Winter 2000

 
 

ARTICLES

The burdens of professionalism: Patients' rights and social justice
John A. Benson, Jr., M.D.

 

The right to die mad
Marshall B. Kapp, J.D.

 

Death of a nation: The AIDS crisis in Zimbabwe
Tafadzwa Stephen Kasambira

 

Dressed to kill: The mid-nineteenth century crinoline craze
James G. Gamble, M.D., Ph.D.

 

MAST: What went wrong? An essay on changes in medical practice
Merrill A. Cohen, M.D.

The MAST lesson: Contemporary example of societal and academic responses to paradigm shifts
Kenneth L. Mattox, M.D.

Does the emperor have clothes? Assessing medical technology
Douglas K. Owens, M.D., M.S.

Poem: Evidence-Based Medicine and the Emperor's Clothes—A Contrary View
Milford Fulop, M.D.

 

Eavesdropping on the womb: The advent of fetal auscultation
Melissa Marks Sparrow, M.D.

 

Angelical conjunction: Religion, reason, and inoculation in Boston, 1721–1722
David P. Harper

 

POETRY

On reading "River Out of Eden," by Richard Hawkins
Richard Bronson, M.D.

La Charpente du Coeur (ECM)
Michael B. Gravanis, M.D.