Table of contents

Original articles

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

  (1 June, 2007)

  E Galanakis, I D K Dimoliatis
• Venerable or vulnerable: ageing and old age in JRR Tolkien’s The lord of the rings

  (1 June, 2007)

  David B Hogan, A Mark Clarfield
• Now bounded, now immeasurable: perspectives on time in disability, in suffering and at end of life (1 June, 2007)

  Lynn G Underwood
• My mother, the smoker (1 June, 2007)

  Kirsten Levy
• “To observe well … and thence to make himself rules”: John Locke’s principles and practice of child healthcare (1 June, 2007)

  A N Williams
• Rembrandt’s doctors (1 June, 2007)

  Philippe Abastado, Denis Chemla
• “The stroke is eighty nine”: understanding unprofessional behaviour through physician-authored prose (1 June, 2007)

  C E Rees, L V Knight
• “Medicalisation of falling in love”: medical students’ responses to Thomas Mann’s The Black Swan

  (1 June, 2007) Free

  Aino-Maija Lahtinen, Martina Torppa
• Dialogue in the narrative process (1 June, 2007)

  Viv Martin
• Appreciation of art in a workers’ hospital in Chile (1 June, 2007)

  Nina Horwitz, Marcelo Trucco