Andreas Ban Reflects on Silent Suicides: Excerpt from EEG
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.
J. Russell Teagarden
Russell Teagarden came to his interest in applying insights from the humanities to biomedicine after decades in clinical pharmacy practice and research. He realized that biosciences explained how diseases and treatments work, but not how they affect people in their everyday lives. Through formal academic studies and independent research in the humanities, he discovered rich and abundant sources of knowledge and perspectives on how specific health problems and clinical scenarios can be better understood than from the biosciences only. He shares these discoveries through his blog, According to the Arts, and the podcast, The Clinic & The Person.
Andreas Ban’s Mother is Bleeding from Cancer and While Getting Experimental Treatment—She Dies:
Excerpts from EEG
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.
Self Mutilation Experience – The Biomedical and the Literary (Yanagihara)
Projects So That I Can Say More
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.
A Little Life
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.
Limits to Medicine
Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
According to the art: Illich argues that health care as a social organization does more to hinder equality and opportunity for individuals than to improve the chances for them. He builds his argument around the concept of iatrogenesis (harm from health care), and discerns three forms of it: clinical, social, and cultural.
The Illumination
According to the art: Through the use of speculative fiction, the author explores how we might react when we can have no doubt about someone else’s pain, injury, or disease.
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back
According to the Art: The book examines several components of American health care to isolate specific causes for the financial toxicity people are experiencing, and offers ideas to help health care consumers, providers, policy experts, and legislators.
Prescription for The Future: The Twelve Transformational Practices of Highly Effective Medical Organizations
According to the Art: Emanuel builds the book around twelve transformational practices as developed and applied in the several different health care organizations he studied that could potentially deliver higher-quality and lower-cost care for Americans.
Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician
According to the Art: This memoir offers more than how Jauhar became disillusioned with American health care. Along with Jauhar’s lament are insights for other memoirists, practicing physicians, parents who want their children to become physicians, consumers of health care, and health care policy analysts among others.
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science:
Bridging the Two Cultures
According to the Art: Kandel’s aim is more than just explaining how reductionism is used in brain science and in modern art. He is also out to show in a larger sense how science and the arts, which now exist as “two cultures,” are more alike than not.