13 April 2002 (Vol 324, Issue 7342)

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This Week In the BMJ

Action is needed to stop “disease mongering”

BMJ 2002;324:0.5 (Published 13 April 2002)

The time has come for “post-psychiatry”

BMJ 2002;324:0.8 (Published 13 April 2002)

Is a good death now a medical death?

BMJ 2002;324:0.9 (Published 13 April 2002)

Medicalising sex damages relationships

BMJ 2002;324:0.7 (Published 13 April 2002)

Longer consultations are better for patients

BMJ 2002;324:0.4 (Published 13 April 2002)

Many junior doctors experience bullying

BMJ 2002;324:0.3 (Published 13 April 2002)

Obstetricians have medicalised childbirth

BMJ 2002;324:0.6 (Published 13 April 2002)

Women opt for expectant management of miscarriage

BMJ 2002;324:0.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

When is a disease a “non-disease”?

BMJ 2002;324:0.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Editorials

Too much medicine?

BMJ 2002;324:859 (Published 13 April 2002)

Health: perception versus observation

BMJ 2002;324:860 (Published 13 April 2002)

The medicalisation of old age

BMJ 2002;324:861 (Published 13 April 2002)

Genetics and medicalisation

BMJ 2002;324:863 (Published 13 April 2002)

Medicalisation, limits to medicine, or never enough money to go around?

BMJ 2002;324:864 (Published 13 April 2002)

Medicalisation: peering from inside medicine

BMJ 2002;324:866 (Published 13 April 2002)

Letters

This week's Letters section

What do you think is a non-disease?

BMJ 2002;324:912 (Published 13 April 2002)

Editorial on CFS was biased, inaccurate, and misleading

BMJ 2002;324:914.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Gulf war syndrome may be post-conflict dysfunction

BMJ 2002;324:914.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

ICD and DSM are contemporary cultural documents

BMJ 2002;324:914.3 (Published 13 April 2002)

Non-cardiac chest pain

BMJ 2002;324:915.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Hormone replacement therapy and the breast

BMJ 2002;324:915.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

Schizophrenia in ethnic minority groups

BMJ 2002;324:916 (Published 13 April 2002)

Antiplatelet therapy and atherosclerotic events

BMJ 2002;324:917 (Published 13 April 2002)

Fortification of flour with folic acid

BMJ 2002;324:918 (Published 13 April 2002)

Treatment of intersex needs open discussion

BMJ 2002;324:919.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Doctors' knowledge of radiation exposures is deficient

BMJ 2002;324:919.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

Prevalence of surnames in each letter affects order of authors

BMJ 2002;324:919.3 (Published 13 April 2002)

News

Drug firms hype disease as sales ploy, industry chief claims

BMJ 2002;324:867.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Neuroblastoma screening does not reduce mortality

BMJ 2002;324:867.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

In brief

BMJ 2002;324:868.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

News - continued

Claims of clone pregnancy could threaten US stem cell research

BMJ 2002;324:868.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

Strategy needed for mental health of women prisoners

BMJ 2002;324:868.3 (Published 13 April 2002)

Dutch GPs warned against new contraceptive pill

BMJ 2002;324:869.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Arthritis drug should be removed from market, says consumer group

BMJ 2002;324:869.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

Scotland to start screening programme for diabetic retinopathy

BMJ 2002;324:871.3 (Published 13 April 2002)

“Bubble baby” lives a normal life after gene therapy

BMJ 2002;324:872.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

African Americans are less likely to see an oncologist, study shows

BMJ 2002;324:872.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

Medicare will now cover some treatments for Alzheimer's disease

BMJ 2002;324:872.3 (Published 13 April 2002)

Clinical Review

In search of “non-disease”

BMJ 2002;324:883.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2002;324:926 (Published 13 April 2002)

Editor's Choice

Postmodern medicine

BMJ 2002;324:0.10 (Published 13 April 2002)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

Athletes risk their lives by routine use of performance enhancing drugs, says BMA

BMJ 2002;324:870.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

US report calls for tighter controls on complementary medicine

BMJ 2002;324:870.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

NHS misses target for introducing electronic records

BMJ 2002;324:870.3 (Published 13 April 2002)

WHO targets environmental impact on child health

BMJ 2002;324:870.4 (Published 13 April 2002)

Study associates viral infection with some childhood brain tumours

BMJ 2002;324:870.5 (Published 13 April 2002)

Nigeria promises free antiretroviral drugs to HIV positive soldiers

BMJ 2002;324:870.6 (Published 13 April 2002)

Dying woman may revoke her controversial suicide plans

BMJ 2002;324:871.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

High Court quashes GMC finding of serious professional misconduct

BMJ 2002;324:871.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

Papers

Outcome of expectant management of spontaneous first trimester miscarriage: observational study

BMJ 2002;324:873 (Published 13 April 2002)

Treatment of imported malaria in an ambulatory setting: prospective studyCommentary: Should patients with imported malaria routinely be admitted?

BMJ 2002;324:875 (Published 13 April 2002)

Hepatitis B immunisation in renal units in the United Kingdom: questionnaire study

BMJ 2002;324:877 (Published 13 April 2002)

Workplace bullying in junior doctors: questionnaire survey

BMJ 2002;324:878 (Published 13 April 2002)

Neuropsychiatric complications of nevirapine treatment

BMJ 2002;324:879 (Published 13 April 2002)

Primary care

Evolving general practice consultation in Britain: issues of length and context

BMJ 2002;324:880 (Published 13 April 2002)

Education and debate

Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongeringCommentary: Medicalisation of risk factors

BMJ 2002;324:886.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Has the medicalisation of childbirth gone too far?

BMJ 2002;324:892 (Published 13 April 2002)

Sexual behaviour and its medicalisation: in sickness and in health

BMJ 2002;324:896 (Published 13 April 2002)

The limits of psychiatry

BMJ 2002;324:900 (Published 13 April 2002)

Between hope and acceptance: the medicalisation of dying

BMJ 2002;324:905.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Education and debate - continued

Direct to consumer advertising is medicalising normal human experienceFor

BMJ 2002;324:908.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Direct to consumer advertising is medicalising normal human experienceAgainst

BMJ 2002;324:910 (Published 13 April 2002)

Books

The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause

BMJ 2002;324:922 (Published 13 April 2002)

Limits to Medicine. Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health

BMJ 2002;324:923.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Disease-Mongers: How Doctors, Drug Companies, and Insurers are Making You Feel Sick

BMJ 2002;324:923.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

PRESS

How medicine sells the media

BMJ 2002;324:924.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Death, sex, and gardening

BMJ 2002;324:924.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

Personal View

Accountability

BMJ 2002;324:925.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

Soundings

Back to school

BMJ 2002;324:925.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

Fillers

The best part of the cure

BMJ 2002;324:883.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

On music

BMJ 2002;324:886.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

Zambia needs basic medicines and HIV education

BMJ 2002;324:895 (Published 13 April 2002)

Medicalization

BMJ 2002;324:904 (Published 13 April 2002)

Trapped between two evils

BMJ 2002;324:905.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

Disability and cure

BMJ 2002;324:908.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

New manuscript submission system: fast track papers only

BMJ 2002;324:908.3 (Published 13 April 2002)

More on music

BMJ 2002;324:908.4 (Published 13 April 2002)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Sir Anthony Alment

BMJ 2002;324:920.1 (Published 13 April 2002)

John Abels

BMJ 2002;324:920.2 (Published 13 April 2002)

Barbara Ansell

BMJ 2002;324:920.3 (Published 13 April 2002)

Donald Walter Clark

BMJ 2002;324:920.4 (Published 13 April 2002)

Jill Draper

BMJ 2002;324:920.5 (Published 13 April 2002)

Duraiswami Gaspar

BMJ 2002;324:920.6 (Published 13 April 2002)

Christopher Giles

BMJ 2002;324:920.7 (Published 13 April 2002)

Rodney Irwin Green

BMJ 2002;324:920.8 (Published 13 April 2002)

Sydney Patrick Hall-Smith

BMJ 2002;324:920.9 (Published 13 April 2002)

John Maguire Lyons

BMJ 2002;324:920.10 (Published 13 April 2002)

Ronald Victor Walley

BMJ 2002;324:920.11 (Published 13 April 2002)