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.

Diabetes Experience:
The Biomedical and The Poetic

According to the art: Here is a poem that renders the initial experience of type II diabetes compared to a biomedical explanation, and how people make accommodations to biomedical necessities.

Familial Dysautonomia Experience:
The Biomedical and The Literary

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Here are excerpts from the novel So Much For That, extending or elaborating on classic biomedical explanations of what people experience with familial dysautonomia.

Reading Arrowsmith During
the 2020 Pandemic

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Reading the 1925 novel Arrowsmith during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic reveals many parallels that can make us wonder if the outcomes of pandemics will forever be determined by the contest between human folly versus rational and organized application of scientific methods, public health principles, and public administration fundamentals.

Epileptic Seizure Experience:
The Biomedical and The Literary (Dostoevsky and Harding)

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: A classic biomedical description of a grand mal seizure is compared to literary descriptions of the same in two novels.

Plaguing Shakespeare

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: The Plague ravaged London during certain intervals over Shakespeare’s life, resulting in disruptions to his writing and acting.

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.

Belladonna Self-Poisoning:
The Biomedical and The Literary

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Biomedical and Literary descriptions of belladonna toxicity are compared. The literary source is Daša Drndić’s novel Belladonna.

Dementia Experience:
The Biomedical and the Literary (LaPlante)

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Here are excerpts from the novel Turn of Mind that extend or elaborate on classic biomedical explanations of what people experience with dementia.

Dementia Experience:
The Biomedical and the Literary (Mosley)

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Here are excerpts from the novel The Days of Ptolemy Grey that extend or elaborate on classic biomedical explanations of what people experience with dementia.

Dementia Experience:
The Biomedical and the Literary (Solnit)

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Here are excerpts from a literary nonfiction book that extends and elaborates on classic biomedical explanations of what people experience with dementia.

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