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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 40 Number 1 SYMPOSIUM: GUILT, BLAME AND SHAME: RESPONSIBILITY IN HEALTH AND SICKNESS Ruthbeth Finerman and 1 Overview: Guilt, blame and shame in sickness Linda A. Bennett Ruthbeth Finerman ‘Parental incompetence’ and ‘selective neglect’: blaming the victim in child survival Linda A. Bennett Accountability for alcoholism in American families Linda M. Whiteford and Stigma: the hidden burden of infertility Lois Gonzalez Linda C. Garro Individual or societal responsibility? Explanations of diabetes in an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) community John M. Donahue and The political economy of responsibility in health and Meredith B. McGuire illness Michael Paolisso and Joanne Leslie 55 Meeting the changing health needs of women in developing countries Patricia A. Marshall and 67 Medical students’ first-person narratives of a patient’s J. Paul O’Keefe story of AIDS GENERAL PAPERS Helen Sweeting 77 Reversals of fortune? Sex differences in health in childhood and adolescence Carmen Noemi Velez and 91 Psychosocial correlates of drug use among Puerto Jane A. Ungemack Rican youth: generational status differences Susan J. Elliott Psychosocial stress, women and heart health: a critical review Eitan F. Sabatello Continuity and change in reproductive and abortion patterns of Soviet immigrants in Israel Manju Agarwal, A. K. Dalal, Positive life orientation and recovery from D. K. Agarwal and R. K. Agarwal myocardial infarction Graham Bentham, Jackie Hinton, Factors affecting non-response to cervical cytology Robin Haynes, Andrew Lovett and screening in Norfolk, England Chris Bestwick Book Reviews Ashok K. Dutt Health and health care in developing countries— sociological perspectives, edited by Peter Conrad and Eugene B. Gallagher Lesley Cotterill A lexicon of lunacy, metaphoric malady, moral responsibility and psychiatry, by Thomas Szasz Gail Tumulty Deciding who lives—fateful choices in the intensive- care nursery, by Renée R. Anspach International Meeting Number 2 Henk ten Have Editorial. Letters to Dr Frankenstein? Ethics and the new reproductive technologies Gigi Santow Social roles and physical health: the case of female disadvantage in poor countries Helen Sweeting and Patrick West Family life and health in adolescence: a role for culture in the health inequalities debate? Sheena Asthana Variations in poverty and health between slum settle- ments: contradictory findings from Visakhapatnam, India Stephen Stansfeld, Amanda Feeney, Sickness absence for psychiatric illness: the Whitehall Jenny Head, Robert Canner, II study Fiona North and Michael Marmot Pekka Martikainen Women’s employment, marriage, motherhood and mortality: a test of the multiple role and role accumu- lation hypotheses Stephen A. Buetow What do general practitioners and their patients want from general practice and are they receiving it? A framework Kenneth S. Y. Chew and The spring peak in suicides: a cross-national analysis Richard McCleary Raija-Leena Punamaki and Content and predictors of consultation experiences Simo J. Kokko among Finnish primary care patients Max O. Bachmann and Influences on sick building syndrome symptoms in Jonathan E. Myers three buildings Jacob Ayo Adetunji Infant mortality and mother’s education in Ondo State, Nigeria Stephen Arthey and Suntanning and sun protection: a review of the Valerie A. Clarke psychological literature Book Reviews Noreen C. Facione Perspectives on life-threatening illness for allied health professionals, edited by Leslie M. Thompson, John G. Bruhn, Austin H. Kutscher, Barbara E. Neuhaus, F. David Cordova and Daniel J. Cherico David Abernathy World health and disease, edited by Alastair Gray Herbert C. Northcott Chiropractic: history and evolution of a new profession, by Walter I. Wardwell iv Philip Meredith It shouldn’t happen to a patient: a survivor’s guide to fighting life-threatening illness, by Pittu Laungani Letter to the Editor Number 3 H. K. Heggenhougen Editorial. The epidemiology of functional apartheid and human rights abuses Marcia C. Inhorn Medical anthropology and epidemiology: divergences or convergences? John-Arne Skolbekken The risk epidemic in medical journals Isabel Dyck Hidden geographies: the changing lifeworlds of women with multiple sclerosis Charles Anyinam Ecology and ethnomedicine: exploring links between current environmental crisis and indigenous medical practices Evelyne de Leeuw and Loes Polman Health policy making: the Dutch experience Marita Johanson, Lifestyle in primary health care discourse Ullabeth Satterlund Larsson, Roger Salj6 and Kurt Svardsudd Peter P. Groenewegen and The influence of supply-related characteristics on Jack B. F. Hutten general practitioners’ workload Carolyn E. Schwartz and Who says yes? Identifying selection biases in a psy- Bernard H. Fox chosocial intervention study of multiple sclerosis Tung-liang Chiang Deviation from the carrying capacity for physicians and growth rate of physician supply: the Taiwan case Kathleen Dracup, Debra K. Moser, Causes of delay in seeking treatment for heart attack Mickey Eisenberg, symptoms Hendrika Meischke, Angelo A. Alonzo and Allan Braslow Peter J. Cunningham and Access to ambulatory care for American Indians and Llewellyn J. Cornelius Alaska Natives; the relative importance of personal and community resources Jane Ogden Psychosocial theory and the creation of the risky self Book Reviews J. J. V. Busschbach Experiencing the life cycle, by Jefferey Michael Clair, David A. Karp and Williams C. Yoels Adebowale Akande Psychodynamics, training, and outcome in _ brief psychotherapy, edited by D. Malan and F. Osimo International Meetings Number 4 Charles M. Good 419 Editorial. Incentives can lower the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Africa SYMPOSIUM: HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCES IN SRI LANKA. AN OVERVIEW OF THE TRIANGLE PROGRAMME (Collated by Ruud Peeters) Ruud Peeters, Tudor Silva and 425 Introduction Judy Lewis C. Sivayoganathan, 431 Protective measure use and symptoms among S. Gnanachandran, J. Lewis and agropesticide applicators in Sri Lanka M. Fernando D. B. Nugegoda and S. Balasuriya 437 Health and social status of an elderly urban population in Sri Lanka Ananda S. B. Wijekoon, 443 First trimester feeding in a rural Sri Lankan Raphael O. Thattil and population Stephen L. Schensul GENERAL PAPERS Joan D. Speight and Sonya L. Blixt 451 Heart specialists’ art of care Frances Baum 459 Researching public health: behind the qualitative— quantitative methodological debate Ruth E. Malone 469 Heavy users of emergency services: social construction of a policy problem Nigel E. Bush, Mel Haberman, 479 Quality of life of 125 adults surviving 6-18 years after Gary Donaldson and bone marrow transplantation Keith M. Sullivan Berndt Stenberg and Stig Wall Why do women report ‘sick building symptoms’ more often than men? Edward C. Green, Bongi Zokwe and The experience of an AIDS prevention program John David Dupree focused on South African traditional healers Ronald W. Toseland, A problem solving intervention for caregivers of Christina G. Blanchard cancer patients and Philip McCallion B. Dujardin, G. Clarysse, B. Criel, The strategy of risk approach in antenatal care: V. De Brouwere and N. Wangata evaluation of the referral compliance Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Appearance-based information about coping with Heather D. Hadjistavropoulos and pain: valid or biased? Kenneth D. Craig Bruce L. Lambert Directness and deference in pharmacy students’ messages to physicians Jane F. Pendergast, Role orientation and community pharmacists’ Carole L. Kimberlin, participation in a project to improve patient care Donna H. Berardo and Lynda C. McKenzie Lea Hagoel, Riki Van-Raalte, Psychosocial and medical factors in pregnancy Devoraii Kalekin-Fishman, outcomes: 2 case study of Israeli women Galia Shifroni, Leon Epstein and Yoram Sorokin Book Reviews Alison Wichman Ethics and research on human subjects: international guidelines, proceedings of the XXVIth CIOMS conference, edited by Zbigniew Bankowski and Robert Levine Marjorie Kagawa-Singer Cancer: what cutting-edge science can tell you and your doctor about the causes of cancer and the impact on diagnosis and treatment, by Robert McAllister, Sylvia Teich Horowitz and Raymond V. Gilden Adebowale Akande Classic studies in abnormal psychology, by Steven Schwartz Pierre Chirac The facts about drug use, by Barry Stimmel International Meetings Number 5 J. Krupinski Editorial. De-institutionalization of psychiatric patients: progress or abandonment? Clive Seale and Julia Addington-Hall Euthanasia: the role of good care Clive Seale and Julia Addington-Hall Dying at the best time Cecile M. T. Gijsbers van Wijk, Male and female health problems in general practice: Annemarie M. Kolk, the differential impact of social position and social Wil J. H. M. van den Bosch and roles Henk J. M. van den Hoogen Komla Tsey and Stephanie D. Short From headloading to the iron horse: the unequal health consequences of railway construction and expansion in the Gold Coast, 1898-1929 Jennifer M. Watson and Maternal factors and child’s health care use Kathi J. Kemper Kathryn C. Backett and Lifecourse and lifestyle: the social and cultural Charlie Davison location of health behaviours Darren Greenwood, How do economic status and social support influence Christopher Packham, Kenneth Muir survival after initial recovery from acute myocardial and Richard Madeley infarction? Jacek A. Kopec Concepts of disability: the Activity Space Model The Prevention of Maternal Situation analyses of emergency obstetric care: Mortality Network examples from eleven operations research projects in West Africa vii Marjorie Chary Feinson and Does affordability affect mental health utilization? Miriam Popper A United States—Israel comparison of older adults Sarah E. Castle Child fostering and children’s nutritional outcomes in rural Mali: the role of female status in directing child transfers Lucy Gilson Management and health care reform in sub-Saharan Africa Pal Kraft and Jostein Rise Prediction of attitudes towards restrictive AIDS policies: a structural equation modelling approach Research Note David Lester Explaining regional differences in suicide rates Book Reviews Raymond E. Dumett Dancing skeletons—life and death in West Africa, by Katherine A. Dettwyler Margaret T. Saylor Case studies in health communication, edited by Eileen Berlin Ray Sandra Baldwin The health of women: a global perspective, edited by Marge Koblinsky, Judith Timyan and Jill Gay Laila F. Farhood Healing through communication—the practice of caring, by Carol Leppanen Montgomery Announcements International Meetings Number 6 A. J. Culyer Editorial. Need: the idea won’t do—but we still need it John W. Peabody An organizational analysis of the World Health Organization: narrowing the gap between promise and performance Slim Haddad and Pierre Fournier Quality, cost and utilization of health services in developing countries. A longitudinal study in Zaire Sarah Curtis, Natasha Petukhova Health care reforms in Russia: the example of and Ann Taket St Petersburg Amiram Gafni and Stephen Birch Preferences for outcomes in economic evaluation: an economic approach to addressing economic problems Jan Sundquist Ethnicity, social class and health. A population-based study on the influence of social factors on self- reported illness in 223 Latin American refugees, 333 Finnish and 126 South European labour migrants and 841 Swedish controls viii Nancy Pistrang and Chris Barker The partner relationship in psychological response to breast cancer David Felce and Jonathan Perry The extent of support for ordinary living provided in staffed housing: the relationship between staffing levels, resident characteristics, staff:resident inter- actions and resident activity patterns M. D. Gliksman, R. Lazarus, Social support, marital status and living arrangement A. Wilson and S. R. Leeder correlates of cardiovascular disease risk factors in the elderly Liz Walker The practice of Primary Health Care: a case study Guohua Li The interaction effect of bereavement and sex on the risk of suicide in the elderly: an historical cohort study J. A. M. Hunfeld, J. W. Wladimiroff, Previous stress and acute psychological defence as F. Verhage and J. Passchier predictors of perinatal grief—an exploratory study Margot E. Kurtz, J. C. Kurtz, Relationship of caregiver reactions and depression Charles W. Given and Barbara Given to cancer patients’ symptoms, functional states and depression—a longitudinal view Jean-Francois Emard, Neurodegenerative diseases and risk factors: a litera- Jean-Pierre Thouez and ture review Denis Gauvreau Research Note Alison H. McQueen and Reports of the experience of epilepsy in a rural South Leslie Swartz African village Book Reviews Constance E. Putnam The healer’s tale: transforming medicine and culture, by Sharon Kaufman Fernando Lolas Alternativen der Wissenschaft, by Gernot BGhme and Am Ende des Baconschen Zeitalters, by Gernot Bohme International Meetings 1994 Conference Participants Number 7 Sjaak van der Geest Editorial. Overcoming ethnocentrism: how social science and medicine relate and should relate to one another Robin Moremen Uili and The effect of third-party payers on the clinical Rosemary Wood decision making of physical therapists Horacio Fabrega Jr and Adolescent Psychiatry as a product of contemporary Barbara Miller Anglo-American society Julie E. Dockrell, George D. Gaskell, An economic analysis of the resettlement of people Charles Normand and with mild learning disabilities and challenging Hamid Rehman behaviour ix L. M. L. Ong, J. C. J. M. de Haes, Doctor—patient communication: a review of the A. M. Hoos and F. B. Lammes literature Jean-Pierre Noterman, Bart Criel, A prepayment scheme for hospital care in the Masisi Guy Kegels and Katulanya Isu district in Zaire: a critical evaluation Lori L. Heise and Christopher Elias Transforming AIDS prevention to meet women’s needs: a focus on developing countries Leonard B. Lerer, ‘A bothersome death’—narrative accounts of infant Alexander Butchart and mortality in Cape Town, South Africa Martin Terre Blanche Jude U. Ohaeri, The psychosocial problems of sickle cell disease Wuraola A. Shokunbi, sufferers and their methods of coping Kehinde S. Akinlade and Lola O. Dare Ingeborg Jahn, Ute Becker, Occupational life course and lung cancer risk in men. Karl-Heinz Jéckel and Findings from a socio-epidemiological analysis of Hermann Pohlabeln job-changing histories in a case-control study Jeffrey Borkan, Shmuel Reis, Talking about the pain: a patient-centered study of Doron Hermoni and Aya Biderman low back pain in primary care Ray Langsten and Kenneth Hill Treatment of childhood diarrhea in rural Egypt Research Note Affette McCaw-Binns, Under-users of antenatal care: a comparison of non- Janet La Grenade and attenders and late attenders for antenatal care, with Deanna Ashley early attenders Book Reviews Yasuki Kobayashi Bound to care, by Valerie Braithwaite Andreas Muller Assessing health need using the life cycle framework, by Chrissie Pickin and Selwyn St. Leger Letter to the Editor Number 8 Christopher Bagley Editorial. A plea for ignoring race and including insured status in American research reports on social science and medicine Betsy L. Fife The measurement of meaning in illness Gabriel B. Fosu Women’s orientation toward help-seeking for mental disorders Tshinko B. llunga, Plan de paiement anticipé des soins de santé de Andre-Pierre Contandriopoulos et Bwamanda (Zaire) comment a-t-il ete mis en place? Pierre Fournier Athena McLean Empowerment and _ the _ psychiatric consumer/ ex-patient movement in the United States: contradictions, crisis and change X Patrick J. Bracken, Joan E. Giller 1073 Psychological responses to war and atrocity: the and Derek Summerfield limitations of current concepts Elisabeth H. M. Eurelings-Bontekoe, 1083 Psychological distress, social support and _ social Rene F. W. Diekstra and support seeking: a prospective study among primary Margot Verschuur mental health care patients Doug Campos-Outcalt, Kelly Kewa 1091 Decentralization of health services in Western and Jane Thomason Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea: an attempt to administer health service at the subdistrict level Richa-d F. Antonak and Psychosocial adaptation to disability and _ its Hanoch Livneh investigation among persons with multiple sclerosis Nigel Bruce and Anja Griffioen Usefulness of a non-experimental study design in the evaluation of service developments for infant feeding in a general hospital Filippo Curtale, Bhola Siwakoti, Improving skills and utilization of Community Cecilia Lagrosa, Massimo LaRaja Health Volunteers in Nepal and Ranieri Guerra Theresa M. Marteau and Attributions for disability: the influence of genetic Harriet Drake screening Peter H. Wolff, Yemani Dawit and The Solomuna Orphanage: a historical survey Berhane Zere Ndolamb Ngokwey Home remedies and doctors’ remedies in Feira (Brazil) Research Note Carmen Rodriguez, Antoni Plasencia 1155 Predictive factors of enrollment and adherence in a and Dirk G. Schroeder breast cancer screening program in Barcelona (Spain) Book Reviews Vittorio Mapelli Money, medicine, and malpractice in American society, by Iain Hay Margaret T. Saylor Research into practice: a reader for nurses and the caring professions, edited by Pamela Abbott and Roger Sapsford Margaret H. Kearney Preventing drug abuse: what do we know? edited by Dean R. Gerstein and Lawrence W. Green Randall S. Stafford Morality, mortality, Vol. I, by F. M. Kamm Letter to the Editor Announcements Number 9 Obituary iii T. N. Madan 1167 Editorial. The plague in India, 1994 xi Morag Beil and Richard Franceys Improving human welfare through appropriate technology: government responsibility, citizen duty or customer choice K. Bruce Newbold, John Eyles Equity in health care: methodological contributions and Stephen Birch to the analysis of hospital utilization within Canada David Clark, Brenda Neale and Contracting for palliative care Pauline Heather Paul R. Saunderson An economic evaluation of alternative programme designs for tuberculosis control in rural Uganda Ken R. Daniels, Gillian M. Lewis Telling donor insemination offspring about their and Wayne Gillett conception: the nature of couples’ decision making Theo P. B. M. Suurmeijer, The measurement of social support in the ‘European Dirk M. Doeglas, Serge Briancon, research on incapacitating diseases and social Wim P. Krijnen, Boudien Krol, support’: the development of the Social Support Robbert Sanderman, Questionnaire for Transactions (SSQT) Torbjorn Moum, Anders Bjelle and Wim J. A. van den Heuvel A. M. Lamensdorf Ofori-Atta The effect of social change on causal beliefs of mental and W. Linden disorders and treatment preferences in Ghana Aihwa Ong Making the biopolitical subject: Cambodian immigrants, refugee medicine and cultural citizenship in California Xinhua Steve Ren Sex differences in infant and child mortality in three provinces in China Halima Mwenesi, Trudy Harpham Child malaria treatment practices among mothers in and Robert W. Snow Kenya Andrew McNee, Neelam Khan, Responding to cough: Boholano illness classification Susan Dawson, Joachim Gunsalam, and resort to care in response to childhood ARI Veronica L. Tallo, Lenore Manderson and Ian Riley Vikram Patel Explanatory models of mental illness in sub-Saharan Africa Marian Pitts, Margaret Bowman Reactions to repeated STD infections: psychosocial and John McMaster aspects and gender issues in Zimbabwe Research Note Fons van der Lucht and Social inequalities and health among children aged Johan Groothoff 10-11 in The Netherlands: causes and consequences Book Reviews Xinhua Steve Ren Life before birth: the moral and legal status of embryos and fetuses, by Bonnie Steinbock Jamie L. Strickland Malign neglect: homelessness in an American city, by Jennifer Wolch and Michael Dear Letter to the Editor