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Volume 13 Issue 1 - 2004

Symposium on Women's Health

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3 Editorial
Jane Shoebridge, Eileen Willis

4 Guest Editorial
Lynne Hunt, Beverley McNamara

7 Heart Disease and Mid-Age Women: Focusing on gender and age
Marilys Guillemin

15 The Big Picture: The health and well-being of three generations of women in rural and remote areas of Australia
Penny Warner-Smith, Lois Bryson, Julie Ellen Byles

27 Education and the Resolution of Teenage Pregnancy in Australia
Ann Evans

43 'Thoroughly Modern Mothers': Maternal aspirations and declining mortality on Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea
Martha Macintyre

54 'There are Orphans in Africa Still Looking for My Hands': African women refugees and the sources of emotional distress
Farida Tilbury, Mark Rapley

65 'Now We Can Drink, Too': Changing drinking practices among Polish-Australian women
Barbara Wolska, Sherry Saggers, Lynne Hunt

74 Strategies for Teaching the Sociological Imagination to Medical Students: The role of embodiment
Simon Kitto

87 'Who Cares About Marx, Weber and Durkheim?': Social theory and the changing face of medicine
Clarissa Cook

Book Reviews

98 Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research: A practical guide to meta-analysis and meta-synthesis
Barbara L Paterson, Sally E Thorne, Connie Canam, Carol Jillings
Reviewed by Sally Borbasi

100 Evaluating Research in Health and Social Care
Roger Gomm, Gill Needham and Anne Bullman (eds)
Reviewed by Carol F Grbich

101 Regulating the Health Professions
Judith Allsop & Mike Saks (eds)
Reviewed by Margaret M Hall

102 Welfare State and Welfare Change
Martin Powell and Martin Hewitt
Reviewed by Adam Jamrozik

104 Media and Health
Clive Seale
Reviewed by Deborah Lupton

105 Children, Welfare and the State
Barry Goldson, Michael Lavalette and Jim McKechnie (eds)
Reviewed by Elspeth McInnes

107 Postmodernism and Social Research
Mats Alvesson
Reviewed by Trudy Rudge



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


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Selected Articles

Disciplining the Medical Profession?
Mike Dent


Constructing menopause knowledge through socio-material practices
Marilys Guillemin


Left out
Miriam Stewart, Linda Reutter, Edward Makwarimba, Gerry Veenstra, Rhonda Love, Dennis Raphael


The Mental Health Reform Cakewalk: Moving Forwards Backwards
Daphne Habibis


Re-imagining Preventive Health
Christine Beasley, Megan Warin


Attitudes concerning euthanasia
Joanna Sikora, Frank Lewins


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