ABSTRACT
The British Medical Association recently published a book called Clinical Futures in which the stated aim of its editors was to ‘redress a balance and create a forum’ where the perspectives of clinicians rather than ‘political, social, economic, legal, and organisational theory [might] take a freewheeling look at the likely trends in diagnosis and treatment over the coming decades... The intention is to bring the imaginative conjectures of clinical investigators to the fore of thinking about the future of health policy. We want to start a process that will strengthen the sometimes muted voice of physicians’ (Marinker and Peckham, 1998).
