Hektoen International is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022-23 Medical Student Essay Contest.
Winner: Soul power, Shannon-Adams Hartung
Runner-Up: From silks to science: The history of hematoxylin and eosin staining, Vidhi Naik
Thank you to all who participated!
Frontispiece
| Is a bigger brain better?, Matimba Molly Chilala Not just for the sake of ourselves, Florence Gelo A historical review of Crohn’s disease, Anagha Brahmajosyula Clinical signs in images of King Henry VII, Stephen Martin Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov and morphine, Howard Fischer St. Fabiola and her hospital, George Dunea Gonzalo Lafora: Spanish neuropsychologist, neuropathologist, Enrique Chaves-Carballo |
| The ordeal of Evelyn Waugh, Stephen McWilliams Baudelaire’s spleen, Nicolas Roberto Robles And for unto us…, Desmond O’Neill Amy Sage, Eli Ehrenpreis It’s not the patient who hit you…, JP Sutherland Huntington’s chorea, JMS Pearce Steller’s Sea eagle: Who was Georg Wilhelm Steller?, James L. Franklin |
Vignettes
| Edvard Munch: The child who never grew up, Michael Yafi Chinese footbinding: A millenium of mutilation, Howard Fischer Rapamycin: The “fountain of youth” from Easter Island?, Howard Fischer |
| The mysterious illness of Christopher Columbus, George Dunea Hemiplegic migraine, the monster, Ceres Alhelí Otero Peniche Healer of the pharaohs: History’s first woman doctor, Matthew Turner |
Encore
| India’s oldest medical schools, Arpan K. Banerjee Polymathy in decline?, JMS Pearce The benefit of literature to a medical student, Martin Conwill |
| A teacher remembered, Martin Duke Thomas Jefferson’s medical schools, John Ehrhardt, Patrick O’Leary Alice Hamilton: Physician and scientist of the dangerous trades, Anne Jacobson |