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Migraine Experience:
The Biomedical and The Literary

According to the art: The experience of migraine headache is searing, its causes vexing, and its treatments unsatisfying. The condition is highly prevalent and writers, poets, and artists have rendered the experience across the millennia of civilization. Here is a comparison of some literary renderings of the migraine experience (fiction and nonfiction) with a classic biomedical text description.

Death from Late-Stage Cancer as Battle or as Grace in the Film Wit

What I and Others Say

According to the art: In this film death from late-stage cancer is considered as a battle to be waged or as a fate to be accepted through grace, and how different punctuation in John Donne’s poem, Death Be Not Proud, can help to make this distinction.

Reading The End of October
During the Pandemic of 2020

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This novel, written immediately before the current pandemic, offers correspondences between a literary account with fictional analogs to figures responding to the current pandemic, adding a measure of foresight to the many previous literary depictions of human responses to plagues.

Reading The Betrothed
During the 2020 Pandemic

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According to the art: The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni, is a literary explication of Italian history in the early sixteen hundreds, and which includes a section on the bubonic plague that ravaged Milan then. The factual reports of public reactions to the bubonic plague in the novel are compared here to factual reports of public reactions to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in mainstream media. Not a lot changed in 400 years.

Arrowsmith

What These Works Say

According to the art: In this novel published in 1925, Sinclair Lewis offers a view of how human folly complicates application of scientific research findings, medical standards of practice, public health principles, public administration fundamentals, and good governance. He uses medical practice, public health administration, and an infectious epidemic as his case studies. His renderings remain relevant when read ninety-five years after publication.

Diabetes Experience:
The Biomedical and The Poetic

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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

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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.

The People in the Trees

What These Works Say

According to the art: The novel explores the nature of illness and medical research, reasons perpetrators and their apologists can offer to reconcile pedophilia with normal behavior, the wisdom of pursuing medical technologies to extend age well beyond current limits, and whether the failing mind results from a disease process or the normal course of aging.

Reading Arrowsmith During
the 2020 Pandemic

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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.

The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America

What These Works Say

According to the art: The book is about estrogen from the 1890s until the early 2000s. Covered is the evolution of estrogen use, and how over time it affected feminism, pharmaceutical promotion, patient advocacy, patient information, conceptions of menopause, evidence standards, cultural shifts, and media influences.

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