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According to the art: This is a book to read for the charm, eloquence, erudition, humility, and humor it provides as much or more than the history of typhus covered.
According to the Art: Cipolla’s account of the bubonic plague striking Northern Italy in 1630 shows how epidemics drive people into opposing groups, in this case, Church and State. The 2020 pandemic shows that epidemics still drive people into opposing groups.
According to the art: The book is a compendium of health care system features common among eleven, high-income countries, which become the basis for comparing and judging them. While the analyses produced serve public health policy officials and educators best, they also provide insights into how health care, policies, practices, cultures, and histories of countries can affect illness experiences.
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According to the art: Here, I compare a description of what people experience with emphysema from a classic biomedical text with a series of “notes” from a poet describing his experience with emphysema.
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According to the art: The experience of migraine headache is searing, its causes vexing, and its treatments unsatisfying. The condition is highly prevalent and writers, poets, and artists have rendered the experience across the millennia of civilization. Here is a comparison of some literary renderings of the migraine experience (fiction and nonfiction) with a classic biomedical text description.
According to the art: In this film death from late-stage cancer is considered as a battle to be waged or as a fate to be accepted through grace, and how different punctuation in John Donne’s poem, Death Be Not Proud, can help to make this distinction.
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This novel, written immediately before the current pandemic, offers correspondences between a literary account with fictional analogs to figures responding to the current pandemic, adding a measure of foresight to the many previous literary depictions of human responses to plagues.
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According to the art: The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni, is a literary explication of Italian history in the early sixteen hundreds, and which includes a section on the bubonic plague that ravaged Milan then. The factual reports of public reactions to the bubonic plague in the novel are compared here to factual reports of public reactions to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in mainstream media. Not a lot changed in 400 years.
According to the art: In this novel published in 1925, Sinclair Lewis offers a view of how human folly complicates application of scientific research findings, medical standards of practice, public health principles, public administration fundamentals, and good governance. He uses medical practice, public health administration, and an infectious epidemic as his case studies. His renderings remain relevant when read ninety-five years after publication.
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According to the art: Here is a poem that renders the initial experience of type II diabetes compared to a biomedical explanation, and how people make accommodations to biomedical necessities.