No. 272 / October 1995
MEDICINE
cure or curse
Editor's
Letter
- Medicine - cure or curse
Dinyar Godrej bypasses the pill-poppers and examines what ails modern medicine. - Bandaid and therapy
Conviction and doubt in equal measure make up doctor Debbie Honickman's day. - Deadly ambition
TB Bacilli open their hearts and share their fondest dreams of a comeback with our intrepid reporter. - Target practice
Tim Ensor takes aim at the creeping privatization afflicting the Former Soviet Bloc. - HEALTH - THE FACTS
- How shall we live?
By facing up to our own mortality and expressing our creativity, argues Amanda Hazelton.
- Pill pushers, drug dealers
They're in it for the money - our money, as Andrew Chetley explains. - Midwife in the middle
Rural women in Ghana have babies for reasons that are not always straightforward as Ajoa Yeboah-Afari finds out - Simply... a guide to therapy
- Who killed Primary Healthcare?
Not I, says the World Bank. David Werner scrutinizes the scene of the crime.
- Letters
- Letter from the Russian Arctic
- Update
FRONT COVER BY ANNE CAKEBREAD
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