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Contents: November 2001

Editorials

Biological weapons

Reacting to terroris

Climate change, equity and health


News

Fall out from terrorism will effect world's poor

Stop military strikes and ship in aid, doctors say

First degree in international health starts in UK medical school

New house officers lack clinical skills

Online experiment to study the psychology of humour

Artwork is useful in teaching visual diagnostic skills

Fake cows help to reduce sleeping sickness and the use of insecticides

Bits & pieces

Applications to US medical schools fall for fourth year

Indian project launched to measure size of mens penises

Drug firms neglect research into deseases affecting the poor

Education

Overconsumption and health

Understanding ECGs: tachycardias

Creative consulting: how to make the room disappear

Acute pain management for the preregistration house officer

Food intolerance: sifting the facts from the fantasies


Careers

Is studying for an intercalated degree a wise career move?

Prehospital care

How to get shortlisted


Papers

Paper plus: Skin cancer surveillance in renal translpant recipients

Commentary


Life

Planning your elective - Thailand

Elective experience: the Thai-Burmese border

View from New York

Working as a health care assistant

The first cut is the hardest

Any cures for Hipo Hik Hoquet?

Desperately seeking asylum

Predatory crusaders

The medical school swamp

Tadpoles striving to become frogs


Letters

Homophobia in medicine

Junior doctors are still overworked

Speaking up - does it make a difference?

Useful experience

School pupil allowed to observe intimate examination

Teenagers mesconceptions

Is everyone dissatisfied?

Are intercalated degrees better?

A stimulating experience

Medical ethics - can the East guide the West?

Reviews

Art review: Anatomy Art: Fascination beneath the Surface

Book review: Virtual University? Educational Environments of the Future

Book review: Night falls fast. Understanding suicide

Film review: "The Human Body"-the IMAX version

Useful websites: Virtual universities

Personal View: Sleeping of the soul

Personal View: The commonest of problems

Soundings: Gonads!

Minerva: November 2001