Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Kirtan Nautiyal

  • Thomas Hodgkin: the limits of idealism

    Kirtan NautiyalHouston, Texas, United States Thomas Hodgkin was born in 1798 into a middle class Quaker family then residing in Pentonville, a village north of London. His father was a private tutor and Hodgkin’s early education was also conducted at home, balancing instruction in the Quaker tenets of simplicity and social justice with a wider…