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Three Views of Death Throes in TB: Biomedical, Literary, Opera

Three Views of Death Throes in TB: Biomedical, Literary, Opera

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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.

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The Room Next Door Best Friends Forever?

The Room Next Door
Best Friends Forever?

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According to the art: When we have reached a certain age, we can find that we easily pick up where we left off with friends we knew well, for a short time, a long time ago. Almodóvar asks what will we still do for them?

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Lights, Camera, DenyWhen Managed Care Went to the Movies

Lights, Camera, Deny
When Managed Care Went to the Movies

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According to the art: The fatal shooting of a health care insurance executive in December, 2004 brings to mind four movies from the late 1990s and early 2000s. They depicted a building rage about new restrictions to health care coverage and the methods used to apply them, that spring from underlying structures and incentives embedded in US health care.

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This is a TestA Breezy Novel Warns of Damaging Winds

This is a Test
A Breezy Novel Warns of Damaging Winds

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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.

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Of Doctors and Health CareMontaigne’s Harmony

Of Doctors and Health Care
Montaigne’s Harmony

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When Montaigne considered seeking help for health problems, he considered with trepidation, the impact it would have on his habits, the reliability of medical knowledge, and the way to engage health care services.

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Of Rabies, Demons, and Iatrogenesis

Of Rabies, Demons, and Iatrogenesis

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According to the Art: The story centers on a twelve-year old girl set in late 1700s’ Columbia, who was bitten by a presumably rabid dog. Her subsequent course prompts thinking about how more than only medical professionals and institutions should be held accountable for iatrogenesis.

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This Blog That Podcast

This Blog That Podcast

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According to the art: Associated with this blog is the podcast, The Clinic & The Person. It first published in September of 2002, and since then has produced 22 episodes. The podcast has drawn from several genres in the Humanities. Brief descriptions of and links to the individual episodes are provided.

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Philoctetes as Prologue

Philoctetes as Prologue

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According to the art: The Greek tragedy, Philoctetes, offers prologues to health problems today involving pain, abandonment and exile, and ethical dilemmas.

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions andthe Reliability of Medical Knowledge

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and
the Reliability of Medical Knowledge

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According to the art: Thomas Kuhn’s classic book may give us a better understanding of how science works, but probably not one that helps us worry less about the reliability of medical knowledge.

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Eros and Illness

Eros and Illness

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According to the art: The author wants to “cross restrictive boundaries” between medical logos and medical eros so that desires connected to specific health problems can be recognized, reconciled, and remediated.

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