From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Naming peer reviewers in JRSM
J R Soc Med 102(10): 399; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k057 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorial

Michael Baum

Thomas Wakley: relevant to today's society
J R Soc Med 102(10): 400—401; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k050 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letter

Nick Black

Quality of care in ISTCs
J R Soc Med 102(10): 402; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k054 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Rich

Dematuration?
J R Soc Med 102(10): 402; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k052 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Aitken

What has happened to charity?
J R Soc Med 102(10): 402; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k055 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marianne M Gilchrist

Isabel Tulloch's ‘Richard III: a study in medical misrepresentation’
J R Soc Med 102(10): 402—403; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k053 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essay

Roger Jones

Thomas Wakley, plagiarism, libel and the founding of The Lancet
J R Soc Med 102(10): 404—410; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090144 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

George Lewith and Nicola Robinson

Complementary and alternative medicine: what the public want and how it may be delivered safely and effectively
J R Soc Med 102(10): 411—414; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090123 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

Frank P Ryan

An alternative approach to medical genetics based on modern evolutionary biology. Part 3: HERVs in diseases
J R Soc Med 102(10): 415—424; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090221 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Research

Melanie J Calvert, Nick M Ross, Nick Freemantle, Yong Xu, Remigio Zvauya, and Jim V Parle

Examination performance of graduate entry medical students compared with mainstream students
J R Soc Med 102(10): 425—430; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090121 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

C Anandan, R Gupta, CR Simpson, C Fischbacher, and A Sheikh

Epidemiology and disease burden from allergic disease in Scotland: analyses of national databases
J R Soc Med 102(10): 431—442; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grand Round

Dan Harris

Left middle cerebral artery infarct in a young man with Crohn's disease
J R Soc Med 102(10): 443—444; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090002 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Simon Wessely

Surgery for the treatment of psychiatric illness: the need to test untested theories
J R Soc Med 102(10): 445—451; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k038 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Edzard Ernst

Why would anyone use an unproven or disproven therapy? A personal view
J R Soc Med 102(10): 452—453; doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.090136 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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