Volume 79 Issue 12 (December 2009)

EDITORIAL

Face transplantation

• Wayne Morrison
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05133.x (p 863-864)

PERSPECTIVES

End‐of‐life decision making – where have all the surgeons gone?

• Heather Cleland, Patrick Mahar
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05134.x (p 865-866)

Fatwas and surgery: how and why a fatwa may inform a Muslim patient's surgical options

• Ann Black
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05135.x (p 866-871)

Developing academic surgeons: the focus of a new course

• Richard M. Hanney, Andrew G. Hill, Scott A. LeMaire, Andre Van Rij, John A. Windsor
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05136.x (p 872-875)

25, 50 & 75 years ago

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05137.x (p 876-878)

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Surgical history of ancient China: part 1

• Louis Fu
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05138.x (p 879-885)

Surgical decision making

• David M. A. Francis
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05139.x (p 886-891)

REVIEW ARTICLE

Facial transplantation as an option in reconstructive surgery: no mountains too high?

• Wojciech Błogowski
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05140.x (p 892-897)

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Fijian seasonal scourge of mango tree falls

• Anuj Gupta, Ben Reeves
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05141.x (p 898-900)

Famous discoveries by medical students

• Mark D. Stringer, Omid Ahmadi
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05142.x (p 901-908)

Nothing to sneeze at! A study into intra‐operative contamination

• David Graham, Benjamin Parkinson, Meghan Evans, Gerben Keijzers, Petra Derrington
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05131.x (p 909-912)

Evaluating anatomical research in surgery: a prospective comparison of cadaveric and living anatomical studies of the abdominal wall

• Warren M. Rozen, Daniel Chubb, Damien L. Stella, G. Ian Taylor, Mark W. Ashton
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05143.x (p 913-917)

THE COWLISHAW SYMPOSIUM 2008

William Marsden, a pioneer in social medicine

• Reginald Magee
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05144.x (p 918-921)

John Brown's book

• Wyn Beasley
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05145.x (p 922-925)

Sir William Mackenzie: sympathetic ophthalmia and glaucoma before ophthalmoscopy

• Geoffrey Serpell
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05146.x (p 926-929)

From Lanfranc to Sunderland: the surgery of peripheral nerve injuries

• Donald Simpson
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05147.x (p 930-935)

Signal naval achievements of James Lind (1747), James Cook (1770) and Owen Stanley (1847)

• Sam A. Mellick
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05148.x (p 936-940)

Art of preserving health: studies on the medical supervision of physical exercise

• Alan J. Thurston
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05149.x (p 941-945)

IMAGES FOR SURGEONS

Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis masquerading as malignancy with liver metastasis

• Deborshi Sharma, Raghavendra Babu, Gaurav Sood, Gaurav Kapoor, Ravi S. Solanki, Shaji Thomas
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05150.x (p 946-947)

Multinodular goitre complicated by abscess due to E. coli

• Glenn Boyce, Prassannah Satasivam, Francis Miller
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2009.05151.x (p 948-949)