English 12 HCA Reading Possibilities

***You've got to research great short stories, poems, essays that you could print off and put into English notebooks before leaving...****

http://school.med.nyu.edu/humanisticmed/literature-recommendations

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/22589.Best_Books_for_Medical_Students

http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Stories-William-Carlos-Williams/dp/0811209261/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397522741&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Doctor+Stories+by+William+Carlos+Williams

http://www.amazon.com/Chekhovs-Doctors-Collection-Literature-Medicine/dp/0873387805/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=04V77ZZFP334T5XV8QTT

http://www.amazon.com/Wit-A-Play-Margaret-Edson/dp/0571198775/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=15YTHFG92HBKJM1XK41M

http://www.amazon.com/The-Body-Library-Literary-Anthology/dp/1859845347/ref=pd_sim_b_9?ie=UTF8&refRID=15YTHFG92HBKJM1XK41M

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/health/chen10-23.html

http://www.amazon.com/Birth-Clinic-Archaeology-Medical-Perception/dp/0679753346/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397524290&sr=1-1&keywords=the+birth+of+the+clinic

Standout Possibilities:

1. Sherlock Holmes

2. The Fault in our Stars

3. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Jacobs

4. Of Human Bondage

5. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

6. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

7. The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams

8. Chekhov's Doctors

9. W;t by Margaret Edson

10. The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

11. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

12. The Plague by Albert Camus

13. Blindness by Jose Saramago

14. Walt Whitman's Specimen Days

15. The World According to Garp by John Irving

16. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

17. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

18. The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault

19. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

20. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

***GREEK TRAGEDY!!! Aeschylus...SOPHOCLES!