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When is a disease a "non-disease"? [Full text] FREE
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Too much medicine?
Ray Moynihan, Richard Smith
BMJ  2002;324:859-860, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.859
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Health: perception versus observation
Amartya Sen
BMJ  2002;324:860-861, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.860
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The medicalisation of old age
Shah Ebrahim
BMJ  2002;324:861-863, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.861
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Genetics and medicalisation
David Melzer, Ron Zimmern
BMJ  2002;324:863-864, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.863
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Medicalisation, limits to medicine, or never enough money to go around?
Nick Freemantle, Suzanne Hill
BMJ  2002;324:864-865, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.864
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Medicalisation: peering from inside medicine
Leonard Leibovici, Michel Lièvre
BMJ  2002;324:866, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.866
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What do you think is a non-disease?
Simon Wessely, Anelie J Walsh, Dianna Dunbar, Kevin C Murphy, Malcolm Hooper, Caroline White
BMJ  2002;324:912, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.912
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Editorial on CFS was biased, inaccurate, and misleading
Charles Shepherd
BMJ  2002;324:914, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.914
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Gulf war syndrome may be post-conflict dysfunction
Roger Gabriel, J P G Bolton, Amanda J Bale, Harry A Lee
BMJ  2002;324:914, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.914/a
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ICD and DSM are contemporary cultural documents
Derek Summerfield
BMJ  2002;324:914, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.914/b
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Non-cardiac chest pain
David S Coulshed, Guy D Eslick, Nicholas J Talley, Graeme M Mackenzie
BMJ  2002;324:915, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.915
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Hormone replacement therapy and the breast
Alastair H MacLennan, Beverley Lawton, Rodney J Baber, Michael Baum, J M Dixon
BMJ  2002;324:915, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.915/a
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Schizophrenia in ethnic minority groups
Dirk Jacobs, J Boydell, R M Murray
BMJ  2002;324:916, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.916
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Antiplatelet therapy and atherosclerotic events
Cathie Sudlow, Peter Sandercock, Charles Warlow, Michael Pignone, Cynthia Mulrow
BMJ  2002;324:917, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.917
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Fortification of flour with folic acid
Edward Reynolds, Mark Sillender
BMJ  2002;324:918, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.918
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Treatment of intersex needs open discussion
Melissa Cull
BMJ  2002;324:919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.919
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Doctors' knowledge of radiation exposures is deficient
K Gower-Thomas, M H Lewis, S Shiralkar, M Snow, R B Galland, A Rennie
BMJ  2002;324:919, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.919/a
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Prevalence of surnames in each letter affects order of authors
Benjamin D Horne
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Drug firms hype disease as sales ploy, industry chief claims
Ray Moynihan
BMJ  2002;324:867, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.867
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Neuroblastoma screening does not reduce mortality
Annette Tuffs
BMJ  2002;324:867, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.867/a
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In brief
BMJ  2002;324:868, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.868
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Claims of clone pregnancy could threaten US stem cell research
Roger Dobson
BMJ  2002;324:868, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.868/a
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Strategy needed for mental health of women prisoners
Caroline White
BMJ  2002;324:868, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.868/b
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Dutch GPs warned against new contraceptive pill
Tony Sheldon
BMJ  2002;324:869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.869
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Arthritis drug should be removed from market, says consumer group
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2002;324:869, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.869/a
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Scotland to start screening programme for diabetic retinopathy
Bryan Christie
BMJ  2002;324:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.871/b
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"Bubble baby" lives a normal life after gene therapy
Owen Dyer
BMJ  2002;324:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.872
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African Americans are less likely to see an oncologist, study shows
Scott Gottlieb
BMJ  2002;324:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.872/a
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Medicare will now cover some treatments for Alzheimer's disease
Fred Charatan
BMJ  2002;324:872, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.872/b
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Athletes risk their lives by routine use of performance enhancing drugs, says BMA
Mark Hunter
BMJ  2002;324:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.870
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US report calls for tighter controls on complementary medicine
Charles Marwick
BMJ  2002;324:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.870/a
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NHS misses target for introducing electronic records
Katherine Burke
BMJ  2002;324:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.870/b
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WHO targets environmental impact on child health
Rory Watson
BMJ  2002;324:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.870/c
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Study associates viral infection with some childhood brain tumours
Susan Mayor
BMJ  2002;324:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.870/d
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Nigeria promises free antiretroviral drugs to HIV positive soldiers
Abiodun Raufu
BMJ  2002;324:870, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.870/e
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Dying woman may revoke her controversial suicide plans
Christopher Zinn
BMJ  2002;324:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.871
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High Court quashes GMC finding of serious professional misconduct
Clare Dyer
BMJ  2002;324:871, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.871/a
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Outcome of expectant management of spontaneous first trimester miscarriage: observational study
Ciro Luise, Karen Jermy, Caroline May, Gillian Costello, William P Collins, Thomas H Bourne
BMJ  2002;324:873-875, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.873
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Treatment of imported malaria in an ambulatory setting: prospective study Commentary: Should patients with imported malaria routinely be admitted?
Valérie D'Acremont, Pierre Landry, Roger Darioli, Dieter Stuerchler, Alain Pécoud, Blaise Genton, Christopher J M Whitty, Diana N J Lockwood
BMJ  2002;324:875-877, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.875
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Hepatitis B immunisation in renal units in the United Kingdom: questionnaire study
Sunanda Ray, Terry Samuel, Jeremy Hawker, Steve Smith
BMJ  2002;324:877-878, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.877
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Workplace bullying in junior doctors: questionnaire survey
Lyn Quine
BMJ  2002;324:878-879, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.878
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Drug points: Neuropsychiatric complications of nevirapine treatment
M E Jan Wise, K Mistry, S Reid
BMJ  2002;324:879, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.879
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Evolving general practice consultation in Britain: issues of length and context
George K Freeman, John P Horder, John G R Howie, A Pali Hungin, Alison P Hill, Nayan C Shah, Andrew Wilson
BMJ  2002;324:880-882, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.880
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In search of "non-disease"
Richard Smith
BMJ  2002;324:883-885, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.883
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Back to school
Colin Douglas
BMJ  2002;324:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.925/a
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Accountability
Edmund Hey
BMJ  2002;324:925, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.925
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This week's Education and debate

Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering Commentary: Medicalisation of risk factors
Ray Moynihan, Iona Heath, David Henry, Peter C Gøtzsche
BMJ  2002;324:886-891, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.886
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Has the medicalisation of childbirth gone too far?
Richard Johanson, Mary Newburn, Alison Macfarlane
BMJ  2002;324:892-895, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.892
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Sexual behaviour and its medicalisation: in sickness and in health
Graham Hart, Kaye Wellings
BMJ  2002;324:896-900, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.896
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The limits of psychiatry
Duncan Double
BMJ  2002;324:900-904, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.900
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Between hope and acceptance: the medicalisation of dying
David Clark
BMJ  2002;324:905-907, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.905
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For and against: Direct to consumer advertising is medicalising normal human experience: For
Barbara Mintzes
BMJ  2002;324:908-909, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.908
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For and against: Direct to consumer advertising is medicalising normal human experience: Against
Silvia N Bonaccorso, Jeffrey L Sturchio
BMJ  2002;324:910-911, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.910
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Sir Anthony Alment
Robin Sheppard
BMJ  2002;324:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.920
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John Abels
Colin Mackenzie
BMJ  2002;324:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.920/a
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Barbara Ansell
A W Craft, P Woo, B Jarvis
BMJ  2002;324:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.920/b
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Donald Walter Clark
Susan Wood
BMJ  2002;324:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.920/c
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Jill Draper
Linda Beecham
BMJ  2002;324:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.920/d
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Duraiswami Gaspar
Tom Fenton, Elizabeth M Gregg
BMJ  2002;324:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.920/e
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Christopher Giles
John Giles
BMJ  2002;324:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.920/f
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Rodney Irwin Green
Sally Green
BMJ  2002;324:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.920/g
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Sydney Patrick Hall-Smith
Rupert Hall-Smith
BMJ  2002;324:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.920/h
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John Maguire Lyons
Gordon Cameron
BMJ  2002;324:i, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.920/i
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Ronald Victor Walley
Campbell Mackenzie
BMJ  2002;324:920, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.920/j
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Minerva
BMJ  2002;324:926, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.926
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Endpiece: The best part of the cure
BMJ  2002;324:883, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.883/a
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Endpiece: On music
BMJ  2002;324:886, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.886/a
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Memorable patients: Zambia needs basic medicines and HIV education
D Elphick
BMJ  2002;324:895, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.895
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When I use a word . . .: Medicalization
Jeff Aronson
BMJ  2002;324:904, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.904
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Endpiece: Trapped between two evils
BMJ  2002;324:905, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.905/a
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Endpiece: Disability and cure
BMJ  2002;324:908, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.908/a
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New manuscript submission system: fast track papers only
BMJ  2002;324:908, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.908/b
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Endpiece: More on music
BMJ  2002;324:908, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.908/c
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Book: The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause
Sandra Coney
BMJ  2002;324:922, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.922
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Book: Limits to Medicine. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Richard Smith
BMJ  2002;324:923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.923
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Book: Disease-Mongers: How Doctors, Drug Companies, and Insurers are Making You Feel Sick
Ray Moynihan
BMJ  2002;324:923, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.923/a
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Press: How medicine sells the media
Melissa Sweet
BMJ  2002;324:924, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.924
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This week's CHOICE

Postmodern medicine
BMJ  2002;324, doi: 10.1136/bmj.324.7342.0/i
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Website of the week: Death, sex, and gardening
Christopher Martyn
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Survey: which would do most to improve health in the developed world? [Full text]

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