From the editor

Kamran Abbasi

Change, we have to
J R Soc Med 101(12): 571; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008/08k039 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Kent Buse, Clare Dickinson, and Michel Sidibé

HIV: know your epidemic, act on its politics
J R Soc Med 101(12): 572-573; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k036 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne-Marie Skellett, George WM Millington, and Nick J Levell

Sudden whitening of the hair: an historical fiction?
J R Soc Med 101(12): 574-576; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080337 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Letter

JP Griffin

Changing life expectancy throughout history
J R Soc Med 101(12): 577; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k037 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David M Griffiths

EBM and CAM
J R Soc Med 101(12): 577-578; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k038 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher R Pearson

Curious consent
J R Soc Med 101(12): 578; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k035 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Rob Whitley

Is psychiatry a religion?
J R Soc Med 101(12): 579-582; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080044 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Humphrey Wine and Michael Baum

Jacques-Louis David’s tumour: an opportunity to study the natural history of a pleomorphic adenoma of the parotid gland
J R Soc Med 101(12): 583-586; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080221 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Review

Mahmood F Bhutta and Harold Maxwell

Sneezing induced by sexual ideation or orgasm: an under-reported phenomenon
J R Soc Med 101(12): 587-591; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080262 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Ian Watt, Sarah Nettleton, and Roger Burrows

The views of doctors on their working lives: a qualitative study
J R Soc Med 101(12): 592-597; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080195 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Steve lliffe, Jane Wilcock, Jill Manthorpe, Jo Moriarty, Michelle Cornes, Roger Clough, Les Bright, and Older People Researching Social Issues (OPRSI)

Can clinicians benefit from patient satisfaction surveys? Evaluating the NSF for Older People, 2005–2006
J R Soc Med 101(12): 598-604; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Media

Neil Hughes, Manoj Ramachandran, and Jeffrey K Aronson

The diagnosis of art: Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet – the ears have it?
J R Soc Med 101(12): 605-606; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k022 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Ulrich Tröhler

Edward Alanson, 1782: responsibility in surgical innovation
J R Soc Med 101(12): 607-608; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k011 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Dawn Starin

Time will tell
J R Soc Med 101(12): 609-610; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k031 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kamran Abbasi

Change? Yes, we can
J R Soc Med 101(12): 611-613; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k034 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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