Volume 7, Issue 2
Spring 2015 ISSN 2155-3017
Frontispiece
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Art Flashes
Bush medicine leaves, Rose Tasker
Reflections on medicine and art, Bojana Cokić
The doctor and the doll, Ravi Shankar
Saint Sebastian nursed by Saint Irene…, Sally Metzler -
Literary Vignettes
Where no birds sing: tuberculosis in…, Putzer Hung
Mysterious Muse, Juliet Beckman Hubbell
Thomas De Quincey and Confessions of…, Jared Griffin
Mikhael Bulgakov’s “The Steel Windpipe” in…, Michael Bloor -
Moments in History
The arsenic eaters of Styria, John Parascandola
Mingling medicine and medals, Ira L. Rezak
Masters, Lindstrom, and decanal adventures, Marshall A. Lichtman -
Antiquity
Medicine in ancient Nineveh, Hussain A. AL-SARDAR
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Doctors, Patients, and Diseases
When good doctors have bad , Lloyd W. Klein, MD
A fine notion, Ruth Z. Deming
The man who could not stop…, Ravi Shankar
Patients and society: the big divide…, J.M.S. Pearce -
Physicians of note
Benjamin Rush: physician, patriot, and polymath, Kevin Loughlin
Robert Todd: overlooking big achievements, Marie-Catherine Mousseau
Pierre Bretonneau, Aditi Sivaramakrishnan
Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder, Alex Ngo
Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, Chris Gilleard
Walter Campbell: more than a footnote, James Goodwin & Peter Kopplin
Alexander Gordon and puerperal fever, C. John Scott
Joseph Goldberger: epidemiology’s unsung hero, Adil Menon
Fabricius Hildanus – father of German…, George Dunea -
End of life
Lessons from the black hole, Columba Quigley
