 In
this issue
No.
127 September 1983
 
LettersUpdate
Taking
Issue - Ashok Mitra
Justice
in health
Debbie
Taylor argues that with doctors and drugs actually concealing
the causes of ill health, prevention is often harder to get than cure.
Health
- the facts
The
Story of Chelo
David Werner tells one of the many stories that makes
primary health care a matter of life and death.
Overdose
A survey
of the overprescribing, overconsuming and overpromoting of drugs
in the Third World.
Pushing
out the drug pushers
Diana
Melrose looks at Bangladesh's efforts to reform the drugs market.
WARNING:
Living can seriously damage your health
Doctoring
There is more to medical practice than medicine, says Dr
Gerry Dawson.
Footless
and fancy free?
Jeannette Mitchel explains why
staying healthy means more than jogging and bran.
La
Reforma Sanitaria
Wayne Ellwood on Italy's
health revolution.
A
blackfella's place
Australian
Aborigines have created their own health service. Cameron Forbes
reports.
Tobacco
Road
Dexter Tiranti investigates the smoking epidemic
sweeping through Malaysia.
Deadly
habits
A round-up
of the epidemics of development.
The
science of life
So-called
'alternative' medicine has deeper roots than modern medicine, says Anuradha
Vittachi, and it could offer a better picture of health.
Keeping
fit
Six campaigns
to challenge the causes of ill health.
Reviews:
New books and a classicCountry
profile: Costa
Rica Front
cover photo: Hector Cattolica |
