Tag: Joshua D. Niforatos
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Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and their doctor are dead
Joshua Niforatos Gregory Rutecki Cleveland, Ohio, United States ROSENCRANTZ: “Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering – stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I…
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From bedside to bench and beyond: the legacy of Dr. Eric G.L. Bywaters
Joshua Niforatos Gregory Rutecki Cleveland, Ohio, United States E.G.L. Bywaters. University of British Columbia, Open Collections The historian John Lukacs, a contemporary of pioneering British physician Eric G. L. Bywaters (1910-2003), wrote in his book At the End of an Age that “the history of anything amounts to that thing itself.”1 Lukacs, influenced by physicists…
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Love, cancer, and the caregiver’s faith of C.S. Lewis
Joshua Niforatos Cleveland, Ohio, United States Author C.S. Lewis wears a bathrobe in his house. Photo by © Norman Parkinson Poi se torno all’ eternal fontana. Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto XXXI C.S. Lewis, the medieval and Renaissance scholar of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, wrote prolifically on myriad topics and won international recognition early in…