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1990, volume 30, articles 12

Research on AIDS interventions in developing countries: State of the art pp. 1265-1272

Doris Schopper

Racial and gender discrimination: Risk factors for high blood pressure? pp. 1273-1281

Nancy Krieger

Problems in comparing findings on social class cross-culturally--Applied to infant mortality (Australia and Britain) pp. 1283-1288

Susan Quine

Gender differences in the experience of headache pp. 1289-1295

David D. Celentano, Martha S. Linet and Walter F. Stewart

Mothers' satisfaction with the cost of children's care: The role of practice settings and actual expenses pp. 1297-1311

Diana Dutton, Deanna Gomby and Baudouin Meunier

Change and continuity in patient theories of illness: The case of epilepsy pp. 1313-1318

K. U. Kirchgässler

Design, implementation, and evaluation of a community financing scheme for hospital care in developing countries: A pre-paid health plan in the Bwamanda health zone, Zaire pp. 1319-1327

Freddy Moens

Self-certification in lay midwives' organizations: A vehicle for professional autonomy pp. 1329-1339

Irene H. Butter and Bonnie J. Kay

Modeling the growth of long-stay populations in public mental hospitals pp. 1341-1347

William H. Fisher and Barbara F. Phillips

Participation effect from water projects on EPI pp. 1349-1358

Eugenia Eng, John Briscoe and Anne Cunningham

Collaborative practice and provider styles of delivering health care pp. 1359-1365

James D. Campbell, Hans O. Mauksch, Helen J. Neikirk and Michael C. Hosokawa

1990, volume 30, articles 11

Preface pp. V-VI

Anselm Strauss

Qualitative research on chronic illness: The issue and the story pp. 1149-1159

Uta Gerhardt

'Discovering' chronic illness: Using grounded theory pp. 1161-1172

Kathy Charmaz

Personal narratives, social careers and medical courses: Analysing life trajectories in autobiographies of people with multiple sclerosis pp. 1173-1186

Ian Robinson

Generating a model of epileptic stigma: The role of qualitative analysis pp. 1187-1194

Graham Scambler and Anthony Hopkins

Strategic uses of narrative in the presentation of self and illness: A research note pp. 1195-1200

Catherine Kohler Riessman

Quality of everyday life in long stay institutions for the elderly. An observational study of long stay hospital and nursing home care pp. 1201-1210

Patricia Clark and Ann Bowling

Patient careers in end-stage renal failure pp. 1211-1224

Uta Gerhardt

Use of the genealogical method in the exploration of chronic illness: A research note pp. 1225-1227

David Armstrong

The status and validity of accounts obtained at interview: A contrast between two studies of families with a disabled child pp. 1229-1239

Patrick West

What cancer tells us about general practice. Birth of an hypothesis pp. 1241-1246

P. Aiach, D. Cebe and D. Broclain

Temporality and identity loss due to Alzheimer's disease pp. 1247-1256

Celia J. Orona

Qualitative research on chronic illness: A commentary on method and conceptual development pp. 1257-1263

Peter Conrad

1990, volume 30, articles 10

The relative influence of the community and the health system on work performance: A case study of community health workers in Colombia pp. 1041-1048

Sheila A. Robinson and Donald E. Larsen

Sorcery and penicillin: Treating illness on a Papua New Guinea island pp. 1049-1063

Maria Lepowsky

Managing ecological upheavals: A third world perspective pp. 1065-1072

Bharat Desai

Anticipatory grief: A review pp. 1073-1080

Helen N. Sweeting and Mary L. M. Gilhooly

Economic aspects of cervical cancer screening pp. 1081-1087

Marc A. Koopmanschap, Koos Th. N. Lubbe, Gerrit J. van Oortmarssen, Heleen M. A. van Agt, Marjolein van Ballegooijen and J. Dik F. Habbema

The risk approach in diarrheal disease intervention in Grenada pp. 1089-1095

S. Martin Taylor, Michael Hayes, John Frank and Norman White

Malaria among gold miners in Southern Pará, Brazil: Estimates of determinants and individual costs pp. 1097-1105

Stephen A. Vosti

Participation in breast screening programs: A review pp. 1107-1118

Sally W. Vernon, Elizabeth A. Laville and Gilchrist L. Jackson

A logit analysis of hospital choice behavior in Chollabukdo province of Korea pp. 1119-1129

Byung-Ryang Kim

The rational use of antischistosomal drugs in schistosomiasis control pp. 1131-1138

Stephen K. Chandiwana and Paul Taylor

Patient origins and usage of a unani clinic in Aligarh Town, India pp. 1139-1141

Nilofar Izhar

Letter to the editor pp. 1143-1143

Edward R. Friedlander

1990, volume 30, articles 9

Preface pp. V-V

Anne L. Wright and Thomas M. Johnson

The medicalization of anthropology: A critical perspective on the critical-clinical debate pp. 945-950

Lynn M. Morgan

On the creation of 'problem' patients pp. 951-959

Anne L. Wright and Wayne J. Morgan

Meeting production: The economics of contracting mental illness pp. 961-968

Dana M. Baldwin

Contradictions in the social production of clinical knowledge: The case of schizophrenia pp. 969-985

Athena McLean

In what systems do alcohol/chemical addictions make sense? Clinical ideologies and practices as cultural metaphors pp. 987-1000

Howard F. Stein

Levels of explanation and cautions for a critical clinical anthropology pp. 1001-1009

Irwin Press

The possibilities and dilemmas of building bridges between critical medical anthropology and clinical anthropology: A discussion pp. 1011-1013

Hans A. Baer

Can they get along without us? Sustainability of donor-supported health projects in Central America and Africa pp. 1015-1023

Thomas J. Bossert

Primary health care in a multi-level perspective: Towards a research agenda pp. 1025-1034

Sjaak van der Geest, Johan D. Speckmann and Pieter H. Streefland

Farmers' occupational health programme in Finland, 1979-1987 pp. 1035-1040

V. Notkola, K. Husman, K. Tupi, R. Virolainen and J. Nuutinen

1990, volume 30, articles 8

Introduction pp. V-VI

Nora Groce and Jessica Scheer

Waiting for the family legacy: The experience of being at risk for Machado-Joseph disease pp. 839-847

Marie I. Boutté

Damaged goods: Oral narratives of the experience of disability in American culture pp. 849-857

Marilynn J. Phillips

Double bind and disability: The case of traumatic head injury pp. 859-865

Laura Krefting

Rehabilitation ideology and respiratory support technology pp. 867-877

Joseph M. Kaufert and David Locker

Ambiguity and difference: Families with dwarf children pp. 879-887

Joan Ablon

The concept of self in the context of crisis: A study of families of the severely brain-injured pp. 889-893

Cheryl B. Mwaria

Stigma, biomedical efficacy, and institutional control pp. 895-900

Carol S. Goldin

International perspectives on treatment choice in neonatal intensive care units pp. 901-912

Betty Wolder Levin

Facing AIDS: Reactions among police officers, nurses and the general public in Sweden pp. 913-918

Claes Herlitz and Bengt Brorsson

The indigenization of pharmaceuticals: Therapeutic transitions in rural Hausaland pp. 919-928

Nina L. Etkin, Paul J. Ross and Ibrahim Muazzamu

Households, resources, and child health in a self-help settlement in Cairo, Egypt pp. 929-940

Belgin Tekce

A comment on the meaning of numerical valuations of health states pp. 943-944

Erik Nord

1990, volume 30, articles 7

Medicalization, public policy and the elderly: Social services in jeopardy? pp. 761-771

Elizabeth A. Binney, Carroll L. Estes and Stanley R. Ingman

Nutritional status and the incidence and duration of diarrhoeal disease among children in Northeast Thailand pp. 773-776

Earmporn Thongkrajai, John Stoeckel and Pramote Thongkrajai

Gender differences in medical student distress: Contributions of prior socialization and current role-related stress pp. 777-787

Judith A. Richman and Joseph A. Flaherty

Chemotherapy: Principles in practice--A case study of the Philippines pp. 789-796

Melba Gomes and Nelia P. Salazar

Referrals to physiotherapy: The relation between the number of referrals, the indication for referral and the inclination to refer pp. 797-804

Jan J. Kerssens and Peter P. Groenewegen

Incongruence between self-reported symptoms and objective evidence of respiratory disease among construction workers pp. 805-810

Raymond Y. Demers, Lawrence R. Fischetti and Anne Victoria Neale

Patient sociodemographic characteristics as predictors of satisfaction with medical care: A meta-analysis pp. 811-818

Judith A. Hall and Michael C. Dornan

Flat on your back or back to your flat? Sources of increased hospital services utilization among the elderly in British Columbia pp. 819-828

C. Hertzman, I. R. Pulcins, M. L. Barer, R. G. Evans, G. M. Anderson and J. Lomas

The French version of the Nottingham health profile. A comparison of items weights with those of the source version pp. 829-835

D. Bucquet, S. Condon and K. Ritchie

1990, volume 30, articles 6

Health aspects of resettlement in Ethiopia pp. 643-656

Helmut Kloos

Baby Doe regulations and medical judgment pp. 657-664

Glyn Y. York, Robert M. Gallarno and Reginald O. York

Social class and health in youth: Findings from the west of Scotland twenty-07 study pp. 665-673

Patrick West, Sally Macintyre, Ellen Annandale and Kate Hunt

Cow dung, rock salt, and medical innovation in the Hindu Kush of Pakistan: The cultural transformation of neonatal tetanus and iodine deficiency pp. 675-691

Dorothy S. Mull, Jon W. Anderson and J.Dennis Mull

A pilot study of attendance for breast cancer screening pp. 693-699

Anne Eardley and Andrea Elkind

Neighbourhoods for health service administration pp. 701-711

P.T. Kivell, B.J. Turton and B.R.P. Dawson

Homosexual and bisexual men's coping with the AIDS epidemic: Qualitative interviews with 10 non-HIV-tested homosexual and bisexual men pp. 713-720

Eva Brendstrup and Kirsten Schmidt

Health belief and compliance with screening for fecal occult blood pp. 721-726

Peter E. Hoogewerf, T.Gregory Hislop, Brenda J. Morrison, Sheilagh D. Burns and Ronald Sizto

Anthropology and health in the arctic and subarctic: Status and prospects: Introduction pp. 727-727

Stephen L. Zegura

Perceptions of risk, dilemmas of policy: Nuclear fallout in Swedish Lapland pp. 729-738

Hugh Beach

Temporal constructs and inuit mental health pp. 739-749

Laird Christie and Joel M. Halpern

Secular trends and the pattern of growth in arctic populations pp. 751-759

Paul L. Jamison

1990, volume 30, articles 5

The structure of readjustment after heart attack pp. 523-536

Zeev Ben-Sira and Ronit Eliezer

Towards a typology of general practitioners' attitudes to general practice pp. 537-547

Romola S. Bucks, Angela Williams, Michael J. Whitfield and David A. Routh

Attitudes to AIDS: A comparative analysis of a new and negative stereotype pp. 549-552

Frank H. Walkey, Antony J.W. Taylor and Dianne E. Green

Inequalities in pregnancy outcome: A review of psychosocial and behavioural mediators pp. 553-568

D.R. Rutter and Lyn Quine

Problems and coping behaviour of facial cancer patients pp. 569-578

M.E.T.A. Koster and J. Bergsma

Physician utilization and urban native people in Saskatoon, Canada pp. 579-589

James B. Waldram

Self care--Who does best? pp. 591-596

Julienne McLean and Patrick Pietroni

Psychosocial influences on new born outcomes: A controlled prospective study pp. 597-604

Mark D. Pagel, Gabriel Smilkstein, Hari Regen and Dan Montano

Determinants of active self-care behaviour of insulin treated patients with diabetes: Implications for diabetes education pp. 605-615

Inge de Weerdt, Adriaan Ph. Visser, Gerjo Kok and Ed A. van der Veen

Ghost illness in a North Indian village pp. 617-623

Ruth S. Freed and Stanley A. Freed

Breast-feeding in the modern health sector in Indonesia: The mother's perspective pp. 625-633

Valerie Hull, Shyam Thapa and Hadi Pratomo

The relationship of social support and health pp. 635-637

Joan R. Bloom

Driving experience and the risk of traffic accident among motorcyclists pp. 639-640

Tze-Wai Wong, James Lee, Wai-on Phoon, Po-Chu Yiu, Kam-Pui Fung and Jack A. McLean

1990, volume 30, articles 4

Clinical ethics: A role theoretic look pp. 389-399

George J. Agich

Some links between successful implementation of primary health care interventions and the overall utilization of health services pp. 401-405

Oscar Gish

Women and AIDS pp. 407-415

Carole A. Campbell

Doctors and the state: Lessons from the Biko case pp. 417-429

Derrick Silove

Behavioural factors affecting physical health of the New Zealand Maori pp. 431-440

Perminder S. Sachdev

The biocultural context of social networks and depression among the elderly pp. 441-447

Lawrence A. Palinkas, Deborah L. Wingard and Elizabeth Barrett-Connor

The mundane ailment and the physical self: Analysis of the social psychology of health and illness pp. 449-455

Virginia Olesen, Leonard Schatzman, Nellie Droes, Diane Hatton and Nan Chico

The confounding of occupation and smoking and its consequences pp. 457-467

T. Sterling and J. Weinkam

Gender differences in the effect of unemployment on psychological distress pp. 469-477

Margaret E. Ensminger and David D. Celentano

Injury mortality in American Indian, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white children in new Mexico, 1958-1982 pp. 479-486

Lenora M. Olson, Thomas M. Becker, Charles L. Wiggins, Charles R. Key and Jonathan M. Samet

Barriers and motivators to prenatal care among low-income women pp. 487-494

Betty Lia-Hoagberg, Peter Rode, Catherine J. Skovholt, Charles N. Oberg, Cynthia Berg, Sara Mullett and Thomas Choi

Low birth-weight and pre-term delivery in South-East Asia. The who international collaborative study of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy pp. 497-502

Jean Golding and Terry Shenton

Social support, stress and functional status in patients with osteoarthritis pp. 503-508

Morris Weinberger, William M. Tierney, Patricia Booher and Sharon L. Hiner

Long-term patterns of general practice consulting behaviour: A qualitative 9-year analysis of general practice histories of a working-aged rural Finnish population pp. 509-515

Simo J. Kokko

1990, volume 30, articles 3

Trends in the geographic inequality of cardiovascular disease mortality in the United States, 1962-1982 pp. 261-266

Steve Wing, Michele Casper, Wayne Davis, Carl Hayes, Wilson Riggan and H.A. Tyroler

HIV/AIDS and school boards: A policy approach pp. 267-279

William F. Foster, Margaret A. Somerville and Margaret Duckett

Community health workers in Bolivia: Adapting to traditional roles in the Andean community pp. 281-287

Joseph W. Bastien

Prenatal screening of pregnant mothers for parenting difficulties: Final results from the Queen Mary Child care unit pp. 289-295

Tony G. Egan, Sheila M. Monaghan, Roy C. Muir, Ruth J. Gilmore, John E. Clarkson and Terry J. Crooks

Patient outcomes and regional planning of coronary care services: A location-allocation approach pp. 297-304

Sara McLafferty and Daniel Broe

Gender differences in tobacco use in Kenya pp. 305-310

Mara Kaplan, Laura Carriker and Ingrid Waldron

Spiritual and natural etiologies on a Polynesian outlier in Papua New Guinea pp. 311-323

Richard Feinberg

A model of empathic understanding and adherence to treatment regimens in practitioner-patient relationships pp. 325-339

Roger W. Squier

Breast feeding promotion in an urban and a rural Jamaican hospital pp. 341-348

William E. Cunningham and Winsome Segree

Preventing alcohol related birth damage: A review pp. 349-364

E.J. Waterson and Iain M. Murray-Lyon

The social recognition of repetition strain injuries: An Australian/American comparison pp. 365-372

Andrew Hopkins

Male and female physicians: Family and career comparisons pp. 373-378

Peter Uhlenberg and Teresa M. Cooney

Determinants of partial participation in the immunization programmes in Iran pp. 379-383

Kiumarss Nasseri, Mehdi Latifi, Firooz Azordegan, Forough Shafii and Reza All-E-Agha

1990, volume 30, articles 2

Critical medical anthropology in question pp. V-VIII

Merrill Singer, Hans A. Baer and Ellen Lazarus

Reinventing medical anthropology: Toward a critical realignment pp. 179-187

Merrill Singer

Three propositions for a critically applied medical anthropology pp. 189-197

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Some implications for the study of the doctor-patient interaction: Power, structure, and agency in the works of Howard Waitzkin and Arthur Kleinman pp. 199-204

Gregory Pappas

Somatizing distress: Hospital treatment of psychiatric co-morbidity and the limitations of biomedicine pp. 205-209

Deborah Padgett and Thomas M. Johnson

International politics and primary health care in Costa Rica pp. 211-219

Lynn M. Morgan

A question of adequacy: Primary health care in the Dominican Republic pp. 221-226

Linda M. Whiteford

Transnational tobacco companies and health in underdeveloped countries: Recommendations for avoiding a smoking epidemic pp. 227-235

Kenyon Rainier Stebbins

Kerr-McGee and the NRC: From Indian country to silkwood to Gore pp. 237-248

Hans Baer

A critical perspective on coronary artery disease and coronary bypass surgery pp. 249-260

Maryann S. Bates

1990, volume 30, articles 1

Foreword pp. V-V

Robert Earickson

Introduction pp. VII-IX

Robert Earickson

Spatial patterns of use of health services in the Kingston Metropolitan Area, Jamaica pp. 1-12

W. Bailey and D.R. Phillips

The ecology of health services utilization in Grenada, West Indies pp. 13-24

Blake D. Poland, S. Martin Taylor and Michael V. Hayes

Correlates of health-care use: Inuit and cree of Northern Quebec pp. 25-34

Jean-Pierre Thouez, Peter Foggin and Andre Rannou

Ontario's underserviced area program revisited: An indirect analysis pp. 35-44

Malcolm Anderson and Mark W. Rosenberg

A framework for modeling the consumption of health services by the rural elderly pp. 45-52

Alun E. Joseph and Denise S. Cloutier

Socio-spatial perspectives on the utilization of emergency hospital services in two urban territories in Quebec pp. 53-66

François Béland, Lise Philibert, Jean-Pierre Thouez and Brigitte Maheux

Variation in Michigan hospital use rates: Do physician and hospital characteristics provide the explanation? pp. 67-82

Jane Deane Clark

An analysis of psychiatric patient attributes in Salford using categorical data models pp. 83-94

R.D. Nutter and R.W. Thomas

Housing satisfaction, preference and need among the chronically mentally disabled in Hamilton, Ontario pp. 95-102

Susan J. Elliott, S.Martin Taylor and Robin A. Kearns

Congenital malformations in the fylde region of Lancashire, England 1957-1973 pp. 103-109

A.A. Lovett, A.C. Gatrell, J.P. Bound, P.W. Harvey and A.R. Whelan

The community perinatal health care system of urban Cape Town, South Africa--I. Characteristics of mothers and birth outcomes pp. 111-118

Michael Russell Rip and John M. Hunter

The community perinatal health care system of urban Cape Town, South Africa--II. Geographical patterns pp. 119-130

Michael Russell Rip and John M. Hunter

Housing dampness and health amongst British Bengalis in East London pp. 131-141

S.J. Hyndman

Health based geographical information systems: Their potential examined in the light of existing data sources pp. 143-155

Liz Twigg

How significant are the spatial configurations of health care systems? pp. 157-164

John Eyles

Conceptions of space and community in British health policy pp. 165-171

Graham Moon

Activism for medical geographers: American, British and Canadian viewpoints pp. 173-177

Michael R. Greenberg, Mark W. Rosenberg, David R. Phillips and Dona Schneider