Issue Vol 32/3 2002

Editorial

• An evaluation of impact factors and league tables. In this guest editorial the author questions whether the system of journal citation and impact factors (IMFs) has become distorted and, in turn, open to abuse as a means of approving or rejecting grant funding applications.

Current Medicine

• Self-directed learning may be superfluous to good, basic medical training

• The prescribing of anti-epileptic drugs in pregnancy: risks, benefits and fully informed consent

• Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network: Management of diabetes (SIGN 55)

• Severing the link between MMR and autism

Communications

• Postgraduate medical education and training in Singapore

  Narcolepsy: problems of diagnosis and treatment

  Type 1 diabetes and coeliac disease

History

• Plants against malaria. Part 1: Cinchona or the Peruvian Bark

  The maladies of James Boswell, advocate

  Are Darwinian principles now extinct?

  Francis Galton and the skin

  Cosimo Di Medici's arthritis

  Sir George Erskine of Innerteil (c. 1570-1646) and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Other

• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• OBITUARIES

• NEW TITLES