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Health and Medicine: Ethics, theory and experience

 

Appignanesi, Lisa (2009) Mad, Bad And Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present. London: Virago

 

Boyer, Anne (2019) The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness. London: Allen Lane

Didi-Huberman, G (2003) Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere. Boston, Mass: MIT Press

Dillon, Brian (2010) Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives. London: Penguin Books

Francis, Gavin (2018) Shapeshifters: A Doctor’s Notes on Medicine & Human Change. London: Wellcome Collection

Foucault, Michel (2003) The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. London: Routledge Classics 

Hattrick, Alice (2021) Ill Feelings, London: Fitzcarraldo Editions

Harris, Kyla and Macnamara, Lou (2021) It's Personal

https://www.fvu.co.uk/projects/its-personal

Hustvedt, Asti (2012) Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris. London: Bloomsbury Paperbacks

Lorde, Audre (2020) The Cancer Journals. London: Penguin Classics

Marchetto, Marisa Acocella (2009) Cancer Vixen: A True Story. New York: Pantheon Books

Peto, James (2007) The Heart. London: Yale University Press

Preciado, Paul B. (May/June 2020) ‘Surviving the Virus’, Artforum

https://www.artforum.com/print/202005/paul-b-preciado-82823

Scull, Andrew (2016) Madness in Civilisation: A Cultural History of Insanity. London: Thames & Hudson

Schreber, Daniel Paul (2000) Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. New York: New York Review of Books (First published in 1903)

Skloot, Rebecca (2010) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown Publishing Group

Smith, Virginia (2008) Clean: A history of personal hygiene and purity. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Spinney, Laura (2018) Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. London: Vintage

Rodríguez Muñoz, B (2021) Health (Documents of Contemporary Art). London: MIT Press.

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