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.

Parkinson’s Disease and
Dopamine Balance:
The Biomedical and The Poetic (O’Siadhail)

According to the art: Here is a comparison of a biomedical and a poetic explanation of the complicated biochemistry and pharmacology of Parkinson’s disease treatment with dopamine or its mimics. The biomedical text comes from a scientific journal, and the poetic text comes from two sonnets from a collection written by Micheal O’Siadhail about the last two years of his late wife’s experience with the disease.

A Poet Explains Parkinson’s Disease:
The Clinical and The Personal

Projects So That I Can Say More

According to the art: Four sonnets in this memoir of 150 covering the poet’s wife’s last two years with Parkinson’s disease are analyzed for how they render the suffering it causes and adds to classic biomedical descriptions.

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