List of Huntington's disease media depictions

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Huntington's Disease has been shown in numerous formats, more so as awareness of the condition has increased. Here is a list of references to it in popular culture;

Contents 1 Books 2 Films 3 Television 4 Radio

[edit] Books

• Jacqueline Susann's 1966 American novel Valley of the Dolls (night club singer Tony Polar).
• Kurt Vonnegut's 1985 American novel Galapagos.
• Pål Johan Karlsen's 2002 Norwegian novel Daimler (main character Daniel Grimsgaard is afflicted).
• Diane Tullson's 2001 Canadian novel Saving Jasey (Trist, Jasey and their Grandfather).
• Nancy Werlin's 2004 American novel Double Helix (Ava Samuels, Kayla Matheson and others).
• Steven T. Seagle's autobiographical 2004 American graphic novel It's a Bird features the author coming to grips with the presence of HD in his family.
• Ian McEwan's 2005 British novel Saturday. The character of Baxter is negatively portrayed in his affliction. ^[1]
• Joe Klein's Woody Guthrie: A Life The book discloses the effects of the disorder in both Woody Guthrie and his mother.
• Nick O'Donohoe's Crossroads books (BJ Vaughan has HD).

[edit] Films

• Arlo Guthrie's 1969 film Alice's Restaurant

[edit] Television

• Dr. Samantha O'Hara from the Australian medical drama All Saints.
• Hannah's father from the American drama Everwood, as revealed in the episode "Need to Know" (3x10).
• Characters in the episodes "Pad'ar" (3x08) and "the Sins of the Father" (4x03) of Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict.
• Angie Padgett from the episode "In Which Charlotte Goes Down the Rabbit Hole" (1x06) of Private Practice.
• The character known as "Thirteen", in the episode "You Don't Want to Know" (4x08) of House, may have inherited the disease from her mother, who died of Huntington's, but refuses to discover results of an already made test. In the Season 4 finale, "Wilson's Heart" (4x16), she does the test and learns the result.
• An episode of the BBC drama Waterloo Road
• The ER season 9 episode "Insurrection" featured a completely disabled man with Huntington's. During the chaos caused when Dr. John Carter leads a walk-out to protest unsafe working conditions, the man's mother disconnects his ventilator so that he can die in peace. Dr. Susan Lewis figures out what the mother did but protects her.

[edit] Radio

• Mind Matters: RTÉ Radio 1 programme on Huntington's Disease, featuring a family affected from Ireland.