According to the art: Illness as loss refers the types of losses that contribute to illness as it is distinguished from disease and sickness and can include loss of confidence, loss of control, loss of innocence, and loss of omnipotence, all of which are related to some degree.
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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.
According to the art: This murder mystery features a prime suspect with Alzheimer’s disease and who serves as the narrator for most of the book. The suspect’s disease is advanced enough to make her an unreliable narrator and witness. Because of the author’s personal interest in dementia, the novel offers ideas on how people experience it amid complex circumstances. The author also imagines an end stage of dementia that may be more pleasant than common perceptions.
According to the art: In a 655-word short story, Raymond Chandler captures a range of problems in American health care of the late 1950s. Readers in the 2010s will recognize a similar set of problems.
According to the art: Alice Neel’s painting portrays the illness experience of tuberculous (TB) in 1940, and also conveys social determinants (poverty, malnutrition) that puts populations at risk for illnesses such as TB.
According to the art: Through a series of astonishing case studies from her neurology practice, O’Sullivan shows what psychosomatic illness looks like and describes how it works. She avers that illnesses can arise from pathophysiological causes or psychosomatic mechanisms, and so diagnosticians should be sure to discern which is at work in any given case as much to prevent harm as to effect a cure.
According to the art: Illness can be discerned in various ways, and in ways that correspond to how the Arts can address them. Here we list and discuss some elements of illness.
According to the art: An element of illness takes the form of questions. The questions can be about the clinical course of a particular health problem or about how a person’s life plans need to be altered. Disfigurement and migraine are featured examples.
According to the art: This movie was created to render the seizure experience of people with epilepsy.; the storyline is secondary to this aim. It also shows how filmmaking can be effective in capturing the seizure experience in ways that other art forms cannot.
According to the art: This novel covers a sixty–year span of a woman’s life and how the period during her husband’s early-onset Alzheimer’s disease affected the trajectory of her life as a spouse, a mother, a nurse, and a person with dreams and ambitions. Insights are offered on family relationships, daily life, and health care delivery and financing. How denial manifests and evolves is explored, and how grace can come to the fore is rendered.