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The Pharos

Spring 1998

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Articles

  • Commerce in organ transplantation
    Leonard Lu
  • Manic-depressive illness from 1936 to 1996: Diagnostic modalities, social attitudes, and therapeutic options
    Joy Kaplan
  • The case of the president’s polyp: Portrayal of pathologists in the media
    Edward J. Gutmann, M.D,
  • Can managed care be managed?
    Marshall B. Kapp, J.D., M.P.H.
  • Rhabdomyolysis in antiquity: From ancient descriptions to scientific explanations
    Gregory W. Rutecki, M.D., Andre J. Ognibene, M.D., and John D. Gelb, M.A.
  • Medical cannibalism in China: The case of ko-ku
    Thomas S. N. Chen, M.D., and Peter S. Y. Chen, M.D.
  • Dartmouth Medical School Bicentennial Symposium
    Edward D. Harris, Jr., M.D.
  • Inequalities and antivirals
    Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.

Poems

  • Household Chores
    Mikkael A. Sekeres, M.D.

Editorial

  • Alpha Omega Alpha: More than an honor medical society
    Edward D. Harris, Jr., M.D.

Features

  • Fire, blood, and the lion of the Union: Joshua Chamberlain’s Civil War ailments
    Charles K. McAllister, M.D.
  • Three for the record
    Stephen Murray McCoy, M.D.
  • Letters to the editor
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards
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  • The physician at the movies
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