In the medical field, in addition to about 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals of his medical speciality, he wrote two books: •
Extragonadal Teratomas, a text-atlas published under the auspices of the
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D. C., 1982. • ''Nephroblastoma (Wilms' tumor) and Related Renal Tumors of Childhood'', CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1984. In the literary field, his work has been chiefly in the essay genre, in both English and Spanish.
Books written in English: •
Notes of an Anatomist (Harcourt Brace, 1985) First prize for non-fiction of the
Society of Midland Authors (1985). Reviewed in the
New York Times, 1985. •
Three Forms of Sudden Death (Harper & Row, 1986). •
On the Nature of Things Erotic (Harcourt Brace, 1988). An excerpt was published as first serial in
The New York Times Book Review. •
The Five Senses (Harcourt Brace, 1989). Nominee for the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for the publishing year August 1, 1988 to July 31, 1989. •
The Day of the Dead and Other Mortal Reflections (Harcourt Brace, 1993). Reviewed in
The New York Times, and the
Chicago Reader, 1994. •
Suspended Animation (Harcourt Brace, 1995). Nominee in the 1966 PEN/Spielfogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. Reviewed by
The New York Times, 1995. •
There is a World Elsewhere (Riverhead Books, 1998). Reviewed in
Chicago Tribune 1998. •
On Being Born and Other Difficulties (Overlook Press, 2004). Reviewed in
The Washington Post in 2004. •
On Seeing. Things Seen, Unseen and Obscene. (Overlook Press, New York, 2006). Reviewed in
Nature, 2006. •
A Short History of Medicine (Random House, Modern Library Chronicles, 2007). •
Carrying the Heart (Kaplan Publishing, 2009). Reviewed in
The New York Review of Books in 2009. •
The Body Fantastic (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021). Foreword by John Banville. Reviewed in
The Boston Globe. •
The Language of the Face. Stories of Its Uniquely Expressive Features(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023). Listed in Google Books.
Books written and published in Spanish: •
Notas de un anatomista (Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 1990). •
Partir es Morir un Poco (U.N.A.M., 1996). •
Los cinco sentidos (trans.
Verónica Murguía;
Conaculta/
INBA/
Verdehalago, 2002). •
Venir al Mundo (Verdehalago, 2006). •
La Fábrica del Cuerpo (Turner, Ortega & Ortiz, 2006). •
Horas Chinas (Siglo XXI, Mexico). •
Remedios de Antaño (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 2012). •
El Rostro y El Alma. Siete Ensayos Fisiognomicos (Penguin-Random House, Mexico, 2014) •
La Enfermedad del Amor (Penguin -Random House, Mexico, 2016). •
Del Cuerpo Imponderable (Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, Mexico, 2020) •
Las Folías del Sexo (Penguin-Random House / Debate, Mexico, 2020). •
Más Allá del Cuerpo (Grano de Sal, Mexico, 2021). Foreign translations of Gonzalez-Crussi's books include: Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, Slovakian, Czech, Polish, Chinese and Japanese. In the English language, Gonzalez-Crussi has contributed book reviews to
The New York Times,
The Washington Post,
Nature and
Commonweal. Excerpts of his work have appeared in
The New Yorker, ''
Harper's Magazine and The Sciences. In the Spanish language, his work has appeared in various periodical publications of Mexico (Letras Libres, Cambio
, Tierra Adentro
, Luvina
) and Peru (Etiqueta Negra'')
Theater play: The work of Gonzalez Crussi was adapted for the stage in 1995 by a theatrical company of Chicago (
Live Bait Company, director Sharon Evans), under the name "Memento Mori". Reviewed in
Chicago Tribune, and
Chicago Sun-Times in 1995. This play was also presented in Seattle (November-December 1996) by the
Aha! Theater Company. Reviewed in
The Seattle Times in 1996.
Television Documentary: The literary work of Gonzalez Crussi was featured by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC production (director Kevin Hull) was entitled "Day of the Dead", which was filed in the
British Film Institute archive. It was part of the TV series
Bookmark, and was first aired in the UK on April 27, 1992 on
BBC2. The film was reviewed in
The Daily Telegraph; in
The Times; and the
BMJ in 1992. == References ==