Social Science & Medicine

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1984, volume 18, articles 12

Diuretics in pregnancy: A case study of a worthless therapy pp. 1011-1018

Elina Hemminki

Differences among practitioners in patterns of preference for information sources in the adoption of new drugs pp. 1019-1025

Marilyn Y. Peay and Edmund R. Peay

Early discharge and return to work following myocardial infarction pp. 1027-1036

Miriam J. Stewart and Frances M. Gregor

Life events or life processes as determinants of mental strain? A 5-year follow-up study pp. 1037-1044

Seppo Aro and Vilma Hänninen

The organizational foundations of nursing roles: An empirical assessment pp. 1045-1052

Jeffrey Alexander

Perceived likeability and competence of simulated patients: Influence on physicians' management plans pp. 1053-1059

Barbara Gerbert

An outbreak of Shigellosis in an ultra-orthodox Jewish community pp. 1061-1062

B. Porter, E. Schinder, H. Nagar, Y. Gilad and V. Torek

Games that professionals play: The social psychology of physician-nurse interaction pp. 1063-1069

M. Tellis-Nayak and V. Tellis-Nayak

Traditional healers in Swaziland: Toward improved cooperation between the traditional and modern health sectors pp. 1071-1079

Edward C. Green and Lydia Makhubu

The meaning of touch in care practice pp. 1081-1088

John W Pratt and Allen Mason

Psychological side-effects of the mass screening on cervical cancer pp. 1089-1093

N. F. Reelick, W. F. M. de Haes and J. H. Schuurman

Letter to the editor pp. 1103-1103

J. L. Hamel

1984, volume 18, articles 11

Introduction pp. 899-900

Jerzy Krupinski

Australia's environment and its influences on health pp. 901-907

A. A. Brownlea and C. M. Taylor

The social distribution of illness: Is Australia more equal? pp. 909-917

Dorothy H. Broom

Health patterns in New Zealand: Class, ethnicity and the impact of economic development pp. 919-925

Peter Davis

Changing patterns of migration to Australia and their influence on the health of migrants pp. 927-937

Jerzy Krupinski

Australian aboriginal health and health-care pp. 939-948

Neil Thomson

A comparative analysis of Australian health policy in the 1970s pp. 949-958

J. M. Najman and J. S. Western

Structural interests and Australian health policy pp. 959-966

S. J. Duckett

The cost of health care and health insurance in Australia: Some problems associated with the fee-for-service system pp. 967-972

L. J. Opit

Medical politics: Decline in the hegemony of the Australian Medical Association? pp. 973-980

Thelma Hunter

Equity, access and resource allocation: Planning hospital services in New Zealand pp. 981-989

J. Ross Barnett

Rural psychiatric services in Western Australia pp. 991-996

P. W. Burvill, H. Stampfer and J. Reymond

Community vs institutional care: The case of the Australian aged pp. 997-1004

D. M. Gibson and D. T. Rowland

Community orientated treatment compared to psychiatric hospital orientated treatment pp. 1005-1010

John Hoult, Alan Rosen and Ingrid Reynolds

1984, volume 18, articles 10

Medical technology and professional dominance theory pp. 809-817

Ann Lennarson Greer

Client characteristics at Kissy Mental Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone pp. 819-825

Wilbert M. Gesler and E. A. Nahim

Lay consulation of older people pp. 827-837

Anne Linda Furstenberg and Linda J. Davis

Knowledge, attitude and practice of family planning in Hausa women pp. 839-844

Naghma Rehan

Research priorities for medical anthropologists in the 1980s pp. 845-846

Kathleen M. DeWalt and John van Willigen

Anthropological research perspectives on health problems in developing countries pp. 847-854

George M. Foster

Population and health in the developing world: Research perspectives for medical anthropologists pp. 855-859

Thomas R. Ford and Thomas A. Arcury

The challenge of comparative health policy research for applied medical anthropology pp. 861-871

Carole E. Hill

The informative content of diagnostic tests: An economic analysis pp. 873-880

Louis Eeckhoudt, Thérèse C. Lebrun and Jean-Claude L. Sailly

Effects of public education about breast cancer and breast self-examination pp. 881-888

Sjef Siero, Gerjo Kok and Jean Pruyn

Stress and coping in the explanation of psychological adjustment among chronically ill adults pp. 889-898

Barbara J. Felton, Tracey A. Revenson and Gregory A. Hinrichsen

1984, volume 18, articles 9

Medical advice books: The search for the healthy body pp. 707-712

John D. Stoeckle

Are we a 'death-denying' society? A sociological review pp. 713-721

Allan Kellehear

Comments pp. 721-723

Rory Williams

Comments pp. 721-721

C. M. Parkes

Chronic illness, stress and coping pp. 725-736

Zeev Ben-Sira

The patient's view pp. 737-744

David Armstrong

The role of Chinese traditional medical practice as a form of health care in Singapore--III. Conditions, illness behaviour and medical preferences of patients of institutional clinics pp. 745-752

Suzanne C. Ho, K. C. Lun and W. K. Ng

Distribution of behavioural science faculty in United States medical schools: 1968-1969 and 1978-1979 pp. 753-756

Joseph Stokes, Paul J. Strand and Corinne Jaffe

The use of food to treat and prevent disease in chinese culture pp. 757-766

Linda C. Koo

Variability in the management of hypertension and cost-effectiveness: Methodology, community care results and potential cost reductions pp. 767-774

Robert D. Stevens, Leo J. Bingley, Marilyn Boger, Jabr El-Wanni and Julie Kaston

An objective reconstruction of the chain of contagion pp. 775-782

JoséF. Pisani, Juan J. Angulo and Clovis K. Takiguti

Stress and well-being: The buffering role of locus of control beliefs pp. 783-790

Neal Krause and Sheldon Stryker

Breast cancer and breast self-examination: What do Scottish women know? pp. 791-797

M. Maureen Roberts, Kate French and John Duffy

1984, volume 18, articles 8

Organizational impact on medicine: The HMO concept pp. 615-620

Stephen L. Fielding

Childbirth and social class: The case of cesarean delivery pp. 621-631

Marsha Hurst and Pamela S. Summey

Participation in the first and second round of a mass-screening for colorectal cancer pp. 633-636

J. Harry Jansen

External cephalic version as an alternative to breech delivery and cesarean section pp. 637-651

Brigitte Jordan

Changes in primary medical care delivery, 1975-1979: Findings from the physician capacity utilization surveys pp. 653-660

Barbara H. Kehrer, Frank A. Sloan and Judith Wooldridge

Accessibility to general hospitals in rural Bendel State, Nigeria pp. 661-666

Francis C. Okafor

Communication between general practitioners and patients dying at home pp. 667-672

C. J. Todd and A. W. Still

Attitudes to alcohol consumption: The attribution of addiction pp. 673-681

Adrian Furnham and Victoria Lowick

Subjective well-being: Properties of an instrument for measuring this (in the chronically ill) pp. 683-691

W. Malcolm Gill

The political and administrative context of primary health care in the third world pp. 693-702

Thomas J. Bossert and David A. Parker

1984, volume 18, articles 7

California's cutbacks in public-sector medicine: Two-class health care returns to the United States? pp. 539-540

Howard Waitzkin

Genetic counseling: The development of a new interdisciplinary occupational field pp. 541-549

Regina H. Kenen

Towards better patient drug compliance and comprehension: A challenge to medical and pharmaceutical services in Zimbabwe pp. 551-554

Norman Zimunda Nyazema

Persistence of social and health problems in the welfare state: A Danish Cohort experience from 1948 to 1979 pp. 555-560

Tavs Folmer Andersen

Women and medicalisation: An empirical examination of the extent of women's dependence on medical technology in the early detection of breast cancer pp. 561-569

Michael Calnan

Approaches to the measurement of explanation and information-giving in medical consultations: A review of empirical studies pp. 571-580

David Tuckett and Abthony Williams

Rural development strategies and their health and nutrition-mediated effects on fertility: A review of the literature pp. 581-587

Raymond B. Isely

The Tisiyahi klinik: A nepalese medical centre in an intracultural field of relations pp. 589-598

Richard Burghart

A comparison of existing and alternative competitive bidding systems for indigent medical care pp. 599-604

Jon B. Christianson, Kenneth R. Smith and Diane G. Hillman

The experience of cancer during early and advanced stages: The views of patients and their mates pp. 605-613

Carolyn Cook Gotay

1984, volume 18, articles 6

The impact of U.S. family planning programs on births, abortions and miscarriages, 1970-1979 pp. 461-465

Jacqueline Darroch Forrest

A critique of the ideological and political positions of the Willy Brandt report and the WHO Alma ata declaration pp. 467-474

Vicente Navarro

The significance of the doctor-patient relationship in coping with cancer pp. 475-480

Eric Molleman, Pieter J. Krabbendam, Albertus A. Annyas, Heimen Schraffordt Koops, Dirk Th. Sleijfer and Albert Vermey

Three generations of family medicine: A comparison of social identities pp. 481-486

Thomas G. Fox, David R. Cole and Joseph A. Lieberman

Ethnicity in the reported pain, emotional distress and requests of medical outpatients pp. 487-490

Cheryl Koopman, Sherman Eisenthal and John D. Stoeckle

Risk factors and the prevalence of depression in Mormon women pp. 491-495

David C. Spendlove, Dee W. West and William M. Stanish

A traditional midwife practice, Sokoto State, Nigeria pp. 497-501

Dennis A. Ityavyar

Determinants of drug use: A test of the coping hypothesis pp. 503-509

Robert D. Crutchfield and Walter R. Gove

Help-seeking behaviour of depressed students pp. 511-514

Mary Kay O'Neil, William J. Lancee and Stanley J. J. Freeman

Pain and the ethics of pain management pp. 515-523

Rem B. Edwards

Assessing rural community resources for health care: The use of health services catchment area economic marketing studies pp. 525-529

Beverley Davies Rowley and DeWitt C. Baldwin

Home care as an alternative to hospitalization: A case study in Belgium pp. 531-537

L. Gunning-Schepers, X. Leroy and P. De Wals

1984, volume 18, articles 5

Why do physicians in neonatal care units differ in their admission thresholds? pp. 365-374

D. M. Campbell

Economic evaluation in primary health care: The case of Western Kenya community based health care project pp. 375-385

Joseph K. Wang'ombe

Assessing socioeconomic correlates of birthweight in peninsular Malaysia: Ethnic differences and charges over time pp. 387-404

Julie Da Vanzo, Jean-Pierre Habicht and William P. Butz

Using computer graphics to map origin-destination data describing health care delivery systems pp. 405-420

A. M. Francis and J. B. Schneider

The diffusion of cholera outside Ibadan City, Nigeria, 1971 pp. 421-428

H. O. Adesina

Identification of the cholera diffusion process in Ibadan, 1971 pp. 429-440

H. O. Adesina

Life event scaling: The Chinese experience pp. 441-446

David W. Chan, M. W. Chan-Ho and Tim S. C. Chan

Cross-cultural validity: Ethnocentrism in health studies with special reference to the Vietnamese pp. 447-453

June Eyton and Gertrud Neuwirth

1984, volume 18, articles 4

Public preferences for the care of dependency groups pp. 287-295

Patrick West, Raymond Illsley and Howard Kelman

Professional socialization in dentistry: A longitudinal analysis of changes in students' expected professional rewards pp. 297-302

Ilana Eli

The dynamics of tetanus epidemiology and control in rural Uttar Pradesh studied through computer simulation pp. 303-313

Monica Sharma and P. D. Sharma

Prediction of pregnancy complications: An application of the biopsychosocial model pp. 315-321

Gabriel Smilkstein, Annelies Helsper-Lucas, Clark Ashworth, Dan Montano and Mark Pagel

The professionalization of anesthesiology--Again pp. 323-327

Maureen Searle

A matter of life and death: Health care change in an Andean community pp. 329-334

Ruthbeth D. Finerman

Ill-health and health-care in Khartoum/Omdurman pp. 335-343

David T. Herbert and Naila B. Hijazi

The psychological dimension in cancer treatment pp. 345-349

Steven Greer

Courage: A neglected virtue in the patient-physician relationship pp. 351-360

Earl E. Shelp

1984, volume 18, articles 3

Social science and health in Canada pp. 189-189

Merrijoy Kelner and Peter Kong-Ming New

The Canadian health care system: An overview pp. 191-197

Eugene Vayda and Raisa B. Deber

Individualist and structuralist perspectives on nutrition education for Canadian children pp. 199-204

R. Love and I. Kalnins

Medicalization and secularization in selected English Canadian fiction pp. 205-210

Juanne N. Clarke

Hospital funding constraints: Strategic and tactical decision responses to sustained moderate levels of crisis in six Canadian hospitals pp. 211-219

V. V. Murray, T. D. Jick and P. Bradshaw

Hospital power structure and the democratization of hospital administration in Quebec pp. 221-228

Joan M. Eakin

Social support and mental health: Direct, protective and compensatory effects pp. 229-236

John Syrotuik and Carl D'Arcy

Barriers to adequate care for mentally ill people pp. 237-241

Alexander H. Leighton

Some limits to the hospital as a negotiated order pp. 243-249

Thomas G. Regan

Dental services in Quebec: Issues and changes pp. 251-255

Gilles Dussault

Indian health services in Canada: A sociohistorical perspective pp. 257-264

T. Kue Young

The phenomenon, the explanations and the responses: Metaphors surrounding diabetes in urban Canadian Indians pp. 265-272

Rebecca Hagey

Medical misinformation: Communication between outport Newfoundland women and their physicians pp. 273-278

Dona Lee Davis

Women and their health in the middle years: A Manitoba project pp. 279-281

Patricia A. Kaufert

Role conflict among 'culture brokers': The experience of native Canadian medical interpreters pp. 283-286

Joseph M. Kaufert and William W. Koolage

1984, volume 18, articles 2

Professional and business role orientations among practicing pharmacists pp. 103-110

Neena L. Chappell and Gordon E. Barnes

The curer as cultural intermediary in Southern Thailand pp. 111-115

Louis Golomb

The practice of 'DR' Paep: Continuity and change in indegenous healing in northern Thailand pp. 117-128

Daniel H. Weisberg

Curing and commerce: Changes in an indigenous medical practice in a highland Philippine town pp. 129-137

Susan D. Russell

'Mother needles': Lessons on inter-ethnic psychiatry in Malaysian society pp. 139-146

Ronald Provencher

Black magic and illness in a Malaysian Chinese community pp. 147-157

Bertha Mo

Malay midwives and witches pp. 159-166

Wazir-Jahan Karim

Healing as a sign of power and status in Bali pp. 167-172

Ann P. McCauley

Drugs and adverse reactions: An economic view of a medical problem pp. 173-182

Gabriella Pedroni

Sleeping sickness in Kenya Maasailand pp. 183-187

Isaac Sindiga

1984, volume 18, articles 1

How physicians treat mentally distressed men and women pp. 1-9

Lois M. Verbrugge

Power and visibility: The invention of teenage pregnancy pp. 11-19

William Ray Arney and Bernard J. Bergen

Trends in adolescent development in the People's Republic of China pp. 21-26

Norbert Goldfield

Choice and change in health care in Britain pp. 27-40

Elizabeth M. Russell

Determinants of receipt of assistance benefit and welfare services in a group of disabled adults in Norway pp. 41-45

Kari Storhaug

'These are modern times': Infant feeding practice in Peninsular Malaysia pp. 47-57

Lenore Manderson

Some aspects of the geographical mortality pattern of the Brussels population in 1970 pp. 59-62

Guido F. G. Moens

Geographical patterns of heart disease in the Northeastern United States pp. 63-72

Robert C. Ziegenfus and Wilbert M. Gesler

La mortalite differentielle par cancer suivant le milieu social: Le cas de la region metropolitaine de Montreal, 1971 pp. 73-81

Jean-Pierre Thouez

Projecting physician requirements in a two-county region in Ohio pp. 83-85

Charles B. Monroe, Ashok K. Dutt and Andrew Santora

Acculturation and mental health: A study of Hmong refugees at 1.5 and 3.5 years postmigration pp. 87-93

Joseph Westermeyer, John Neider and Tou Fu Vang