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Projects So That I Can Say More

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.

Tabes Dorsalis: The Biomedical and the Literary (Daudet)

Tabes Dorsalis:
The Biomedical and the Literary (Daudet)

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Here biomedical text describing tabes dorsalis, a manifestation of neurosyphilis is compared to literary descriptions made by Alphonse Daudet based on his own sufferings from the condition.

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Dementia Experience:The Biomedical and The Literary (Harvey)

Dementia Experience:
The Biomedical and The Literary (Harvey)

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Here are excerpts from the novel The Wilderness that extend or elaborate on classic biomedical explanations of what people experience with dementia.

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Parkinson’s Disease and Dopamine Balance:The Biomedical and The Poetic (O’Siadhail)

Parkinson’s Disease and
Dopamine Balance:
The Biomedical and The Poetic (O’Siadhail)

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Here is a comparison of a biomedical and a poetic explanation of the complicated biochemistry and pharmacology of Parkinson’s disease treatment with dopamine or its mimics. The biomedical text comes from a scientific journal, and the poetic text comes from two sonnets from a collection written by Micheal O’Siadhail about the last two years of his late wife’s experience with the disease.

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A Poet Explains Parkinson’s Disease:The Clinical and The Personal

A Poet Explains Parkinson’s Disease:
The Clinical and The Personal

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Four sonnets in this memoir of 150 covering the poet’s wife’s last two years with Parkinson’s disease are analyzed for how they render the suffering it causes and adds to classic biomedical descriptions.

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