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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.
According to the art: In considering how we should respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and harms produced from environmental destruction and digital capitalism, O’Siadhail, through his poetry, asks that we consider more than just what lessons we have learned, and consider what we should desire.
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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.
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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.
According to the art: The book is a graphic memoir covering MK Czerwiec’s time mostly as a nurse in the HIV/AIDS unit at Illinois Masonic hospital in Chicago, Illinois from 1994 until 2000 when the unit closed. It provides personal context for one of the most serious and complex medical calamities in decades, and in a form that adds value to conventional forms of biomedical texts and teachings.
According to the art: National Museum (Oslo) art curator and Munch expert, Øystein Ustvedt, brings together art history and Munch’s biography in explaining how his work depicts both emotional and subjective aspects of the human condition, to include illness and its consequences.
According to the art: The book is classified as a memoir, and while it has the elements of a memoir, Leland crosses seamlessly into other genres, such as history, philosophy, political science, and long-form journalism. He plunges into the country of the blind, which for him is a “teeming variety of their stories of struggle, adaptation, and adventure.”
According to the art: Andrew Scull documents how psychiatry’s quest for safe and effective treatments for mental illness over the past century and a half has not produced any notable successes and left many people severely and fatally harmed along the way. The lessons learned apply to medicine more broadly today, and likely forever more.
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According to the art: A classic biomedical description of arsenic poisoning is compared to a literary description from the 19th-Century novel Madame Bovary.
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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.