September 2019 – According to the Arts

The Age of Wonder:
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes refers to this book as his “account of the second scientific revolution, which swept through Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, and produced a new vision which has rightly been called Romantic science.” The book makes a call for a reuniting of the sciences and the arts, which Medical Humanities attempts to answer.

The Genius of Marian
A Son Films His Mother’s Dementia Journey

What These Works Say

According to the art: The filmmaker follows the experience his mother has with Alzheimer’s disease over the course of about three years. Included are interviews with his mother, father, and siblings, as well as some of his mother’s longtime friends. The filmmaker splices in family movies spanning three generations reveals how the trajectory of his mother’s life changes as a result of her dementia, and shows personality traits that survived it. A more distant view of the film captures the dementia experience for a devoted, affluent, white, American family.