From the Editor

Kamran Abbasi

An inconvenient truth: question your faith
J R Soc Med 99(12): 595; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.595 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Editorials

Faina Linkov, Mita Lovalekar, and Ronald LaPorte

Scientific Journals are ‘faith based’: is there science behind Peer review?
J R Soc Med 99(12): 596-598; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.596 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Neil H Cox

Palpation of the skin—an important issue
J R Soc Med 99(12): 598-600; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.598 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Scott A Murray, David J Chinn, and Aziz Sheikh

Access to psychological and psychiatric services needs tobe improved for the dying
J R Soc Med 99(12): 601; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.601 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essays

Charlotte Humphrey

Ways of seeing: Biomedical perspectives on the social world
J R Soc Med 99(12): 602-606; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.602 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Irvine Loudon

A brief history of homeopathy
J R Soc Med 99(12): 607-610; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.607 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hilda Bastian

‘They would say that, wouldn't they?’ A reader's guide to author and sponsor biases in clinical research
J R Soc Med 99(12): 611-614; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.611 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew C Miller

Jundi-Shapur, bimaristans, and the rise of academic medical centres
J R Soc Med 99(12): 615-617; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.615 [Full Text] [PDF]  

A W Bates

Dr Kahn's Museum: obscene anatomy in Victorian London
J R Soc Med 99(12): 618-624; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.618 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Series

Tom Jefferson, Lucia Zarra, and Liviu Stoica

Attenti Alle Bufale (‘Beware of Red Herrings’), or, How to Make Evidence-Based Medicine Work for You
J R Soc Med 99(12): 625-627; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.625 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Reviews

B Shepherd, D Macpherson, and C M B Edwards

In-flight emergencies: playing The Good Samaritan
J R Soc Med 99(12): 628-631; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.628 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel K Sokol

How the doctor's nose has shortened over time; a historical overview of the truth-telling debate in the doctor-patient relationship
J R Soc Med 99(12): 632-636; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.632 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Research

A Price, M Hotopf, I J Higginson, B Monroe, and M Henderson

Psychological services in hospices in the UK and Republic of Ireland
J R Soc Med 99(12): 637-639; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.637 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grand round

P R Landham, N Abbas, and H Jähnich

The oldest surviving arthroplasty?
J R Soc Med 99(12): 640; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.640 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Media

A Mark Clarfield

Novel Medicine: Cancer Ward, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
J R Soc Med 99(12): 641; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.641 [Full Text] [PDF]  

From the James Lind Library

M Stolberg

Inventing the randomized double-blind trial: the Nuremberg salt test of 1835
J R Soc Med 99(12): 642-643; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.642 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Inconvenient Truths

Ian Forgacs

Private practice—definitely not a zero sum game
J R Soc Med 99(12): 644; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.644 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aneez Esmail

Longer appointments for all!
J R Soc Med 99(12): 644-645; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.644-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel K Sokol and Samantha Hettige

Poor handwriting remains a significant problem in medicine
J R Soc Med 99(12): 645-646; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.645 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hasantha Gunasekera

Fear ever young: the terrorist death toll in perspective
J R Soc Med 99(12): 646; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.646 [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Phil Hadridge

Too little compassion in health care?
J R Soc Med 99(12): 646-647; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.646-a [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sophie Petit-Zeman

Where has the humanity gone?
J R Soc Med 99(12): 647; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.647 [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Main

Reasons to be cheerful (times three)
J R Soc Med 99(12): 648; doi:10.1258/jrsm.99.12.648 [Full Text] [PDF]  

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