When Montaigne considered seeking help for health problems, he considered with trepidation, the impact it would have on his habits, the reliability of medical knowledge, and the way to engage health care services.
According to the Art: The story centers on a twelve-year old girl set in late 1700s’ Columbia, who was bitten by a presumably rabid dog. Her subsequent course prompts thinking about how more than only medical professionals and institutions should be held accountable for iatrogenesis.
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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.
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According to the art: The Greek tragedy, Philoctetes, offers prologues to health problems today involving pain, abandonment and exile, and ethical dilemmas.
According to the art: Thomas Kuhn’s classic book may give us a better understanding of how science works, but probably not one that helps us worry less about the reliability of medical knowledge.
According to the art: The author wants to “cross restrictive boundaries” between medical logos and medical eros so that desires connected to specific health problems can be recognized, reconciled, and remediated.
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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.
According to the art: In considering how we should respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and harms produced from environmental destruction and digital capitalism, O’Siadhail, through his poetry, asks that we consider more than just what lessons we have learned, and consider what we should desire.
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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.
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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.