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Contents Editorials

1 Bearing witness to people who refuse to be

fragmented by illness D Kirklin

2 Studying the historical role of food in health

and in war: a case of undernourishment?

E Mayhew

3 Borderlands: a historian’s perspective on

medical humanities in the US and the UK

H J Cook

Original articles

5 Portraits of care: medical research through

portraiture V A Aita , W M Lydiatt , M A Gilbert

14 Historical and contemporary perspectives on

children’s diets: is choice always in the

patients’ best interest? G Denny , P Sundvall ,

S J Thornton , J Reinarz , A N Williams

19 Duke Ferdinand: patient or possessed? The

reflection of contemporary medical discourse

in John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi

E Tullo

23 Death and Doctor Hornbook by Robert Burns:

a view from medical history M Nicolson

27 Thrills, spills and pills: Bond, Benzedrine and

the pharmacology of peace S Goodman

31 Contemporary Japanese view of life and

death as depicted in the film Departures

( Okuribito ) A Asai , M Fukuyama , Y Kobayashi

36 Narratives of melancholy: a humanities

approach to depression D Flynn

40 Wearing someone else’s shoes K Rae

43 1885 Cholera Controversy: Klein versus Koch

B Atalic

48 Introducing spirituality, religion and culture

curricula in the psychiatry residency

programme L Kozak , L Boynton , J Bentley ,

E Bezy

Student original article

52 Nutrition in warfare: a retrospective

evaluation of undernourishment in RAF

prisoners of war during World War II

T Tharakan

Current controversy

57 A cell phone and a Chinese curse

G J Ventura

Educational case study

58 Fearlessly exploring the other: the role of

drama in medical training K S Matharu ,

J Howell , F T Fitzgerald

PostScript

60 Book review s

62 Film reviews

Miscellanea

18 Memory S Nigliazzo

26 What’s in a name? M Rogers

30 Sodden S Nigliazzo

35 ‘Horrible, most horrible’: Hamlet and forensic

medicine T D Ruder , G M Hatch , M J Thali

42 Prom night number two: code blue

T S Rubin

51 Wondrous world T Brunson

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