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British Medical Bulletin 2007 81-82(1):1-6; doi:10.1093/bmb/ldm017
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Norman Vetter, Editor-in-Chief

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Once again the British Medical Bulletin has a wide range of reviews on subjects which are at early stages of development, or which may be unfamiliar to those outside the specialty. This edition is a bumper one to make up for some lack of reviews in recent editions.

We start with a fascinating review on ethics, then a methodological paper, two on health policy. There follow two reviews on the management of broad areas of the management of patients. Next comes a description of the management of four diseases, all difficult in their own ways. There follows a review on investigation and treatment that is modern radiology. There follows two reviews on aspects of bone and joint medicine.

The review on an ethical issue looks at prophylactic mastectomy: ethical issues (page 7) by Eisinger from the Department of Oncogenetics Prevention and Screening, in Marseille, France.

She firstly asks why . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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