1. Important announcement

   Announcement Pages: 1 - 1

2. Editorial

   • Charles R. Perakis

   EditorialNotes Pages: 5 - 6

3. Walker Percy'sThanatos Syndrome and the temper of suburban America

   • Charles Guest

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 11

4. Is premedical education dehumanizing? A literature review

   • Robert H. Coombs
   • Morris J. Paulson

   ReviewPaper Pages: 13 - 22

5. Teaching medical humanities through film discussions

   • Donnie J. Self
   • DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr.

   OriginalPaper Pages: 23 - 37

6. News from the inferno: A patient's view of bellevue hospital

   • George Monteiro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 44

7. “Is there a text in this class?”: Reader-response theory in literature and medicine

   • Delese Wear
   • Lois LaCivita Nixon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 53

8. Book reviews

   • Edmund L. Erde
   • Betty B. Hoskins
   • James M. Norton

   BookReview Pages: 55 - 62