DAVID HELLERSTEIN, MD


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Interns,
                  circa 1910, from A Family of Doctors, by David
                  Hellerstein, MD
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  David Hellerstein, M.D.              Psychiatrist and Writer

LITERARY PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS

1) Battles of Life and Death (essays), Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1986; paperback: Warner, New York, 1987

2) Loving Touches (novel), Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1987; paperback: Warner, New York, 1988

3) A Family of Doctors (memoir), Hill and Wang, New York, 1994; paperback: Ivy Books, New York, 1995

4) Stone Babies (novel) Electronpress.com 2000

5) Heal Your Brain: How the New Neuropsychiatry Can Help You Go from Better to Well. JHU Press 2011

BOOK CHAPTERS (SELECTED)

1) "Overdosing on medical technology." In: Contemporary Moral Controversies in Technology, edited by A.P. Iannone, Oxford University Press, New York, 1987

2) "The slow, costly death of Mrs. K." In: Envisioning Information, Edward Tufte, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT, 1990

3) "On Medicine and Literature." In: Conversations With Robert Coles, edited by J. Woodruff and S.C. Woodruff, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, 1992

4) "Touching." In: On Doctoring, ed. by R. Reynolds, MD and J. Stone, MD, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1991

ARTICLES, ESSAYS, STORIES (SELECTED)

Over 60 publications in: New York Times Magazine, North American Review, Harper's, Ms., Esquire, Vogue, Yankee, Science Digest, Hippocrates, Fiction, and other journals. Including:

"Letting Go of Payne Whitney," New York Times Magazine, November 6, 1994

"A Case Study," Interview of Oliver Sacks, New York Woman, December 1990

"Plotting a Theory of the Brain," interview of Nobel Laureate Gerald M. Edelman, New York Times Magazine, May 22,1988 (cover story)

"Now the Psychiatrist Can Do More Than Just Listen," TV Guide, October 8, 1988

"High Speed Shrinking," Science Digest, 1986

"The Muse of Medicine," interview of Lewis Thomas, Esquire, March 1984

"Cures That Kill," Harper's, December 1980

"Lili," North American Review, Sept-October, 1996

"Crack Time," Fiction, vol. 9, #2, Spring 1989

"Keeping secrets, telling tales: the psychiatrist as writer." Journal of Medical Humanities 1997;18:127-139


MEDIA APPEARANCES (SELECTED)

Nightline, Newsline (New York), CBS This Morning, CBS News 2


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