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When AIDS Activism Went Inside a Hospital: Ward 5B at San Francisco General
Documentary recounts San Francisco’s Ward 5B, where nurses and activists humanized AIDS care amid fear.
Eat Your Ice Cream
A pragmatic guide to longevity that favors balance, evidence, and meaningful human connection.
I’m Sick, Therefore I Am: Illness as Normality in Nervous System with Author Lina Meruane
A conversation exploring illness as everyday reality, where sickness, care, and family life intertwine in an unsettling literary narrative.
Feeling Dementia from the Play, The Father
Florian Zeller’s The Father immerses audiences inside dementia, transforming theatrical disorientation into visceral understanding and empathy.
How Montaigne Profited from His Kidney Stones
Physical suffering becomes philosophical insight as illness transforms pain, fear, and mortality into unexpected benefit.
A Plague on Their House
How O’Farrell’s Hamnet Traces Plague’s Journey From Fleas to Family, Blending Science, History, Storytelling with Empathy
When the Literary Adds to the Historical
The 1918 flu pandemic’s history and literature together reveal its vast global impact and intimate human suffering, offering fuller insight than either alone.
Shannon Vallor’s The AI Mirror: A Metaphor
Shannon Vallor uses the metaphor of a mirror to reveal how AI reflects and distorts our shared humanity.
Imagining Phantom Limb Pain
The “fragmentary novel” Flights, offers literary descriptions of phantom limb pain by imagining what a known amputee from the past may have gone through.
The Knick of Time
A gripping period medical drama, The Knick reveals past medical triumphs and terrors—urging reflection on today’s healthcare practices and ethics.
The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodóvar
A film exploring the complexities of friendship, trust, and the emotional journey surrounding the decision to end a life.