From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Conflicts and catastrophes: lessons for medicine
J R Soc Med 100(9): 393; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.393 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Abdul Kareem Al-Obaidi and Jack Piachaud

While adults battle, children suffer: future problems for Iraq
J R Soc Med 100(9): 394-395; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.394 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Erle C H Lim and Raymond C S Seet

The permissible use of placebo
J R Soc Med 100(9): 396; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.396 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Savage

Resources could be spent better than on saving children
J R Soc Med 100(9): 396; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.396-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karol Sikora

Cost to the NHS of Roche oncology treatments
J R Soc Med 100(9): 396-397; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.396-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Irvine Loudon

The Royal College of Surgeons
J R Soc Med 100(9): 397; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.397 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bernard Ribeiro

Patient-reported outcome measures
J R Soc Med 100(9): 397; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.397-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ronald C Denney

Convictions in sexual assault cases
J R Soc Med 100(9): 397-398; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.397-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Perkins

Fleiss, Freud and the nose
J R Soc Med 100(9): 398; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.398 [Full Text] [PDF]  

P I Reed

Connections with death
J R Soc Med 100(9): 398; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.398-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Robin Stott

Climate change, poverty and war
J R Soc Med 100(9): 399-402; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.399 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria Kett and Michael Rowson

Drivers of violent conflict
J R Soc Med 100(9): 403-406; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.403 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Keith Baverstock

The recognition of childhood thyroid cancer as a consequence of the Chernobyl accident: an allegorical tale of our time?
J R Soc Med 100(9): 407-409; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.407 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margaret Turner Warwick

Comments on ‘Performance management of the Royal Colleges of Medicine and Surgery’
J R Soc Med 100(9): 410-411; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.410 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Ward

Formula One and global road safety: response by the FIA Foundation
J R Soc Med 100(9): 412-413; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.412 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Series

C Robertson, A Jayasuriya, and P S Allan

Sexually transmitted infections: where are we now?
J R Soc Med 100(9): 414-417; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.414 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tom Jefferson and Lucia Zarra

Bufale Spotting, part 6: Assessing a lecture
J R Soc Med 100(9): 418; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.418 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Review

Tom Treasure

Minimally invasive surgery for pneumothorax: the evidence, changing practice and current opinion
J R Soc Med 100(9): 419-422; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.419 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Arun K Chopra and Gillian A Doody

Schizophrenia, an Illness and a metaphor: analysis of the use of the term ‘schizophrenia’ in the UK national newspapers
J R Soc Med 100(9): 423-426; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.423 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grand round

I Hunt, B Barber, P Cane, and T Treasure

Hypertophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy: a striking association with a malignant solitary fibrous tumour of the pleura
J R Soc Med 100(9): 427-428; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.427 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

Jeffrey K Aronson and Manoj Ramachandran

The diagnosis of art: Caravaggio's jaundiced Bacchus
J R Soc Med 100(9): 429-430; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.429 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Obituary

Christopher Paine

Professor Sir Gordon Robson, CBE, President of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1986-1988
J R Soc Med 100(9): 431; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.431 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

George Davey Smith

Capitalizing on Mendelian randomization to assess the effects of treatments
J R Soc Med 100(9): 432-435; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.432 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Podium

Andrew Papanikitas

‘We’
J R Soc Med 100(9): 436-437; doi:10.1258/jrsm.100.9.436 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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