Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

War & Veterans

Anonymous
A battered soul rebels

Abigail Cline Appler
Put a helmet on your privates because they’re going to see some action: The history of condoms in the military

Sarah Bahr
Union or Confederate, American women played crucial toles in the Civil War effort

Alexander Baldwin
Archibald McIndoe’s stance against the clinical hospital archetype and the importance of this for the recovery of burnt airmen in the Second World War

Andrew N. Bamji
The psychological impact of facial injury in the First World War: Outcomes from the Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup

Ivana Bokan
The splints

Gemma Bowsher
Facing fire: Burns and visibility in the two World Wars

Michael D. Brown
The American Civil War as a biological phenomenon: Did Salmonella or Sherman win the war for the North?

Mara Buck
Requiem for the Beast: A memoir

Anene Obinna Chinemelum
Military robotics, artificial intelligence, and genetic engineering: The future of modern warfare

Robert Craig
The Changi diary and paintings: The partnership of a doctor and an artist

Paul Dakin
Francis St. Vincent Morris: The pilot poet

Jonathan Davidson
A trio of Confederate military surgeons: Samuel Moore, James McCaw and Joseph Jones

Dylan Chan Kai Der and Isabella Eleanor Nubari
Medical evolutions in the Crimean War, a comparison between Britain and Russia

George Dunea
Blood at Borodino
Russia’s “Great Patriotic War” and its generals SPR ’26
The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) SPR ’26
Assassins changed the fate of nations new

Michael Ellman
Stamping out preventive medicine

Howard Fischer
Atrocities in Asia: Japan’s infamous Unit 731

Angharad Fletcher
The “Bangka Island Massacre”: Australian military nurses in the Pacific War

James L. Franklin
George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War: A brush with death

Bradeigh Godfrey
Lest we forget

Stavros Gourgiotis
Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey: Founder of military surgery and trauma care

Charles Halsted
The Korean soldier

Edward Harvey
Prisoners on leave: Vietnam veterans and the Golden Age Western

Jennifer Hatzfeld
In pursuit of parsimony in combat research

Christine Henneberg
A writer and a doctor: What a physician’s account of Auschwitz can teach us about the ethics of story-telling in medicine

Shaili Jain
The aftermath of trauma

Max Kutch
The fall

Brittany Nicole Lewis
Psychological effects of warfare on veterans and their families

Kevin R. Loughlin
The imponderable ‘what-ifs’: Did the medical issues of three Confederate generals cause the South to lose the war?

Alice MacNeill
“Mental Cases” by Wilfred Owen: The suffering of soldiers in World War I

Edward McSweegan
African American contract doctors in the military

Joanne Murray
Caring for “Our Boys”

Anthony Papagiannis
A memorable veteran

JMS Pearce
Heroic surgeon: Noel Godfrey Chavasse (1884–1917)

Barry Perlman
Hiroshima: Are its lessons fading? SPR ’26

Khwanchai Phusrisom and Stephen Martin
The Siamese Expeditionary Force of World War I and the Spanish Flu

George Porter
A history of military medical services

Stuart Poticha
Comments on Dr. James Franklin’s article on George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War

Evelyn M. Potochny
They don’t teach us that

Lidiia Riabova
Lilac hideout

Robert B. Robeson
“Dust Off” and the power of perseverance

Gregory Rutecki
Justice denied: The Katyn massacre, Kosciusko squadron, and the Polish soul
Peleliu as a paradigm for PTSD: The two thousand yard stare
Japanese-American internment camps in World War Two

Jack E. Riggs
Blame
Thank you for your service
Negotiation
He is not coming back
Combat hospital chaplain
Psychological preparation for war: Early life experiences

Lynn Veach Sadler
Found and Lost in Vietnam

Satish Saroshe
Dr. Norman Bethune: A tale of military heroism

Erick da Luz Scherf
Ought to kill or ought to heal? The importance of medicine in the history of warfare

Clemens Schmitt
Cancer DiagnosISIS

Mary V. Seeman
Mentally ill and Jewish in World War II

Sonia Sethi
One by one

Gaetan Sgro
Resolution

Vladimir J. Simunovic
Building a legend

Craig Stout
Medical innovations made by doctors during the Napoleonic Wars

Mira Talaja
A message

Catherine Tang
Curing in bureaucracy: Medical professionals and the rise of the US pension system

Chris Thapa
The Afterlife

William S. Tierney
The wartime chemist

Ella Veres
I’ll never forget

Daly Walker
Boots on the ground

Kelley Yuan
Fool the Axis

Lawrence A. Zeidman
Neuroscientist refugees from Nazi Germany find haven in Illinois

Vignettes
Gout changes the fate of nations
Medics in World War II
William Bell: Photographed injured veterans
Battle of Gettysburg
Gangrene, history, and war (George Dunea)
The Siege of Constantinople as witnessed by a physician, 1453
(George Dunea)
Notable nurses in World War I (Sonali Bhansali)
Artists at war (Avi Ohry)