Various articles by Brewin

• Reference:GB 250 120/1/2/11
• Dates of Creation:1968-2000
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  14 items

• Scope and Content

  Reprints and offprints of various articles by Thurstan Brewin.

  1. ‘Appetite perversions in malignant disease’. Abstract from ‘Reports of Societies’ in the Scottish Medical Journal, 1969, Vol. 14, p. 449

  2. ‘Medicine and the media’. British Medical Journal, Vol. 282, p. 1965. 13 June 1981.

  3. Review of ‘High quality long-term care for elderly people: guidelines and audit measures. Report of the Royal College of Physicians and the British Geriatric Society’ (London: RCP, 1992). Medical Audit News, 1992.

  4. ‘Cost versus benefit in non-surgical management of patients with cancer’. British Medical Journal, Vol. 297, p. 471. 13 August 1968. Includes ‘Consensus on overtreating cancer’ by Tony Smith.

  5. ‘Book of the month: You’ll get over it’. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 90, June 1997, pp. 352-353.

  6. ‘A violation of personal autonomy?’ Review of ‘Access to Experimental Drugs in Terminal Illness’ by Udo Schüklenk (New York: Haworth Press, 1998). The Lancet, Vol. 354, p. 167. 10 July 1999.

  7. ‘Use of the word “scientific”’. The Lancet, Vol. 355, p. 586. 12 February 2000.

  8. ‘Fraternizing with fringe medicine’. British Journal of General Practice, June 1994, p. 243.

  9. ‘Primum non nocere?’ The Lancet, Vol. 344, No. 8935, pp. 1487-1488. 26 November 1994.

  10. ‘Civilised arguing’ Text of an essay accepted by the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians for publication in February 2001. Includes 3 pages of notes not included in the final essay.

  11. ‘When and how should we teach the basic concepts of radiation beam dosage?’ British Journal of Radiology, Vol. 50, pp. 430-434. 1977.

  12. ‘Measuring radiation’. Photocopy of an article from The Lancet (1 October 1977, p. 695) which cites Brewin’s article on radiation beam dosage.

  13. ‘Health care – ends and beginnings’. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 91, pp. 498-499. September 1998.

  14. ‘Valid comparison is the key’. Photocopy of chapter from Medical ethics and/or ethical medicine, Ed. D.V. Razis et al (Paris, Elsevier, 1989).

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