Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: John Brewer Eberly

  • On beauty and medical ethics

    John Brewer Eberly Jr. Anderson, South Carolina, United States Lydia S. Dugdale New York, United States   Darian Goldin Stahl, “The Scan and the Mirror,” Stone lithography and silkscreen, 22″ x 28,” 2013. Private collection. www.dariangoldinstahl.com. Philosophers know that beauty is moving, arresting, enrapturing. It captures the attention and then calls the viewer to action—pursuing,…

  • “Let the people see what I’ve seen”: beauty, suffering, and learning to see

    John Eberly Raleigh, North Carolina, United States   John Brewer Eberly, Jr. “Study on seeing, 2007.” Personal collection. Charles Stegeman, professor of fine arts at Haverford College, once took up the task of teaching medical students how to draw. He did so because he observed that students who learned to draw well went on to…

  • Fighting the long defeat

    John Eberly Columbia, South Carolina, United States   Arcata Mill fire. May 1965. Photograph by Peter E. Palmquist (1936-2003). The Humboldt Room, Humboldt University Library Special Collections & The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. Source “Together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.”1  — J. R. R. Tolkien…