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Hektoen International An International Humanities Journal: Uniting Health and Medicine with Culture An International Humanities Journal: Uniting Health and Medicine with Culture.

For over 600 years, an obvious physical abnormality in Michelangelo’s acclaimed Renaissance work had gone largely unreco...
09/26/2025

For over 600 years, an obvious physical abnormality in Michelangelo’s acclaimed Renaissance work had gone largely unrecognized: his sculpture of David, the representation of the idealized male body, has strabismus, a misalignment of the eyes. http://bit.ly/3mHfo6r (Photo by Jörg Bittner Unna -CC BY-SA 4.0, http://wikimedia.org).

The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892 as a composition of diary entries, illustrates how wom...
09/24/2025

The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892 as a composition of diary entries, illustrates how women have long had to navigate a healthcare system designed primarily by men for men. http://bit.ly/3sRuE1G

As early as 5000 BCE, India developed a comprehensive form of healing known as Ayurveda. Sages were the early practition...
09/24/2025

As early as 5000 BCE, India developed a comprehensive form of healing known as Ayurveda. Sages were the early practitioners of Ayurveda. They advised on nutrition and used herbs in accordance with their system of medical knowledge. http://bit.ly/3joOjTt

Winston Churchill’s ailments range from pneumonia in 1886, a shoulder injury in 1896 in Bombay, appendicitis in 1922, en...
09/23/2025

Winston Churchill’s ailments range from pneumonia in 1886, a shoulder injury in 1896 in Bombay, appendicitis in 1922, enteric fever in Austria, chest pain in the US in 1941, an inguinal hernia in 1945, and pneumonia and stroke in his later years. http://bit.ly/3mEgaRJ

As a chaplain, learning to be fully present with people in their dying, I gained a deeper understanding of the importanc...
09/23/2025

As a chaplain, learning to be fully present with people in their dying, I gained a deeper understanding of the importance of respecting the practices and beliefs of any culture, regardless of how different they may be from my own. http://bit.ly/3BkAA6d

A 12th-century manuscript shows medical treatments such as doctors describing medicines to their assistants, performing ...
09/22/2025

A 12th-century manuscript shows medical treatments such as doctors describing medicines to their assistants, performing a head operation, or applying cautery marks. The artwork is actually a miniature, tucked in among the pages of a manuscript. http://bit.ly/3Bk5QT6

Giacomo Casanova, the infamous rake, provides in his memoirs a treasure trove of historical health information as he con...
09/22/2025

Giacomo Casanova, the infamous rake, provides in his memoirs a treasure trove of historical health information as he contracted several STDs, syphilis, and gonorrhea, alone or in combination, over the years, often treated with mercury & diet. http://bit.ly/2JGb984

Juana of Castile is known as the “Mad.” (La Loca). Some thought she had schizophrenia, or (postpartum) depression, or wa...
09/20/2025

Juana of Castile is known as the “Mad.” (La Loca). Some thought she had schizophrenia, or (postpartum) depression, or was the victim of political power plays, or that those around her grossly exaggerated her illness. The truth of her has long been a source of debate. http://bit.ly/3yndZnI

Sarah (Sairey) Gamp in Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit was a fat woman with a husky voice. Her face and nose were som...
09/20/2025

Sarah (Sairey) Gamp in Charles Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit was a fat woman with a husky voice. Her face and nose were somewhat red and swollen, and it was difficult to enjoy her society without becoming conscious of a smell of spirits. Her bottle, she insisted, was always available on her “chimley piece” to put her lips to it whenever she was so “disporged”. http://bit.ly/3JTV505

Although E Ladd Musgrave described the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in 1715, credit is usually given to the 28-year-...
09/19/2025

Although E Ladd Musgrave described the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis in 1715, credit is usually given to the 28-year-old Augustin Landré-Beauvais (1772–1840). Working in Paris, he described a disease distinct from gout that affected the poor more often than the rich, women more often than men, involved different joints, and had a different natural history. He called the disease “Primary Asthenic Gout” (1800). http://bit.ly/3wjAL54

Epidemics have had a profound impact on culture across time, sometimes causing a renewed sense of spiritualism, sometime...
09/19/2025

Epidemics have had a profound impact on culture across time, sometimes causing a renewed sense of spiritualism, sometimes altering existing cultures, sometimes destroying them, and often shaping culture through the evolution of language. http://bit.ly/3D7gyhp

Lord David Owen defined Hubris Syndrome as affecting politicians and heads of state who became intoxicated by the power ...
09/08/2025

Lord David Owen defined Hubris Syndrome as affecting politicians and heads of state who became intoxicated by the power of their office. It means arrogance and overestimation of their capabilities. Examples range from Prometheus to the present time. http://bit.ly/2TR3p8r

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