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Call Me by Your Name
A tender summer in 1980s Italy reveals desire, identity, and the unforgettable ache of first love.
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A gripping account of the Woburn leukemia cluster and its lasting impact on environmental health, law, and public trust.
The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo transforms personal trauma and chronic pain into powerful visual meditations on body, identity, and survival.
Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
A narrative exploring tuberculosis through history, inequality, medical progress, and global injustice.
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
A thoughtful conversation on aging, mortality, and balancing quality of life with survival in care decisions
When AIDS Activism Went Inside a Hospital: Ward 5B at San Francisco General
Documentary recounts San Francisco’s Ward 5B, where nurses and activists humanized AIDS care amid fear.
Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
A powerful history of the Attica prison uprising exposing injustice, political power, and America’s carceral legacy.
Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever by Kathleen Sharp
A gripping account of pharmaceutical whistleblowing, corporate misconduct, and the deadly consequences of profit-driven medicine.
Stories of Illness, Stories of Loss
An essay linking Holocaust memory books to the art of medical history-taking and illness narratives.
Embodiment as Performance: Anne Gridley’s Watch Me Walk
Anne Gridley transforms walking into defiant performance, confronting disability, discomfort, and rare disease awareness head-on.
I’m Sick, Therefore I Am: Illness as Normality in Nervous System with Author Lina Meruane
A conversation exploring illness as everyday reality, where sickness, care, and family life intertwine in an unsettling literary narrative.
4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane’s final play fractures theatrical form to embody depression, psychosis, and the limits of language.
