Reading List: Therapeutic Humor and Medicine

Black, Donald W. (1984) "Laughter". J Am  Medical Association, 252:21, 2995-8.
 
Cousins, Norman. (1976) "Anatomy of an Illness". New England J of Medicine, v295, 1458-1463.
 
Levinson, W., Roter, D., Mullooly, J., Dull, V., & Frankel, R. (1997). Physician-patient communication; The relationship with malpractice claims among primary care physicians and surgeons. Journal of the American Medical Association, 277(7), 553-559.
 
Van Blerkom, L (1995). Clown doctors: shaman healers of Western medicine. Med Anthropol Q, 9 (4), 462-75.
 
Weisenberg, M., Tepper, I., & Schwarzwald, J. (1995). Humor as a cognitive technique for increasing pain tolerance. Pain, 63 (2), 207-212.