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Autumn 1987

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Editorial

  • The art of teaching and teaching of the art
    Robert J. Glaser, M.D.

Articles

  • Justice in medicine
    Michael D. Swenson
  • Introduction to the art: Perceptions in New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom
    Sherman M. Mellinkoff, M.D.
  • Soma Weiss: The characteristics that made us know he was a great man
    Eugene A. Stead, Jr., M.D.
  • Some thoughts on medical center governance
    Robert G. Petersdorf, M.D.
  • A caliper for the soul and other oddities
    Richard R. Schulze, Jr.
  • Eudaemonia and the joy of medicine
    Arthur E. Baue, M.D.
  • Accepting illness: Reflections on an essay by Montaigne
    Kurt Kroenke, M.D.
  • "That noble, old and yet young institution": The Royal Medical Society
    Brian W. Montgomery, B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B.

Poetry

  • A question of steel, and Surgery lecture
    Harold J. Quinn, Jr., M.D.

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  • AOA Membership Directory phone phase to begin
  • Leaders in American medicine
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  • The physician at the movies
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