Articles, reviews and talks by Brewin

• Reference:GB 250 120/1/2/8
• Dates of Creation:1953-1998
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  29 items

• Scope and Content

  Reprints and offprints of articles, reviews and talks by Thurstan Brewin.

  1. ‘Living with uncertainty’ BMJ. Vol. 312, p. 1618. Review of Channel 4 television programme, ‘The Challenge’. 22 June 1996.

  2. Review of ‘Economics, QALYs and medical ethics. A health economist’s perspective’ by Alan Williams. Medical Audit News. Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 15. 1995.

  3. ‘Abstract - Team care in malignant disease’. ‘Talk to GPs, Glasgow, Oct. 1996’. Typescript.

  4. ‘Legality of clinical research’. Letter in The Lancet. 11 November 1978, pp. 1049-1050.

  5. ‘Empirical: one word, two meanings’. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 78-79. January/February 1994.

  6. ‘Mycophenolic Acid (NSC-129185): Preliminary clinical trials’. With M.P. Cole, C.T.A. Jones, D.S. Platt, and I.D.H. Todd. Cancer Chemotherapy Reports Part 1. Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 83-87. February 1972.

  7. ‘Bleomycin in advanced squamous cell carcinoma: a random controlled trial’. With K.E. Halnan, N.M. Bleehen, T.J. Deeley, and D.F.N. Harrison. BMJ. 1976, 1, pp. 188-190.

  8. ‘Soft Tissue Sarcoma: two cases of solitary lung metastasis more than 15 years after diagnosis’. With J.J. Going, G.K. Crompton, and J. McLelland. Clinical Radiology. 1986, 37, pp. 579-581.

  9. ‘A case of thymoma, myasthenia gravis and disseminated tuberculosis’. With W.M. Goldberg. The Canadian Medical Association Journal. Vol. 86, pp. 492-495. 17 March 1962.

  10. ‘The superintendent of Guy’s’. Guy’s Hospital Gazette. Vol. 67, No. 1702, pp. 392-399. 17 October 1953.

  11. ‘Informed consent in oncology’. Letter in Clinical Oncology. Vol. 8, p. 272. 1996.

  12. ‘Appetite perversions and taste changes triggered or abolished by radiotherapy’. Clinical Radiology. Vol. 33, pp. 471-475. 1982.

  13. ‘Can a tumour cause the same appetite perversion or taste change as a pregnancy?’. The Lancet. 25 October 1980, pp. 907-908.

  14. ‘The incidence of alcohol intolerance in women with tumours of the uterus, ovary or breast (Summary). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 60, No. 12, pp. 1308-1309. December 1967.

  15. ‘Alcohol intolerance in neoplastic disease’. BMJ. 10 August 1966, pp. 437-441.

  16. ‘How much of the stress due to cancer is avoidable?’. Surgo. Vol. 40, pp. 10-12. 1972.

  17. ‘How much of the stress due to cancer is avoidable?’. Guy’s Hospital Gazette. December 1973, pp. 630-635.

  18. ‘Chapter 9: Quality of Survival – Can we measure it? Can we influence it?’. From ‘Coping with cancer stress’, ed. Basil A. Stoll. Martinus Nijhoff, 1986.

  19. Review of ‘How to do it. Volume 1’, ed. Deborah Reece, 1995. Medical Audit News. 1995 (November) 5, 158.

  20. ‘Telling the truth’. Letter in The Lancet. Vol. 343, p1512. 11 June 1994.

  21. ‘Are there two kinds of ward round?’ BMJ. Vol. 285, pp. 1765-1766. 18-25 December 1982.

  22. ‘How much ethics is needed to make a good doctor?’. The Lancet. Vol. 341, pp. 161-163. 16 January 1993.

  23. ‘Not TLC but FPI’. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Vol. 83, pp. 172-175. March 1990.

  24. ‘Truth, trust, and paternalism’. The Lancet. No. 8453, p. 490-492. 31 August 1985.

  25. ‘Wasted words’. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 333-334. July/August 1998.

  26. ‘Ethics: what to tell the patient?’. Text of a talk given to the Association of Medical Advisors to the Pharmaceutical Industry at Royal College of Physicians, London, May 1983. Typescript. 3 pages.

  27. ‘Chapter 3: Hopes and fears of the elderly cancer patient’ From ‘Cancer in the elderly’ ed. I. Caird and T.B. Brewin. Wright, 1990.

  28. ‘Cancer in the elderly’. Clinical Oncology. Vol. 10, pp. 281-282. 1998.

  29. Typescript of a book review by Thurstan Brewin for the Journal of Medical Ethics. ‘Who Should Decide? Paternalism in Health Care’ by James F. Childress. 4 pages.

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