The Illumination
According to the art: Through the use of speculative fiction, the author explores how we might react when we can have no doubt about someone else’s pain, injury, or disease.
Month: January 2020
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back
According to the Art: The book examines several components of American health care to isolate specific causes for the financial toxicity people are experiencing, and offers ideas to help health care consumers, providers, policy experts, and legislators.
Prescription for The Future: The Twelve Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations
According to the Art: Emanuel builds the book around twelve transformational practices as developed and applied in the several different health care organizations he studied that could potentially deliver higher-quality and lower-cost care for Americans.
Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
According to the Art: This memoir offers more than how Jauhar became disillusioned with American health care. Along with Jauhar’s lament are insights for other memoirists, practicing physicians, parents who want their children to become physicians, consumers of health care, and health care policy analysts among others.
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science:
Bridging the Two Cultures
According to the Art: Kandel’s aim is more than just explaining how reductionism is used in brain science and in modern art. He is also out to show in a larger sense how science and the arts, which now exist as “two cultures,” are more alike than not.