NEW ARRIVALS June 29, 2020 Book Review of Casanova’s Guide to Medicine, Arpan K. Banerjee The life and death of Franz Schubert, Nicolas Robles A brief history of fermented cabbage as antiscorbutic, Richard de Grijs Counseling, Migel Jayasinghe Covid cascade killed my father, Helen Meldrum Homeopathy: medicine or placebo?, Shrestha Saraf, Sudarshan Ramachandran A walk on the pediatric floor, Elie Najjar Risking it all to save strangers—remembering Gisella Perl, Jacquline Musgrave Ode to baroque and other musical genres, George Christopher Dr. AJ Cronin: Still persona non grata?, Howard Fischer Sir Thomas Lewis’ contribution to understanding heart failure, Daniel Gelfman Moral judgment in medicine: “sensibility of heart”, Jack Coulehan Dr. William Minor and the Oxford English Dictionary, JMS Pearce Pain management, Andrew Yim Seeking medicalization: chronic illness without diagnosed disease, Camille Kroll A return to The Plague, Bonnie Salomon A bad taste in the mouth: over fifty years of doubt about MSG, Mariel Tishma Diane de Poitiers, a case of mammary narcissism, George Dunea Morris Fishbein, MD—foe of four-flushers, flimflammers, and fakes, Laura King Viktor Frankl: the meaning of a life, Anne Jacobson The patient who provided his own placebo and fully recovered, Lawrence Climo Tutorial for surgeons by Lawrence Peter Berra, Jayant Radhakrishnan Early lessons, Howard Fischer St. Audrey Etheldrida, JMS Pearce Parental grief, Ellen Zhang The striking social tableaux vivants of Lejaren à Hiller, J.T.H. Connor Bristol Children’s Hospital and esophageal atresia, Richard Spicer William Halse Rivers Rivers, JMS Pearce Boccaccio’s Decameron in the world of the coronavirus pandemic, Mateja Lekic Knock, or The Triumph of Medicine, Howard Fischer Editor’s Choice Abraham Lincoln’s smallpox Raffaello’s Portrait of Pope Leo X and Two Cardinals Battling poverty, injustice, ignorance and fear, and despair The three contraries of Benjamin Franklin A moonie The other Timothy Leary Tobias and the Angel The girl with a pearl earring Sherlock Holmes on Covid-19 boredom Countess of Lovelace Doris Unland Obesity in the Middle Ages Robert Lee’s myocardial infarction The novice The use of language in health Intersection of mental illness Death and palliation in opera Beethoven’s contribution in medicine Intubation incarceration
