Volume 5, Issue 4 – Fall 2013

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

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 and 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