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| Feature Articles Abandon…Chris Bird Cosmas and Damian…Giorgina Piccoli and Martina Ferraresi The value of achievement…Paul Joseph Polymathy in decline?…JMS Pearce Medical History The American Civil War: A biological phenomenon?…Michael Brown Uncertain disease: The science of nostalgia…Kevis Goodman Mentally ill and Jewish in World War II…Mary Seeman Art The two hemispheres of medicine…Jeffrey Levine Hope, health, & healing on the Tiber…Mary McDermott & Kathleen Taylor Géricault’s art of insanity…Caitlin Meyer Doctors, Patients, & Diseases Laundry…Susan Beck Bill’s legacy…Adam Goldstein Charlie…Gaetan Sgro Medicine & culture: On becoming a nurse…Shirley Stephenson |
| Medicine & Literature Four short literary incisions…Catalina Florina Florescu Placebo effect or care effect?…Pekka Louhiala and Raimo Puustinen The male nurse in literature…Solomon Posen Epidemics & Infection Cholera through the ages…Khameer Kishore Kidia Passionate medicine…Tom Koch A changing paradigm for medical research…Kayvon Modjarrad Penicillin’s unique discovery…Emmanuel Ugokwe Becoming a Medical Professional The death of Francesca Tornabuoni…Katrina Genuis An image in time: Medical photography in dermatology…Andrea Marks Feto-nosophobia…Bryan Sisk New Briefs Doctors as angels and devils…Sally Metzler Francis Galton…Marja Berclouw Sun Yat-sen…K.N. Lai Giulio Clovio…George Dunea |