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Volume 15 Issue 1 - 2006

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3 Editorial
Fran Collyer, Toni Schofield

5 Health Lifestyle Theory in an Asian Context
William C Cockerham

16 The Privatisation of Professional Knowledge in the Public Health Care Sector in China
Yang Jingqing

29 'Merging' the Aboriginal Population: Welfare, justice, power and the separation of Aboriginal children in Victoria
David McCallum

38 Is it Consumer or Community Participation?: Examining the links between 'community' and 'participation'
Judy Taylor RN, RPN, BN(Ed) GradDip(Health Counselling) FACMHN, David Wilkinson, Brian Cheers PhD

48 Opening up Pathways: Reconsidering longitudinal health research
Mike Lloyd

59 Geography and Credentialism: Assessment and accreditation of overseas-trained doctors
Dimitria Groutsis

71 Struggling to Care: Nurses' perceptions of caring for obese patients in an Australian bariatric ward
Carol A Jeffrey, Simon Kitto

84 DNA Paternity Tests: A comparative analysis of the US and Australia
Michael Gilding

96 Re-Claiming or Re-Shaping Fatherhood
Christine Everingham, Tarquin Bowers

104 'It's much easier to get help for the baby': Women, postpartum health and maternal and child health care groups
Kay Souter

Book Reviews

112 Abortion
Belinda Bennett (ed)
Reviewed by Sharyn Roach Anleu

113 Health Care and Notions of Risk
Richard C Clark
Reviewed by Michael D. Mehta

115 Health Policy in Australia
Heather Gardner and Simon Barraclough (eds)
Reviewed by Anna Donald

116 Genetics and Gene Therapy & Biotechnological Inventions: Moral Restraints and Patent Law
Sheila AM McLean (ed)
Reviewed by Peter Glasner

116 Biotechnological Inventions: Moral Restraints and Patent Law
Oliver Mills
Reviewed by Peter Glasner

117 Critical Perspectives on Health
Stephen Kermode
Reviewed by Meei-Ling Gau

118 Social Work and the Third Way: Tough Love as Social Policy
Bill Jordan with Charlie Jordan
Reviewed by Liz Beddoe



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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

'Heroes and Fairy Wrens'
Angela Durey


Theorising Indigenous Health
Sherry Saggers, Dennis Gray


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


Everyday Life Following Long Term Psychiatric Hospitalisation
Clare Hocking, Janet Phare, Jan Wilson


Hospice nurses tell their stories about a good death: The value of storytelling as a qualitative health research method
Bev Taylor


About the Evaluation of Computerised Health Care Services
Luc Bonneville


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