Editorials
440 Lepitin in obesity
441 The Babinski sign: 100 years on
442 Diagnosing death
443 Promoting health in prisons

News and Student Politics
444 Student debts rise HIV surgeon Hip implants Multiple sclerosis linked with trauma Sex and pain relief US states approve cannabis Specialists advertise

Education
447 Basics of respiratory medicine-1. How to take a history
449 A guide to medical negligence
451 Essentials of psychiatry-3. Ethnicity, racism, and culture
453 Defining death: Brain stem death and the persistent vegetative state
456 ABC of Work Related Illnesses: Women at Work
460 Averting a world food shortage: tighten your belts for CAIRO II
462 Environment- a new key area for Health of the Nation?

Papers
465 Drinking, smoking, and illicit drug use among 15 and 16 year olds in the United Kingdom
469 What this study means
469 Survey of paramedic skills in the United Kingdom and Channel Islands

Student Life
471 Bones, Blood, and tissue: is that all we ever see?
472 In praise of cars
473 Learning medicine the Finnish way
474 Changing places: from London to Berlin
475 From darkness into light
476 Obituary: Julian Green
476 Out There

Letters
477 Right to abortion Teaching palliative care AIDS Donated eggs Fetal pain Testicular cancer TomorrowÍs doctors Electives under threat

Soundings
479 It's a funny old job
479 Vive la difference

Personal View
480 Doctor in trouble
480 Tale of two wards

Books
481 The scent of Dried Roses
481 Prozac Nation - Young and Depressed in America

Minerva
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