Social Science & Medicine

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1985, volume 20, articles 12

Measuring the health of populations, indicators and interpretations pp. 1207-1224

Harald E. Hansluwka

Problems of substance abuse: Exploitation and control pp. 1225-1233

Larry Ray

The analysis and assessment of health programs pp. 1235-1240

Nicholas Prescott and David de Ferranti

Disability dilemmas and rehabilitation tensions: A twentieth century inheritance pp. 1241-1252

Judith G. Greenwood

Discrimination against women in the South African medical profession pp. 1253-1258

Beryl Unterhalter

A need for community education in development: The Mit Abu El Kom case pp. 1259-1268

B. Louise Weidner, Nazek K. Nosseir and Charles C. Hughes

The social definition of women's smoking behaviour pp. 1269-1278

Andrea Knopf Elkind

Smoking and intelligence in Australia pp. 1279-1280

J. J. Ray

Malaria in Liberian children and mothers: Biocultural perceptions of illness vs clinical evidence of disease pp. 1281-1287

Linda Collier Jackson

Relativism in the diagnosis of hypoglycemia pp. 1289-1294

Linda M. Hunt

Nutrition, lactation and fertility in two Mexican rural communities pp. 1295-1305

Ann Elizabeth Fink

Patient mobility for elective surgical interventions pp. 1307-1312

G. Tessier, A. P. Contandriopoulos and Georges Dionne

Community care for the elderly: Costs and dependency pp. 1313-1318

Martin Snell

Health care expenditure containment in the United States: Strategies at the state and local level pp. 1319-1330

Diane G. Hillman and Jon B. Christianson

Informed consent in psychiatric research: Preliminary findings from an ongoing investigation pp. 1331-1341

Paul R. Benson, Loren H. Roth and William J. Winslade

1985, volume 20, articles 11

Introduction pp. 1083-1083

Harmon Smith

Selecting neonatal ethics pp. 1085-1090

Joel E. Frader

Selective nontreatment of handicapped newborns: A critical essay pp. 1091-1095

Arthur F. Kohrman

Which infants should live? On the usefulness and limitations of Robert Weir's selective nontreatment of handicapped newborns pp. 1097-1102

L. R. Churchill

Why solutions continue to elude us pp. 1103-1107

Thomas H. Murray

Selective nontreatment--One year later: Reflections and a response pp. 1109-1117

Robert F. Weir

Physician gender and the physician-patient relationship: Recent evidence and relevant questions pp. 1119-1127

Carol S. Weisman and Martha Ann Teitelbaum

Health risks among enlisted males in the U.S. Navy: Race and ethnicity as correlates of disease incidence pp. 1129-1141

Lawrence A. Palinkas and Christine L. Colcord

Sources of influence on infant feeding practices in Hong Kong pp. 1143-1150

Beatrice K. M. Hung, Lydia Ling and S. G. Ong

The frontier of modern Western medicine in Nepal pp. 1151-1159

Pieter Streefland

Self-touching as an indicator of underlying affect and language processes pp. 1161-1168

Jinni A. Harrigan

Professional identification: A study of female students at a medical college in India pp. 1169-1175

Gura Bhargava

The theory of the hospital: A review of the models pp. 1177-1184

A. McGuire

A qualitative assessment of the medicare prospective payment system pp. 1185-1190

Robert W. Broyles and Michael D. Rosko

Effects of promotion on pharmaceutical demand pp. 1191-1197

John I. Mackowiak and Jean Paul Gagnon

Sex differences in the psychological reactions of medical and surgical patients to crisis intervention counseling: Sauce for the goose may not be sauce for the gander pp. 1199-1205

Linda L. Viney, Yvonne N. Benjamin, Alex M. Clarke and Terence A. Bunn

1985, volume 20, articles 10

Computers and clinical judgement: The role of physician networks pp. 969-979

James G. Anderson and Stephen J. Jay

Choice or change: Further evidence on ideas of illness and responsibility for health pp. 981-991

Roisin Pill and Stott Nigel C.H.

Uncertainty and its relation to the psychological and social correlates of chronic illness in children pp. 993-999

Dorothy Jones Jessop and Ruth E. K. Stein

Social and cultural factors in the etiology of low birthweight among disadvantaged blacks pp. 1001-1011

Margaret S. Boone

A health economist on medical sociology: Reflections by an unreconstructed reductionist pp. 1013-1021

Anthony Culyer

The nature, meaning and measurement of health and illness: An economic viewpoint pp. 1023-1027

Alan Williams

The economic analysis of inequalities in health pp. 1029-1035

Jaana-Marja Muurinen and Julian Le Grand

The economic evaluation of clinical practice pp. 1037-1040

Ron Akehurst

The political economy of the NHS: Individualist justifications of collective action pp. 1041-1048

Jack Dowie

Economic analysis of health service professions: A survey pp. 1049-1061

Hugh Gravelle

Joint meeting of the health economists' study group and the medical sociology group in York, July, 1983 pp. 1063-1064

Maria Bergmann

Menstrual symptoms, attitudes and consulting behaviour pp. 1065-1068

Annette Scambler and Graham Scambler

A preliminary report on anti-depressant therapy and its effects on hope and immunity pp. 1069-1072

Donna Lou Udelman and Harold D. Udelman

Local politicization of primary health care as an instrument for development: A case study of community health workers in Zambia pp. 1073-1080

Patrick A. Twumasi and Paul J. Freund

Letter to the editor pp. 1081-1081

James Morse Dunning

1985, volume 20, articles 9

Triggers of symptoms and health care pp. 855-876

Lois M. Verbrugge

The psycho-social consequences of intermittent husband absence: An epidemiological study pp. 877-885

Rex Taylor, Ken Morrice, David Clark and Kathryn McCann

Sex differences in minor psychiatric morbidity: A survey of homogenous population pp. 887-899

Rachel Jenkins

Social functions of medical licensing: A case study of Soviet immigrant physicians in Israel pp. 901-909

Judith T. Shuval

The role of the receptionist in general practice: A 'dragon behind the desk'? pp. 911-921

Sara Arber and Lucianne Sawyer

Communication in primary care: The role of patient and practitioner explanatory models pp. 923-931

Cecil G. Helman

Railways, disease and health in South Africa pp. 933-938

Vanessa Hogbin

The lengthening hour: Time and the demise of psychoanalysis as therapy pp. 939-943

Kenneth P. Starkey

Stressful episodes reported by first-year student nurses: A descriptive account pp. 945-953

Katharine R. Parkes

Attendance for cervical screening--Whose problem? pp. 955-962

Anne Eardley, Andrea Knopf Elkind, Brenda Spencer, Patricia Hobbs, Laura L. Pendleton and Dave Haran

1985, volume 20, articles 8

Introduction pp. 771-771

Peter J. M. McEwan

Towards a psychobiological model of cancer: Psychological considerations pp. 773-777

Steven Greer and Maggie Watson

Towards a psychobiological model of cancer: Biological considerations pp. 779-787

K. W. Pettingale

Cancer from a biobehavioural and social epidemiological perspective pp. 789-794

H. J. F. Baltrusch and Millard Waltz

Development of a method for rating cognitive responses to a diagnosis of cancer pp. 795-802

Tina Morris, Susan Blake and Miranda Buckley

Factors important to psychosocial adjustment to cancer: A review of the evidence pp. 803-807

Richard J. Goldberg and Leah Oseas Cullen

The quality of life of cancer patients: A review of the literature pp. 809-817

Johanna C. J. M. de Haes and Ferdinand C. E. van Knippenberg

Improving the detection of psychiatric problems in cancer patients pp. 819-823

Peter Maguire

Why me? Attributions and adjustment by cancer patients and their mates at two stages in the disease process pp. 825-831

Carolyn Cook Gotay

Biopsychosocial studies on cutaneous malignant melanoma: Psychosocial factors associated with prognostic indicators, progression, psychophysiology and tumor-host response pp. 833-840

Lydia Temoshok

Cancer patients' personality characteristics, physician-patient communication and adoption of the Moerman diet pp. 841-847

J. F. A. Pruyn, R. M. Rijckman, C. J. M. van Brunschot and H. W. van den Borne

Insomnia in cancer patients pp. 849-850

Peter M. Silberfarb, Peter J. Hauri, Thomas E. Oxman and Stephanie Lash

Aspects of the European dying process pp. 851-853

Anne-Marie Palouzie

1985, volume 20, articles 7

Space and time in British general practice pp. 659-666

David Armstrong

Psychosocial predictors of sudden death: A review and critique pp. 667-680

Yitzchak M. Binik

Generation et evaluation des hypotheses etiologiques en epidemiologie pp. 681-689

P. Philippe

Alexithymia and affective verbal behaviour of three groups of patients pp. 691-694

Stephan Ahrens

Investigation of a model for the initiation of breastfeeding in primigravida women pp. 695-703

Lois B. Dusdieker, Brenda M. Booth, Brenda F. Seals and Edem E. Ekwo

Extended training of ambulance staff in England pp. 705-712

K. G. Wright

Infant formula samples and breast feeding among Philippine urban poor pp. 713-717

George M. Guthrie, Helen A. Guthrie, Tomas L. Fernandez and Nenita O. Estrera

The dominant firm in health insurance pp. 719-724

Lawrence G. Goldberg and Warren Greenberg

Anorexia nervosa as a culture-bound syndrome pp. 725-730

Leslie Swartz

Behavioural and endocrine reactions in boys scoring high on Sennton neurotic scale viewing an exciting and partly violent movie and the importance of social support pp. 731-736

Bengt B. Arnetz, Bengt Edgren, Lennart Levi and Ulf Otto

Evaluation of an interview training course for general practitioners pp. 737-744

J. M. Bensing and E. M. Sluijs

The contribution of ethics and psychology to medicine pp. 745-752

Jurrit Bergsma and David C. Thomasma

Terminal cancer care services: Recent changes in regional inequalities in Great Britain pp. 753-759

Barry Lunt

Letter to the editor pp. 761-762

Angela Reidy

1985, volume 20, articles 6

Family adaptation and psychosocial adjustment to cystic fibrosis in the preschool child pp. 553-560

Leslie Cowen, Mary Corey, Nancy Keenan, Robert Simmons, Erika Arndt and Henry Levison

Perceptions of disability of persons with cerebral palsy, their close relatives and able bodied persons pp. 561-565

Lindsay Gething

Mexican-American, Black-American and White-American differences in reporting illnesses, disability and physician visits for illnesses pp. 567-577

Emil Berkanovic and Carol Telesky

A point prevalence study of alcoholism and mental illness among downtown migrants pp. 579-583

Marilyn Peddicord Whitley, Oliver H. Osborne, Mary Ann Godfrey and Karen Johnston

Handicapped individuals in Kuwait pp. 585-588

Ann Harrison

Child mortality and economic variation among rural Mexican households pp. 589-599

Ann V. Millard

A cost-benefit analysis of the Quebec network of genetic medicine pp. 601-607

Denyse L. Dagenais, Léon Courville and Marcel G. Dagenais

Water resources development and schistosomiasis ecology in the Awash Valley, Ethiopia pp. 609-625

Helmut Kloos

Marital dissolution and health: Do males or females have greater risk? pp. 627-635

Catherine Kohler Riessman and Naomi Gerstel

Job stress, cigarette smoking and cessation: The conditioning effects of peer support pp. 637-644

Mina Westman, Dov Eden and Arie Shirom

A problem with refusing certain forms of psychiatric treatment pp. 645-648

Clifton Perry

1985, volume 20, articles 5

Double standards in the analysis of Marxist scholarship: A reply to Reidy's critique of my work pp. 441-451

Vicente Navarro

Socioeconomic and health effects on mortality declines in developing countries pp. 453-460

Brian F. Pendleton and Shu-O. W. Yang

Styles of adjustment to coronary graft surgery pp. 461-472

Alan Radley and Ruth Green

The urban bias in health facilities in Pakistan pp. 473-482

S. Akbar Zaidi

A Maori perspective of health pp. 483-486

M. H. Durie

Hospital care utilization in a 17,000 population sample: 5-year follow-up pp. 487-492

Helen Hansagi, Staffan E. Norell and Gudjon Magnusson

Psychosocial adjustment of victims of occupational hand injuries pp. 493-497

Peter W. H. Lee, Elsie S. Y. Ho, Adolf K. T. Tsang, Jack C. Y. Cheng, P. C. Leung, Y. H. Cheng and F. Lieh-Mak

Socialization and interpersonal environment in nurses' affective reactions to work pp. 499-509

Frederic H. Decker

The shaman and the medicine-man pp. 511-515

Åke Hultkrantz

Weaving a tangled web: The psychology of deception and self deception in psychogenic pain pp. 517-527

Timothy L. Bayer

Reducing presurgical anxiety: A possible visitor effect pp. 529-533

Judy Hartsfield and James R. Clopton

Doctors, psychiatrists and disease pp. 535-543

Michael Lavin

Deinstitutionalization and public policy pp. 545-552

Andrew Scull

1985, volume 20, articles 4

Illegitimate birth and deprivation: Recent findings from an exploratory study pp. 307-314

Rachel Filinson

The significance of psychosocial factors in predicting coronary disease in patients with valvular heart disease pp. 315-318

C. L. Cooper, E. B. Faragher, C. L. Bray and D. R. Ramsdale

Living with an amputation: The helper pp. 319-323

Dorothy M. Thompson and Dave Haran

Illness behaviour in mothers with young children pp. 325-330

Peter D. Campion and Jennet Gabriel

Type A behaviour in two ethnic rural communities of males in Israel with and without coronary heart disease pp. 331-334

Naomi Stockwell, Stephen J. Zyzanski and Yair Yodfat

Japan's clinic physicians and their behavior pp. 335-340

Maratoshi A. Abe

Status of life-areas: Congruence/noncongruence in ESRD patient and spouse perceptions pp. 341-346

Heather Gray, Donna Brogan and Nancy G. Kutner

Who are those most likely to be institutionalized, the elderly who receive comprehensive home care services or those who do not? pp. 347-354

François Béland

Intervention against loneliness in a group of elderly women: An impact evaluation pp. 355-364

Lars Anderson

Social bonds in a healthy elderly sample: Characteristics and associated variables pp. 365-369

Paula D. Thomas, Philip J. Garry, Jean M. Goodwin and James S. Goodwin

Variation in inpatient racial composition among acute-care hospitals in New York State pp. 371-379

Arthur Schatzkin

Infant mortality in Sri Lankan households: A causal model pp. 381-392

Nancy E. Waxler, Barrie M. Morrison, W. M. Sirisena and S. Pinnaduwage

Social and public health implication of water supply in arid zones in the Sudan pp. 393-398

M. A. Awad El Karim, B. M. El Hassan and K. K. Hussein

Approaches to medical geography: An historical perspective pp. 399-404

Bimal Kanti Paul

Directions for medical geography in the 1980s: Some observations from the United Kingdom pp. 404-407

David R. Phillips

Directions for medical geography in the 1980s: Some observations from the United Kingdom pp. 407-408

A. T. A. Learmonth

Directions for medical geography in the 1980s: Some observations from the United Kingdom pp. 408-409

R. W. Armstrong

Supply projections as planning: A critical review of forecasting net physician requirements in Canada pp. 411-424

Jonathan Lomas, Greg L. Stoddart and Morris L. Barer

Skin disease and handicap: An analysis of the impact of skin conditions pp. 425-429

Sandra Jowett and Terence Ryan

Towards total patient care pp. 437-438

Mayeh A. Omar

1985, volume 20, articles 3

The primary health care project in Belgium: A survey on the utilization of health services pp. 181-190

Marleen Foets, Frans Berghmans and Lieve Janssens

Prescription drug advertising: Trends and implications pp. 191-197

Lawrence R. Krupka and Arthur M. Vener

What is unnecessary surgery? Who shall decide? Issues of consumer sovereignty, conflict and self-regulation pp. 199-206

Paul J. Schacht and Alec Pemberton

An assessment of community health workers in Nicaragua pp. 207-214

Edward A. Scholl

Sterilization in the northeast of Brazil pp. 215-221

Barbara Janowitz, James E. Higgins, Walter Rodrigues, Jose Marie Arruda, Jason B. Smith and Leo Morris

Dietary beliefs in health and illness among a Hong Kong community pp. 223-230

Suzanne S. Y. Chan Ho

Clinical clerkships in professional education: A study in pharmacy and other ancillary professions pp. 231-240

Robert S. Broadhead and Neil J. Facchinetti

Factors which differentiate smokers from ex-smokers among cardiovascular patients: A discriminant analysis pp. 241-245

Vincent J. Giannetti, John Reynolds and Thomas Rihn

Consistency of rule application to inmates in long-term treatment institutions pp. 247-252

Julius A. Roth

A physician role typology: Colleague and client dependence in an HMO pp. 253-261

Judith K. Barr and Marcia K. Steinberg

Patterns in preventive behavior: A study of women in middle age pp. 263-268

Michael Calnan

Lay workers in primary health care: Victims in the process of social transformation pp. 269-275

Ruth Stark

Traditional healers, mothers and childhood diarrheal disease in Swaziland: The interface of anthropology and health education pp. 277-285

Edward C. Green

Obstetrical choice among urban women in Benin pp. 287-292

Carolyn Sargent

Clean water provision in rural areas of less developed countries pp. 293-300

Robert W. Roundy

1985, volume 20, articles 2

Introduction pp. 119-120

Isabelle Baszanger

Sociology of health and illness in France, retrospectively and prospectively pp. 121-122

Claudine Herzlich

Social uses of illness at the workplace: Sick leave and moral evaluation pp. 123-128

Nicolas Dodier

A protest movement in a private clinic: An analysis of a patients' strike pp. 129-132

Renée Waissman

Professional socialization and social control: From medical students to general practitioners pp. 133-143

Isabelle Baszanger

The social construction of the patient: Patients and illnesses in other ages pp. 145-151

Claudine Herzlich and Janine Pierret

Hospital system management in France and Canada: National pluralism and provincial centralism pp. 153-166

Gerard de Pouvourville and Marc Renaud

Managerial procedures and hospital practices: A case study of the development of a new medical discipline pp. 167-172

Marie-Odile Cabridain

An economic approach to the daily activities of private general practitioners pp. 173-180

Alain Letourmy

1985, volume 20, articles 1

Populism and health policy: The case of community health volunteers in India pp. 1-25

Bruno Jobert

Commentaries pp. 26-26

Beatrix Pfleiderer

Commentaries pp. 27-28

M. Miles

The meaning of medications: Another look at compliance pp. 29-37

Peter Conrad

Psychiatric symptomatology among Mexican American farmworkers pp. 39-45

William Vega, George Warheit and Robert Palacio

Patient reactions to doctors' computer use in general practice consultations pp. 47-52

Garry Brownbridge, Guy A. Herzmark and Toby D. Wall

A survey of traditional medical practices used for the treatment of malignant tumors in an East African population pp. 53-59

George A. Alexander

The association between health and retirement: Self-health assessment of Israeli retirees pp. 61-66

Yael Kremer

Mobilizing indigenous resource for primary health care in Nigeria: A note on the place of traditional medicine pp. 67-69

O. Y. Oyeneye

The persistence of high fertility in Kenya pp. 71-84

Isaac Sindiga

Pharmacy patronage among the elderly: Selected racial and geographical patterns pp. 85-93

Gary W. Shannon, Ellen K. Cromley and Joseph L. Fink

Personality indicators of psychosocial adjustment in first-year medical students pp. 95-100

Peter B. Zeldow, David C. Clark, Steven R. Daugherty and Edward J. Eckenfels

Using the health belief model to predict initial drug therapy defaulting pp. 101-105

Jack E. Fincham and Albert I. Wertheimer

Maintenance of psychosocial attitudes in medical students pp. 107-109

Rhea L. Dornbush, Paul Singer, Edward J. Brownstein and Alfred M. Freedman