Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

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  • Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and their doctor are dead

    Joshua NiforatosGregory RuteckiCleveland, 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 can’t remember it.…

  • From bedside to bench and beyond: the legacy of Dr. Eric G.L. Bywaters

    Joshua NiforatosGregory RuteckiCleveland, Ohio, United States 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 Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, as well as Goethe’s Theory…