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Volume 14, Issue 2 – Spring 2022 ISSN 2155-3017
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The Sufi healers of Sudan: caring for those without care, Ahmed Elhag
Handmaidens of anatomy, Elisabeth Brander Art appreciation under the radar, Lawrence Climo Ellen Powell Tiberino’s The Operation, Cody Ritz Novice doctor at Guy’s Hospital in 1964, Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe Life lessons from death, Pedro T. Lima Learning the meaning of love, Charlotte Eliopoulos The remarkable Harriet Lane, Colin K. L. Phoon |
When the FBI investigated William Carlos Williams, Howard Fischer
The discoverers of aspirin, JMS Pearce A “most perfect interchange”, Satyabha Tripathi Sister Kenny: the forgotten Nightingale, Anand Raja Devaraj Sushama William Osler, George Dunea Hypochrondria, JMS Pearce Poe’s murder mystery as a model of neurodiverse inclusion, Geoff Hoppe Dr. Joycelyn Elders: an unwelcome prophet, Howard Fischer |
Vignettes and briefs, old and new
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The secret medical school in the Warsaw Ghetto, Howard Fischer | Doctors as angels and devils, Sally Metzler
Florence Nightingale at Scutari Consider the nails of the hand, how they grow (William Bean) |
Encore
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Health care in Nigeria, Obinna Ejide
Origin of yellow fever, Enrique Chaves-Carballo The first Black owned and operated medical institution in the US, Raymond H. Curry, VeeLa Sengstacke Gonzales |
The Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital of Soweto, Joerg Albrecht
The lost papyrus? Eureka! An African voice, Ohakpougwu Emmanuel Hasting Banda: family doctor turned tyrant, George Dunea |
Hektorama Choice 2021-2022
Learning the meaning of love
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
The migraine aura and royal astronomers
Essential tremor in a medieval scribe
The girl with a pearl earring
Infectious rain in the works of Jane Austen
The sleep of doctors
The Call of the Wild and COVID-19
Somerset Maugham
Abraham Lincoln’s smallpox
Raffaello’s Portrait of Pope Leo X
Battling poverty, injustice, ignorance and fear, and despair
The three contraries of Benjamin Franklin
A moonie
The other Timothy Leary
Tobias and the Angel
Sherlock Holmes on Covid-19 boredom
Countess of Lovelace
Doris Unland
Obesity in the Middle Ages