Correction
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In the December 2000 issue of *Medical Humanities* the following acknowledgements were inadvertently omitted: [Barker P, Metaphors of life and death](http://mh.bmj.com/lookup/volpage/26/97) and [Richardson R, A necessary inhumanity](http://mh.bmj.com/lookup/volpage/26/104).

The original versions of the papers on which these articles are based were first presented at a conference, *The Healing Arts: the Role of the Humanities in Medical Education*, held at the Royal Society of Arts on 30th March 2000. The papers are reproduced in their original form, complete with illustrations, in D Kirklin and R Richardson, eds. *Medical Humanities: an Introduction.* London: Royal College of Physicians, 2001.