From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

The three Rs: relicensing, recertification and revalidation
J R Soc Med 101(8): 387; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k006 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Ilora Finlay

Who should pay for cancer drugs?
J R Soc Med 101(8): 388-389; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k005 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letter

Barry Monk

The lingering death of the autopsy
J R Soc Med 101(8): 390; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080139 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erratum

Judith Rowbotham and Paul Clayton

Erratum
J R Soc Med 101(8): 390; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k004 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Leigh Turner

‘Medical tourism’ initiatives should exclude commercial organ transplantation
J R Soc Med 101(8): 391-394; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080058 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert Ritchie, John Reynard, and Tom Lewis

Intersex and the Olympic Games
J R Soc Med 101(8): 395-399; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080086 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Series

Vincent Marks and Caroline Richmond

Colin Bouwer: Professor of Psychiatry and murderer
J R Soc Med 101(8): 400-408; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2007.071003 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Review

Stephen D Preston, Ashley RD Southall, Mark Nel, and Saroj K Das

Geriatric surgery is about disease, not age
J R Soc Med 101(8): 409-415; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Susan Kerrison, Sophie Laws, Mary Cane, and Alan Thompson

The patient's experience of being a human subject
J R Soc Med 101(8): 416-422; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2007.070288 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Media

Jeffrey K Aronson and Manoj Ramachandran

The diagnosis of art: Dr Péan's operation
J R Soc Med 101(8): 423-424; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k001 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

N Peter Joosse and Peter E Pormann

Archery, mathematics, and conceptualizing inaccuracies in medicine in 13th century Iraq and Syria
J R Soc Med 101(8): 425-427; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.08k003 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Thaïs Helène Downman

Hope and hopelessness: theory and reality
J R Soc Med 101(8): 428-430; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2008.080193 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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