According to the Art: From this novel, we get a view—Lethem’s—of how Tourette syndrome can affect everyday life and how it can progress; how people with the syndrome can think about it; the balance people seek between benefits and side effects of drug therapies; and whether it’s acceptable to think that some verbal and physical tics are funny.
According to the Art: The novel centers on the eleven-year-old son of a late sixteenth-century playwright and stage performer who died from the plague in Stratford, England. Story elements touching on medical humanities concerns include death, grief, dread, childbirth, and how plague infections spread.
According to the art: The movie can be approached as a crime story with dementia as a wrinkle, or as a dementia story with crime as a wrinkle. As a movie focusing on dementia, it prompts the haunting possibility that people with advanced dementia may still possess more cognitive ability than they are credited, and that language problems dementia can cause may obscure retained recall and cognitive functions.
According to the art: I was drawn to this novel because it covers the early HIV / AIDS epidemic in Chicago, which is where I was at the time. I was not disappointed as far as that goes, but found it impossible not to draw comparisons between the novel and the current coronavirus pandemic
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According to the art: This is a book to read for the charm, eloquence, erudition, humility, and humor it provides as much or more than the history of typhus covered.
According to the Art: Cipolla’s account of the bubonic plague striking Northern Italy in 1630 shows how epidemics drive people into opposing groups, in this case, Church and State. The 2020 pandemic shows that epidemics still drive people into opposing groups.
According to the art: The book is a compendium of health care system features common among eleven, high-income countries, which become the basis for comparing and judging them. While the analyses produced serve public health policy officials and educators best, they also provide insights into how health care, policies, practices, cultures, and histories of countries can affect illness experiences.
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According to the art: Here, I compare a description of what people experience with emphysema from a classic biomedical text with a series of “notes” from a poet describing his experience with emphysema.
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According to the art: The experience of migraine headache is searing, its causes vexing, and its treatments unsatisfying. The condition is highly prevalent and writers, poets, and artists have rendered the experience across the millennia of civilization. Here is a comparison of some literary renderings of the migraine experience (fiction and nonfiction) with a classic biomedical text description.
According to the art: In this film death from late-stage cancer is considered as a battle to be waged or as a fate to be accepted through grace, and how different punctuation in John Donne’s poem, Death Be Not Proud, can help to make this distinction.