Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Woody Allen

  • Medicine and cinema—A cultural symbiosis

    Arpan K. Banerjee Solihull, United Kingdom   Fig 1. Poster for Chaplin film City Lights. 1931. Via Wikimedia. Public domain. For doctors and lovers of cinema, 1895 was an important year. On November 8, 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen, a fifty-year-old professor of physics, discovered X-rays in his laboratory in Wurzburg, Germany. On March 22 1895, the…

  • The unloved gut

    Fergus ShanahanIreland “My brain, it’s my second favorite organ” pronounced Woody Allen.1 For many, it is the seat of the soul, the source of creativity and much more, whereas the heart represents passion, courage, and character. Fondness for other organsrelates to warmth and honesty in the eyes, clarity in the skin, beauty in musculature, and…

  • Death, a part of life

    Carole A. Travis-Henikoff Chicago, Illinois, United States   The subject of death is by its very nature a personal thing. Woody Allen said he didn’t mind dying; he just didn’t want to be there when it happened. Most of us feel the same way. Death frightens us in proportion to our systems of belief formed…