Volume 16, Issue 2 – Spring 2024 ISSN 2155-3017
The best of Charles Dickens
| Charles Dickens and the Victorian perception of blindness, Curtis Margo, Lynn Harman The medical journey of Charles Dickens, Lea Mendes Some Dickensian diagnoses, JMS Pearce A Dickensian medical education, Gregory Rutecki Madame Defarge: The psychology of vengeance, Sarah Jane I. Irawa Martin Chuzzlewitt From Merdle to Madoff The birth of Oliver Twist Sarah Gamp: Precursor of the nursing profession It was the best of times, it was the worst of times |
The city of Padua
| The revolution of Andreas Vesalius, Fabio Zampieri, Alberto Zanatta The origin and evolution of Padua hospitals, Alberto Zanatta, Fabio Zampieri Beginnings of bedside teaching in Padua: Montanus Realdo Colombo (ca. 1515–1559) Adrianus Spigelius, the last great Paduan anatomist |
Women pioneers
| Elizabeth Casson, Victoria Bates Women in medicine in Serbia, Bojana Cokić Ida Sophia Scudder, Angela Joseph Alexa Canady, MD: The first Black woman neurosurgeon, Howard Fischer |
Hektorama Feature: United States Hospitals
Michael Reese Hospital
Bellevue Hospitals
Freedmen’s Hospital Washington D.C. 
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Maynard-Columbus Hospital, Nome, Alaska
Provident Hospital, Chicago
Rush Medical College, Chicago
Roosevelt Hospital, New York
Old Cook County Hospital
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Harborview Hospital, Seattle
San Francisco General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Pennsylvania Hospital
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Boston Dispensary
Williamsburg Hospital, Virginia
St. Vincent Hospital Indianapolis
Alcatraz Hospital
Ellis Island Hospital
Joslin Diabetes Center
Montefiore Medical Center, NY
The Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary
Hillman Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama
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