From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

Curb your enthusiasm
J R Soc Med 98(12): 527; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.527 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

D P Southall

Failures of emergency relief
J R Soc Med 98(12): 528-529; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.528 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Brian Fisher, Anna Dixon, and Alasdair Honeyman

Informed patients, reformed clinicians
J R Soc Med 98(12): 530-531; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.530 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

O M P Jolobe

Jaundice as a presentation of heart failure
J R Soc Med 98(12): 532; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.532 [Full Text] [PDF]  

George K York and David A Steinberg

Sir James Crichton-Browne
J R Soc Med 98(12): 532; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.532-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

P Dileep Kumar

The future of the printed journal
J R Soc Med 98(12): 532; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.532-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

W M S Russell

Plague, rats and the Bible again
J R Soc Med 98(12): 533; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.533 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Lisa Gensel

The Medical World of Benjamin Franklin
J R Soc Med 98(12): 534-538; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.534 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Phil Hadridge

Leading safely: ‘ridiculous’ lessons from oil and other industries
J R Soc Med 98(12): 539-541; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.539 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeffrey Braithwaite, Johanna Westbrook, and Rick Iedema

Restructuring as gratification
J R Soc Med 98(12): 542-544; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.542 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Trisha Greenhalgh

The Human Genome Project
J R Soc Med 98(12): 545; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.545 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nick Freemantle

The Reverend Bayes—was he really a prophet?
J R Soc Med 98(12): 546; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.546 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jon Stone, Charles Warlow, Alan Carson, and Michael Sharpe

Eliot Slater's myth of the non-existence of hysteria
J R Soc Med 98(12): 547-548; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.547 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Saad Shafqat

The long shadow of cerebral localization
J R Soc Med 98(12): 549; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.549 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ben Harper

Huntington disease
J R Soc Med 98(12): 550; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.550 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hasantha Gunasekera

Designer infant formulas: making a killing
J R Soc Med 98(12): 551-552; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.551 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shaun Treweek

Complex interventions and the chamber of secrets: understanding why they work and why they do not
J R Soc Med 98(12): 553; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.553 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ian Forgacs

Death to all clichés
J R Soc Med 98(12): 554; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.554 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Irvine Loudon

Semmelweis and his thesis
J R Soc Med 98(12): 555; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.555 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher Martyn

The malign influence of impact factors
J R Soc Med 98(12): 556; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.556 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

David A Alexander and Susan Klein

The psychological aspects of terrorism: from denial to hyperbole
J R Soc Med 98(12): 557-562; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.557 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research

Andrew D Oxman, David L Sackett, Iain Chalmers, and Trine E Prescott

A surrealistic mega-analysis of redisorganization theories
J R Soc Med 98(12): 563-568; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.563 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Grand Round

M D O'Brien

Unusual presentations of neurological conditions: make your diagnoses
J R Soc Med 98(12): 569-570; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.569 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Media

Surgical and Medical Treatment in Art
J R Soc Med 98(12): 571; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.571 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

I M L Donaldson

Mesmer's 1780 proposal for a controlled trial to test his method of treatment using ‘animal magnetism’
J R Soc Med 98(12): 572-575; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.572 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Medical Su Doku

Medical Su Doku
J R Soc Med 98(12): 576; doi:10.1258/jrsm.98.12.576 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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