Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
	Gerison Lansdown, Tony Waterston, David Baum
	BMJ  1996;313:1565-1566 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Falling back on charity
	Robert Pinker
	BMJ  1996;313:1566 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	What makes a just healthcare system?
	Solomon R Benatar
	BMJ  1996;313:1567-1568 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine, postmodernism, and the end of certainty
	Paul Hodgkin
	BMJ  1996;313:1568-1569 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The power of placebo
	E Ernst, A Herxheimer
	BMJ  1996;313:1569-1570 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The magic of seven
	Ian Stewart
	BMJ  1996;313:1570 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How can we live forever?
	Tom Kirkwood
	BMJ  1996;313:1571 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Jonathan Swift on immortality: over-rated
	BMJ  1996;313:1571 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Distance is dead: the world will change
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:1572 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

WORDS

This week's WORDS

	From a flea's teeshirt
	BMJ  1996;313:1654-1656 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Poignant medicines
	Peter A G M De Smet
	BMJ  1996;313:1656 [Request Permissions]

	The truth about doctors' handwriting: a prospective study
	Donald M Berwick, David E Winickoff
	BMJ  1996;313:1657-1658 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mizspellin and Medline
	Joel G Ray, Marian J Vermeulen
	BMJ  1996;313:1658-1659 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Introducing Selfcite 2.0--career enhancing software
	Nick Craddock, Michael C O'Donovan, Michael J Owen
	BMJ  1996;313:1659-1660 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The unbearable inadequacy of language
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;313:1660 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ASSOCIATIONS

This week's ASSOCIATIONS

	A training culture in surgery
	David H Hargreaves
	BMJ  1996;313:1635-1639 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	To err was fatal
	Carlo Fonseka
	BMJ  1996;313:1640-1642 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Is this what we really want?
	James Harrison
	BMJ  1996;313:1643 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Beards, academia, and anaesthesia: a controlled study
	John Curran, Brian Pollard
	BMJ  1996;313:1643-1644 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Recharging the batteries
	Kieran Murphy
	BMJ  1996;313:1644-1646 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Why do medical students choose St Mary's Hospital Medical School?
	J H Baron
	BMJ  1996;313:1646-1647 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Does nursing have a future?
	Alison L Kitson
	BMJ  1996;313:1647-1651 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

DRUGS

This week's DRUGS

	Buccaling under the pressure: influence of secondary care establishments on the prescribing of glyceryl trinitrate buccal tablets in primary care
	A J Pryce, H F Heatlie, S R Chapman
	BMJ  1996;313:1621-1624 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of colour of drugs: systematic review of perceived effect of drugs and of their effectiveness
	Anton J M de Craen, Pieter J Roos, A Leonard de Vries, Jos Kleijnen
	BMJ  1996;313:1624-1626 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Product names, proper claims? More ethical issues in the marketing of drugs
	Soren Holm, Martyn Evans
	BMJ  1996;313:1627-1629 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Narcosis and nightshade
	Anthony John Carter
	BMJ  1996;313:1630-1632 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

GALLERY

This week's GALLERY

	A trio of treasurers
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:1633 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Arts Project: early days
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1996;313:1634 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

HIGHWAY

This week's HIGHWAY

	SatelLife: getting relevant information to the developing world
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  1996;313:1606-1609 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rights, wrongs, and journals in the age of cyberspace: "We all want to change the world"
	Ronald E LaPorte, Bernard Hibbitts
	BMJ  1996;313:1609 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A glass of water and somewhere to whinge
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1996;313:1611 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A colourless conveyor belt?
	Richard Horton
	BMJ  1996;313:1611-1612 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A Christmas fairy tale
	George D Lundberg
	BMJ  1996;313:1612 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	To market, to market
	Frank Davidoff
	BMJ  1996;313:1612 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ROAD

This week's ROAD

	Egil's or Paget's disease?
	Thordur Hardarson, Elisabet Snorradottir
	BMJ  1996;313:1613-1614 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Promoting attachment, providing memories
	Ben Stenson
	BMJ  1996;313:1615 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Premature grey hair and hair loss among smokers: a new opportunity for health education?
	J G Mosley, A C C Gibbs
	BMJ  1996;313:1616 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A fish induced pneumothorax: dilemmas in the remote management of a sucking chest wound
	David Berger
	BMJ  1996;313:1617-1618 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: A conservative management plan from a place where barracuda are rare
	John Rees
	BMJ  1996;313:1618 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Clinically significant pulmonary barotrauma after inflation of party balloons
	Andrew D Mumford, Keyoumars Ashkan, Stuart Elborn
	BMJ  1996;313:1619 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	"Phlebomania Hancocksia": prevalence of a previously undescribed psychomotor disturbance
	Lindsay C H John
	BMJ  1996;313:1620 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

SINS

This week's SINS

	Lust
	Liam Farrell
	BMJ  1996;313:1592 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Envy
	Louis Appleby
	BMJ  1996;313:1592-1593 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Wrath
	Simon Chapman
	BMJ  1996;313:1593-1594 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Pride
	Simon Wessely
	BMJ  1996;313:1594-1595 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Gluttony
	John Garrow
	BMJ  1996;313:1595-1596 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Sloth
	James McCormick
	BMJ  1996;313:1596 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Greed
	Ralph Crawshaw
	BMJ  1996;313:1596-1597 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Circaseptennial rhythm in ear growth
	Jos Verhulst, Patrick Onghena
	BMJ  1996;313:1597-1598 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Reflections on a tsuba
	J P Lissenden
	BMJ  1996;313:1598 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

UNEQUAL

This week's UNEQUAL

	"I'm all right, John": voting patterns and mortality in England and Wales, 1981-92
	George Davey Smith, Daniel Dorling
	BMJ  1996;313:1573-1577 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Attendance at cultural events, reading books or periodicals, and making music or singing in a choir as determinants for survival: Swedish interview survey of living conditions
	Lars Olov Bygren, Boinkum Benson Konlaan, Sven-Erik Johansson
	BMJ  1996;313:1577-1580 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Which doctors die first? Analysis of BMJ obituary columns
	D J M Wright, A P Roberts
	BMJ  1996;313:1581-1582 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Freedom, responsibility, and health
	John P Bunker, Stephen Stansfeld, Jenny Potter
	BMJ  1996;313:1582-1584 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Commentary: Understanding it all--health, meta-theories, and mortality trends
	George Davey Smith, Matthias Egger
	BMJ  1996;313:1584-1585 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	And God will fill the bullet holes with candy
	Barbara J Genovese
	BMJ  1996;313:1585-1587 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Dances of death, occupational mortality statistics, and social critique
	Johan P Mackenbach
	BMJ  1996;313:1587-1591 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cover story
	Tony Delamothe
	BMJ  1996;313:1591 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

VALLEY

This week's VALLEY

	A personal therapeutic journey
	Cicely Saunders
	BMJ  1996;313:1599-1601 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Oh, for a little humanity
	Sally Magnusson
	BMJ  1996;313:1601-1603 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Don't leave a mess. Call Triple S!
	Thomas Lynch
	BMJ  1996;313:1603-1605 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Rowlandson's Death in the Nursery
	Fiona Haslam
	BMJ  1996;313:1605 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

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