1. Publisher's announcement

   Announcement Pages: iii - iii

2. Preface

   • B. Ingemar B. Lindahl

   EditorialNotes Pages: 103 - 104

3. Ethical problems in register based medical research

   • Göran Hermerén

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 116

4. Ethical and methodological aspects of medical computer data bases and knowledge bases

   • Jan Doroszewski

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 128

5. Computerized encounter registers in primary care research: Is there a gold standard?

   • Howard Brody

   OriginalPaper Pages: 129 - 139

6. On assessing the validity of the main diagnosis in patient data bases: The impact of aims for making diagnosis

   • Lars Elffors

   OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 150

7. The diagnostic process, the diagnosis and homeostasis

   • Edmond A. Murphy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 166

8. Problems of nomenclature and classification in medical expert systems

   • Peter Hucklenbroich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 167 - 177

9. Determining cause of death in 45,564 autopsy reports

   • G. William Moore
   • Robert E. Miller
   • Grover M. Hutchins

   OriginalPaper Pages: 179 - 186

10. Applying general medical knowledge to individuals: A philosophical analysis

    • David C. Thomasma

    OriginalPaper Pages: 187 - 200

11. Illness and the paradigm of lived body

    • S. Kay Toombs

    Special Articles Pages: 201 - 226

12. The pedagogy of two different approaches to humanistic medical education: Cognitive vs affective

    • Donnie Self

    Special Articles Pages: 227 - 236

13. Book review

    • John C. Moskop

    BookReview Pages: 237 - 240

14. Announcement

    Announcement Pages: 241 - 241