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December 22, 2016

Hektoen International invites you to send an essay of under 1600 words on the subject of Blood and honoring the achievements of the Red Cross.
Two prizes will be awarded: $3000 for the winner and $800 for the runner up… Learn more

Richard Dadd: art and madness, JMS Pearce

Passion, paint, and pain, the journey of Robert Seldon Ducanson, Mildred Wilson

Michaelangelo’s David and the anatomical politics of religious art, Sam Shuster

Life is short and art is long: Hippocratic aphorism, Anthony Papagiannis

“Let the people see what I’ve seen”, Michael Crossland

La Pieta, Rachel Fleishman

Cranium: the symbolic powers of the skull, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi

A 130-year-old medical cold case, Kevin R. Loughlin

Arthur Conan Doyle and the romance of medicine, Michael Shulman

Preparing for a zombie apocalypse, Larry Kerr

The forgotten many of the Guatemalan syphilis experiments, Harsh Patolia

Philadelphia’s plague, Hayat El Boukari

Gilgamesh and medicine’s quest to conquer death, Anika Khan

More than “toil and trouble”: Macbeth and medicine, Mariel Tishma

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: a cautionary tale, Jim Franklin

“Something monomanical”: Obsession and the unity, Jack Rosser

Delusions of being and nothingness, Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez

Can the neuroaesthetics response unleash a path to psychosis?, C. Ann Conn

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