Social Science & Medicine

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1982, volume 16, articles 24

Professionals' criteria for accepting people as patients pp. 2083-2089

Janet Askham

Parenthood and social networks: A preliminary view pp. 2091-2100

Muriel Hammer, Linda Gutwirth and Susan L. Phillips

Curable cancers and fatal ulcers: Attitudes toward cancer in Japan pp. 2101-2108

Susan O. Long and Bruce D. Long

Treatment benefit functions for a drug abuse rehabilitation treatment system pp. 2109-2116

Amiram M. Sheffet, Prasadarao V. Kakumanu, Marvin A. Lavenhar and Martin Feuerman

Strategies for coping with food consumption shortage in the Mandara Mountains region of North Cameroon pp. 2117-2127

David J. Campbell and David D. Trechter

Social-psychological adjustment to multiple sclerosis: A longitudinal study pp. 2129-2135

Nancy A. Brooks and Ronald R. Matson

Changes in the smoking behaviour, knowledge and opinion of medical students, 1972-1981 pp. 2137-2143

Andrea Knopf Elkind

The efficiency of inefficiency: Medicine distribution in South Cameroon pp. 2145-2153

Sjaak van der Geest

1982, volume 16, articles 23

Institutionalized and the non-institutionalized elderly pp. 2001-2008

Naoki Ikegami

An investigation of prescribed and nonprescribed medicine use behavior within the household context pp. 2009-2015

Joseph D. Jackson, Mickey C. Smith, Thomas R. Sharpe, Robert A. Freeman and Ronald Hy

Rational prescribing and sources of information pp. 2017-2023

Flora Haayer

Attitudes towards the rights of mental patients: A national survey in the United States pp. 2025-2039

Phil Brown

Health, disease and health-care in rural Bangladesh pp. 2041-2054

Ali Ashraf, Shafiq Chowdhury and Pieter Streefland

Penicillin, battery acid and sacrifice: Cures and causes in Nyole medicine pp. 2055-2064

Susan Reynolds Whyte

The utilization of health services: Sequence of visits to general practitioners pp. 2065-2072

Francois Beland

Emergence et devenir du systeme de prise en charge de la tuberculose en France entre 1900 et 1940 pp. 2073-2082

France Lert

1982, volume 16, articles 22

Unemployment and health in macro-social analysis pp. 1903-1917

Ingeborg P. Spruit

Economic cycles and health: Towards a sociological understanding of the impact of the recession on health and illness pp. 1919-1927

Malcolm Colledge

Violent deaths in the United States, 1900-1975: Relationships between suicide, homicide and accidental deaths pp. 1929-1938

Paul C. Holinger and Elaine H. Klemen

Errors of intuitive logic among physicians pp. 1939-1943

Jonathan Borak and Suzanne Veilleux

Comments pp. 1944-1945

Philip H. N. Wood

Comments pp. 1945-1946

Arthur S. Elstein

Intercultural misunderstandings about health care: Recall of descriptions of illness and treatment pp. 1949-1954

Margaret S. Steffensen and Larry Colker

The cost of tranquilizers pp. 1955-1958

Paul Williams

Disease epidemiology and earthquake disaster: The example of Southern Italy after the 23 November 1980 earthquake pp. 1959-1969

David Alexander

Policy and practice: The case of medical facilities in Nigeria pp. 1971-1977

S. I. Okafor

Interval sterilizations: A substitute for postpartum procedures, an example from Southeast Brazil pp. 1979-1983

Barbara Janowitz, Deborah L. Covington, Michael Brown and Milton Nakamura

The blocked bed: Definition of a problem pp. 1985-1991

David Hall and Bill Bytheway

1982, volume 16, articles 21

Utilization of indigenous healers in national health delivery systems pp. 1815-1816

Una Maclean and Robert H. Bannerman

Ethnomedicine and biomedicine linking pp. 1817-1824

A. K. Neumann and P. Lauro

Policy and evaluation perspectives on traditional health practitioners in national health care systems pp. 1825-1834

Barbara L. K. Pillsbury

Policies towards indigenous healers in independent India pp. 1835-1841

Roger Jefferey

New legal rules for an old art of healing: The case of Zairian Healers' Associations pp. 1843-1849

Gilles Bibeau

Biomedical and ethnomedical practice in rural Zaire: Contrasts and complements pp. 1851-1857

P. Stanley Yoder

Rural health development in Ethiopia,: Problems of utilization of traditional healers pp. 1859-1872

Leendert Jan Slikkerveer

Ghanaian national policy toward indigenous healers: The case of the Primary Health Training for Indigenous Healers (PRHETIH) program pp. 1873-1881

D. M. Warren, G. Steven Bova, Mary Ann Tregoning and Mark Kliewer

Traditional birth attendants among the Annang of Nigeria: Current practices and proposed programs pp. 1883-1892

Pamela J. Brink

Cupping as an indigenous treatment of pain syndromes in the finnish cultural and social context pp. 1893-1901

Tuula Vaskilampi and Osmo Hänninen

1982, volume 16, articles 20

Indicators of social class: A comparative appraisal of measures for use in epidemiological studies pp. 1739-1746

J. H. Abramson, R. Gofin, J. Habib, H. Pridan and J. Gofin

Factors related to the prescribing of selected psychotropic drugs by primary care physicians pp. 1747-1756

Ronald S. Hadsall, Robert A. Freeman and G. Joseph Norwood

The impact of kin, friend and neighbor networks on infant feeding practices: Cuban, Puerto Rican and Anglo families in Florida pp. 1757-1765

Carol Anne Bryant

Barriers to the health maintenance organization for the over 65's pp. 1767-1774

Sandra L. Titus

Catastrophic health insurance and HMO's pp. 1775-1779

Ron N. Forthofer, David R. Lairson and Jay H. Glasser

Patient characteristics negatively stereotyped by doctors pp. 1781-1789

J. M. Najman, D. Klein and C. Munro

The structure and functioning of ethical review committees pp. 1791-1800

Frank Gutteridge, Zbigniew Bankowski, William Curran and John Dunne

Tales of the expected: A case-study in health service management pp. 1801-1806

Nick Black

1982, volume 16, articles 19

Assessment of reproductive knowledge in an inner-city clinic pp. 1657-1662

Shirley M. Johnson and Loudell F. Snow

Health and inequality: Some applications of uncertainty theory pp. 1663-1666

Jacques Silber

Neighborhood characteristics and hospital closures: A comparison of the public, private and voluntary hospital systems pp. 1667-1674

Sara McLafferty

Patterns of contraceptive use in Kingston and St Andrew, Jamaica, 1970-1977 pp. 1675-1683

Wilma Bailey and Dorian Powell

Social activation of the elderly: A social experiment pp. 1685-1690

Bengt B. Arnetz, Mary Eyre and Töres Theorell

Experiences of strain and pleasure among British adults pp. 1691-1697

Peter Warr and Roy Payne

How perceptions of a simulated physician-patient interaction influence intended satisfaction and compliance pp. 1699-1704

Pamela Willson and J. Regis McNamara

Breast-feeding and cognitive development in the first seven years of life pp. 1705-1708

D. M. Fergusson, A. L. Beautrais and P. A. Silva

The basis of privacy and autonomy in medical practice: A model pp. 1709-1718

Walter J. Friedlander

The treatment of Jehovah's Witness patients pp. 1719-1723

Morris Weinberger, William M. Tierney, James Y. Greene and P. Albert Studdard

1982, volume 16, articles 18

Health and social characteristics of long-term psychotropic drug takers pp. 1595-1598

Joanna Murray, Paul Williams and Anthony Clare

Midwife training programs in highland Guatemala pp. 1599-1609

Linda Greenberg

Integrating western orthodox and indigenous medicine: Professional interests and attitudes among university-trained Nigerian physicians pp. 1611-1617

Tola Olu Pearce

Resource consumption and future organisation of medical work in the national health service pp. 1619-1626

Warren Kinston

Technique bias in measuring acts of altruism: The case of voluntary blood donation pp. 1627-1633

Ernie S. Lightman

Knowledge and attitude of mental diseases in a rural community of South India pp. 1635-1639

D. K. Srinivasa and S. Trivedi

Life stress and violence among ex-mental patients pp. 1641-1647

Henry J. Steadman and Stephen A. Ribner

Typology of health care consumers in Nigeria pp. 1649-1652

Durrenda Nash Ojanuga and Myron J. Lefcowitz

1982, volume 16, articles 17

Patient symptoms and physician prescribing patterns in the elderly pp. 1531-1538

Bernard S. Linn and Margaret W. Linn

Ageing in the South Pacific: Physical changes with urbanization pp. 1539-1549

Sitaleki A. Finau, Ian A. M. Prior and J. Grimley Evans

End stage renal disease (ESRD) and the marital dyad: A literature review and critique pp. 1551-1558

Gregory D. Chowanec and Y. M. Binik

Food as medicine and medicine as food: An adaptive framework for the interpretation of plant utilization among the Hausa of northern Nigeria pp. 1559-1573

Nina L. Etkin and Paul J. Ross

Prevalence of treated and untreated psychiatric disorders in three ethnic groups pp. 1575-1582

Sally W. Vernon and Robert E. Roberts

Issues in studying ancillary services pp. 1583-1590

Leslie L. Roos

Measurement and analysis of knowledge and attitudes toward epilepsy and persons with epilepsy pp. 1591-1593

Richard F. Antonak and Patricia R. Rankin

1982, volume 16, articles 16

Introduction: The ethnography of health care decisions pp. 1451-1452

Linda Young Garro

Variation in the choice of treatment in two Mexican communities pp. 1453-1465

James C. Young and Linda Young Garro

Help-seeking behavior among foreign-born and native-born Mexican Americans pp. 1467-1472

Susan Emley Keefe

Recognizing active labor: A test of a decision-making guide for pregnant women pp. 1473-1482

Susan C. M. Scrimshaw and Ruth Souza

The implications of role expectations for birth assistance among Bariba women pp. 1483-1489

Carolyn Sargent

The logic of well being: Therapeutic narratives in Cairo, Egypt pp. 1491-1497

Evelyn A. Early

Childbirth in Tunisia: Implications of a decision-making model pp. 1499-1506

Liesa Stamm Auerbach

Northern Thai health care alternatives: Patient control and the structure of medical pluralism pp. 1507-1517

Daniel H. Weisberg

The role of cultural explanations in 'somatization' and 'psychologization' pp. 1519-1530

Geoffrey M. White

1982, volume 16, articles 15

Medicine under socialism: Some observations on Yugoslavia and China pp. 1389-1396

Donna E. Parmelee, Gail Henderson and Myron S. Cohen

Illness behavior and the sick role in chronic disease: The case of multiple sclerosis pp. 1397-1404

David C. Stewart and Thomas J. Sullivan

Medical theories and professional development: The theory of focal sepsis and dentistry in early twentieth century Britain pp. 1405-1412

Gilles Dussault and Aubrey Sheiham

The primary medical care practitioner's attitudes toward psychiatry: An Israeli study pp. 1413-1420

B. Link, I. Levav and A. Cohen

Fear of death and dying among medical students pp. 1421-1424

Kevin Howells and David Field

Psychology in an integrated undergraduate medical curriculum pp. 1425-1428

Monica Hayes and Kenneth R. Mitchell

Human experimentation in historical and ethical perspectives pp. 1429-1448

Norman Howard-Jones

Correspondence pp. 1449-1449

M. Susan Ueber Raymond

1982, volume 16, articles 14

Social distance from the stigmatized: A test of two theories pp. 1319-1327

Gary L. Albrecht, Vivian G. Walker and Judith A. Levy

Social support, accommodation to stress and adjustment to breast cancer pp. 1329-1338

Joan R. Bloom

Psychological symptoms among Chinese in urban Hong Kong pp. 1339-1344

Fanny M. Cheung

Death styles among Canada's Indians pp. 1345-1352

George K. Jarvis and Menno Boldt

The response of mothers to health education and the incidence of gastro-enteritis among their babies in Ile-Ife, Nigeria pp. 1353-1360

Modupe O. Odumosu

Perceived influence of different information sources on the decision-making of internal medicine house staff and faculty pp. 1361-1364

Stuart J. Cohen, Morris Weinberger, Steven A. Mazzuca and Clement J. McDonald

Non verbal language in mothers with malnourished infants: A pilot study pp. 1365-1369

M. Luz Alvarez, Fanny Wurgaft and Hula Wilder

Patient stress and the computer in the consulting room pp. 1371-1376

P. J. Cruickshank

Helping and achieving: Compatible or competing goals for men and women in medical school? pp. 1377-1381

Glynis Bean and Louise H. Kidder

1982, volume 16, articles 13

Production and reproduction: Women and breastfeeding: Some Nigerian examples pp. 1247-1251

B. Meldrum and C. Di Domenico

Psycho-social influence on self-care of the hemodialysis patient pp. 1253-1264

Tsunetsugu Munakata

Mutual support groups in Great Britain: A survey pp. 1265-1275

Leo Levy

Breast cancer screening: A study in cost-effectiveness analysis pp. 1277-1283

Gavin Mooney

The demand for dental health pp. 1285-1289

Joel W. Hay, Howard Bailit and Douglas A. Chiriboga

Fuzzy measurement of output: A problem of evaluation for health policy pp. 1291-1300

Peter Zweifel

A resource inventory approach to needs assessment: Examples from a statewide hypertension control program pp. 1301-1307

Edward M. Bosanac, Virginia J. Petersen, Gina L. Forren and Tom Baranowski

1982, volume 16, articles 12

Research on psychotropic drug use: A review of findings and methods pp. 1179-1196

Ruth Cooperstock and Penny Parnell

Health and society in China: Public health education for the community, 1912-1937 pp. 1197-1205

Ka-che Yip

Harvard Medical School of China, 1911-1916: An expanded footnote in the history of western medical education in China pp. 1207-1215

Peter Kong-Ming New and Yuet-Wah Cheung

The Rockefeller foundation, the China foundation, and the development of modern science in China pp. 1217-1221

Laurence A. Schneider

Philippine nurses and the brain drain pp. 1223-1233

Richard E. Joyce and Chester L. Hunt

An analysis of lung cancer on a microgeographical level pp. 1235-1238

A. L. Hathcock, R. A. Greenberg and A. W. Dakan

Attitudes of pharmacy students towards psychosocial factors in health care pp. 1239-1241

Hind Hatoum, Mickey C. Smith and Thomas R. Sharpe

1982, volume 16, articles 11

The health of the urban black in the South African context pp. 1111-1117

B. Unterhalter

The use of unorthodox therapies and marginal practitioners pp. 1119-1125

Jennie J. Kronenfeld and Cody Wasner

Man-made lakes and man-made diseases: Towards a policy resolution pp. 1127-1145

John M. Hunter, Luis Rey and David Scott

A spatial analysis of voting on health care issues: United States House of Representatives, 96th Congress, First Session pp. 1147-1156

Ross Mullner, Steven Andes, Raymond Tatalovich and Barbara Bardes

Adjusting planning guidelines for cardiac-care units pp. 1157-1167

James Greenberg and Roger Kropf

1982, volume 16, articles 10

Adverse consequences of hospitalization in the elderly pp. 1033-1038

Muriel R. Gillick, Nancy A. Serrell and Laurence S. Gillick

Survey approach to estimating demand for physician assistants pp. 1039-1047

Richard M. Scheffler and Dennis B. Gillings

Selective primary health care: Old wine in new bottles pp. 1049-1054

Oscar Gish

Selective primary health care: Is efficient sufficient? pp. 1054-1059

Peter A. Berman

The measurement of distance when testing hypotheses of contagion pp. 1065-1066

Peter Elton

Tubal sterilization: Characteristics of women most affected by the option of reversibility pp. 1067-1077

Rochelle N. Shain and Harold D. Dickson

The impact of patients' perceptions of high blood pressure on attendance at screening: An extension of the health belief model pp. 1079-1091

Jennifer B. King

Personality differences between sick and rarely sick individuals pp. 1093-1093

Helen Hansagi, Ingemar Lindahl, Peter Allebeck, Britta Buckau and Denny Vagerö

The genetics of altruism: by and. Academic Press, New York, 1980. 459 pp. [No price] pp. 1095-1098

V. C. Wynne-Edwards

1982, volume 16, articles 9

Institutional structures: Catalysts of or barriers to quality care for the institutionalized aged in Scotland and the U.S pp. 935-944

J. S. Kayser-Jones

The neurology of poverty pp. 945-950

Gonzalo Alvarez

Professional socialization in dentistry: A longitudinal analysis of attitude changes among dental students towards the dental profession pp. 951-955

Ilana Eli and Judith T. Shuval

The contribution of social science to international health training pp. 957-964

Maureen J. Giovannini and Ann T. Brownlee

Effect of modernization on Kuwaiti women pp. 965-970

Afaf Ibrahim Meleis

Drug use in separated/divorced persons: Gender, parental status, and socio-economic status pp. 971-976

Anne-Marie Ambert

The work of hospitalized patients pp. 977-986

Anselm L. Strauss, Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek and Carolyn Wiener

Social, spatial and political determinants of U.S. abortion rates pp. 987-996

Norah F. Henry and Milton E. Harvey

Hansen's disease in the United States pp. 997-1004

Tim Hudson and Jim Genesse

Incidents of reality: Sources of ontological stress and concern pp. 1005-1011

Sonja A. Ruznisky and Patrick C. Thauberger

Lay evaluation of medical treatment and competence development of a model of the function of the physician's affective behavior pp. 1013-1019

Zeev Ben-Sira

1982, volume 16, articles 8

The relationship between incidence and prevalence pp. 857-862

S. Haberman

The utilization of general hospitals by occupational groups in Finland pp. 863-869

Kari Vinni

Reprofessionalization in pharmacy pp. 871-878

Arnold Birenbaum

Comments on the mania for sons: An analysis of social values in South Asia, and pp. 879-879

A. Muthiah

Comments on the mania for sons: An analysis of social values in South Asia, and pp. 879-880

John F. Marshall

Comments on the mania for sons: An analysis of social values in South Asia, and pp. 881-884

Morgan D. Machlachlan

Rejoinder pp. 885-885

A. Ramanamma and Usha Bambawale

An econometric analysis of the major determinants of nursing home costs in the United States pp. 887-898

Mark R. Meiners

Psychological reactions to the onset of chronic illness pp. 899-905

Mary T. Westbrook and Linda L. Viney

Anomic aspects of recovery from cancer pp. 907-912

Ellen L. Maher

Ethical complications of clinical therapeutic research on children pp. 913-919

David C. Thomasma and Alvin M. Mauer

1982, volume 16, articles 7

Salient issues in choosing a new doctor pp. 759-767

Fredric D. Wolinsky and Steven R. Steiber

Child-feeding habits in a situation of social change: The case of Maiduguri, Nigeria pp. 769-781

U. A. Igun

Ships of fools and vessels of the divine: Mental hospitals and madness, a case study pp. 783-794

Linda H. Connor

Exchange between Andean and western medicine pp. 795-803

Joseph W. Bastien

Insurance, competition and cost containment pp. 805-810

Warren Greenberg

Professional uncertainty and the problem of supplier-induced demand pp. 811-824

John E. Wennberg, Benjamin A. Barnes and Michael Zubkoff

The health promoting function of mass media and reference groups: Motivating or reinforcing of behavior change pp. 825-834

Zeev Ben-Sira

Beliefs about causes of cancer in cancer patients pp. 835-839

Margaret W. Linn, Bernard S. Linn and Shayna R. Stein

1982, volume 16, articles 6

Innovation, ideology and innocence pp. 623-628

David Maddison

Comparative studies of health care systems pp. 629-642

Rance P. L. Lee

Natural science and medicine; social science and medicine: Some methodological controversies pp. 643-657

P. M. Strong and K. McPherson

Methodological controversies between social and medical sciences pp. 659-665

Darek Niklas

The relevance of the history of medicine to an understanding of current change: some comments from the domain of antenatal care pp. 667-674

Ann Oakley

Primary health care in developing countries: The case of Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Tanzania pp. 675-686

I. O. Orubuloye and O. Y. Oyeneye

The optimum utilization and appropriate responsibilities of allied health professionals pp. 687-698

David D. Celentano

Trends in psychotropic drugs dispensing 1967-1977: The impact of government controls in Australia pp. 699-706

Andrea Mant and Jane Hall

Statistical malpractice in drug promotion: A case-study from Brazil pp. 707-709

Cesar G. Victoria

Problems of clinical trials as evidence of therapeutic effectiveness pp. 711-712

Elina Hemminki

Financing health care in a static economy pp. 713-724

J. S. Deeble

Psychological correlates of length of hospitalization and rehospitalization in patients with acute, severe asthma pp. 725-729

A. A. Kaptein

The justification of medical paternalism pp. 731-739

H. A. Bassford

Ideology, social policy, health and health services: A field of complex interactions pp. 741-752

Emanuel de Kadt

A social scientific view on the development of pharmacy and therapeutics committees pp. 753-757

Hanne Herborg Henriksen

1982, volume 16, articles 5

The effects of latent social needs on physician utilization by immigrants: A replication study pp. 505-514

Tikvah Honig-Parnass

Doctors and society: A Northern Thailand study pp. 515-526

Harold E. Smith

Dr Moreno Cañas: A symbolic bridge to the demedicalization of healing pp. 527-531

Setha M. Low

A household framework for examining the social and economic consequences of tropical diseases pp. 533-543

Barry M. Popkin

An economic appraisal of the benefits of screening for open spina bifida pp. 545-560

John B. Henderson

The effects of accessibility on general practitioner consultations, out-patient attendances and in-patient admissions in Norfolk, England pp. 561-569

R. M. Haynes and C. G. Bentham

Accessibility to medical care among urban American Indians in a large metropolitan area pp. 571-575

Gary W. Shannon and Rashid L. Bashshur

Toward a theory of patient satisfaction pp. 577-582

Susie Linder-Pelz

Social psychological determinants of patient satisfaction: A test of five hypotheses pp. 583-589

Susie Linder-Pelz

Physician attitudes toward communication with cancer patients pp. 591-594

Howard P. Greenwald and Michael C. Nevitt

The effects of peer and parental smoking and age on the smoking careers of college women: A sex-related phenomenon pp. 595-600

Nell H. Gottlieb

Professionalisation: The case of pharmacy in Ghana pp. 601-607

Paul Bennell

1982, volume 16, articles 4

Social factors in the etiology of chronic disease: An overview pp. 353-367

David V. McQueen and Johannes Siegrist

The relation of social to biological processes in disease pp. 369-380

James P. Henry

Psychosocial factors and psychophysiological mechanisms in the aetiology and development of cancers pp. 381-396

Tom Cox and Colin Mackay

Social factors in the etiology of multiple outcomes: The case of blood pressure and alcohol consumption patterns pp. 397-418

David V. McQueen and David D. Celentano

Cross-cultural variation in blood pressure: A quantitative analysis of the relationships of blood pressure to cultural characteristics, salt consumption and body weight pp. 419-430

Ingrid Waldron, Michele Nowotarski, Miriam Freimer, James P. Henry, Nancy Post and Charles Witten

Economic change and sex-specific cardiovascular mortality in Britain 1955-1976 pp. 431-442

M. Harvey Brenner and Anne Mooney

The social context of active distress in patients with early myocardial infarction pp. 443-453

Johannes Siegrist, Klaus Dittmann, Karin Rittner and Ingbert Weber

The relation between stress and myocardial infarction: A general analysis pp. 455-462

Werner Maschewsky

Myocardial infarction risk and psychosocial work environment: An analysis of the male Swedish working force pp. 463-467

L. Alfredsson, R. Karasek and T. Theorell

Blood pressure variations across areas in the greater Stockholm region: Analysis of 74,000 18-year-old men pp. 469-473

T. Theorell, J. Svensson, Sarah Knox and B. Ahlborg

Effects of social support in the stressor-strain relationship: A Dutch sample pp. 475-482

Jacques A. M. Winnubst, Frans H. G. Marcelissen and Rolf J. Kleber

Breast cancer: Varied perceptions of social support in the illness experience pp. 483-491

Holly Peters-Golden

Interpersonal repression as a predictor of cancer pp. 493-498

Ronald Grossarth-Maticek, Johannes Siegrist and Hermann Vetter

1982, volume 16, articles 3

The current thrust of international health: More scope for the social scientist pp. 233-234

F. J. Bennett

A short scale of cancer knowledge and some socio-demographic correlates pp. 235-240

Owen Dent and Kerry Goulston

Temporal context and the perceptions of geriatric patients pp. 241-244

William Rakowski

Racial differences in knowledge of cancer: A pilot study pp. 245-252

Robert Michielutte and Robert A. Diseker

The low mortality rates of Chinese infants: Some plausible explanatory factors pp. 253-265

Elena Yu

A model of the demand for medical and health services in Peninsular Malaysia pp. 267-284

Peter S. Heller

Politics and medicine: The case of Israeli national health insurance pp. 285-291

Yael Yishai

Trends in mortality from diseases of the circulatory system and cancer by site in Antwerp, Belgium 1900-1975 pp. 293-302

Nini Vrijens

Spatial analysis of surgery locations in general practice pp. 303-313

Sarah E. Curtis

Dilemmas in general practice: The care of the cancer patient pp. 315-322

Jane E. Rosser and Peter Maguire

Psychological aspects of pregnancy: Some thoughts for the eighties pp. 323-331

B. Chalmers

Consumers, clinicians and confidentiality pp. 333-335

Jacob Jay Lindenthal and Claudewell S. Thomas

The first Asian seminar on health and medical sociology: A brief report pp. 351-352

Mikio Yamamoto

1982, volume 16, articles 2

Introduction pp. 131-133

Cynthia M. Beall

Biological function, activity and dependency among elderly Sherpa in the Nepal Himalayas pp. 135-140

Cynthia M. Beall and Melvyn C. Goldstein

Work, aging and dependency in a Sherpa population in Nepal pp. 141-147

Cynthia M. Beall and Melvyn C. Goldstein

Population genetic models in the study of aging and longevity in a mennonite community pp. 149-153

M. H. Crawford and L. Rogers

Secular changes in age-specific cause of death in Sanday, Orkney Islands pp. 155-164

E. R. Brennan

Components of longevity: Developmental and genetic responses to differential childhood mortality pp. 165-174

Richard S. Meindl

Mortality related to cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus in a modernizing population pp. 175-181

Douglas E. Crews and Patricia C. MacKeen

Biocultural risks in longevity: Samoans in California pp. 183-190

Ivan G. Pawson and Craig Janes

The changes with age of the anatomical distribution of fat pp. 191-196

William H. Mueller

Comparison of visually estimated age with physiologically predicted age as indicators of rates of aging pp. 197-204

Gary A. Borkan, Sara S. Bachman and Arthur H. Norris

Patterns of adult weight and fat change in six Solomon Islands societies: A semi-longitudinal study pp. 205-215

Jonathan S. Friedlaender and John G. Rhoads

Aging in selected anthropometric dimensions in a rural Zapotec-speaking community in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico pp. 217-222

Robert M. Malina, Peter H. Buschang, Wendy L. Aronson and Henry A. Selby

Blood pressure at rest and during exercise among Sherpas and Tibetan migrants in Nepal pp. 223-231

Charles A. Weitz

1982, volume 16, articles 1

The political economy of sexism in industrial health pp. 3-13

Marcia Felker

Comment on the paper "the political economy of sexism in industrial health" by Marcia Felker pp. 15-18

Margaret Stacey

Cesarean section in Brazil pp. 19-25

Barbara Janowitz, Milton S. Nakamura, F. Estellita Lins, Michael L. Brown and Deborah Clopton

Treatment for a nondisease: The case of low blood pressure pp. 27-33

James M. Robbins, Holly Korda and Martin F. Shapiro

Kava, alcohol and tobacco consumption among Tongans with urbanization pp. 35-41

Sitaleki A. Finau, John M. Stanhope and Ian A. M. Prior

Concepts of illness causation and responsibility: Some preliminary data from a sample of working class mothers pp. 43-52

Roisin Pill and Nigel C. H. Stott

Nutrition and school achievement pp. 53-61

Barry M. Popkin and Marisol Lim-Ybanez

Selecting sites for rural health workers pp. 63-72

Vivienne L. Bennett, David J. Eaton and Richard L. Church

Use of emergency room facilities in a rural area: A spatial analysis pp. 75-84

Ramala Basu

Measuring potential physical accessibility to general practitioners in rural areas: A method and case study pp. 85-90

Alun E. Joseph and Peter R. Bantock

The role of support in relation to recovery from breast surgery pp. 91-98

Donna P. Funch and Curtis Mettlin

Smoking, chewing and drinking in Ban Pong, Northern Thailand pp. 99-106

Christine Mougne, Robert MacLennan and Sirirat Atsana

Theory and data in the study of 'coronary proneness' (type a behaviour pattern) pp. 107-114

A. R. Radley

Oaths given by U.S. and Canadian medical schools, 1977: Profession of medical values pp. 115-120

Walter J. Friedlander