This week's This week in the BMJ

	Paying tribute to Ireland's doctors [Full text] FREE

	Survey provides no evidence that medical students turn cynical and unaltruistic [Full text] FREE

	MRI proves that Leonardo da Vinci got sexual anatomy wrong [Full text] FREE

	Shaken martinis may be more effective antioxidants than stirred ones [Full text] FREE

	JAMA covers reflect inappropriate stereotypes of women [Full text] FREE

	P's predominate in published papers [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	A call to renew
	Linda Hawes Clever
	BMJ  1999;319:1587-1588 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The NHS as a theological institution
	Julia Neuberger
	BMJ  1999;319:1588-1589 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medicine and the marginalised
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1999;319:1589-1590 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Absinthe: what's your poison?
	John Strang, Wilfred N Arnold, Timothy Peters
	BMJ  1999;319:1590-1592 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Putting on the style
	Margaret Cooter
	BMJ  1999;319:1592 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

This week's News extra

	Scientists try to discover how many genes are necessary to build a living organism
	BMJ  1999;319:1592 [Extract] [Full text]

	Bristol surgeon regrets not consulting with colleagues over poor results
	BMJ  1999;319:1592 [Extract] [Full text]

	New test may improve methods for detecting recurrence of colon cancer
	BMJ  1999;319:1592 [Extract] [Full text]

	Four UK parliaments launch HIV handbook for legislators
	BMJ  1999;319:1592 [Extract] [Full text]

	Social policy more important for health than medicines, conference told
	BMJ  1999;319:1592 [Extract] [Full text]

	HMO sues charity over domain name
	BMJ  1999;319:1592 [Extract] [Full text]

	Bristol whistleblower describes his vision of professional monitoring
	BMJ  1999;319:1592 [Extract] [Full text]

	Junior doctors call for ballot on industrial action
	BMJ  1999;319:1592 [Extract] [Full text]

	BMJ set to sign with PubMed Central, JSTOR, and WorldSpace
	BMJ  1999;319:i [Extract] [Full text]

	Doctors suspended in child health inquiry
	BMJ  1999;319:1592 [Extract] [Full text]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Paediatrics on the peace line
	Moira Stewart
	BMJ  1999;319:1648 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prisoner of war campsmemories of a remarkable evening
	O L Wade
	BMJ  1999;319:1649 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The bottlewasher and the ambassador
	Sundaram V Ramanan
	BMJ  1999;319:1650 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	On losing your molecular privacy
	Frank Lohr
	BMJ  1999;319:1651 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	How do you eat an elephant?
	Tony Redmond
	BMJ  1999;319:1652 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Childhood: a public health issue
	Seth Jenkinson
	BMJ  1999;319:1653 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	China's great famine: 40 years later
	Vaclav Smil
	BMJ  1999;319:1619-1621 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The price of coffins: specious arguments by eminent doctors against the dangers of tobacco
	P Cowen
	BMJ  1999;319:1621-1623 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Dwale: an anaesthetic from old England
	Anthony J Carter
	BMJ  1999;319:1623-1626 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Body piercing
	Henry Ferguson
	BMJ  1999;319:1627-1629 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Alternative (complementary) medicine: a cuckoo in the nest of empiricist reed warblers • Commentary: A warning to complementary medicine practitioners: get empirical or else
	Leonard Leibovici, R Brian Haynes
	BMJ  1999;319:1629-1632 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	How work can be made less frustrating and conversation less boring
	Theodore Zeldin
	BMJ  1999;319:1633-1635 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	When I use a word ...: Fin de siècle countdown
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  1999;319:1595 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Essential reading matter
	BMJ  1999;319:1595 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable interview: Always be prepared
	Rohit Samuel
	BMJ  1999;319:1617 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: The next village
	BMJ  1999;319:1617 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: On ageing: fading memory
	BMJ  1999;319:1617 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Alien babies
	John Ryan
	BMJ  1999;319:1626 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A very unusual man: The first legal cremation
	Jane Smillie
	BMJ  1999;319:1635 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Army general practitioner
	Julian Woodhouse
	BMJ  1999;319:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Good employment practice considers how well someone does...
	BMJ  1999;319:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Flexible working has both beneficial and detrimental effects...
	BMJ  1999;319:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Conflict, coitus, conversation: the eternals
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE GP

This week's CHOICE GP

	Conflict, coitus, conversation: the eternals
	BMJ  1999;319 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

COVER NOTE

This week's COVER NOTE

	BMJ  1999;319:1654 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

SHORT REPORTS

This week's SHORT REPORTS

	Questionnaire survey of post-traumatic stress disorder in doctors involved in the Omagh bombing
	Jenny Firth-Cozens, Simon J Midgley, Clive Burges
	BMJ  1999;319:1609 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The lacing defence: double blind study of thresholds for detecting addition of ethanol to drinks
	N J Langford, T Marshall, R E Ferner
	BMJ  1999;319:1610 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Surgeons swear when operating: fact or myth?
	F Fausto Palazzo, Orlando J Warner
	BMJ  1999;319:1611 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Unsafe sax: cohort study of the impact of too much sax on the mortality of famous jazz musicians
	Sanjay Kinra, Mona Okasha
	BMJ  1999;319:1612-1613 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Whither hospital linen? Two centre observational study of alien hospital linen
	Phillip Moradi, Jed Rowe, Stephen Washington
	BMJ  1999;319:1614 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Are there excess Sharons in genitourinary clinics?
	Elizabeth Foley, Fred Willmott, David Rowen, Raj Patel, J L Low
	BMJ  1999;319:1615 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Bangers and cash: multicentre survey of what doctors are driving • Commentary: Report of statistical referee
	Fiona J Cooke, Duncan B Richards, Catherine F Kellett, Rhian E Morse, Julie Morris
	BMJ  1999;319:1616-1617 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Seven alternatives to evidence based medicine
	David Isaacs, Dominic Fitzgerald
	BMJ  1999;319:1618 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHRISTMAS QUIZ

This week's CHRISTMAS QUIZ

	C M Tyrie
	BMJ  1999;319:1654 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

DOCTORS IN CONFLICT

This week's DOCTORS IN CONFLICT

	Medicine in Ulster in relation to the great famine and "the troubles"
	Peter Froggatt
	BMJ  1999;319:1636-1639 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Conflict in Bosnia 1992-3
	Sir Donald Acheson
	BMJ  1999;319:1639-1642 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Walcheren 1809: a medical catastrophe
	Martin R Howard
	BMJ  1999;319:1642-1645 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Case of chronic fatigue syndrome after Crimean war and Indian mutiny
	Edgar Jones, Simon Wessely
	BMJ  1999;319:1645-1647 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Photographic memory, money, and liposuction: survey of medical students' wish lists
	Keith J Petrie, Graham R White, Linda D Cameron, John P Collins
	BMJ  1999;319:1593-1595 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal
	Willibrord Weijmar Schultz, Pek van Andel, Ida Sabelis, Eduard Mooyaart
	BMJ  1999;319:1596-1600 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Shaken, not stirred: bioanalytical study of the antioxidant activities of martinis
	C C Trevithick, M M Chartrand, J Wahlman, F Rahman, M Hirst, J R Trevithick
	BMJ  1999;319:1600-1602 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Babes and boobs? Analysis of JAMA cover art • Commentary: An inconclusive study
	Jocalyn P Clark, Elaine Showalter
	BMJ  1999;319:1603-1605 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Alliteration in medicine: a puzzling profusion of p's
	Gregory F Hayden
	BMJ  1999;319:1605-1608 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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