Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Jonathan Lear

  • Healing in the face of cultural devastation

    Patrick FlynnLos Angeles, California, United States In 1855, a young Crow boy, no more than ten years old, ventured to the top of a mountain in present-day Montana. Over the next two decades, the boy would rise through the ranks of his tribe’s political structure, ultimately being elected chief at the age of twenty-nine. But…