Projects So That I Can Say More

Projects So That I Can Say More are initiatives I undertake to gain deeper insights into particular disease and illness situations. These generally involve analyses that are developed from many sources relevant to a particular inquiry. For example, an analysis could compare and contrast the different ways in which the experience of dementia is rendered in literary fiction, the different ways the aura of migraine is rendered in paintings, the different ways anxiety has been conceptualized socially over the centuries.

This is a Test:
A Breezy Novel Warns of Damaging Winds

According to the art: Novelists can be quite prescient about particular future events. Their speculative fiction has been known to become reality. Baxter’s novel portrays a scenario closer to transitioning from speculative fiction to nonfiction than either one.

This Blog That Podcast

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Associated with this blog is the podcast, The Clinic & The Person. It first published in September of 2002, and since then has produced 22 episodes. The podcast has drawn from several genres in the Humanities. Brief descriptions of and links to the individual episodes are provided.

Philoctetes as Prologue

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: The Greek tragedy, Philoctetes, offers prologues to health problems today involving pain, abandonment and exile, and ethical dilemmas.

Of Pain and Profit:
Montaigne’s Kidney Stones

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: The essayist Michel de Montaigne tells of the excruciating pain of his kidney stones but also how be benefitted from them in certain ways; a notion not likely shared by any of those who have experienced them.

Heading for the Hills:
Plague Migration Patterns in 1348 Florence and 2020 New York City

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: People fleeing areas during plague visitations is a common reaction. In this post, Boccaccio’s description of people fleeing Florence during the 1348 plague is compared to migration away from New York City during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.

Leprosy:
The Biomedical and The Literary
(The Covenant of Water)

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: A recent novel featuring leprosy in the southwestern region of India occasions the opportunity to compare a literary description of the disease with contemporary biomedical text.

Arsenic Self-Poisoning:
The Biomedical and The Literary (Madame Bovary)

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: A classic biomedical description of arsenic poisoning is compared to a literary description from the 19th-Century novel Madame Bovary.

Phantom Limb Pain:
The Biomedical and The Literary

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: The “fragmentary novel,” Flights, elaborates on the biomedical descriptions of phantom limb pain by imagining what a known amputee from the past may have gone through.

A Cancer Describes Doxorubicin

Projects So That I Can Say More

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.

Insomnia:
The Biomedical and The Literary

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: I compare s classic biomedical description of insomnia with excerpts from Samantha Harvey’s book that concerns how severe insomnia affected her.

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