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Pale Horse Pale Rider:
From One Title, Two Perspectives on the Effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic

According to the art: Two written genres are used to conjoin the impact of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic on populations with the impact on individuals. A nonfiction account is used to document the catastrophic effects of the pandemic on populations, and a literary short novel is used to render the catastrophic effects of the flu on an individual. Both are called Pale Horse, Pale Rider to reflect the biblical scale of the effects of this flu on individuals and populations.

Dementia Experience:
The Biomedical and The Literary (Harvey)

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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.

I Am, I Am, I Am

What These Works Say

According to the art: The book is a memoir based on seventeen near-death events involving the author, and in a few instances, her children. Though the events make for harrowing and interesting tales, they are written such that they also convey what it’s like to nearly die from different acute illnesses, accidents, violence, and bad judgment. Collectively, the stories show the availability of human resilience in the face of repeated threats to life.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

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According to the art: In this literary memoir of his opium addiction, Thomas De Quincey writes of the pleasures and pains opium brought him over an eighteen–year period during the early 1800s. His experiences foretell journalistic accounts of the opioid addiction crises that occurred two hundred years later.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Heart: A History

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According to the art: Sandeep Jauhar describes a select set of historical events that tend toward the triumphant while leaving aside some of the reversals and catastrophes that have historical importance. His views of future advances in cardiology are pessimistic even as cellular and gene therapies are moving into clinical trials at the time he writes this book.

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

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According to the art: This book is a journalistic account of causes and consequences of the opioid crisis in the U.S. during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The analysis considers social factors, opioid supply chains, and responses of health care professions, criminal justice systems, advocates, regulators, and legislators.

The Waverly Gallery
A View of Dementia Absent Medicalization

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According to the art: The play endeavors to show the raw effects of mental deterioration on aging people and those who are connected to them without having to see them through the obscuring and distorting effects of medicalization. More is thus revealed about the family dynamics in these circumstances and about the robustness of the human spirit.

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