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Volume 12 Issue 1 - 2003

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3 Editorial: New Directions
Eileen Willis BEd, MEd, Jane Shoebridge

5 Equity, Payment Incentives and Cost Control in Medicare: An assessment of the government's proposals
Elizabeth Savage

17 Poverty and Indigenous Health
Michael Morrissey

31 The Social Determinants of Indigenous Health: A Research Agenda
Michael Morrissey

45 Long-Distance Migrants and Family Support: A Dutch case study
Cora Vellekoop Baldock

55 Representing Gender in Publications for Diabetics
Dorothy H Broom, Geraldine Treacher

68 Social Change and Social Capital in Australia: A solution for contemporary problems?
Jane Edwards, Brian Cheers PhD, Litza Graham

Book Reviews

86 Mental health and work: Issues and perspectives
Lou Morrow, Irene Verins, Eileen Willis (eds)
Reviewed by Ken Bridge

88 Making a difference in families: Research that creates change
Robyn Munford and Jackie Sanders (eds)
Reviewed by Felicity Croker

91 Responsive healthcare: Marketing for a public service
Rod Sheaff
Reviewed by Mary Harris

94 Grief, Mourning and Death Ritual
Jenny Hockey, Jeanne Katz and Neil Small (eds)
Reviewed by Beverley McNamara

95 Understanding health: A sociological discussion
Anne-Marie Barry and Chris Yuill
Reviewed by Kevin White



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Special Issues

Ageing, Anti-Ageing and Globalization: Transitions and limits in the governance of ageing
Vol 18/4, 1st Dec 2009


Expert Patient Policy
Vol 18/2, 1st Jun 2009


Social Determinants of Child Health and Wellbeing
Vol 18/1, 1st Mar 2009


Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenges for Biomedicine?
Vol 17/4, 1st Dec 2008


Community, Family, Citizenship and the Health of LGBTIQ People
Vol 17/3, 1st Oct 2008


Re-imagining Preventive Health: Theoretical Perspectives
Vol 17/2, 1st Aug 2008


Death, Dying and Loss in the 21st Century
Vol 16/5, 1st Dec 2007


Social Equity and Health
Vol 16/2, 1st Jun 2007


Medical Dominance Revisited
Vol 15/5, 1st Dec 2006


Childbirth, Politics & the Culture of Risk
Vol 15/4, 1st Oct 2006


Revisiting Sexualities and Health
Vol 15/3, 1st Aug 2006


Closing Asylums for the Mentally Ill: Social Consequences
Vol 14/3, 1st Dec 2005


Workplace Health: The Injuries of Neoliberalism
Vol 14/1, 1st Aug 2005


Symposium on Rural Health: Patients and Practitioners
Vol 13/2, 1st Dec 2004


Symposium on Women's Health
Vol 13/1, 1st Sep 2004


Symposium on Indigenous Health and the Contribution of Sociology
Vol 10/2, 1st Nov 2001


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Selected Articles

Symposium on Health, Illness and Spirituality
Charles Waddell


Education and the Resolution of Teenage Pregnancy in Australia
Ann Evans


The government of girth
John Coveney


The Mismanagement of Dying
Beverley McNamara, Lorna Rosenwax


Attitudes Concerning Euthanasia
Joanna Sikora, Frank Lewins


Redefining the subject?: The influence of Foucault on the sociology of health and illness
Alan R. Petersen


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