Projects So That I Can Say More are initiatives I undertake to gain deeper insights into particular disease and illness situations. These generally involve analyses that are developed from many sources relevant to a particular inquiry. For example, an analysis could compare and contrast the different ways in which the experience of dementia is rendered in literary fiction, the different ways the aura of migraine is rendered in paintings, the different ways anxiety has been conceptualized socially over the centuries.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: Associated with this blog is the podcast, The Clinic & The Person first published in September of 2022 and over the subsequent three years to its end, published 30 episodes. Descriptions of and links to the individual episodes are provided.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the arts: Considered together, the perspectives from biomedicine, literary fiction, and opera provider a fuller account of the final stage of TB than any of them individually.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: Novelists can be quite prescient about particular future events. Their speculative fiction has been known to become reality. Baxter’s novel portrays a scenario closer to transitioning from speculative fiction to nonfiction than either one.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: The Greek tragedy, Philoctetes, offers prologues to health problems today involving pain, abandonment and exile, and ethical dilemmas.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: The essayist Michel de Montaigne tells of the excruciating pain of his kidney stones but also how be benefitted from them in certain ways; a notion not likely shared by any of those who have experienced them.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: People fleeing areas during plague visitations is a common reaction. In this post, Boccaccio’s description of people fleeing Florence during the 1348 plague is compared to migration away from New York City during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: A recent novel featuring leprosy in the southwestern region of India occasions the opportunity to compare a literary description of the disease with contemporary biomedical text.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: A classic biomedical description of arsenic poisoning is compared to a literary description from the 19th-Century novel Madame Bovary.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: The “fragmentary novel,” Flights, elaborates on the biomedical descriptions of phantom limb pain by imagining what a known amputee from the past may have gone through.
Projects So That I Can Say More
According to the art: The novel comprises a hybrid of conventional prose, prose poetry, poetry, and graphical elements that the author puts to imaginative use describing how the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin works.