According to the art: In this novel published in 1925, Sinclair Lewis offers a view of how human folly complicates application of scientific research findings, medical standards of practice, public health principles, public administration fundamentals, and good governance. He uses medical practice, public health administration, and an infectious epidemic as his case studies. His renderings remain relevant when read ninety-five years after publication.
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According to the art: Here is a poem that renders the initial experience of type II diabetes compared to a biomedical explanation, and how people make accommodations to biomedical necessities.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: Here are excerpts from the novel So Much For That, extending or elaborating on classic biomedical explanations of what people experience with familial dysautonomia.
According to the art: The novel explores the nature of illness and medical research, reasons perpetrators and their apologists can offer to reconcile pedophilia with normal behavior, the wisdom of pursuing medical technologies to extend age well beyond current limits, and whether the failing mind results from a disease process or the normal course of aging.