We invite you to participate in the 2021 Hektoen Essay Competition honoring board member Mrs. Hella Mannheimer (1924–2020). Two prizes will be awarded: $5,000 for the winner and $2,500 for runner-up. Essays should be under 1,500 words. Deadline is September 15 at 12 pm (noon) CST. View guidelines here.
Frontispiece
| Knock, or The Triumph of Medicine, Howard Fischer Twins, John Graham-Pole One chaplain’s journey: Teaching, hospice, and humanities, Terry McIntyre Medical memories of the Cold War and its Iron Curtain, Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe Winston Churchill’s Illnesses, Arpan K. Banerjee Wounded deer—Medical aspects of the life of Frida Kahlo, Farrah Jawad Attitudes towards mask wearing then and now, Mariella Scerri, Victor Grech Art of the weird as expressions of anxiety in Britain and Japan, Steve Wheeler |
| Absinthe: The green fairy, Nicolás Roberto Robles Omentum: Much more than “policeman of the abdomen”, Ashok Singh Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman, Tonse N.K. Raju The use of language in health and illness narratives, Mariella Scerri, Victor Grech A moonie, Simon Wein The three contraries of Benjamin Franklin, James L. Franklin John Hughlings Jackson, JMS Pearce The other Timothy Leary, Saty Satya-Murti |
Vignettes and briefs
| Battling poverty, injustice, ignorance and fear, and despair, Tonse N.K. Raju Kwashiorkor, Charles Halsted Why do physicians write so badly?, Peter Arnold Did Salvador Dali follow the prolactin discovery in his painting?, Michael Yafi Selman Waksman, “father of antibiotics”, George Dunea |
| Abraham Lincoln’s smallpox, Howard Fischer “Gentlemen! This is no humbug”, Summer A. Niazi, Jack E. Riggs Achilles and his famous tendon, Krzyś Stachak Michel de Montaigne in his circular library, George Dunea The bullet in Garibaldi’s ankle, George Dunea |