Current Issue
Volume 10, Issue 1 – Winter 2018 ISSN 2155-3017
Published in Chicago by the Hektoen Institute of Medicine
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The Sixth Hektoen International Grand Prix essay competition received a record number of submissions and we thank our readers for the many wonderful articles they have sent. Out of over two hundred applicants, our contest judges selected the following winner, two runners up, and nine finalists who are highlighted below.
Winner
Tales from the crypt: the mosaic symbolism of Louis Pasteur’s tomb, by Dr. Abigail Cline
Runners-up
The education of Doctor Chekhov, by Dr. Jack Coulehan
“Mississsippi Appendectomy” and other stories: when silence is complicity, by Dr. Alida Rol
Honorable mentions |
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“I shouldn’t know you again if we did meet:” Prosopagnosia, by Dr. Sylvia Karasu A hospital for sick children, by Joseph deBettencourt The basest of the senses: medical unease with the sense of smell, by Rebecca Shulman |
Cultivating clinical compassion with cultural encounters, by Jeffrey Lee The monarch, the musician, and the medic, by Dr. Jesus Ramírez-Bermudez Medical deafness or the madness of war: Goya’s motivation…, by Sarah Bahr |
Bugs and people: when epidemics change history, by Dr. Salvatore Mangione Why ‘Nurse’ Grace Poole is the greatest puzzle in Jane Eyre, by Sarah Wise The unsexed woman: depictions of women…, by Katherina Baranova |