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Spring 1999

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Editorial

  • Darwinian adaptation... or mutation?
    Edward D. Harris, Jr., M.D.

Articles

  • Holy Grail, sliding scale, and refusal as symptom: Competency determinations for medical and psychiatric patients
    Maryjane Farr, M.D.
  • Death by spontaneous combustion: Charles Dickens and the strange case of Mr. Krook
    James G. Gamble, M.D., Ph.D.
  • A little pregnant, or not at all?
    Norman A. Grossi, M.D.
  • Have we come a long way, baby? American abortion at the open and close of the twentieth century
    Margaret Elizabeth Baum
  • Waiting for Melissa
    Charles Bruehl, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Osier’s “L’envoi” revisited: The ideal of idealism
    Charles S. Biyan, M.D.

Poetry

  • The colors of life; and Mountain Scene
    J. Joseph Marr, M.D.

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  • Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards
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  • Questions and reflections: A lesson Faith
    William David Rifkin, M.D
  • Letters to the editor
  • The physician at the movies
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