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Summer 1990

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Editorial

  • Taking liberties with words
    Robert J. Glaser, M.D.

Articles

  • Jewish medical ethics and the care of the elderly
    Elliott Perlin, M.D.
  • Patenting medical inventions
    William D. Noonan, J.D.
  • Moon madness: Folklore and fact
    Michael A. Frasca, M.D.
  • Archives, data bases, and interactive computer programs: Are these a library?
    J.E. Rail, M.D., Ph.D.
  • The Association of American Physicians: The Philadelphia connection
    Truman G. Schnabel, M.D.
  • Early Greek theories of cognition: Homer to Hippocrates
    William B. Naso, M.D.
  • Taboos, Hopis, and the power of words: Forbidden words in medical writing
    Lynne McIntyre
  • Student-physician to physician-student: The continuous quest for learning
    Marianne E. Felice, M.D.
  • Ghosts who appear by degrees: or. The strange case of the phantom authors
    Horace W. Davenport, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Oxon)
  • Joint authorship in the physician-patient interaction
    Susan C. Vaughan, M.D.
  • A higher purpose: The principle of compassion
    Jack D. Spiro, DHL, Ed.D.

Poetry

  • On losing my anterior cruciate ligament
    Barbara Crooker
  • Edna
    Ronald C. Merrell, M.D.

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