According to the art: The story follows the plight of a young, diabetic woman experiencing a retinal hemorrhage and what comes after clinically and socially. What a retinal hemorrhage is like as it occurs and what the prospect of blindness is like afterward are featured. How both can become a proof of love is intertwined.
According to the art: To adapt Beth Macy’s expansive book about the opioid crisis to the format of a dramatic series, the creator, Danny Strong, had to limit his scope around the fiendish Purdue Pharma sales and marketing practices and the people they affected directly.
According to the art: This novel is for readers who want to go deep into what people—family, organ recipients, hospital staff—experience during organ transplantation, from the time of an event making organ transplantation possible to the time a donated organ is implanted. In particular, philosophical concepts and language constraints are considered.
According to the art: The book might have been better titled, The Problems of Alzheimer’s, to better reflect the multiple dimensions Jason Karlawish takes into account in his study of the disease. Karlawish functions more as critic than cheerleader, and more as an arbiter than polemicist. He is only a polemicist when criticizing the polemics around various controversies he considers.
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According to the art: A passage is excerpted from the novel, Nervous System, in which a character’s conscience is generated during an MRI scan.
According to the art: The novel is about a family making its way through life dodging obstacles in the forms of illness, injury, death, and grief. The obstacles dominate the book, and are described in unusual, clever, and striking ways.
According to the art: The movie shows how a long-term gay couple faces the onset of dementia as any heterosexual couple does, but does not consider how it could be different.
According to the art: The futility of twentieth century health care expressed in Robert Frost’s poem “Out Out—” has become the banality of twenty-first century health care.
According to the Art: Michael Pollan continues pursuing his interest in the human drive for altering consciousness through mind-altering substances he started with his previous book, and marries this interest with his passion for plants and gardening. In this book, he investigates through personal experience, opium, caffeine, and mescaline.
According to the art: The book has entertainment value, to be sure. Readers of a certain age will further appreciate the book for the questions it raises and the thinking it inspires about taking measures to avoid devastating enfeeblement and infirmity during old age.