Volume 10, Issue 4
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We are pleased to announce the winners of the Hektoen International Food and the Body essay competition.
The winners are:
Grand Prize Winner:
Pellagra: a medical whodunit by Putzer J. Hung
Runner-up:
The madness of hunger by Sylvia Karasu
Honorable Mention:
Food of the body by Katrina Genuis
Frontispiece
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Anatomy
Why did Darwin drop out of medical school?, R. Brown & T. Garvock-de Montbrun
Classicism and Sir Charles Bell’s Engravings of the Nerves, Allister Neher
Foundations of anatomy in Bologna, JMS Pearce -
Art
The Terme Boxer’s trauma, Seth Judson
Letters from the asylum, Nicholas Kang
Gertrude Abercrombie: surrealist predilection & pancreatic affliction, Sally Metzler -
Birth, Pregnancy, and Obstetrics
A history of breastfeeding and wet nurses, Nursan Cinar
Bob Edwards and the perils of publicity, James Drife
A mother’s voice, Kelsey Hart -
History Essays
The battle of the vivisected dog, Jack Effron
Shackleton’s angel, Paul G. Firth
The Monros: a medical dynasty, JMS Pearce -
Literary Essays
Madness, mind-doctors, and Mrs Dalloway, Sabina Dosani
Saints on trial, Michael D. Shulman
Joseph Roth, a visionary poet and victim of European history, Frank Wollheim -
Music Box
Song as a unit for physical activity: A-minor proposal, Cillin Condon
Visualizing Mozart, Vincent P. de Luise
The symbolic portrait of Mozart’s patron Dr. Ferdinand Deiean, Stephen Martin