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December 2009, Volume 35, Issue 2

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  1. Editorials
  2. Original articles
  3. Miscellaneous
  4. Current controversies
  5. Educational case studies
  6. PostScript
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Editorials

  • Picasso, professionalism and plastic surgery: why privileging the patient’s perspective is a moral imperative

    • Deborah Kirklin
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 65-66 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.003202

  • Public confessions of a sinner: a healthy take on obesity?

    • Susanne Scholz
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 66-67 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002600

  • Therapeutic acts of witness: why writing poetry and prose has never been just for patients

    • Lori A Roscoe
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 67-69 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002592

Original articles

  • Existential boredom: the experience of living on haemodialysis therapy

    • A Moran,
    • P A Scott,
    • P Darbyshire
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 70-75 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.001511

  • Confessions of the flesh and biopedagogies: discursive constructions of obesity on Nip/Tuck

    • G Rail,
    • M Lafrance
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 76-79 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.001610

  • Finding a voice: revisiting the history of therapeutic writing

    • A D Peterkin,
    • A A Prettyman
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 80-88 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.001636

  • Picasso’s bodies: representations of modern society?

    • A Borsay
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 89-93 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.001719

  • Performing the good death: the medieval Ars moriendi and contemporary doctors

    • K Thornton,
    • C B Phillips
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 94-97 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.001693

  • Jane Austen and Addison’s disease: an unconvincing diagnosis

    • K G White
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 98-100 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.001453

  • What training do artists need to work in healthcare settings?

    • H Moss,
    • D O’Neill
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 101-105 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.001792

  • Opera and madness: Britten’s Peter Grimes—a case study

    • G Durà-Vilà,
    • D Bentley
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 106-109 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002030

  • Challenges to UK community pharmacy: a bio-photographic study of workspace in relation to professional pharmacy practice

    • F L Rapport,
    • M A Doel,
    • G S Jerzembek
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 110-117 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002105

Miscellaneous

  • Poem: A time like all others

    • C Gardner
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 79 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002089

  • Prose poems: Glancing light: three prose poems

    • J G Brueggemann
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 88 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.001842

  • Poem: Hospital time

    • M Rowe
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 109 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002634

Current controversies

  • An immigrant’s story

    • F Nenner
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 118-119 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.001727

Educational case studies

  • Using art and literature as educational resources in palliative care

    • S Lawton,
    • A McKie
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 120-122 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.001909

  • Using paintings to explore the medical humanities in a Nepalese medical school

    • P R Shankar,
    • R M Piryani
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 121-122 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002568

PostScript

  • Book review: Direct red: a surgeon’s story

    • N Craft
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 123 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002063

  • Book review: Cutting for Stone

    • T A Faunce
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 123-124 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002519

  • Book review: Blue pills: a positive love story

    • I Williams
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 124-125 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002287

  • Book review: The body and the arts

    • P K Dakin
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 125-126 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002121

  • Film review: The growth of British sex education films: negotiating what we shouldn’t know

    • B Crowther
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 126-127 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002824

  • Film review: Nurse Edith Cavell

    • R Wall,
    • A M Rafferty
    Med Humanities 2009;35:2 127-128 doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.002873

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