Table of contents

Original articles

• The limits of pity in Bartleby and Moby Dick (1 December, 2008) Free

  L Rosenblatt
• Dickens’ characters on the couch: an example of teaching psychiatry using literature (1 December, 2008)

  B C Douglas
• Two Georgian fathers: diverse in experience, united in grief (1 December, 2008)

  R M James, A N Williams
• Brainwashing: the power of the psychiatrist portrayed in 1960s visual media (1 December, 2008)

  P Dakin
• A portrait of a female body: Rubens and Helena’s legs (1 December, 2008)

  P Abastado, D Chemla
• Literary appreciation for medical students at International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur: the learner’s experience (1 December, 2008)

  S S DMani
• Medical paternalism in House M.D. (1 December, 2008)

  M R Wicclair
• “Sharing the impact of the disease”: a workshop on suffering for medical students (1 December, 2008)

  W Lewis, K Hawthorne
• Rethinking the placebo effect (1 December, 2008)

  P Louhiala, R Puustinen
• Mental health in an age of celebrity: the courage to care (1 December, 2008)

  P Barker, P Buchanan-Barker