Fascinoma  

 
Dancing Skeleton

Fascinoma is medical slang for a fascinating case, usually one involving a rare disease. We’re borrowing the term to characterize topics of interest from past issues.

a violinMusic and Medicine
What role can music play in healing? How do our brains translate music? And what music best jazzes up the operating room? Conductors, neurologists, and psychiatrists take notes on music and medicine.

A portrait of John Collins Warren with his hand resting on a skullHistory’s Medical Mysteries
Did Julius Caesar stage his own death? Is misaligned vision an aid to artistry? What clues helped solve a nineteenth-century murder at Harvard Medical School? Physicians join hot debates over cold cases.

a comic doctor potato headThe Funny Bone
What happens when doctors start to feel funny? We ask them to write articles for us, on topics ranging from a psychiatrist’s battle to keep a straight face to the notorious indelicacy of medical humor.

alumnus John Brooks, an epidemiologistMedical Detectives
All physicians are detectives at one time or another. Through the words and actions of our graduates, we offer detective stories of murder, mayhem, and microbes.

a painting from Picasso's Blue PeriodThe Neurobiology of the Arts
What can medicine teach us about our artistic perceptions—and what can those perceptions teach us about healing?


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