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September
Volume 5
Issue 3
2007
Editorial
Living will
Marco Maltoni
Unità Cure Palliative, Ospedale Forlimpopoli
Original Articles
Psychiatric Care and Primary Care: Developing protocols or developing relationships?
Re E.*, Valmassoi A.**, Cescon A.M.***
*Medico Psichiatra Direttore S.C. Psichiatria 2 **Psicologo Polo Territoriale Psichiatria 2 ***Medico Psicologo Clinico Polo Territoriale Psichiatria 2 D.S.M. A.O. Ospedale Niguarda Ca’ Granda, Milano
“The Brain that Dries Up”
The relatives’ view of the communication of the Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis
Elena Vegni MA, Antonella Gullotta MA, Loredana Odone MD, Marco Lunardelli MD
Chair of Medical Psychology, School of Medicine, University of Milan - Italy
Ethical issues in public health and prevention
Carlo Petrini
Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Unità di Bioetica, Roma, Italia
Epidural analgesia as a possible alternative to assisted suicide
Antonio Foletti* MD, Muriel Humbert**
*Service d’Anesthésiologie, CHUV, Lausanne, **Nurse, Service d’Anesthésiologie, CHUV Lausanne
Hospitals
San Gerardo hospital in Monza: an original model eight centuries old
Vittorio A. Sironi
Professor of History of Medicine and Health system, University of Milano Bicocca
Books
La macchina vivente.
Contro le visioni meccanicistiche dell’uomo
Giorgio Israel
Contro l’eutanasia
Lucien Israël.
Prefazione di Alain Besançon
L’uomo dei ragni e altri racconti.
Per una psichiatria antropologicamente fondata.
Maria Teresa Ferla.
Prefazione di Eugenio Borgna
Paint - Art and disease
Progress in medicine : lights and shadows
Gerrit Dou (1613-1675)
The dropsical woman, 1662 oil on wood, 86x78 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
JMP Letters
Laity and faith: opposite poles or willing bedfellows?
Meditations on the experience of a Christian physician
Lodovico Balducci M.D.