Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Institute for Hygiene

  • Dr. Fritz Kahn and medical infographics

    Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden “If I were…an intern just getting ready to begin, I would be apprehensive that my real job, caring for sick people, might soon be taken away, leaving me with the quite different occupation of looking after machines.”—Lewis Thomas, MD, 1983 Dr. Fritz Kahn (1888–1968), a Berlin gynecologist, realized that society’s fascination with…