Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Maarten J Wensink

  • Tolstoy: Insights for doctors and other humans

    Maarten WensinkSouthern Denmark It is a testimony to the genius of Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy that a fine selection of concepts later arduously acquired over the course of decades can be found in the first of Tolstoy’s great novels, War and Peace.1 Although Tolstoy was not primarily interested in the origin of disease, in a way…