ASSOCIATIONS Is this what we really want? BMJ 1996; 313 :1643; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Beards, academia, and anaesthesia: a controlled study BMJ 1996; 313 :1643; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Recharging the batteries BMJ 1996; 313 :1644; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Why do medical students choose St Mary's Hospital Medical School? BMJ 1996; 313 :1646; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Does nursing have a future? BMJ 1996; 313 :1647; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission A training culture in surgery BMJ 1996; 313 :1635; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission To err was fatal BMJ 1996; 313 :1640; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Editorials Distance is dead: the world will change BMJ 1996; 313 :1572; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child BMJ 1996; 313 :1565; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Falling back on charity BMJ 1996; 313 :1566; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission What makes a just healthcare system? BMJ 1996; 313 :1567; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Medicine, postmodernism, and the end of certainty BMJ 1996; 313 :1568; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission The power of placebo BMJ 1996; 313 :1569; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission The magic of seven BMJ 1996; 313 :1570; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission How can we live forever? BMJ 1996; 313 :1571; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Jonathan Swift on immortality: over-rated BMJ 1996; 313 :1571; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission GALLERY A trio of treasurers BMJ 1996; 313 :1633; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Arts Project: early days BMJ 1996; 313 :1634; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission HIGHWAY SatelLife: getting relevant information to the developing world BMJ 1996; 313 :1606; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Rights, wrongs, and journals in the age of cyberspace“We all want to change the world” BMJ 1996; 313 :1609; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission A glass of water and somewhere to whinge BMJ 1996; 313 :1611; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission A colourless conveyor belt? BMJ 1996; 313 :1611; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission A Christmas fairy tale BMJ 1996; 313 :1612; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission To market, to market BMJ 1996; 313 :1612; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission ROAD Commentary: A conservative management plan from a place where barracuda are rare BMJ 1996; 313 :1618; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Clinically significant pulmonary barotrauma after inflation of party balloons BMJ 1996; 313 :1619; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission “Phlebomania Hancocksia”: prevalence of a previously undescribed psychomotor disturbance BMJ 1996; 313 :1620; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Egil's or Paget's disease? BMJ 1996; 313 :1613; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Promoting attachment, providing memories BMJ 1996; 313 :1615; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Premature grey hair and hair loss among smokers: a new opportunity for health education? BMJ 1996; 313 :1616; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Responses A fish induced pneumothorax: dilemmas in the remote management of a sucking chest wound BMJ 1996; 313 :1617; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission SINS Wrath BMJ 1996; 313 :1593; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Pride BMJ 1996; 313 :1594; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Gluttony BMJ 1996; 313 :1595; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Sloth BMJ 1996; 313 :1596; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Greed BMJ 1996; 313 :1596; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Circaseptennial rhythm in ear growth BMJ 1996; 313 :1597; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Responses Reflections on a tsuba BMJ 1996; 313 :1598; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Lust BMJ 1996; 313 :1592; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Envy BMJ 1996; 313 :1592; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission UNEQUAL “I'm all right, John”: voting patterns and mortality in England and Wales, 1981–92 BMJ 1996; 313 :1573; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Attendance at cultural events, reading books or periodicals, and making music or singing in a choir as determinants for survival: Swedish interview survey of living conditions BMJ 1996; 313 :1577; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Which doctors die first? Analysis of BMJ obituary columns BMJ 1996; 313 :1581; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Freedom, responsibility, and health BMJ 1996; 313 :1582; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Commentary: Understanding it all—health, meta-theories, and mortality trends BMJ 1996; 313 :1584; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission And God will fill the bullet holes with candy BMJ 1996; 313 :1585; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Dances of death, occupational mortality statistics, and social critique BMJ 1996; 313 :1587; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Cover story BMJ 1996; 313 :1591; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission VALLEY A personal therapeutic journey BMJ 1996; 313 :1599; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Oh, for a little humanity BMJ 1996; 313 :1601; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Don't leave a mess. Call Triple S! BMJ 1996; 313 :1603; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Rowlandson's Death in the Nursery BMJ 1996; 313 :1605; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission WORDS From a flea's teeshirt BMJ 1996; 313 :1654; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Poignant medicines BMJ 1996; 313 :1656; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission The truth about doctors' handwriting: a prospective study BMJ 1996; 313 :1657; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Responses Mizspellin and Medline BMJ 1996; 313 :1658; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission Introducing Selfcite 2.0—career enhancing software BMJ 1996; 313 :1659; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission The unbearable inadequacy of language BMJ 1996; 313 :1660; (Published 21 December 1996) Permission