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Volume 14 Issue 2 - 2005

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99 Editorial
Fran Collyer, Toni Schofield

101 Fluid Experts: Lactation consultants as postmodern professional specialists
Katherine Carroll, Kerreen Reiger

111 Ethnicity and Race in Drug and Alcohol Research
Michael Morrissey

121 Social Status and Health: Absolute deprivation or relative comparison, or both?
Gerry Veenstra

135 Does Privatising Water Make Us Sick?
Jessica Whelan, Rob White

146 Dependency Work: A critical exploration of Kittay's perspective on care as a relationship of power
Michael Fine

161 'Welfare Moms and Welfare Bums': Revisiting poverty as a social determinant of health
Colleen Reid, Carol Herbert

174 Handling Uncertainty: Standard and local practices in the case of libido and contraception in evidence-based decision-making
Jennifer Sarah Hester-Moore

Book Reviews

187 Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care: A Critical Approach (3rd Edn)
Rose Weitz
Reviewed by Karen Willis

188 Substance Use & Abuse
Russell Durrant and Jo Thakker
Reviewed by Sherry Saggers

190 The Social Origins of Health and Well-Being
Richard Eckersley, Jane Dixon and Bob Douglas (eds)
Reviewed by Marwan Khawaja

192 Promoting Health: Politics and Practice
Lee Adams, Mary Amos and James Munro (eds)
Reviewed by N Ernest Khalema

194 Abortion in the USA and the UK
Colin Francome
Reviewed by Heather James

196 Communicating Health and Illness
Richard Gwyn
Reviewed by Bethne Hart

198 Risk and Everyday Life
John Tulloch and Deborah Lupton
Reviewed by Rodney Fopp

200 International Public Health: Patients' Rights versus the Protection of Patents
Yves Beigbeder
Reviewed by Stacy M Carter

201 Understanding health: A determinants approach
Helen Keleher and Berni Murphy (eds)
Reviewed by Bo Burström





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