February 1999

Contents

3 A Lost Grandeur

5 .... A Pill Disaster

6 Young Doctors Refuse to Perform Abortions

7 No Man is An Island: Some Thoughts on Advance Directives - Gillian Graig

15 Medical Saints - Stephen Brennan

19 Illich and "Medical Dominance" v. History of Medicine - Andrew Papanikitas

25 Alternatives to Vaccines Made From Aborted Babies - Catherine Williams

30 The Natural Fertility Clinic: Progress Report - Caroline Kerr

32 Old Frog Opines

34 Book Review

36 Reports From the Branches

38 Letters to the Editor

40 Psychiatric Reminiscence

      41    Sayers Corner