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Nature 414, 151 (8 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35102637

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Medical masterpieces

As an excellent excuse for displaying sumptuous works of art, The Journal of the American Medical Association began in the 1960s to put a reproduction of fine art in place of the Table of Contents that had figured on its cover since the journal started in the 1880s. For more than 25 years an essay has accompanied the image — to show, as the author of most of the essays says, "that everything is related: art, medicine, life".