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Phase One
By Rebecca Skloot
Cynthia Dunafon knows that taking part in a beginning trial of gene therapy for cystic fibrosis won't cure her. What she's hoping is that it will help her escape a lung transplant.
n a room full of painted
butterflies, Dalmatians and paw prints, Cynthia Dunafon sits at a table
with a steady stream of clear liquid dripping from her nose into a towel.
Dunafon stares into the vanishing puddle, then blows on the drips so they
slide off her nose rather than into her mouth. Meanwhile, an ABC camerawoman
shifts her weight from one foot to the other, a reminder that this awkward
moment is being captured for the world to see as “Fighting for Breath,”
part of a series on the Discovery Health Channel that takes viewers inside
Johns Hopkins.
Where The Past Lives
By Anne Bennett Swingle | Photographs by Keith Weller
In neatly catalogued boxes in Hopkins' Medical Archives lie faded letters, photographs and documents from long-ago physicians. Without them, much of the story of 20th-century medicine would be lost.
n the winter of 1963, 20 four-drawer,
vertical file cabinets, 60 document cases and dozens of
small containers were handed over to the School of Medicine and placed
in a basement storage area. Inside were hundreds of photographs, diaries
and patient records and reams of personal and professional correspondence.
Many of the letters were in German, and had been written by some of the
most prominent figures in early 20th-century psychiatry.
