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Article:

David Greaves and Martyn Evans

Medical progress, reason and the imagination
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 57. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.57 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robin Downie

Science and the imagination in the age of reason
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 58-63. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.58 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Iona Heath

‘A fragment of the explanation’: the use and abuse of words
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 64-69. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.64 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edited by Gillie Bolton

Four poems and two stories
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 70-73. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.70 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

D M Gore

Clinical craft: a lesson from Liverpool
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 74-75. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.74 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Reed

A medical perspective on the adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 76-81. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.76 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margaret M Platts

Some medical syndromes encountered in nineteenth-century French literature
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 82-88. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.82 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Deborah Kirklin

Metaphors for medicine: revealing reflections or just popular parodies?
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 89. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.89 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sarah Elise Finlay and Monica Fawzy

Becoming a doctor
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 90-92. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.90 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martyn Evans and David Greaves

‘Developing the medical humanities’–report of a research colloquium, and collected abstracts of papers
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 93-98. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.93 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brian Glasser

From Kafka to Casualty: doctors and medicine in popular culture and the arts— a special studies module
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 99-101. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.99 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alan O'Rourke

The use and abuse of language in science
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 102-103. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.102 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Arnott, Gillie Bolton, Martyn Evans, Ilora Finlay, Jane Macnaughton, Richard Meakin, and William Reid

Proposal for an academic Association for Medical Humanities
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 104-105. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.104 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and notes:

Association for Medical Humanities: Announcement of inaugural meeting
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 63. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.63 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Grant from Pfizer Foundation allows establishment of Centre for Medical Humanities at UCL
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 69. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.69 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and notes
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 75. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.75 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

Michael Baum

A convergence of cultures & technologies
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 106. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.106 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emmanouil Galanakis

Medical humanities, kalology and philokalia
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 106. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.106-a [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Norman Turner

What price dissection? Dissection literally dissected
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 106-107. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.106-b [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book reviews:

Angus Clarke

Genetics and Reductionism and Genes, Genesis

God: Values and their Origins in Natural and Human History:

Sahotra Sarkar, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 256 pages, £45 (hb), £16.95 (pb).

Holmes Rolston III, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 416 pages (hb), 432 pages (pb), £42.50 (hb), £15.95 (pb).

Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 107-109. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.107 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

N C F Stott

The Healing Arts: an Oxford Illustrated Anthology: Edited by R S Downie Oxford Oxford University Press, 2000
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 109-110. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.109 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alan Willson

The Human Effect in Medicine: Theory, Research and Practice: M Dixon and K G Sweeney, Abingdon, Radcliffe, 2000, 157 pages, £17.95
Medical Humanities 2001; 27: 110. doi:10.1136/mh.27.2.110 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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