Reviews, letters and articles by Brewin

• Reference:GB 250 120/1/3/4
• Dates of Creation:1964-2001
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  63 items

• Scope and Content

  Reprints and offprints of book reviews, published letters and anonymous articles by Thurstan Brewin. From a folder labelled, “Misc TBB letters and book reviews”.

  1. ‘Fever in Malignant Disease’. Anonymous article in the British Medical Journal, 30 March 1974, pp. 591-592.

  2. ‘Oxygen and Radiotherapy’. Anonymous article in the British Medical Journal, 19 October 1974, pp. 125-126.

  3. ‘Radiotherapy and the heart in Hodgkin’s disease’. Anonymous article in the British Medical Journal, 5 June 1976, p. 1360.

  4. ‘Radiotherapy: Time and Fractions’. Anonymous article in the British Medical Journal, 3 May 1975, pp. 238-239

  5. ‘Does radiation of the young brain affect growth hormone?’ Anonymous article in the British Medical Journal, 27 August 1977, pp. 536-537.

  6. ‘Preventing cancer – a DIY guide’. British Medical Journal, 1 September 1990, p. 428.

  7. ‘Informed consent – are we asking the right questions?’ Letter by Carolyn Faulder in IME Bulletin, July 1988, with a reply by Thurstan Brewin, September 1988.

  8. Review of ‘Cancer Topics and Radiotherapy’ edited by C.A.F. Joslin (London: Pitman, 1982). The Lancet, 5 February 1983, p. 275.

  9. ‘Chernobyl 1986’. Letter in Edinburgh Medicine, No. 51 1988, p. 6.

  10. ‘Not Quite All Passion Spent’. Retired Fellows Society Newsletter (Royal Society of Medicine), Issue No 8, August 2000, pp. 14-16.

  11. ‘Phantom toe paralysis’. From ‘Jabs & Jibes’ in The Lancet, 10 April 1999.

  12. ‘Science, evidence, and the use of the word scientific’. Letter by V.S. Rambihar in The Lancet, 13 May 2000, p. 1730. Response to an earlier letter by Thurstan Brewin. Brewin’s annotation at the head of the page, “Gareth: I can’t understand a word of this, can you?”

  13. Review of ‘Palliative Care Ethics: A Companion for All Specialties’ (2nd edition) by Fiona Randall and R.S. Downie (Oxford University Press, 1999). Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 93, February 2000.

  14. ‘Position Paper: Cancer’. HealthWatch Newsletter, Vol. 11, Spring 1993, p. 8.

  15. ‘Scientific Evidence’. Medico-Legal Journal, 2000, Vol. 68 Part , pp. 77-78.

  16. ‘Challenging evidence-based medicine’. Letter in the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Vol. 33 No. 5, September/October 1999, p. 484.

  17. ‘Ordinary peace loving people’. From ‘Jabs & Jibes’ in The Lancet, 3 February 2001.

  18. ‘State of the Hospitals’. Letter in Oxford Magazine, No. 176, 2000, p. 20.

  19. ‘Civilised arguing’. Clinical Medicine, Vol. 1 No. 6, November/December 2001, p. 471.

  20. ‘Hoping for the best’. Review of ‘Mind and Cancer Prognosis’ edited by Basil A. Stoll (John Wiley and Sons, 1979). British Medical Journal, 28 June 1980, pp. 1607-1608.

  21. ‘The GP and the Specialist – Radiotherapy and oncology’. British Medical Journal, 5 February 1983, pp. 443-444.

  22. ‘Need for a Common Language?’ Clinical Oncology, 1993, 5:277.

  23. ‘Let ill tidings tell themselves?’ Review of ‘Communication in Cancer Care’ by I. Lichter (Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1987). British Medical Journal, Vol. 295, 3 October 1987, p. 846.

  24. ‘If my wife had cancer of the breast’. Letter in the British Medical Journal, 22 April 1978, p. 1050.

  25. ‘Purposes of Medicine’. Letter in The Lancet, 6 November 1965, p. 950.

  26. ‘Living Life to the Full’. Review of a video produced for Help the Hospices. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume 83, October 1990, p. 678.

  27. ‘Treatment for glioma’. Letter in The Lancet, 17 June 1995, p. 1571.

  28. ‘Flying Bombs’. Letter in Guy’s Hospital Gazette, January 1998, p. 6.

  29. ‘Oil Refineries’. Letter in Guy’s Hospital Gazette, July/August 1997, p. 628.

  30. Review of ‘You’ll Get Over It – the Rage of Bereavement’ by Virginia Ironside (London: Penguin, 1997). Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume 90, June 1997, pp. 352-353.

  31. Review by Ian S. Fentiman of ‘Cancer of the Elderly’ edited by Francis I. Caird and Thurstan B. Brewin (London: Wright, 1990). The Lancet, 14 July 1990, pp. 85-86.

  32. ‘Anything goes’. Review of ‘Resources in Medical History – The Science of Cancerous Disease from Earliest Times to Present’ by Jacob Wolff (Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 1990). British Medical Journal, 30 March 1991.

  33. ‘Screening for prostate cancer’. Letter in The Lancet, 19 April 1997, p. 1180.

  34. ‘Patients’ preferences and randomised trials’. Letter in The Lancet, 20 April 1996, p. 1118.

  35. ‘Excessive fear of dilute radiation’. Letter by Morris Greenberg with reply by Thurstan Brewin in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume 86, January 1993, p. 62.

  36. Review of ‘The Women’s Cancer Book’ by Carolyn Faulder (London: Virago, 1989). Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume 83, April 1990, p. 280.

  37. ‘Uncritical appraisal of cancer chemotherapy’. Review of ‘Clinical chemotherapy Vol. 3 – Antineoplastic Chemotherapy’ by H.P. Kuemmerle et al (Georg Thieme, 1983). British Medical Journal, 19 January 1985, pp. 232-233.

  38. ‘Mortal combat’. Review of ‘The Dread Disease. Cancer and Modern American Culture’ by J.T. Patterson (Harvard University Press, 1987). British Medical Journal, 23 April 1988, pp. 1181-1182.

  39. Review of ‘Information Technology in Health Care: A Handbook’ by the Longman Group UK in association with the Institute of Health Services Management. October 1991. Typescript. 2 pages. (Later published in Medical Audit News.)

  40. Review of ‘Information Technology in Health Care: A Handbook’ by the Longman Group UK in association with the Institute of Health Services Management. Medical Audit News, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992, pp. 30-31.

  41. ‘Patient’s awareness of cancer’. Letter in The Lancet, 25 September 1976, p. 681.

  42. ‘Assessing new cancer therapy’. Letter in The Lancet, 6 November 1976, p. 1027.

  43. ‘Clomiphene useful in breast cancer’. Article from The Medical Post, 3 October 1972, which quotes Thurstan Brewin.

  44. ‘Cardiff breast trial’. Letter in The Lancet, 26 May 1973, pp. 1175-1176.

  45. Review of ‘Not a moment to lose: some reminiscences’ by Sir David Waldron Smithers (London: BMJ, 1990). 28 February 1990. Typescript. 1 page. (Later published in Clinical Oncology.)

  46. Review of ‘Not a moment to lose: some reminiscences’ by Sir David Waldron Smithers (London: BMJ, 1990). Clinical Oncology, 1990, 2, p. 306.

  47. ‘Risk Factors and Multiple Cancer’. Review of ‘New Horizons in Oncology, vol III’ edited by Basil A. Stoll (London: Wiley, 1984). The Lancet 5 January 1985, p. 21.

  48. ‘Will cancer develop?’ Review of ‘Precancerous States’ edited by R.L. Carter (Oxford University Press, 1984). British Medical Journal, 12 May 1984, pp. 1449-1450.

  49. ‘Fresh hope in treatment of cancer?’ Review of ‘Recent Advances in Clinical Oncology, No. 1’ edited by C.J. Williams and J.M.A. Whitehouse (Churchill Livingstone, 1982). British Medical Journal, 18 June 1982, p. 1863.

  50. ‘Cancer Chemotherapy 1981’. Review of ‘The EORTC Cancer Chemotherapy Annual No. 3’ edited by H.M. Pinedo (Excerpta Medica, 1981). The Lancet, 13 February 1982, p. 371.

  51. ‘Blunderbuss treatment’. Review of ‘Cancer Chemotherapy – an introduction’ by T.J. Priestman (Montedison Pharmaceuticals, 1977). British Medical Journal, 13 May 1978, pp. 1268-1269.

  52. ‘Curability of breast cancer’. Letter in The Lancet, 6 September 1975, p. 457.

  53. Review of ‘Modern radiotherapy and oncology: central nervous system tumours’ edited by D.J. Deeley (Butterworths, 1974). Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 1975, 38, pp. 309-310.

  54. Reviews of ‘Endolymphatic Radiotherapy in Malignant Lymphomas’ by S. Chiappa et al (Heinemann Medical, 1971) and ‘Carcinoma of the Bronchus’ edited by Thomas J. Deeley (Butterworths, 1971). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Volume 65, November 1972, pp. 1047-1048.

  55. Review of ‘Cytotoxic Drugs in the Treatment of Cancer’ by Evelyn Boesen and Walter Davis (London: Edward Arnold, 1970). Clinical Radiology, 1971, 22, p. 533.

  56. ‘Radiation Therapy in Dermatology’. Review of ‘X Rays and Radium in the treatment of Diseases of the Skin’. (5th edition. London: Henry Klimpton, 1967). British Medical Journal, 27 April 1968, p. 233.

  57. ‘Randomised treatment’. Letter in The Lancet, 21 July 1984, p. 164.

  58. ‘In-vitro oestrogen sensitivity of breast cancer’. Letter in The Lancet, 17 June 1972, p. 1339.

  59. Letter in The New England Journal of Medicine, 1 May 1975, p. 976. In response to an editorial by Lewis E. Braverman.

  60. ‘Chronic bronchitis and radiotherapy of the lung’. Letter in The Lancet, 27 June 1964, p. 1443.

  61. ‘The NHS needs a change’. Letter in The Lancet, 28 June 1986, p. 1502.

  62. ‘Staging of breast cancer’. Letter in The Lancet, 21 March 1970, p. 616.

  63. ‘Hodgkin’s Disease’. Letter in The Lancet, 24 April 1971, pp. 857-858.

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