Abstract
“What our age lacks,” wrote Soren Kierkegaard, “is not reflection but passion.” The staple of medical journals is reason. We cling to the fiction of the enlightenment and are nervous of passion. But we know that it is passion that drives the world, and medicine–dealing daily with birth, sickness, pain, and death–might be the most emotional of all the intellectual disciplines. Usually it isn't, but this issue contains much emotion. Zulfiqar Bhutta, Samiran Nundy, and Kamran Abbasi are launching the BMJ into something very special–a theme issue on the health problems of South Asia edited by South Asians (p 941). “South Asia,” …
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