Mahala Yates Stripling

Dr. Stripling received fellowships from Yaddo, Indiana University's Helm, and the Institute for Medical Humanities at UT-Galveston. Now an updated paperback edition, BIOETHICS AND MEDICAL ISSUES IN LITERATURE is deemed "essential reading" in the Berkeley-Oxford classroom. This excellent resource gives historical context, a synopsis, and literary analysis of ten works of fiction, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Albert Camus's The Plague, and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Its issues are current and relevant, serving as an entire curriculum to teachers and students.

Other Stripling publications appear in Columbia University's Voices in Bioethics, Teaching American Literature, and Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. She lectured about her work on Richard Selzer before a SRO audience at the Yale School of Medicine. Twenty-five years later, THE SURGEON WHO BECAME A BEST-SELLING AUTHOR: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR RICHARD SELZER is Stripling's forthcoming biography of him. Please see above his confessional video on "Brute," a controversial story about the doctor-patient relationship.

Dr. Stripling lives in Fort Worth, TX. See www.medicalhumanities.net & follow @MahalaStripling