J. Russell Teagarden

Russell Teagarden came to his interest in applying insights from the humanities to biomedicine after decades in clinical pharmacy practice and research. He realized that biosciences explained how diseases and treatments work, but not how they affect people in their everyday lives. Through formal academic studies and independent research in the humanities, he discovered rich and abundant sources of knowledge and perspectives on how specific health problems and clinical scenarios can be better understood than from the biosciences only. He shares these discoveries through his blog, According to the Arts, and the podcast, The Clinic & The Person.

Reason or Emotion in Assisting End of LifeAs Explored in Million Dollar Baby and The Sea Inside

Head of an anguished man. Chalk drawing. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Reason or Emotion in Assisting End of Life
As Explored in Million Dollar Baby and The Sea Inside

According to the art: Two movies explore the effects of reason and emotion on people being asked to assist in ending the life of someone they love.

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What These Works Say

According to the art: This documentary covers the special unit for AIDS patients at San Francisco General Hospital from its inception in 1983 to its closure twenty years later. Social and political issues related to gay rights and AIDS activism are given attention. While the unit was a success, it didn’t always go well and the staff had to overcome internal and external challenges until treatment advances made the unit no longer necessary.

Epileptic Seizure Experience: The Biomedical and The Literary (Dostoevsky and Harding)

Epileptic Seizure Experience:
The Biomedical and The Literary (Dostoevsky and Harding)

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: A classic biomedical description of a grand mal seizure is compared to literary descriptions of the same in two novels.

The Danish Girl

The Danish Girl

What These Works Say

According to the art: A true story of a married couple in the early 20th century seeking gender reassignment surgery offers insights on empathy and on the lengthy arc medical advances and social movements must travel before they are accepted.

When A Play Is As Jazz Does:The Height of the Storm

When A Play Is As Jazz Does:
The Height of the Storm

What I and Others Say

According to the art: Art genres can be fused for various purposes. I use the play The Height of the Storm as an example of when a dramatic play can be written in the jazz idiom.

Plaguing Shakespeare

Plaguing Shakespeare

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: The Plague ravaged London during certain intervals over Shakespeare’s life, resulting in disruptions to his writing and acting.

Illness as Argumentation

Illness as Argumentation

What I and Others Say

According to the art: Illness as argumentation generally means that illness can be what people persuade others it is.

Andreas Ban Reflects on Silent Suicides: Excerpt from EEG

Andreas Ban Reflects on Silent Suicides: Excerpt from EEG

According to the art: This excerpt is from the opening of the novel where Andreas Ban reflects on suicide and the different forms it can take.

Andreas Ban’s Mother is Bleeding from Cancer and While Getting Experimental Treatment—She Dies: Excerpts from EEG

Andreas Ban’s Mother is Bleeding from Cancer and While Getting Experimental Treatment—She Dies:
Excerpts from EEG

According to the art: The focus of this short excerpt from the novel EEG is on bleeding from cancer or its treatment and the dehumanizing nature of experimentation in human subjects.

Self Mutilation Experience – The Biomedical and the Literary (Yanagihara)

Self Mutilation Experience – The Biomedical and the Literary (Yanagihara)

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: In the novel, A Little Life, a character elaborates on a biomedical theory for self mutilation based on the relief cutting provides to give a fuller sense of the personal experience.

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