Table Of ContentSPTIRALTH
SOCIOLOGY
é& ILLNESS
A Journal of Medical Sociology
Volume 20 1998
Editors Jonathan Gabe, Michael Bury and Mary Ann Elston
Review Editor Lindsay Prior
Editorial Board
Ellen Annandale
Gillian Bendelow
David Blane
Mary Boulton
Barbara Harrison
Graham Hart
David Hughes
Kate Hunt
Sarah Nettleton
Stephen Platt
Chris Smaje
George Davey Smith
Simon Williams
Blackwell Publishers
Oxford - Malden, MA
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Contents
Age and gender in women’s accounts of their health: interviews with
women in South Wales (Charles and Walters) 331-350
A lifecourse perspective on socio-economic inequalities in health (van de
Mheen, Stronks and Mackenbach) 758-777
Art, science and placebo: incorporating homeopathy in general practice
(May and Sirur) 168-190
Changing the map: health in Britain 1951-1991 (Shaw, Dorling and
Brimblecombe) 698-713
Considering the vignette technique and its application to a study of drug
injecting and HIV risk and safer behaviour (Hughes) 381-400
Contemporary hospice care: the sequestration of the unbounded body and
‘dirty dying’ (Lawton) 121-143
Decline of the hospital: reconstructing institutional dangers (Armstrong)
445-457
Doing nothing is no choice: lay constructions of treatment decision-making
among women with early-stage breast cancer (Charles, Redko, Whelan,
Gafni and Reyno) 71-95
Family hospitality and ethnic tradition among South Asian, Italian and
general population women in the West of Scotland (Bush, Williams,
Bradby, Anderson and Lean) 351-380
Gender and disadvantage in health: men’s health for a change (Cameron
and Bernardes) 673-697
Gender differences in the prevalence of depression: artefact, alternative dis-
orders, biology or roles? (Nazroo, Edwards and Brown) 312-330
Genetic, cultural or socio-economic vulnerability? Explaining ethnic
inequalities in health (Nazroo) 714-734
Homeopathy as a feminist form of medicine (Scott) 191-214
Illness in the context of older age: the case of stroke (Pound, Gompertz and
Ebrahim) 489-506
Introduction: beyond the Black Report (Bartley, Blane and Davey Smith)
563-577
Is there a place for geography in the analysis of health inequality? (Curtis
and Rees Jones) 645-672
Medicalisation by whom? Accounts of menstruation conveyed by young
women and medical experts in medical advisory columns (Oinas)
52-70
Recall bias in self-reported childhood health: differences by age and educa-
tional level (van de Mheen, Stronks, Looman and Mackenbach)
241-254
Medical sociology and psychoanalysis: a rejoinder to Lupton (Pilgrim)
537-544
Mortality, the social environment, crime and violence (Wilkinson, Kawachi
and Kennedy) 578-597
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Mortgage debt, insecure home ownership and health: an exploratory analy-
sis (Nettleton and Burrows) 735-757
Openness and specialisation: dealing with patients in a hospita! emergency
service (Dodier and Camus) 413-444
Psychoanalytic sociology and the medical encounter: a reply to Pilgrim
(Lupton) 545-547
Research note: social class differences in lifetime exposure to environmental
hazards (Blane, Montgomery and Berney) 532-536
Resisting a diagnostic technique: the case of reflex anal dilation (Collins,
Kendall and Michael) 1-28
Resuscitation technology in the emergency department: towards a dignified
death (Timmermans) 144-167
Review Article: Re-shaping the space between bodies and culture: embody-
ing the biomedicalised body (Ettorre) 548-555
‘Sick role’ or “empowerment”? The ambiguities of life with an HIV positive
diagnosis (Crossley M.) 507-531
Social class or deprivation? Structural factors and children’s limiting long-
standing illness in the 1990’s (Cooper, Arber and Smaje) 289-311
The hidden curriculum of patient education for low back pain in general
practice (Skelton) 96-111
Theorising inequalities in health: the place of lay knowledge (Popay,
Williams, Thomas and Gatrell) 619-644
The psychosocial perspective on social inequalities in health (Elstad)
598-618
The socio-economic patterning of health and smoking behaviour among
mothers with young children on income support (Graham and
Blackburn) 215-240
Towards a sociology of child health (Mayall) 269-288
Transforming the mental health field: the early history of the National
Association for Mental Health (Crossley N.) 458-488
‘Why didn’t you say just that?’ Dealing with issues of asymmetry, know-
ledge and competence in the pharmacist/client encounter (Pilnick)
29-51
Authors
Anderson, A. 351 Brimblecombe, N. 698 Cooper, H. 289
Arber, S. 289 Brown, G.W. 312 Crossley, M. 507
Armstrong, D. 445 Burrows, R. 735 Crossley, N. 458
Bartley, M. 563 Bush, H. 351 Curtis, S. 645
Bernardes, J. 683 Cameron, E. 673 Davey Smith, G. 563
Berney, D.R. 532 Camus, A. 413 Dodier, N. 413
Blackburn, C. 215 Charles, C. 71 Dorling, D. 698
Blane, D. 563, 532 Charles, N. 331 Edwards, A.C. 312
Bradby, H. 351 Collins, A. 1 Elstad, J.1. 598
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Ettorre, E. 548 Mayall, B. 269 Sirur, D. 168
Gafni, A. 71 Michael, M. 1 Skelton, A. 96
Gatrell, T. 619 Montgomery, S.M. Smaje, C. 289
Graham, H. 215 532 Stronks, K. 758, 241
Hughes, R. 381 Nazroo, J. 714, 312 Thomas, C. 619
Kawachi, I. 578 Nettleton, S. 735 Timmerans, S. 144
Kendall, G. 1 Oinas, E. 52 van de Mheen, D. 758,
Kennedy, B.P. 578 Pilgrim, D. 537 241
Lawton, J. 121 Pilnick, A. 29 Walters, V. 331
Lean, M. 351 Popay, J. 619 Whelan, T. 71
Looman, C.W.N. 241 Redko, C. 71 Wilkinson, R.G. 578
Lupton, D. 545 Reyno, L. 71 Williams, R. 351
Mackenbach, J.P. 758, Rees Jones, I. 645 Williams, G. 619
241 Scott, A. 191
May, C. 168 Shaw, M. 698
Books Reviewed
Aldridge, D. Suicide The Tragedy of Hopelessness (Michael Shannon) 933
Allott, M. and Robb, M. (eds) Understanding Health and Social Care. An
Introductory Reader (David T. Evans) 930
Barrett, R. The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia:
an Anthropological Study of Person and Illness (Joan Busfield) 556
Berg, M. Rationalizing Medical Work — Decision Support Techniques and
Medical Practices (Monica Greeco) 401
Bowling, A. Research Methods in Health. Investigating Health and Health
Services (Graeme Hutcheson) 403
Bury, M. Health and Illness in a Changing society (Bill Bytheway) 255
Clark, D., Hockley, J. and Ahmedzai, S. (eds) Facing Death: New Themes
in Palliative Care (David Field) 557
Clarke, A. and Parsons, E. (eds) Culture, Kinship and Genes: Towards
Cross-cultural Genetics (Elizabeth Ettorre) 548-55
Cohen, S. Targeting Autism. What We Know, Don’t Know and Can do to
Help Children with Autism and Related Disorders (Deborah Carr) 931
Davis, P. Managing Medicines. Public Policy and Therapeutic Drugs
(Pamela J Watson) 258
Dopson, S. Managing Ambiguity and Change: the Case of the NHS (Susan
Pickard) 560
Flynn, R. and Williams, G. (eds) Contracting for Health. Quasi-Markets
and the National Health Service (Pauline Allen) 261
Franklin, S. Embodied Progress: a Cultural Account of Assisted Conception
(Elizabeth Ettorre) 548-55
Gijswijt-Hofstra, M., Marland, H. and De Warrdt, H. I/iness and Healing
Alternatives in Western Europe (Lindsay Prior) 936
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Green, J. Risk and Misfortune: the Social Construction of Accidents (Paul
Bellaby) 112
Ham, C. (ed) Health Care Reform: Learning from International Experience
(Chris Bennett) 115
Harrison, B. Not Only the ‘Dangerous Trades’. Women’s Work and Health
in Britain — 1880-1914 (Norma Daykin) 259
Jenkinson, C. (ed) Assessment and Evaluation of Health and Medical Care, a
Methods Test (Lindsay Prior) 935
Kapsalis, T. Public Privates. Performing Gynaecology From Both Ends of
the Speculum (Hilary Thomas) 405
Lock, M. and Kaufert, P. (eds) Pragmatic Women and Body Politics (Sarah
Earle) 928
Mellor, P.A. and Shilling, C. Re-forming the Body: Religion, Community
and Modernity (Robin Bunton) 406
Miller, G. and Dingwall, R. (eds) Context and Method in Qualitative
Research (Sarah Cunningham-Burley) 559
Nazroo, J.Y. The Health of Britain's Ethnic Minorities (Ilan Robinson) 925
North, N. and Bradshaw, Y. (eds) Perspectives in Health Care (Lindsay
Prior) 935
Petersen, A. and Bunton, R. (eds) Foucault, Health and Medicine (David
Balsamo) 118
Pilgrim, D. Psychotherapy and Society (Nick Crossley) 256
Posner, T.N. Herpes Simplex (Lindsay Prior) 936
Ratzan, S.C. The Mad Cow Crisis. Health and the Public Good (Lindsay
Prior) 936
Rogers, A. and Pilgrim, D. Mental Health Policy in Britain. A Critical
Introduction (Pauline M. Prior) 408
Rose, D. and O’Reilly, K. Constructing Classes: Towards a New Social
Classification for the UK (George Davey Smith) 926
Shildrick, M. Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and
(Bio) Ethics (Elizabeth Ettorre) 548-55
Silverman, D. Discourses of Counselling: HIV Counselling as Social
Interaction (Paul Drew) 113
Silverman, D. (ed) Qualitative Research, Theory, Method, Practice (Robert
Dingwall) 402
Sjostrom, S. Party or Patient? Discursive Practices Relating to Coercion in
Psychiatric and Legal Settings (Anne Rogers) 410
Steinberg, D.L. Bodies in Glass: Genetics, Eugenics, Embryo Ethics
(Elizabeth Ettorre) 548—55
Turner, D.C. Risky Sex: Gay Men and HIV Prevention (Bev Holbrook) 263
Unwin, N., Carr, S. and Leeson, J. An Introductory Study Guide to Public
Health and Epidemiology (Lindsay Prior) 935
Warde, A. Consumption, Food and Taste (Rosemary Kyle) 116
Wilton, T. Engendering AIDS: Deconstructing Sex, Text and Epidemic (Bev
Holbrook) 263
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