According to the art: This documentary covers the special unit for AIDS patients at San Francisco General Hospital from its inception in 1983 to its closure twenty years later. Social and political issues related to gay rights and AIDS activism are given attention. While the unit was a success, it didn’t always go well and the staff had to overcome internal and external challenges until treatment advances made the unit no longer necessary.
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According to the art: A classic biomedical description of a grand mal seizure is compared to literary descriptions of the same in two novels.
According to the art: A true story of a married couple in the early 20th century seeking gender reassignment surgery offers insights on empathy and on the lengthy arc medical advances and social movements must travel before they are accepted.
According to the art: Art genres can be fused for various purposes. I use the play The Height of the Storm as an example of when a dramatic play can be written in the jazz idiom.
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According to the art: The Plague ravaged London during certain intervals over Shakespeare’s life, resulting in disruptions to his writing and acting.
According to the art: Illness as argumentation generally means that illness can be what people persuade others it is.
According to the art: This excerpt is from the opening of the novel where Andreas Ban reflects on suicide and the different forms it can take.
According to the art: The focus of this short excerpt from the novel EEG is on bleeding from cancer or its treatment and the dehumanizing nature of experimentation in human subjects.
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According to the art: In the novel, A Little Life, a character elaborates on a biomedical theory for self mutilation based on the relief cutting provides to give a fuller sense of the personal experience.
According to the art: Through the story of four college friends over many years with one of them drawing most of the novel’s attention, the book provides poignant, breathtaking, and enlightening renderings of profound mental and psychological suffering resulting from abandonment, pedophilia, self-mutilation, rare neurological disease, and the futility health care systems generate for people who need them.