- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Although Fadiman often lurks behind the scenes in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, in this moment she allows her own experiences to come to the forefront. Her decision to do so clearly indicates her desire to show that anybody—American or otherwise—can experience fear and uncertainty surrounding medical practice. Treatment, it seems, is less objective and rational than Western medicine would like to think; after all, medicine first and foremost involves people, meaning that relationships between doctors and patients constitute a large part of the experience of medical care. Unlike the Lees, Fadiman’s own health-related complications didn’t…