From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Why journals can live without impact factor and cluster bombs
J R Soc Med 100(3): 113; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.113 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Richard Smith

Reed-Elsevier's hypocrisy in selling arms and health
J R Soc Med 100(3): 114-115; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.114 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kiran C R Patel and Raj Bhopal

Diabetes epidemic in the South Asian Diaspora: action before desperation
J R Soc Med 100(3): 115-116; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.115 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Bill Kilvington

The demise of nursing
J R Soc Med 100(3): 117; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.117 [Full Text] [PDF]  

J G Jones

Ankle Brachial Pressure Index
J R Soc Med 100(3): 117; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.117-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sara Schroter

Response to Scientific journals are ‘faith based’: is there a science behind peer review?
J R Soc Med 100(3): 117-118; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.117-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert I Rudolph

Feeling the skin
J R Soc Med 100(3): 118; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.118 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Tom Treasure

The Falun Gong, organ transplantation, the holocaust and ourselves
J R Soc Med 100(3): 119-121; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.119 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erik K Mayer, Sanjay Purkayastha, Thanos Athanasiou, and Ara W Darzi

Redefining quality of care
J R Soc Med 100(3): 122-124; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.122 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Series

Nick Black

The lost hospitals of St Luke's
J R Soc Med 100(3): 125-129; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.125 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Reviews

Richard Beasley, Sarah Aldington, Mark Weatherall, Geoffrey Robinson, and David McHaffie

Oxygen therapy in myocardial infarction: an historical perspective
J R Soc Med 100(3): 130-133; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.130 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Heather Milburn

Key issues in the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis
J R Soc Med 100(3): 134-141; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.134 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Mabel Chew, Elmer V Villanueva, and Martin B Van Der Weyden

Life and times of the impact factor: retrospective analysis of trends for seven medical journals (1994-2005) and their Editors' views
J R Soc Med 100(3): 142-150; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.142 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand round

L C Price, A Poullis, S Grubnic, J Y Kang, and C F J Rayner

Mesalazine-induced bronchiectasis and eosinophilia in a patient with ulcerative colitis: a case report
J R Soc Med 100(3): 151-152; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.151 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Manoj Ramachandran and Jeffrey K Aronson

The diagnosis of art: Lowry's Cripples
J R Soc Med 100(3): 153-154; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.153 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Ulrich Tröhler

Withering's 1785 appeal for caution when reporting on a new medicine
J R Soc Med 100(3): 155-156; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.155 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Alfred Lake

Listening, or just hearing what they say?
J R Soc Med 100(3): 157-158; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.3.157 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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