Social Science & Medicine 1996: Vol 42 Table of Contents

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SOCIAL
SCIENCE
MEDICINE
an international journal
VOLUME 42, 1996
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SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 42
Number 1
Editorial Announcement
Announcement Vii
Raymond Illsley Retirement of Peter McEwan
Joseph Opala and Francois Boillot Leprosy among the Limba: illness and healing in the
context of world view
Sing Lee 21 Reconsidering the status of anorexia nervosa as a
Western culture-bound syndrome
Anthony Scott, Alan Shiell 35 Is general practitioner decision making associated
and Madeleine King with patient socio-economic status?
Irma T. Elo and Samuel H. Preston 47 Educational differentials in mortality: United States,
1979-85
Valerie Sacks 59 Women and AIDS: an analysis of media misrepresen-
tations
Jon Ivar Elstad 75 Inequalities in health related to women’s marital,
parental, and employment status—a comparison
between the early 70s and the late 80s, Norway
Diane Civic and David Wilson 91 Dry sex in Zimbabwe and implications for condom
use
Joan Ablon 99 Gender response to neurofibromatosis 1
Richard John Shawyer, 111 The role of clinical vignettes in rapid ethnographic
Abdullah Sani bin Gani, research: a folk taxonomy of diarrhoea in Thailand
Albert Noel Punufimana and
Namulawulu Kamuta Fualaga Seuseu
Jeffrey W. Swanson 125 Medical futility decisions and physicians’ legal
and S. Van McCrary defensiveness: the impact of anticipated conflict on
thresholds for end-of-life treatment
Xochitl Castaiieda, Cecilia Garcia 133 Ethnography of fertility and menstruation in rural
and Ana Langer Mexico
Vincent E. Gil, Marco S. Wang, 141 Prostitutes, prostitution and STD/HIV transmission
Allen F. Anderson, Guo Matthew Lin in mainland China
and Zongjian Oliver Wu
Book Reviews
Albert F. Wessen 153 The migration of managerial innovation: diagnosis
related groups and health care administration in
Western Europe, by John R. Kimberly, Gerald de
Pouvourville and associates
iii
Frank Innes The mortal presidency, by Robert E. Gilbert
P. Zweifel Economics and health: 1993, Proceedings of the
Fifteenth Australian Conference of Health Economists,
edited by C. Selby Smith
Markku Léyténen AIDS and contemporary history, edited by Virginia
Berridge and Philip Strong
W. W. Holland Evaluating the National Health Service reforms,
edited by Ray Robinson and Julian Le Grand
Letter to the Editor
Announcement
Number 2
Announcement
Nora Machado The Swedish Transplant Acts: sociological consider-
ations on bodies and giving
Bernard Ineichen Senile dementia in Japan: prevalence and response
Kathleen Ell Social networks, social support and coping with
serious illness: the family connection
Alexander Butchart The industrial Panopticon: mining and the medical
construction of migrant African labour in South
Africa, 1900-1950
Kaja Finkler with Maria Correa Factors influencing patient perceived recovery in
Mexico
Karen Ericksen and Tracy Brunette Patterns and predictors of infertility among African
women: a cross-national survey of twenty-seven
nations
Pierre Huygens, Ellen Kajura, Rethinking methods for the study of sexual behaviour
Janet Seeley and Tom Barton
William R. Brieger and Carl Kendall The Yoruba farm market as a communication
channel in guinea worm disease surveillance
Kenneth I. Pakenham, Adaptive demands along the HIV disease continuum
Mark R. Dadds and
Deborah J. Terry
Geoffrey P. Sayer and Helena Britt Sex differences in morbidity: a case of discrimination
in general practice
Theodore D. Fuller, Chronic stress and psychological well-being: evidence
John N. Edwards, from Thailand on household crowding
Sairudee Vorakitphokatorn
and Santhat Sermsri
Ken Bassett 281 Anthropology, clinical pathology and the electronic
fetal monitor: lessons from the heart
Book Reviews
John W. Peabody 293 Health policy—an introduction to process and power,
by Gill Walt
Frank A. Barrett 294 Caring for health: history and diversity, edited by
Charles Webster
Yolande Coombes 295 Health care for an aging population, edited by Chris
Hackler
Itzhak Jacoby and Terry J. Walters 296 Challenges in military health care—perspectives on
health status and the provision of care, edited by Jay
Stanley and John D. Blair
Judith Modell 297 Family bonds: adoption and the politics of parenting,
by Elizabeth Bartholet
Mark W. Rosenberg 298 Young unwed fathers. Changing roles and emerging
politics, edited by Robert I. Lerman and Theodora
J. Ooms
Ronald W. Toseland 299 Self-help: concepts and applications, edited by Alfred
Katz, Hannah L. Hedrick, Daryl Holtz Isenberg,
Leslie M. Thompson, Therese Goodrich and Austin
H. Kutscher
Number 3
Announcement
Vuk Stambolovic Editorial. Human rights and health within the
dominant paradigm
Magnus Johannesson 305 A note on the relationship between ex ante and
expected willingness to pay for health care
Patricia Lundy 313 Limitations of quantitative research in the study of
structural adjustment
Robert R. Franklin, Doudou Sarr, 325 Cultural response to mental illness in Senegal:
Momar Gueye, Omar Sylla and reflections through patient companions—Part I.
René Collignon Methods and descriptive data
Robert R. Franklin, Doudou Sarr, 339 Cultural response to mental ilJness in Senegal:
Momar Gueye, Omar Sylla, reflections through patient companions—Part II.
René Collignon and Nancy Mock Statistical correlates
Margarete Sandelowski and 353 ‘Healing fictions’: stories of choosing in the aftermath
Linda Corson Jones of the detection of fetal anomalies
Vicki L. Lamb 363 A cross-national study of quality of life factors
associated with patterns of elderly disablement
V
E. J. C. Boerkamp, 379 The use of drug information sources by physicians:
F. M. Haaijer-Ruskamp, development of a data-generating methodology
J. C. Reuyl and A. Versluis®
Betty Chewning and Betsy Sleath 389 Medication decision-making and management: a
client-centered model
Barthélemy Kuate Defo 399 Areal and socioeconomic differentials in infant and
child mortality in Cameroon
Elisabeth Hsu 421 Innovations in acumoxa: acupuncture analgesia,
scalp and ear acupuncture in the People’s Republic of
China
Seter Siziya and Martin Mushanga 431 Importance of schistosomiasis in the Isoka district
of Zambia: a prerequisite for its control using
community participation
B. Folasade Iyun and Goran Tomson 437 Acute respiratory infections—mothers’ perceptions
of etiology and treatment in south-western Nigeria
Mats Ostrém, Jan Thorson 447 Carbon monoxide suicide from car exhausts
and Anders Eriksson
Maria J. Wawer, Chai Podhisita, 453 Origins and working conditions of female sex workers
Uraiwan Kanungsukkasem, in urban Thailand: consequences of social context for
Anthony Pramualratana and HIV transmission
Regina McNamara
Research Note
Nancy F. Berkowitz and 463 Attitudes of pediatric nurses facing HIV risk
Ronald L. Nuttall
Book Reviews
Hans S. Falck 471 Psychosocial processes and health, edited by Andrew
Steptoe and Jane Wardle
Debra Rickwood 471 The cloak of competence, revised and updated, by
Robert B. Edgerton
Deborah Turnbull 472 Hardship and health in women’s lives, by Hilary
Graham
Rachel Reuben 472 Migration and health in a small society, the case of
Tokelau, edited by Albert F. Wessen, Anthony
Hooper, Judith Huntsman, Ian A. M. Prior and Clare
E. Salmond
Raija-Leena Punamaki 473 The practice of health services research, by Bie Nio
Ong
Eero Lahelma 474 Power and illness. The failure and future of American
health policy, by Daniel M. Fox
Lucy Zabarenko Menopause. A midlife passage, edited by Joan C.
Callahan
Pamela Sutherland Unassisted childbirth, by Laura Kaplan Shanley
International Meetings
Vi
Number 4
Announcement Vv
SYMPOSIUM: ABORTION FROM A CROSSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
(Collated by Barbara Rylko-Bauer and Patricia Antoniello)
Barbara Rylko-Bauer 479 Abortion from a crosscultural perspective: an intro-
duction
Elisha P. Renne 483 The pregnancy that doesn’t stay: the practice and
perception of abortion by Ekiti Yoruba women
E. J. Sobo 495 Abortion traditions in rural Jamaica
Eugenia Georges 509 Abortion policy and practice in Greece
Brooke R. Johnson, Mihai Horga 521 Women’s perspectives on abortion in Romania
and Laurentia Andronache
Akile Giirsoy 531 Abortion in Turkey: a matter of state, family or
individual decision
Susan M. Rigdon 543 Abortion law and practice in China: an overview with
comparisons to the United States
GENERAL PAPERS
Review Essay
J. D. G. Troup 561 Back pain and epidemiology review: the epidemiology
and cost of back pain, Clinical Standards Advisory
Group (committee chaired by Michael Rosen)
Theresa D. O’Nell and 565 Alcohol use among American Indian adolescents:
Christina M. Mitchell the role of culture in pathological drinking
Sarah Cant and Ursula Sharma 579 Demarcation and transformation within homoeo-
pathic knowledge. A strategy of professionalization
Arline T. Geronimus 589 Black/white differences in the relationship of maternal
age to birthweight: a population-based test of the
weathering hypothesis
Robert D. Canning, 599 Psychological distress among caregivers to heart
Mary Amanda Dew transplant recipients
and Suzanne Davidson
Paul Dolan and Paul Kind 609 Inconsistency and health state valuations
Sally Macintyre, Kate Hunt 617 Gender differences in health: are things really as
and Helen Sweeting simple as they seem?
Letter to the Editor
Akile Giirsoy 625
Book Reviews
Dyna C. Arhin 629 Community participation in primary health care (1b),
by E. Alihonou et al.; Rapid appraisal of health and
nutrition in a PHC project in Pahou, Benin (2b), by
C. M. Varkevisser et al.; Nutrition in primary health
care (3b), by U. H. Rengqvist et al.
Vil
Katarina Tomasevski Health care in Nicaragua: primary care under changing
regimes, by Richard Garfield and Glen Williams
Jacob Kumaresan Social psychological approaches to health, by Derek R.
Rutter, Lyn Quine and David J. Chesham
K. David Patterson Agents of apocalypse: epidemic disease in the colonial
Philippines, by Ken De Bevoise
Michael Greenberg Cancer prevention and control, by Peter Greenwald,
Barnett Kramer and Douglas Weed
Michael L. Dorn Inescapable decisions: the imperatives of health reform,
by David Mechanic
Leonard Ferenz Allocating health care resources, edited by James M.
Humber and Robert F. Almeder
Carol S. Goldin The social organization of mental illness, by Lindsay
Prior
Thomas Hadjistavropoulos From Freud’s consulting room: the unconscious in a
scientific age, by Judith M. Hughes
Rodolfo Penta Mujeres de los Andes: condiciones de vida y salud,
by A. C. Defossez, D. Fassin and M. Viveros
Farah M. C. Shroff Being pregnant in rural south India: nutrition of women
and well-being of children, by Inge Hutter
Helen Sweeting Carers perceived: policy and practice in informal care,
by Julia Twigg and Karl Atkin
International Meetings
Announcement V
Rance P. L. Lee 639 Editorial. Traditional reaction to modern stress
GENERAL PAPERS
Marieke A. E. van der Waal, 643 Quality of care: a comparison of preferences between
Anton F. Casparie and medical specialists and patients with chronic diseases
Christiaan J. Lako
Judith A. Ricci, Norge W. Jerome, The significance of children’s age in estimating the
Ismail Sirageldin, Hekmat Aly, effect of maternal time use on children’s well-being
Wafaa Moussa, Osman Galal,
Gail G. Harrison and
Avanelle Kirksey
Shinya Matsuda Regulatory effects of health examination programs on
medical expenditures for the elderly in Japan
Sandra Wallman and Maia Baker Which resources pay for treatment? A model for
estimating the informal economy of health
Vill
A. Appels, H. Bosma, V. Grabauskas, 681 Self-rated health and mortality in a Lithuanian and a
A. Gostautas and F. Sturmans Dutch population
Jean-Paul C. Grund, 691 Syringe-mediated drug sharing among injecting drug
Samuel R. Friedman, L. Synn Stern, users: patterns, social context and implications for
Benny Jose, Alan Neaigus, transmission of blood-borne pathogens
Richard Curtis and
Don C. Des Jarlais
Annette J. H. Kalf 705 Variation in diagnoses: influence of specialists’
and Donna Spruijt-Metz training on selecting and_ ranking relevant
information in geriatric case vignettes
Steven P. Segal, 713 Health and a residential care population
Debra J. VanderVoort and
Lawrence H. Liese
Walid Fakhoury, Mark McCarthy 721 Determinants of informal caregivers’ satisfaction with
and Julia Addington-Hall services for dying cancer patients
Susan Beardsell and Adrian Coyle 733 A review of research on the nature and quality of HIV
testing services: a proposal for process-based studies
SYMPOSIUM: NEW DIRECTIONS FOR HEALTH
(Collated by K. Dean and David Hunter)
Kathryn Dean and David Hunter 745 New directions for health: towards a knowledge base
for public health action
D. B. Blane 751 Collecting retrospective data: development of a
reliable method and a pilot study of its use
Jennie Popay and Gareth Williams 759 Public health research and lay knowledge
John B. McKinlay, 769 Non-medical influences on medical decision-making
Deborah A. Potter
and Henry A. Feldman
Gabriel Scally 777 Public health medicine in a new era
Book Reviews
Peter M. Foggin 781 A new dawn in Guatemala: toward a worldwide health
vision, edited by Richard Luecke
Susan J. Elliot 781 Breaking the thread of life: on rational suicide, by
Robert L. Barry
Wazir J. Karim 782 Understanding reproductive change: Kenyz, Tamil
Nadu, Punjab, Costa Rica, edited by Bertil Egero and
Mikael Hammarskjold
Toni Makkai 783 Under the influence? Drugs and the Americar
work force, edited by Jacques Normand, Richard O.
Lempert and Charles P. O’Brien
R. John C. Pearson 783 Positively parents: caring for a severely disabled child,
by Bryony Beresford
Allen Ronald 784 Molecular and cell biology of sexually transmitted
diseases, edited by David Wright and Leonard
Archard
1X
Medical sociology in Britain: a register of research and
Evan Willis
teaching, compiled and edited by Rose Barbour and
Edwin Van Teijlingen
Letter to the Editor
Jose Barzelatto
Announcements
International Meetings
Number 6
Announcement Vii
RESEARCH IN MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY
Guest Editor: Robert Earickson
Michael V. Hayes 787 Foreword
Michael V. Hayes 789 Introduction
Frank A. Barrett 791 Daniel Drake’s medical geography
Nina Bullen, Graham Moon 801 Defining localities for health planning: a GIS
and Kelvyn Jones approach
Craig Duncan, Kelvyn Jones 817 Health-related behaviour in context: a multilevel
and Graham Moon modelling approach ‘
Christine Dunn and Simon Kingham 831 Establishing links between air quality and health:
searching for the impossible?
A. C. Gatrell and T. C. Bailey 843 Interactive spatial data analysis in medical geography
Myles I. Gould and Kelvyn Jones 857 Analyzing perceived limiting long-term illness using
U.K. census microdata
H. Jean, J-F. Emard, J-P. Thouez, 871 Alzheimer’s disease: preliminary study of spatial
L. Houde, Y. Robitaille, J. Mathieu, distribution at birth place
C. Boily, N. Daoud, M. Beaudry,
A. Cholette, R. Bouchard,
F. Veilleuz and D. Gauvreau
Andrew P. Jones, Ian H. Langford The application of K-function analysis to the
and Graham Bentham geographical distribution of road traffic accident
outcomes in Norfolk, England
Alun E. Joseph Restructuring long-term care and the geography of
and A. I. (Lex) Chalmers ageing: a view from rural New Zealand
Ian H. Langford Regional variations in mortality rates in England and
and Graham Bentham Wales: an analysis using multi-level modelling
Robert Pampalon, Alain Saucier, The selection of needs indicators for regional resource
Nicole Berthiaume, Pierre Ferland, allocation in the fields of health and social services in
Régis Couture, Patricia Caris, Québec
Lynda Fortin, Diane Lacroix
and René Kirouac