June 2007, Volume 33, Issue 1

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  Early European attitudes towards “good death”: Eugenios Voulgaris, Treatise on euthanasia, St Petersburg, 1804

  • E Galanakis,
  • I D K Dimoliatis

  Med Humanities 2007;33:1 1-4 doi:10.1136/jmh.2006.000247
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  Venerable or vulnerable: ageing and old age in JRR Tolkien’s The lord of the rings

  • David B Hogan,
  • A Mark Clarfield

  Med Humanities 2007;33:1 5-10 doi:10.1136/jmh.2006.000248
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  Now bounded, now immeasurable: perspectives on time in disability, in suffering and at end of life

  • Lynn G Underwood

  Med Humanities 2007;33:1 11-15 doi:10.1136/jmh.2006.000243
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  My mother, the smoker

  • Kirsten Levy

  Med Humanities 2007;33:1 16-21 doi:10.1136/jmh.2005.000242
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  “To observe well … and thence to make himself rules”: John Locke’s principles and practice of child healthcare

  • A N Williams

  Med Humanities 2007;33:1 22-34 doi:10.1136/jmh.2006.000240
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  Rembrandt’s doctors

  • Philippe Abastado,
  • Denis Chemla

  Med Humanities 2007;33:1 35-37 doi:10.1136/jmh.2005.000241
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  “The stroke is eighty nine”: understanding unprofessional behaviour through physician-authored prose

  • C E Rees,
  • L V Knight

  Med Humanities 2007;33:1 38-43 doi:10.1136/jmh.2005.000228
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  “Medicalisation of falling in love”: medical students’ responses to Thomas Mann’s The Black Swan

  • Aino-Maija Lahtinen,
  • Martina Torppa

  Med Humanities 2007;33:1 44-48 doi:10.1136/jmh.2006.000245
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  Dialogue in the narrative process

  • Viv Martin

  Med Humanities 2007;33:1 49-54 doi:10.1136/jmh.2007.000246
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  Appreciation of art in a workers’ hospital in Chile

  • Nina Horwitz,
  • Marcelo Trucco

  Med Humanities 2007;33:1 55-58 doi:10.1136/jmh.2006.000244
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