Hektoen International is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Grand Prix Essay Competition.
Winner: C. Louis Leipoldt: The polymath physician and literary giant, Stephen Marcus Finn
Runner-Up: “Plague of the Sea, and the Spoyle of Mariners”—A brief history of fermented cabbage as antiscorbutic, Richard de Grijs
Honorable Mentions
| Women surgeons, Moustapha Abousamra Airs and graces: Humphry Davy and science as performance, Alan Bleakley Love and death; Painting the farewell, Giovanni Ceccarelli The Potato Eaters: Brushstrokes of sickness and sustenance, Jeanne Dsouza Catching your death: Infectious rain in the works of Jane Austen, Eve Elliot Arthur Bispo do Rosário: creation in psychosis Rebecca Grossman-Kahn |
| The Portrait of Doctor Gachet, Nicholas Kang The death of King George V, Seamus O’Mahony They don’t teach us that, Evelyn M. Potochny Painting an ICU, Mark Tan Socio-cultural themes in anatomical naming, Frazer A. Tessema Stitches as mending, stitches as healing, Kelley Swain The snake, the staff, and the healer, Simon Wein On the way to school, Mary Jumbelic |