Table of contents

Original articles

• Dr Bruno Sachs addresses an audience of first year medical students: an extract from the writing of Martin Winckler, French doctor and writer (26 May, 2006) Free

  D Jeffries, M Winckler
• “I am living in my own corpse”—the experience of tuberculosis in poems by A B Šimić (26 May, 2006)

  M-A Dürrigl, S Fatović-Ferenčić
• Sickness, healing, and opera: Wagner’s Parsifal

  (26 May, 2006)

  K L Dunn
• Some perspectives on Chekhov’s short story A Case History

  (26 May, 2006)

  J Niemi
• Creativity, self creation, and the treatment of mental illness (26 May, 2006)

  A Rothenberg
• Motherhood versus patienthood: a conflict of identities (26 May, 2006)

  J R Dent
• Body and self: a phenomenological study on the ageing body and identity (26 May, 2006)

  J Bullington
• Expressing freedom and taking liberties: the paradoxes of aberrant science (26 May, 2006)

  M Little
• Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion: a result of the cultural turn? (26 May, 2006)

  D I Bromage
• Medical ethics as therapy (26 May, 2006)

  A Zucker
• Being the monster: women’s narratives of body and self after treatment for breast cancer (26 May, 2006)

  L Rosenblatt
• “Stepford doctors”: an allegory (26 May, 2006)

  G M Sayers
• Evaluating a poetry workshop in medical education (26 May, 2006)

  T J Collett, J C McLachlan