From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Doctors: Automatons, technicians, or knowledge brokers?
J R Soc Med 100(1): 1; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.1 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Anita Holdcroft

Gender bias in research: how does it affect evidence based medicine?
J R Soc Med 100(1): 2-3; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.2 [Full Text] [PDF]  

N Bhasin and D J A Scott

Ankle Brachial Pressure Index: identifying cardiovascular risk and improving diagnostic accuracy
J R Soc Med 100(1): 4-5; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.4 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Peter Davies

THE LANGUAGE OF HEALTH CARE: The alienating language of health care
J R Soc Med 100(1): 6; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.6 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karol Sikora

THE LANGUAGE OF HEALTH CARE: The language of health care
J R Soc Med 100(1): 6; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.6-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

A Michael Davies

THE LANGUAGE OF HEALTH CARE: Precision and the alienating language of health care
J R Soc Med 100(1): 6-7; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.6-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ellen M Goudsmit

Chronic fatigue syndrome
J R Soc Med 100(1): 7; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.7 [Full Text] [PDF]  

John M Grange

The British Royal Commission on Tuberculosis
J R Soc Med 100(1): 7-8; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.7-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Malcolm J Wardlaw

Cycling is not more dangerous than walking
J R Soc Med 100(1): 8; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.8 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Clinch

Walking and cycling transport safety
J R Soc Med 100(1): 8; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.8-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nick Ross

Funding and the NEJM
J R Soc Med 100(1): 9; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.9 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sadek Pharaon

Open peer review: a route to democracy
J R Soc Med 100(1): 9; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.9-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Carol Tan, Tom Treasure, John Browne, Martin Utley, Christopher W H Davies, and Harry Hemingway

Seeking consensus by formal methods: a health warning
J R Soc Med 100(1): 10-14; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.10 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

David Haslam

What is the Healthcare Commission trying to achieve?
J R Soc Med 100(1): 15-18; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.15 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gopalakrishnan Netuveli, Brian Hurwitz, and Aziz Sheikh

Lineages of language and the diagnosis of asthma
J R Soc Med 100(1): 19-24; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.19 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John D Papadimitriou, Panayiotis Skiadas, Constantinos S Mavrantonis, Vassilis Polimeropoulos, Dimitris J Papadimitriou, and Kyriaki J Papacostas

Euthanasia and suicide in antiquity: viewpoint of the dramatists and philosophers
J R Soc Med 100(1): 25-28; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.25 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Series

Roger Bate

USAID's health challenge: improving US foreign assistance
J R Soc Med 100(1): 29-33; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.29 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cindy Carlson

The UK Department for International Development's new target strategy paper for health: a critical balancing act
J R Soc Med 100(1): 34-37; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.34 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tom Jefferson and Lucia Zarra

Bufala spotting, part one: assessing research papers
J R Soc Med 100(1): 38-39; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.38 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Review

Prabir Kumar Mitra and John R Bradley

Chronic kidney disease in primary care
J R Soc Med 100(1): 40-45; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.40 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Randolph W Parks, Richard J Stevens, and Sean A Spence

A systematic review of cognition in homeless children and adolescents
J R Soc Med 100(1): 46-50; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.46 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grand round

L A McCusker, N P Jenkins, and J E Hancock

Hypocalcaemia in a patient with congenital heart disease
J R Soc Med 100(1): 51-53; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.51 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Imogen Evans

An arduous climb: from the creeks of the Niger delta to leading obstetrician and university Vice Chancellor
J R Soc Med 100(1): 54; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.54 [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

M Nasser and A Tibi

Ibn Hindu and the science of medicine
J R Soc Med 100(1): 55-56; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.55 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Arun Natarajan

What is the value of an interview?
J R Soc Med 100(1): 57-58; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.1.57 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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