Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: The Operation

  • Ellen Powell Tiberino’s The Operation

    Cody Ritz Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States   The Operation (1980), Ellen Powell Tiberino. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Purchased with the Julius Bloch Memorial Fund created by Benjamin D. Bernstein, 1990, 1990-116-1. Permission obtained through the Tiberino estate. In the graphite drawing by the late Ellen Powell Tiberino titled The Operation (1980), a tangled chaos emanates…

  • The resident

    Sarah de Forest Chicago, Illinois, USA    The Operation, Christian Schad He is a handsome man, no one can deny it, and he has a pleasant smile. In this terrible place, its inhabitants ravaged by hunger and disease, he always looks as though he just came from the barber, and his men know that slovenliness…