21 December 2002 (Vol 325, Issue 7378)

Editorials

How political should a general medical journal be?

BMJ 2002;325:1431 (Published 21 December 2002)

Spend (slightly) less on health and more on the arts

BMJ 2002;325:1432 (Published 21 December 2002)

Time to move beyond the mind-body split

BMJ 2002;325:1433 (Published 21 December 2002)

Spirituality and clinical care

BMJ 2002;325:1434 (Published 21 December 2002)

The joy of banning

BMJ 2002;325:1436 (Published 21 December 2002)

Data dredging, bias, or confounding

BMJ 2002;325:1437 (Published 21 December 2002)

EVIDENCE THAT REALLY MATTERS

READING, WRITING, AND REVALIDATION

READING, WRITING, AND REVALIDATION - continued

A tale of two citations: counting on numeracy in the digital divide

BMJ 2002;325:1452 (Published 21 December 2002)

Can medical education be fun as well as educational?

BMJ 2002;325:1453 (Published 21 December 2002)

Revalidation: the real life OSCE

BMJ 2002;325:1454 (Published 21 December 2002)

A seasonal cost effectiveness analysis: the last Noel?

BMJ 2002;325:1456 (Published 21 December 2002)

TROUBLED PLANET

Empty arms: the effect of the arms trade on mothers and children

BMJ 2002;325:1457 (Published 21 December 2002)

How healthy is the world?Commentary: Gilding the global lily

BMJ 2002;325:1461 (Published 21 December 2002)

Time and tide wait for no man

BMJ 2002;325:1466 (Published 21 December 2002)

Identity and genetic ancestry tracing

BMJ 2002;325:1469 (Published 21 December 2002)

FUTURAMA

ONE FOOT IN THE PAST

The mummy's curse: historical cohort study

BMJ 2002;325:1482 (Published 21 December 2002)

Forgotten transfusion history: John Leacock of Barbados

BMJ 2002;325:1485 (Published 21 December 2002)

The Soviet “Doctors' Plot”—50 years on

BMJ 2002;325:1487 (Published 21 December 2002)

COUNSELLORS AND ACOLYTES

The case of the missing data

BMJ 2002;325:1490 (Published 21 December 2002)

Are ethical principles relative to time and place? A Star Wars perspective on the Alder Hey affair

BMJ 2002;325:1493 (Published 21 December 2002)

EBM: unmasking the ugly truth

BMJ 2002;325:1496 (Published 21 December 2002)

THROUGH THE ARTIST'S EYE

Fillers

Slings and roundabouts

BMJ 2002;325:1448.1 (Published 21 December 2002)

Pomegranate MRI

BMJ 2002;325:1448.2 (Published 21 December 2002)

The devil in the test tube

BMJ 2002;325:1471 (Published 21 December 2002)

Stix nix

BMJ 2002;325:1481 (Published 21 December 2002)

Science close up

BMJ 2002;325:1484 (Published 21 December 2002)

Stocking filler

BMJ 2002;325:1489.1 (Published 21 December 2002)

Sing Ho! for the life of a bear

BMJ 2002;325:1489.2 (Published 21 December 2002)

Collective terms for doctors

BMJ 2002;325:1498 (Published 21 December 2002)

Extra vigilance required

BMJ 2002;325:1505 (Published 21 December 2002)

The 31st Pilgrim—Sister Bettie

BMJ 2002;325:1508 (Published 21 December 2002)