Further articles by Brewin

• Reference:GB 250 120/1/2/9
• Dates of Creation:1971-1994
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  25 items

• Scope and Content

  Reprints and offprints of articles by Thurstan Brewin. From a folder labelled, “Some writings of mine not included in Gareth’s selection”.

  1. ‘Glasgow Institute of Radiotherapeutics and Oncology, 1981-82’. Booklet, 10 pages.

  2. Obituary: Oliver Ive. Guy’s Hospital Gazette. July 1994, p. 252.

  3. ‘True brats’. Letter in The Spectator. 20 August 1994, p. 27.

  4. ‘Complementary medicine: does it work?’. The CIBA Foundation Bulletin. Number 39, October 1994.

  5. ‘Mental turmoil and orthodox medicine. Letter in Newsletter of the British Psychosocial Oncology Group, September 1994.

  6. ‘Sound and fury of long ago’. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: College Bulletin. Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 32-38. March 1993.

  7. Medico-Legal Journal. Vol. 59, Part 1, 1991. Includes ‘Sanctity of Life’ by Thurstan Brewin, pp. 36-40.

  8. Medico-Legal Journal. Vol. 61, Part 4, 1993. Includes text of a talk by Thurstan Brewin to the Medico-Legal Society, ‘Radiation, Chernobyl and the Media’, pp.204-215.

  9. ‘Radiophobia’. Risk Abstracts. Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-4.

  10. Review of ‘Element of Risk: the politics of radon’ by Leonard A. Cole, AAAS Press, 1993. Indoor Environment. November-December 1994, pp. 366-368.

  11. ‘Chernobyl and the media’. BMJ. Vol. 309, pp208-209. 16 July 1994.

  12. Review of ‘Cancer Answers’ by Errol C Friedberg, W H Freeman, 1993. BMJ. Vol. 307, p. 75. 3 July 1993.

  13. ‘Diagnose Krebs: Wann lügt ein Arzt?’ Medical Tribune. Nr. 34. 26 August 1994. German article relating to Thurstan Brewin’s letter to The Lancet, ‘Telling the Truth’ (Vol. 343, Issue 8911, p. 1512).

  14. ‘Trois manières d'annoncer une mauvaise nouvelle’. The Lancet, edition française. December 1991, pp. 44-46.

  15. ‘From Bearsden to Bray and Belgravia’. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: College Bulletin. Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 32-38. September 1992.

  16. ‘Nursing: an intellectual activity’. Letter in the BMJ. Vol. 303, pp. 579-580. 7 September 1991.

  17. ‘In England Now’. Anonymous article in The Lancet. Vol. 340, p. 172. 18 July 1992.

  18. Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: College Bulletin. Vol. 16, No. 3, May 1987. Includes comments on the contributions of Thurstan Brewin as editor of the Bulletin between 1983 and 1987.

  19. ‘Living Life to the Full’. Review by Thurstan Brewin of a video produced for Help the Hospices. Later published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Typescript, 2 pages.

  20. ‘Orthodox and Alternative Medicine.’ Scottish Medical Journal. 1985; 30: pp.203-205.

  21. ‘Histiocytosis X: Does Radiotherapy Still Have a Role?’ by S. El-Sayed and Thurstan Brewin. Clinical Oncology. 1992, 4, pp. 27-31.

  22. ‘Soft tissue sarcoma: two cases of solitary lung metastasis more than 15 years after diagnosis’ by J.J. Going, Thurstan Brewin, G.K. Crompton and J. McLelland. Clinical Radiology. 1986, 37, pp. 579-581.

  23. ‘Ethics: what to tell the patient?’ From ‘Cancer: current issues in therapeutics: Proceedings of the AMAPI Annual Symposium held at the Royal College of Physicians, London, 25-26 May 1983’. Typescript, 8 pages.

  24. ‘Guy’s Hospital Gazette’ 4 December 1971. Includes ‘How much of the Stress due to Cancer is Avoidable?’ by Thurstan Brewin.

  25. ‘British Medical Journal’ Vol. 310, No. 6992, 3 June 1995. This issue featured a letter by Thurstan Brewin, ‘Should doctors have a dual role, preserving life and assisting death?’ Brewin has made notes on the editor’s introduction, disagreeing with the assessment of his letter.

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