According to the art: The movie tells the story of a psychiatrist traveling around to asylums in the US performing lobotomies during the mid-1950s when they were falling out of favor. While familiar horrors long associated with lobotomies and asylums are shown, their purpose in the movie is conveying the dangers of overconfidence and hubris existing in the US then and now.
According to the art: The novel works well on its own as a compelling story, but it can also serve as a companion to nonfiction books, documentary films, and investigative reports covering the opioid crisis with the expanded view it generates of how individual lives are affected in the midst of all else that threatens them.
According to the art: The author grapples with the question: “How is it possible that a disease characterized by coughing, emaciation, relentless diarrhea, fever, and the expectoration of phlegm and blood [i.e., tuberculosis] became not only a sign of beauty, but also a fashionable disease?”
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According to the art: The novel comprises a hybrid of conventional prose, prose poetry, poetry, and graphical elements that the author puts to imaginative use describing how the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin works.
According to the art: “When bad things happen to good people” is a common trope used in movies featuring the loss of a family member to cancer, or any disease. Something closer to bad things happen to not-so-good people is at work in this movie.
According the the art: The novel can be read as simply a dystopian story. But it can also be read as an ethical analysis of human cloning technology applied to organ supply, whether the author, Kazuo Ishiguro, had that purpose in mind or not.
According to the art: The book comprises four sections that can work together or independently of one another, but across all of them are scenes in which the main character experiences migraine headaches that provide perspectives on the physical suffering they can cause, the nature of relationships migraineurs can have with health care providers, and some of the social implications associated with chronic migraine headaches.
According to the art: In this short story depicting greed and imperiousness in a Russian pharmacy during the late 1800s, Anton Chekhov is foretelling characteristics that will affect health care in the U.S over a century later.
According to the art: Broyard’s book is a collection of writings concerning illness and death, mostly his, and in particular, the metastatic prostate cancer that took his life at age seventy. He focuses his attention on literature and story, and considers the literature of illness, the literature for illness, and the literature of death. He tells the story of his illness, and the story of his father’s. What results is a range of subjects that at times is memoir and at times meditations.
According to the art: A central concern of the novel is the role and operation of asylums in Western nations during most of the twentieth-century, with particular attention to how asylums affected the plights of women. The story is a literary representation of the period for asylums that corresponds with social historian Michel Foucault’s analysis in his book, Madness and Civilization.