Volume 171 Issue 11

• Finding ourselves in the future Ruth M Armstrong (MJA 1999; 171: 572)

Editorials

• Doctors and the "environment" Anthony J McMichael, Charles S Guest (MJA 1999; 171: 576-577)
• William Osler: a model for the 21st century? Michael F O'Rourke (MJA 1999; 171: 577-579)
• Humour in medical teaching John B Ziegler (MJA 1999; 171: 579-580)
• The burden of disease and injury in Australia: time for action Martin B Van Der Weyden (MJA 1999; 171: 581-582)

Water Hazards

• Dead in the water: how safe are our water sports? Robyn M Walker (MJA 1999; 171: 584-586)
• Patterns of drowning in Australia, 1992-1997 Ian J Mackie (MJA 1999; 171: 587-590)
• Snorkelling deaths in Australia, 1987-1996 Carl W Edmonds, Douglas G Walker (MJA 1999; 171: 591-594)
• Scuba diving medical examinations in practice: a postal survey Graham Simpson, David Roomes (MJA 1999; 171: 595-598)

The Weight Debate

• What should we do about overweight and obesity? Ian D Caterson (MJA 1999; 171: 599-600)
• The sources of risk factor information for general practitioners: is physical activity under-recognised? Fiona Dupen, Adrian E Bauman, Rose Lin (MJA 1999; 171: 601-603)
• The effectiveness of popular, non-prescription weight loss supplements Garry Egger, David Cameron-Smith, Rosemary Stanton (MJA 1999; 171: 604-608)
• Obesity and virtue. Is staying lean a matter of ethics? John N Burry (MJA 1999; 171: 609-610)
• Why staying lean is not a matter of ethics Joseph Proietto (MJA 1999; 171: 611-613)

Rural Healthcare

• Accessibility to general practitioners in rural South Australia. A case study using geographic information system technology Errol J Bamford, Lyle Dunne, Danielle S Taylor, Brian G Symon, Graeme J Hugo, David Wilkinson (MJA 1999; 171: 614-616)
• Mobile intensive care services in rural South Australia John E Gilligan, William M Griggs, Michael T Jelly, David G Morris, Ross R Haslam, Neil T Matthews, Evan R Everest, Robert L Bryce, Peter B Marshall, Ron A Peisach (MJA 1999; 171: 617-620)
• Rural doctors - who are they? (MJA 1999; 171: 621) Ups and downs of rural practice: general practice
• Olga Ward (MJA 1999; 171: 621-622) Medicine in the bush: a consultant physician's view
• Peter R C Wakeford (MJA 1999; 171: 623-624) Ups and downs of rural practice: a surgeon's view
• Anthony Green (MJA 1999; 171: 625-626) Retirement at last!
• William G Flux (MJA 1999; 171: 627-628)

The Research Enterprise

• Funding Australia's basic biomedical research of 1993 and 1994 Linda Butler (MJA 1999; 171: 629-633)
• The Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology Antony Basten (MJA 1999; 171: 634-637)
• Nature, nurture and my experience with smallpox eradication Frank Fenner (MJA 1999; 171: 638-641)

Medical Education

• The rise and rise of academic general practice in Australia Kerrie A Lawson, Mabel Chew, Martin B Van Der Weyden (MJA 1999; 171: 643-648)

Bites and Stings

• Stinging insect allergy Robyn E O'Hehir, Jo A Douglass (MJA 1999; 171: 649-650)
• Funnel-web spider (Hadronyche infensa) envenomations in coastal south-east Queensland Anthony P Harrington, Robert J Raven, Paul C Bowe, Gabrielle M Hawdon, Kenneth D Winkel (MJA 1999; 171: 651-653)
• Exotic myiasis with Lund's fly (Cordylobia rodhaini) Merilyn J Geary, Bernard J Hudson, Richard C Russell, Andrew Hardy (MJA 1999; 171: 654-655)

History

• The suicide of Thomas Wentworth Wills Gregory M de Moore (MJA 1999; 171: 656-658)

Sex, Science & Society

• Will we be having sex in 2099? Mabel Chew (MJA 1999; 171: 659)
• What if there is a "sunset clause" on the Y chromosome? Alan O Trounson (MJA 1999; 171: 660-662)
• Future change in sexual behaviour? Carl E Wood (MJA 1999; 171: 662-664)
• Sex, reproduction and impregnation: by 2099 let's not confuse them Robert P S Jansen (MJA 1999; 171: 666-667)
• Reproductive technology, efficiency and equality Julian Savulescu (MJA 1999; 171: 668-670)

Doctors' Tales

• CLINICam Michael R Kidd (MJA 1999; 171: 671)
• Some thoughts while nymphing Douglas N Gow (MJA 1999; 171: 673-674)
• A new, occasional instrument for measuring marital quality. The time required to make a cream cheese and salmon bagel following funnel-web spider bite Garry Walter (MJA 1999; 171: 674-675)

True Stories

• Breaking the rules: a thoracic impalement injury Carole L Foot, Pat Naidoo (MJA 1999; 171: 676-677)
• A riposte for a fencer. The residency appointment of Alfred Edmund Finckh to Sydney Hospital in 1905. Was it just a matter of male chauvinism? Ernest S Finckh, Andrew S Finckh (MJA 1999; 171: 679-680)
• "Ute surfing": a novel cause of severe head injury Rodney S Allan, Peter J Spittaler, John G Christie (MJA 1999; 171: 681-682)

Departments

Snapshots

• Peter L Field (MJA 1999; 171: 590)
• Christopher J O'Donnell | Ursula Ridley (MJA 1999; 171: 594)
• Senan Nagaratnam (MJA 1999; 171: 603)
• John Rouse (MJA 1999; 171: 613)
• Adrienne Morey (MJA 1999; 171: 624)
• Rodney Strahan (MJA 1999; 171: 628)
• Simon So (MJA 1999; 171: 650)
• Malcolm Feigen (MJA 1999; 171: 655)
• Leon Slonim (MJA 1999; 171: 658)
• Christopher J O'Donnell (MJA 1999; 171: 680)

Book Reviews

• Licence to eat reviewed by Rosemary A Stanton (MJA 1999; 171: 598)
• Growing up not out. A weight management guide for families reviewed by T John Boulton (MJA 1999; 171: 675)

Letters

• Letter from Yemen Chris Cooper (MJA 1999; 171: 684)
• On dry land A David Grounds (MJA 1999; 171: 684)
  Ruth M Armstrong (MJA 1999; 171: 685)
• Sporotrichosis mimicking necrotising arachnidism Len D Moaven, Shelley A Altman, A Richard Newnham (MJA 1999; 171: 685)
• Browne's Law of Medicine David S Browne (MJA 1999; 171: 686)
• Summer vomiting disease John A Marshall, Lilly Yuen, Michael G Catton, Peter J Wright (MJA 1999; 171: 686)
• The present status of electroconvulsive therapy: a systematic review Gerald Milner (MJA 1999; 171: 687)