Contact & Submission Instructions

January 10, 2017

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Writing suggestions

People

Andersen, Hans Christian (1805–1875) – Witnessed James Young Simpson and others experimenting with ether while dining at Simpson's in Edinburgh on Aug 17, 1847 & wrote about it in a letter
Arvid, Carlsson (1923–2018) – Showed the use of reserpine in animals caused dopamine levels to decline, leading to treatment of Parkinson’s disease
Dumas, Alexander fils (1824–1895) – Wrote a dictionary of cuisine (gastronomic dictionary, Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine)
Caton, Richard (1842–1926) – English physician, discovered in 1875 the brain’s electricity by placing direct electrodes on the exposed cortexes of cats and monkeys
Davidson, Stanley (1894–1981) – British physician, medical investigator, and author who wrote medical textbook Principles and Practice of Medicine
Denonvilliers, Charles-Pierre (1808–1872) – Surgeon, anatomist, and pioneer of facial reconstructive surgery
Dietl, Józef (1804–1878) – Austro-Polish physician, Prof. at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, described the symptom of loin pain after drinking a fluid load in patients with pelviureteric obstruction, known as Dietl’s crisis. Became mayor of Kraków
Douglas John (1675–1743) – Presented his method of suprapubic removal of stones in 1722 the Royal Society of London but the procedure fell out of fame until anesthetics
Fothergill, John (1712–1780) – Identified and named trigeminal neuralgia, gave first-known lecture on mouth-to-mouth ventilation
Graña Dr. Francisco (1879–1959) – Peruvian neurosurgeon, removed a subdural hematoma using 2000 year old tools borrowed from Peru’s National Museum of Archaeology, including a saw of volcanic obsidian glass and a bronze chisel.
Hardy, James D. (1918–2003) – American surgeon, performed first human lung transplant and animal-to-human heart transplant (first modern heart xenotransplant) at the University of Mississippi Medical Center
Hirschowitz, Basil (1925–2013) – South African naturalized American gastroenterologist, developed fiber-optic endoscopy testing at the University of Michigan in the 1950s with two physicists, Lawrence Curtis Buffington and Wilbur Peters
Lillihei, Clarence Walton (1918–1999) – Pioneered open-heart surgery and other surgery techniques, including cross-circulation in 1954, in which a donor took over pumping and oxygenation for the patient being operated on, and first use of a small, external, portable, battery-powered pacemaker in 1958. His brother was also a notable transplant surgeon
Luria, Salvador (1912–1991) – Won 1969 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Max Delbruck and Alfred Hershey for demonstrating that bacterial resistance to virus infection occurred through genetic mutation and that bacteria were suitable subjects for genetic research. Taught James D. Watson (of Watson and Crick)
Marum, Martin(us) van (1750–1837) – Dutch physician, chemist, and curator, member of the Dutch Society of Science, worked with nitrous oxide and other gases
Penrose, Charles Bingham (1862–1925) – Practiced mainly gynecology, proponent of surgical drains and invented one by cutting the tip off a rubber condom. Also a zoologist
Philip, Robert William (1857–1939) – Scottish physician, pioneer in treatment and control of tuberculosis
Wren, Christopher (1632–1723) – Architect, injected a mixture of alcohol and opium intravenously into a dog. The dog was briefly anesthetized and made a full recovery
Warren, John Collins (1778–1856) – Distinguished American surgeon, early user of surgical anesthesia with William Thomas Green Morton
Voronoy, Yurii (1895–1961) – Ukrainian surgeon, performed first organ transplant attempt in history by grafting the kidney of a 6-hour dead man into the thigh of a woman who had attempted suicide by ingesting mercury. The woman survived two days.

Diseases, drugs, medicines, and clinical topics

ulcerative colitis
dentistry
Shock therapy for depression
cataract surgery
circumcision
heroin (synthesized in 1874 by Charles Wright, resynthesized in 1897 by Felix Hoffmann. The intent was to obtain a molecule more effective than codeine in quelling coughs)

Food

vegans
vegetarians
deficiencies
gluten
chocolate
mushrooms (already have an article on mushrooms in Poland)
potatoes
broccoli
avocado
beets and beeturia
peppers
corn
olives
milk
honey
sugar
artichokes
cauliflower
peas
eggplant
milk
cheese
chocolate
wine

Literature

Roger Chillingworth in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage

Articles

Articles must be unpublished, original work that relates medicine to the humanities and no more than 1,600 words in length. Each submission should include:

A cover page with:
- Author(s) names, titles/degrees, professional affiliation, and location (as you would like it listed in the journal)
- A biography no longer than 100 words, written in the third person
- The author’s contact information
Article text with:
- The title and page numbers in the document header
- The full text of the article in Times New Roman, size 12, and double-spaced. Please format in Chicago Manual of Style (www.chicagomanualofstyle.org) or AMA style (www.amamanualofstyle.com)
- References for quoted and cited material formatted according to the Chicago style or AMA Manual of Style, with the endnotes in numerical order.

File format/name

Please save the submission as a Word document (we do not accept PDFs or Pages files) with the author’s last name followed by the title (or abbreviated title).

For the article “Big Hugh” by Dr. Smith, save as follows:

Smith_Big Hugh.docx

Illustrations

Articles may be accompanied by images, and images may be used to promote articles on our social media. Final image choice will be determined by journal staff. Rights to use and publish images in Hektoen International and on our social media must be acquired by the author prior to submission, either via a source’s declaration the images are in the public domain or under a Creative Commons or similar license, or by obtaining permission from the copyright holder(s) of the images. If you have any questions, please contact us.

Images must be:

High quality and saved as a .JPG
Titled by author’s surname and short article name. For example, an image to accompany the article “Big Hugh” by Dr. Smith would be saved as follows:
- Smith_Big Hugh.jpg
- Add a number at the end to distinguish additional image
  - e.g., Smith_Big Hugh2.jpg
Accompanied by a caption. Provide a Word document with the following information:
- Caption and source (including address of website where you found the image)
- For artwork, please provide the title and date of work, the artist’s name, and the location of the artwork (museum or private collection)
- Save the caption as a Word document by author last name. In the example of Dr. Smith, the illustration would be captioned as follows:
  - Smith_Caption.docx

Be sure you have the rights to any images prior to including them with your submission.

Who should submit?

We welcome submissions from health professionals, students, and scholars of the humanities and social sciences. We also encourage patients to contribute pieces that reflect their experiences or perspectives on healing and health.

Where do we publish?

Accepted articles are published online, first in their corresponding Section and then in New Arrivals.

From time to time, published articles may be highlighted in Frontispiece—the traditional front page—or in the various sections of Hektorama.

Articles and the images within them may also be publicized in our regular e-newsletter and across Hektoen International’s social media outlets, including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

What do we publish?

Hektoen International accepts articles that explore medicine and the healing arts through the lens of the humanities, exploring such disciplines as art, education, ethics, history, literature, philosophy, and sociology.

Submissions may include:

Scholarly articles on History, Literature, Ethics, and Education
Art, in any medium, that reflects a uniqueness of style and perspective
Articles on the subjects displayed in the various sections of Hektorama
Personal narratives and essays or short fiction
Poetry

We DO NOT accept clinical studies

Patient Consent/Confidentiality

Our confidentiality policy is based on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Please refer to this document if you have any questions: https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/. Authors/artists should protect the confidentiality of all persons and not reveal personal details without their consent.

Review process

The editorial board and the journal editors review contributions for appropriateness of originality, style, and content. All reviewers and editors advise the Editor-in-Chief, who makes the final decision on publication.

Authors retain the copyright to their submissions to Hektoen International. We request, however, that authors refrain from submitting their work for publication for four months after the piece has been published. Authors are requested to notify us and reference the Hektoen International website as the original publisher in subsequent publications of the article.

By submitting your work to us via Forminator or by email for consideration for publication, you consent to the scanning of your work by third-party plagiarism checker programs along with, on a case-by-case basis, research by our staff of your publication history to ensure the work published in our journal is original. By performing these checks, we protect our reputation as well as your own.

Plagiarism is, in its simplest wording, claiming someone else’s work as your own. When you submit work or portions of a work that you yourself did not write, without giving credit to its original author, that is plagiarism. Plagiarism ranges from copying another’s entire publication to rewording portions and ideas from another’s publication without a citation.

We also acknowledge the concept of self-plagiarism, in which you republish work you have already written without permission from the copyright holder. Examples of self-plagiarism include: you submit an article to us that was already published in another journal without that journal’s permission; you draw information and/or concepts from an article you wrote that is already published elsewhere without citing that article in your submission.

All submissions should be the stated author/artist’s original work.

Authors are responsible for obtaining publication rights for accompanying images.

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