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Summer 1985

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Editorial

  • The artificial heart — show business or science?
    Robert J. Glaser, M.D.

Articles

  • No-fault compensation for human subjects injured in biomedical research: A public policy
    Jeffrey C. Glass
  • A woman doctor in Victorian fiction
    James Hill, Ph.D.
  • Living, learning, and loopholes
    Fairfield Goodale, M.D.
  • "First-come first-served": Analysis of an allocation principle
    Constance C. Conrad, M.D. and Nicholas G. Fotion, Ph.D.
  • A physician's opportunity to contribute in the arts
    A. Everette James, Jr., M.D.
  • Social censorship of medical and ethical decisions
    David C. Thomasma, Ph.D., Kenneth Micetich, M.D., and Patricia H. Steinecker, M.D.
  • Testimony of Menton — apprentice to Urlugaledin. high priest and physician of Babylon
    Clifford H, Keene, M.D.
  • Patients: Character-building teachers
    Samuel P. Asper, M.D.
  • Leper; Harvest Time
    David Schiedermayer, M.D.
  • High-tech cardiology — issues and costs: A panel discussion
    Oscar A. Thorup, Jr., M.D., moderator
  • To Stop the Death Wail; Dad and Daughters
    David Schiedermayer, M.D.

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