Volume 11, Issue 3
Summer 2019
Frontispiece
Winners of the 2019 writing contest
Winner: Carrie Barron – Character, genius, and a missing person in medicine
Runner-up: Liz Jones – The promise of a perfect smile
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Art
A picture of ill-health: the illness of Elizabeth Siddal, Emily Boyle
Edgar Degas’ light sensitivity and its effects on his art, Zeynel Karcioglu
Wyeth and the symbolism of immobility, Kiersten Utter & Kyle Utter -
History
Swaddling: forever bound in controversy, Jennifer Borst
An abominable habit, Michael Crossland
Welcome to The Jungle: the story of two food safety laws, Stephen Kosnar -
Education
Harvard Medical School and the body snatchers, Kevin Loughlin
Becoming Judith, Emily Nghiem
Ports of Calls: toward a taxonomy of hospital on-call rooms, Mike Wong -
Ethics
Medicine and trust, behind bars, Gail Burke
Enfreakment in the medicalization of difference, Camille Kroll
The professor and the playwright on what it means to care, Fergus Shanahan -
Narrative
Avulsions, Torree McGowan
Resolution, Gaetan Sgro
Dressing the General, Rebecca Singer -
Neurology and Psychiatry
In search of Cassandra, Charles Kels
Amnesia remembered, Karen Langer
Faith, neuroscience, and “the thorn” in Paul’s side, Christina Perri