound effect on the medical community and reestablished the author as an international healthcare authority. Despite the advances in medical knowledge since Nightingale's era, her common-sense approach continues to form a solid foundation for nursing."
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Johns Hopkins University Chesney Medical Archives: "The Johns Hopkins Chesney Archives is the official archival repository for Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. Dates of materials in the Chesney Archives range from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The Archives collects and preserves materials relating to the history of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health and the individuals who have advanced teaching, research, and health care within these entities."
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Modern Medicine:
How Doctors Think by Jerome E. Groopman: "How Doctors Think is a window into the mind of the physician and an insightful examination of the all-important relationship between doctors and their patients... Groopman explores the forces and thought processes behind the decisions doctors make. He pinpoints why doctors succeed and why they err. Most important, Groopman shows when and how doctors can avoid snap judgments, embrace uncertainty, communicate effectively, and deploy other skills that can profoundly impact a person's health."
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Deep Medicine by Eric Topol: "The doctor-patient relationship - the heart of medicine - is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients... In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol reveals how artificial intelligence can help. AI has the potential to transform everything doctors do, from notetaking and medical scans to diagnosis and treatment... By freeing physicians from the tasks that interfere with human connection, AI will create space for the real healing that takes place between a doctor who can listen and a patient who needs to be heard. "
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Being Mortal by Atul Gawande: "In Being Mortal, best-selling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending... In the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families."
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The Two Kinds of Decay by Sarah Manguso: "At twenty-one, just starting to comprehend the puzzles of adulthood, Sarah Manguso was faced with another: a wildly unpredictable disease that appeared suddenly and tore through her twenties, vanishing and then returning, paralyzing her for weeks at a time... In this captivating story, Manguso recalls her nine-year struggle: arduous blood cleansings, collapsed veins, multiple chest catheters, the deaths of friends and strangers, addiction, depression, and, worst of all for a writer, the trite metaphors that accompany prolonged illness."
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PubMed Database: "PubMed is a free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health- both globally and personally. The PubMed database contains more than 32 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. Citations in PubMed primarily stem from the biomedicine and health fields, and related disciplines such as life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering."
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Source: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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