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Autumn 2017

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Editorial

  • Social determinants of health: Reforming education and public health to improve health in the United States
    Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP

Articles

  • Astonished harvest: The joy of medicine
    Jack Coulehan, MD
  • Harold L. May, MD: Surgeon, community health pioneer, and family advocate
    Richard F. Gillum, MD
  • Do students lose empathy in medical school?
    Robert S. Brown, MD
  • Fin de siecle science intersecting the arts: Puccini, Debussy, and radium therapy
    Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
  • Color blindness and its illuminations
    Rebecca M. Shulman
  • The "medicalisation of the sexually peculiar"
    Brit Trogen
  • A phantom disease
    Rachel Stern, MD

Poetry

  • Per Os (by mouth)
    David True, MD, PhD
  • The parking space (Sister)
    Wynn Morrison, MD
  • Dr. Dog
    Richard Bronson, MD

News and Features

  • Reviews and reflections
  • Rule of Law
    Craig A. Meyer
  • An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business And How You Can Take It Back
  • The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
  • The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
  • Letters to the editor
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  • An Open Letter from AΩA Executive Director
    Richard L. Byyny, MD, FACP
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