New Publications

The full manuscript of Andrew Fergusson's new book Hard Questions about Health and Healing has now been received and we plan to publish shortly. Christian Distinctives in Medicine is still at copy-editing stage. The final chapters of Mad, Bad and Sad have been commissioned and publication is expected before 2004.

Translations

Many former communist countries in particular have very little in the way of Christian medical literature and translations of CMF publications are proving very popular.

Over 500 copies of the Russian translation of John Wyatt's Matters of Life and Death, translated by Alex Prokopenko and Oleg Shelochkov, were given away to students at the Samara conference in July to be distributed to students and doctors in 22 cities throughout seven countries of the former USSR. The Albanian translation of Bernard Palmer's Cure for Life, translated by Eralda Turkeshi, was printed in July and available by the time the Oxford team visited to help run a camp for medical students. The Chinese translation of Doctors' Life Support is also now available. These projects were all made possible by grants from the CMF publications fund.

The Russian translation of Cure for Life was about to go to press at the time CMF News went to print and a Romanian translation of Matters of Life and Death is due out early next year. A Chinese translation of the CMF Files is also almost complete.

Websites

Since January 2003 the newly designed CMF website at www.cmf.org.uk has received 182,000 visits. We have sold 895 copies of the 2002 CD-ROM of the website and the 2003 version is now available and selling well. There have been 15,700 visits to the website at www.ethicsforschools.org since January 2003 and 345 CD-ROMs have been sold at a cost of £5 each.