October 2020 – According to the Arts

Emphysema:
The Biomedical and the Sick Poet

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.

Migraine Experience:
The Biomedical and The Literary

Projects So That I Can Say More

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.