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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.

Heart: A History

What These Works Say

According to the art: Sandeep Jauhar describes a select set of historical events that tend toward the triumphant while leaving aside some of the reversals and catastrophes that have historical importance. His views of future advances in cardiology are pessimistic even as cellular and gene therapies are moving into clinical trials at the time he writes this book.

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

What These Works Say

According to the art: This book is a journalistic account of causes and consequences of the opioid crisis in the U.S. during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The analysis considers social factors, opioid supply chains, and responses of health care professions, criminal justice systems, advocates, regulators, and legislators.

The Waverly Gallery
A View of Dementia Absent Medicalization

What These Works Say

According to the art: The play endeavors to show the raw effects of mental deterioration on aging people and those who are connected to them without having to see them through the obscuring and distorting effects of medicalization. More is thus revealed about the family dynamics in these circumstances and about the robustness of the human spirit.

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