Table 1 Writings (authors), films , and paintings (reviewer ) representing six categories of cardiovascular diseases
From: Heart in art: cardiovascular diseases in novels, films, and paintings
Diagnostic category | Writings | Films | Paintings |
|---|---|---|---|
Myocardial infarction | Everyman (Roth) [24] Own death (Nádas) [25] Ooh baby baby (Jones) [26] | Dr. Zhivago [31] The Godfather [32] Something’s gotta give [33] | Ket (de Haas) [34] |
Aneurysm | A study in scarlet (Doyle) [35] | - | Gidlund (Bergqvist) [36] |
Hypertension | Everything that rises must converge (O’Connor) [37] | Something’s gotta give [33] | - |
Stroke | Clock without hands (McCullers) [38] The loss (Lenz) [39] La Toccatina (Pirandello) [40] | Amour [45] Flawless [46] | - |
Heart transplantation | Mend the heart (de Kerangal) [47] Intruder (Nancy) [48] | John Q [49] | Calne [50] |
Marfan | A tale of the ragged mountains (Poe) [51] | Mo [52] | Schad (Strauss) [53] |
Congestive heart failure | Dr. Martino (Faulkner) [54] | - | Boccaccio (Galassi) [55] |