From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

The hubris of Blair, Bush—and journal editors
J R Soc Med 99(11): 541; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.541 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Elizabeth Wager

Bye bye by-line, hello contributors
J R Soc Med 99(11): 542-543; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.542 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters

Stephen O'Doherty

Doctors and manslaughter—response from the Crown Prosecution Service
J R Soc Med 99(11): 544; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.544 [Full Text] [PDF]  

R E Ferner and S E McDowell

Doctors and manslaughter—response from the Crown Prosecution Service: Authors' reply
J R Soc Med 99(11): 544; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.544-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mr Guidubaldo Querci della Rovere, Dr Margaret McCartney, and Mrs Hazel Thornton

Good doctors: safer patients—the Chief Medical Officer's prescription for regulating doctors
J R Soc Med 99(11): 545; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.545 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eric Scott Sills and Jonathan D Baum

Open access, medical research, and the internet economy of scale
J R Soc Med 99(11): 545; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.545-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tom D Thacher

Wet-nursing and rickets
J R Soc Med 99(11): 545-546; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.545-b [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas A McLoughlin

Gustave Dore's Ogre
J R Soc Med 99(11): 546-547; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.546 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Essays

Lord David Owen

Hubris and Nemesis in Heads of Government
J R Soc Med 99(11): 548-551; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.548 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simon Wessely

Commentary: the psychiatry of hubris
J R Soc Med 99(11): 552-553; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.552 [Full Text] [PDF]  

C R Jackson and K P Gibbin

‘Per ardua...’Training tomorrow's surgeons using inter alia lessons from aviation
J R Soc Med 99(11): 554-558; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.554 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Geoffrey Chamberlain

British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries
J R Soc Med 99(11): 559-563; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.559 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R L Atenstaedt

Trench fever: the British medical response in the Great War
J R Soc Med 99(11): 564-568; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.564 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Series

Ruth Levine and Kent Buse

The World Bank's New Health Sector Strategy: Building on Key Assets
J R Soc Med 99(11): 569-572; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.569 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review

M Masarani, H Wazait, and M Dinneen

Mumps orchitis
J R Soc Med 99(11): 573-575; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.573 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research

Jeremy Gray, Christopher Millett, Caoimhe O'Sullivan, Rumana Z Omar, and Azeem Majeed

Association of age, sex and deprivation with quality indicators for diabetes: population-based cross sectional survey in primary care
J R Soc Med 99(11): 576-581; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.576 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grand Round

G I Varughese, A A Tahrani, J Davis, R N Clayton, and F W F Hanna

Caveats in treating thyroid disease: practical implications
J R Soc Med 99(11): 582-583; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.582 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Media

Manoj Ramachandran and Jeffrey K Aronson

The diagnosis of art: Diastrophic dysplasia and Hephaistos
J R Soc Med 99(11): 584-585; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.584 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

M D O'Brien

Spinal cord injury: progress, promise and priorities
J R Soc Med 99(11): 585; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.585 [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

Peter Elwood

The first randomized trial of aspirin for heart attack and the advent of systematic overviews of trials
J R Soc Med 99(11): 586-588; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.586 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Podium

Paolo Zamboni

The Big Idea: Iron-dependent inflammation in venous disease and proposed parallels in multiple sclerosis
J R Soc Med 99(11): 589-593; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.11.589 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

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