Social Science & Medicine

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1987, volume 24, articles 12

Fear of sorcery and the problem of death by suggestion pp. 997-1010

Gilbert Lewis

Problems of knowledge in contemporary Chinese medical discourse pp. 1013-1021

Judith Farquhar

Traditional Chinese medicine: Some historical and epistemological reflections pp. 1023-1029

Paul U. Unschuld

The Ayurvedic physician as scientist pp. 1031-1050

Margaret Trawick

Lay theory of healing in Northwestern New Spain pp. 1051-1060

Margarita Kay

The Kur in West Germany as an interface between naturopathic and allopathic ideologies pp. 1061-1068

Thomas W. Maretzki

An interpretive solution to the problem of humoral medicine in Latin America pp. 1069-1083

Barbara Tedlock

Behind shamanism: Changing voices of Siberian Khanty cosmology and politics pp. 1085-1093

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

The return of Dr Fritz: Spiritist healing and patronage networks in urban, industrial Brazil pp. 1095-1108

Sidney M. Greenfield

Cross-cultural communication between doctors and peasants in Bolivia pp. 1109-1118

Joseph W. Bastien

1987, volume 24, articles 11

Inner-city hospital closures/relocations: Race, income status, and legal issues pp. 889-896

Mitchell F. Rice

Health outcome and higher medical qualifications: An economic conception and notes on implementation pp. 897-910

D. P. Doessel

The demand for health inputs and their impact on the black neonatal mortality rate in the U.S pp. 911-918

Theodore Joyce

Supplier-induced demand for physiotherapy in the Netherlands pp. 919-925

Eddy Van Doorslaer and J. Geurts

Accessibility, quality of care and prenatal care use in the Philippines pp. 927-944

Emelita L. Wong, Barry M. Popkin, David K. Guilkey and John Akin

Avoidable burden of illness: How much can prevention contribute to health? pp. 945-951

Louise J. Gunning-Schepers and J. Hans Hagen

Infant mortality and economic instability in Yugoslavia pp. 953-960

Stephen J. Kunitz, Snezana Simic and Charles L. Odoroff

Community priorities following disaster: A case study from Tonga pp. 961-966

Sitaleki A. Finau

Evaluation of the annual activity of a continuing medical and home care unit pp. 967-972

G. Mor, A. Joshpeh, R. S. Carel and M. Brayer

Health behavior models compared pp. 973-981

Patricia D. Mullen, James C. Hersey and Donald C. Iverson

Smoking and hospital utilization pp. 983-986

J. J. Weinkam, W. Rosenbaum and T. D. Sterling

Letter to the editor pp. 987-987

H. Van Balen

1987, volume 24, articles 10

Dietary change and plasma glucose levels in an Amerindian population undergoing cultural transition pp. 791-804

Emöke J. E. Szathmary, Cheryl Ritenbaugh and Carol-Sue M. Goodby

Evaluating medical expert systems pp. 805-819

Henry P. Lundsgaarde

An implementation model for health system reform pp. 821-832

Gail Siler-Wells

Evaluating healthy days of life gained from health projects pp. 833-841

Howard Barnum

Technical and allocative efficiency in production of outpatient mental health clinic services pp. 843-850

Richard G. Frank and Carl A. Taube

Aging and health care utilization: New evidence on old fallacies pp. 851-862

Morris L. Barer, Robert G. Evans, Clyde Hertzman and Jonathan Lomas

Depression in solvent abusers pp. 863-866

Allan M. Jacobs and A. Hamid Ghodse

Conceptual problems in dependency research pp. 867-873

David Wilkin

Social stress, normative constraints and alcohol problems in American States pp. 875-883

Arnold S. Linsky, John P. Colby and Murray A. Straus

Health problems of elderly Nigerians pp. 885-888

S. Ekpenyong, O. Y. Oyeneye and M. Peil

1987, volume 24, articles 9

Maintaining professional quality through innovation and changes in health care pp. 705-708

Erik Holst

World Health Organization behavioral science research: Problems and prospects pp. 709-717

George M. Foster

The measurement of hospital efficiency pp. 719-724

Alistair McGuire

An economic appraisal of screening for Down's syndrome in pregnancy using maternal age and serum alpha fetoprotein concentration pp. 725-731

Mike Gill, Victoria Murday and Joan Slack

Seasonality of births and birthweights in Tanzania pp. 733-739

Han Bantje

Considerations guiding physicians when informing cancer patients pp. 741-748

Marianne Amir

The state of psychiatry in South Africa today pp. 749-757

John Dommisse

Comment pp. 758-758

S. D. Edwards

Comment pp. 758-760

S. P. Sashidharan and S. Platt

Health sector structures: The case of Poland pp. 763-775

Magdalena Sokolowska and Bozena Moskalewicz

Communication climate and patient care: Causes and effects of nurses' attitudes to patients pp. 777-784

A. C. Nievaard

1987, volume 24, articles 8

Breastfeeding and weaning in Mali: Cultural context and hard data pp. 633-644

Katherine A. Dettwyler

Concepts and management of deafness in the Yoruba medical system: A case study of traditional healers in Ile-Ife, Nigeria pp. 645-649

A. I. Odebiyi and Funmi Togonu-Bickersteth

Silence and truth in death and dying pp. 651-657

David Armstrong

Core-periphery differences in infant mortality pp. 659-667

Heikki S. Vuorinen

Perceived health status among the new urban homeless pp. 669-678

Richard H. Ropers and Richard Boyer

Arterial blood pressure and individual modernization in a Mexican community pp. 679-687

William W. Dressler, Alfonso Mata, Adolfo Chavez and Fernando E. Viteri

Why we seek treatment here: Retail pharmacy and clinical practice in Maiduguri, Nigeria pp. 689-695

U. A. Igun

1987, volume 24, articles 7

Menarche and sexuality among a sample of black South African schoolgirls pp. 561-571

Brian M. du Toit

Breast feeding, birth interval and polygyny in Nigeria pp. 573-580

Alfred A. Adewuyi

Cognitive antecedents of coronary heart disease pp. 581-588

Iris Drechsler, Daniel Bruner and Shulamith Kreitler

Is frequent religious attendance really conducive to better health?: Toward an epidemiology of religion pp. 589-600

Jeffrey S. Levin and Harold Y. Vanderpool

Cancers of affluence: Positive social class gradient and rising incidence trend in some cancer forms pp. 601-606

Arja H. Rimpelä and Eero I. Pukkala

Knowledge attitudes and practices in relation to schistosomiasis in a rural community pp. 607-611

P. Taylor, S. K. Chandiwana, J. M. Govere and F. Chombo

Illness negotiation: The case of eating disorders pp. 613-618

Leslie Swartz

Changes in students' sociopolitical attitudes during medical school: Socialization or maturation effect? pp. 619-624

Brigitte Maheux and François Béland

The influence of khat-chewing on birth-weight in full-term infants pp. 625-627

N. Abdul Ghani, M. Eriksson, B. Kristiansson and A. Qirbi

1987, volume 24, articles 6

Psychiatric emergency services: Evolution, adaptation and proliferation pp. 475-482

Edward Wellin, Doris P. Slesinger and C. David Hollister

Ethical considerations of informed consent: A case study pp. 483-486

Norbert Goldfield and William A. Rothman

Background to the development of health services in Nigeria pp. 487-499

Dennis A. Ityavyar

The influence of domestic position on health status pp. 501-506

W.A.V. Clark, H.E. Freeman, R. Kane and C.E. Lewis

'Avoidable mortality' from cervical cancer: Exploring the concept pp. 507-514

Jan Howard

Bridging the gap: The village health worker as the cornerstone of the primary health care model pp. 515-528

Deborah E. Bender and Kathryn Pitkin

Time use of stroke patients in three rehabilitation hospitals pp. 529-533

Robert Allen Keith and Katherine Sharp Cowell

Changing ideas: The medicalization of menopause pp. 535-542

Susan E. Bell

Moral and social aspects of aids: A medical students' project pp. 543-549

Jonathan Elford

The magnitude of the maternal mortality problem in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 551-558

Ties Boerma

1987, volume 24, articles 5

Geographical distribution of cerebrovascular disease mortality and food intakes in Japan pp. 401-407

Toshitaka Omura, Shun'ichi Hisamatsu, Yukio Takizawa, Masumi Minowa, Hiroshi Yanagawa and Itsuzo Shigematsu

Patients' noncompliance and how doctors manage this pp. 409-416

Irena Heszen-Klemens

Community attitudes to mental illness in New Zealand twenty-two years on pp. 417-422

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

The nationalisation of the Swedish pharmacies pp. 423-429

John Lilja

Parental perceptions and attitudes toward asthma and its treatment: A controlled study pp. 431-437

J. E. Donnelly, W. J. Donnelly and Y. H. Thong

Measles case fatality among the under-fives: A multivariate analysis of risk factors in a rural area of Bangladesh pp. 439-443

Abbas Bhuiya, Bogdan Wojtyniak, Stan D'Souza, Lutfun Nahar and Kashem Shaikh

The secret bread tests: Selective primary health care or experimentation on human-beings? pp. 445-448

Max Kamien

Maternal and child factors for reported child abuse among Chinese in Hong Kong pp. 449-452

Edith M. C. Lau and S. P. B. Donnan

Power and privileges in medical care: An analysis of medical services in post-colonial Nigeria pp. 453-462

S. Ogoh Alubo

Correlates of stages in the progression from everyday drinking to problem drinking pp. 463-473

R. A. Knibbe, M. J. Drop and A. Muytjens

1987, volume 24, articles 4

The ambiguity of symbols in the structure of healing pp. 293-301

Carol Laderman

Gender and symptoms of depression and anxiety among Kikuyu secondary school students in Kenya pp. 303-316

Sharon Mitchell and Susan Abbott

Tai Dam health care practices: Asian refugee women in Iowa pp. 317-325

Sue E. Bell and Michael B. Whiteford

Patterns of rural hospital closure in the United States pp. 327-334

Jonathan D. Mayer, Elizabeth R. Kohlenberg, G. Eric Sieferman and Roger A. Rosenblatt

Applications of behavior modification to health promotion in the developing world pp. 335-349

John P. Elder

Patient satisfaction with the clinical encounter: Social psychological determinants pp. 351-357

Robert Like and Stephen J. Zyzanski

A randomized control trial of cardiac rehabilitation pp. 359-370

Ann W. Burgess, Debra J. Lerner, Ralph B. D'Agostino, Pantel S. Vokonas, Carol R. Hartman and Peter Gaccione

The role of the chemist in primary health care for children with minor complaints pp. 371-377

Sarah Cunningham-Burley and Una Maclean

Comparison of a dietary attitude index based on questionnaire data and a 7-day diet recall interview: A study among pregnant women pp. 379-382

Jørn Olsen and Grethe Frische

Coping with intestinal illness among the Kamba in Machakos, Kenya, and aspects of schistosomiasis control pp. 383-394

Helmut Kloos, John H. Ouma, H. Curtis Kariuki and Anthony E. Butterworth

1987, volume 24, articles 3

Treatment-seeking for depression by black and white Americans pp. 187-196

Linda K. Sussman, Lee N. Robins and Felton Earls

Public health in pre-colonial east-central Africa pp. 197-208

Gloria Waite

'The stumbling disease': A case study of stigma among Azorean-Portuguese pp. 209-217

Marie I. Boutté

Modeling the outcomes of nursing home care pp. 219-223

James E. Rohrer and Andrew J. Hogan

Canine heartworm disease: A review and pilot study pp. 225-246

Kenneth C. Haddock

Health care policy and regional epidemiology: International comparisons and a case-study from the Netherlands pp. 247-253

J.P. Mackenbach

Breastfeeding: Its relatioship with postpartum amenorrhea and postpartum sexual abstinence in a Nigerian community pp. 255-262

Gbolahan A. Oni

Rural health care: A British success or a tale of unmet need? pp. 263-274

Richard Fearn

An educational intervention for altering water-sanitation behaviours to reduce childhood diarrhoea in urban Bangladesh: formulation, preparation and delivery of educational intervention pp. 275-283

Bonita F. Stanton, John D. Clemens, Tajkera Khair, Khodeza Khatun and Dilwara Akhter Jahan

Do health professionals agree on the parenting potential of pregnant women? pp. 285-288

D.P. Sommerfeld and J.R. Hughes

1987, volume 24, articles 2

Public awareness of AIDS in Rwanda pp. 97-100

Douglas A. Feldman, Samuel R. Friedman and Don C. Des Jarlais

Arab-American patients: A medical record review pp. 101-107

Juliene G. Lipson, Alice E. Reizian and Afaf I. Meleis

Meningitis and unpaved roads pp. 109-115

Robert Williams

Mortality after bereavement: A review of the literature on survival periods and factors affecting survival pp. 117-124

Ann Bowling

Development of a measure of potential health behaviour: A salience of lifestyle index pp. 125-134

Roisin Pill and Nigel C. H. Stott

Informed consent: The physicians' perspective pp. 135-143

Kathryn M. Taylor and Merrijoy Kelner

Relationship of chronic stress, social support, and coping style to health among Namibian refugees pp. 145-157

Olive Shisana and David D. Celentano

The family's adaptation to childhood leukemia pp. 159-168

Betsy Fife, James Norton and Gary Groom

Evaluation of holistic medicine pp. 169-175

Mahesh S. Patel

The best of both worlds: Bringing traditional medicine up to date pp. 177-181

Olayiwola Akerele

1987, volume 24, articles 1

Health and the holy in African and Afro-American spirit possession pp. 1-11

Thomas J. Csordas

Models of stress and meanings of unemployment: Reactions to job loss among technical professionals pp. 13-21

David Jacobson

Defective modernization and health in Mexico pp. 23-36

Jeanne M. Simonelli

High levels of childhood rickets in rural North Yemen pp. 37-41

Peter Underwood and Barrie Margetts

The treatment of musculoskeletal disorders by a Mexican bonesetter (SOBADOR) pp. 43-46

Robert Anderson

Ethnicity and pain: A biocultural model pp. 47-50

Maryann S. Bates

Sudden infant deaths and clear weather in a subtropical environment pp. 51-56

A. Auliciems and A. Barnes

Interdisciplinary approaches in epidemic studies--II: Four geographic models of the flow of contagious disease pp. 57-69

Juan J. Angulo

The impact of late adolescent substance use on young adult health status and utilization of health services: A structural- equation model over four years pp. 71-82

Michael D. Newcomb and P.M. Bentler

The measurement of social support in population surveys pp. 83-94

Kristina Orth-Gomér and Anna-Lena Undén